Aston Villa v Leicester City (FA Cup) - Sun 15 Feb 2015 Pre-Match Thread

[Legion]

If that.

[Des Little]

25k tops.

[silhillvilla]

Well we had 27,415 v Bournemouth .
Are Leicester bringing many ?

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Surely Leicester are taking their full allocation - this is their Wemberley!!!!

(I lived in North Leicestershire in the 90s - ffs it was tough!)

I'd say mid 30s.

[passport1]

I'd be surprised if it was big.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I'd be surprised if it was big.

Am I married to you?
It's a bit dark in rural Worcestershire and them cheap candles is shit!

[Des Little]

I'd be surprised if it was big.

Or clever

[PeterWithesShin]

It will be over 30K. Leicester apparently have less than 500 tickets left so are bringing over 6K. Anyone really think less than 24K of us are going to turn up?

[DeKuip]

It will be over 30K. Leicester apparently have less than 500 tickets left so are bringing over 6K. Anyone really think less than 24K of us are going to turn up?

Yes if the online seat plan is anything to go by - there's far more available seats than there are sold ones.

[Toronto Villa]

we beat this lot at VP with Lambert in charge. We even scored more than once. Let the goals and good times flow

[PROVERBS1966]

Got my ticket yesterday for Doug Ellis lower and we were (according to the guy who served me) expecting 30k before Lambert went. Interest had increased since Wednesday night so who knows.

[UK Redsox]

It will be over 30K. Leicester apparently have less than 500 tickets left so are bringing over 6K. Anyone really think less than 24K of us are going to turn up?

That contradicts what someone in ticketing told me (and it wasn't just a sales person). On Wednesday evening I was told that Leicester were only using the NS Upper and the Witton Upper. They were not using the Witton lower at that point.

This was during another conversation with Villa about their bizarre price structure for this game. This has now escalated to the point that I'm playing phone-tag with Nicola Keye.

Hopefully, rather than leaving messages for each other, we'll actually get to speak today.

[jeowje]

I remeber the second leg of the league cup semi against then-Premier League Leicester in the late 90s (edit:year 2000) only attracting 29K, depite regular sell outs in the league...

Lambert leaving of itself won't bring the crowds back in their droves- for the majority of stay-aways I doubt it was an anti-Lambert stance per se, more fed up of the constant lack of entertainment. Might take some a little convincing to resume parting with the cash and time.

[jeowje]

As for the match- bring back Vlaar- we could use as many 'captains' on the pitch as possible...

Genuinely looking forward to it now, can see a Vill win, 1-0

[Boz]

Let's hope the Marshall Brothers (r)amp it up for us and that performance wise they go up to eleven.

My genuine concern is that they will be so instilled with Lambertness that we will play exactly the same way as we did at Leicester, Arse and Hull...and several other games, obviously.

I hope to McGrath I'm massively wrong!

Come on you Villa boys!

This is my concern as well, as the coaches have been working with Lambert and unless they disagreed with him, will there be much change?