Aston Villa v QPR Pre-Match thread

[myf]

The importance and implications of tomorrow's game seem to be growing by the minute. These creeping senses of dread don't get any easier with every passing season do they!

We should be battle hardy veterans of this nonsense.

Punch drunk more like!

Yup. I feel numb. Angry and bitter. Seeing us like this season after season. It has made football pretty joyless from January onwards each season. I hate it.

Indeed, seeing the famous old images from the positivity thread makes me feel like I now support a different club altogether

[supertom]

I think this will go one of two ways. It'll be a nervy encounter where neither team wants to risk too much. Or both teams will go for it. It'll be a tight one with maybe one decisive goal either way, or I can see it being a high scoring on.
As such I fancied a long odd punt so I've opted for 4-3 Villa win with Austin down as first scorer.

[ozzjim]

I am shitting it. Ramsay will know exactly how Timmy is going to play it and from what I have seen is probably a more intelligent one than our Tim. I can see them going a couple up before half time and us having no real answer to it.

[dave.woodhall]

I am shitting it. Ramsay will know exactly how Timmy is going to play it and from what I have seen is probably a more intelligent one than our Tim. I can see them going a couple up before half time and us having no real answer to it.

When did they become Barcelona?

[joe_c]

I am shitting it. Ramsay will know exactly how Timmy is going to play it and from what I have seen is probably a more intelligent one than our Tim. I can see them going a couple up before half time and us having no real answer to it.

When did they become Barcelona?

When they beat West Brazil at the weekend.

[PeterWithesShin]

Their record from Boxing Day onwards, W2 D2 L10, plus a cup defeat. One good win against a truly wank Albion doesn't suddenly change the fact that QPR are fucking shit and we are going to smash them.

[Jon Crofts]

Their record from Boxing Day onwards, W2 D2 L10, plus a cup defeat. One good win against a truly wank Albion doesn't suddenly change the fact that QPR fucking shit and we are going to smash them.

That's the spirit.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Their record from Boxing Day onwards, W2 D2 L10, plus a cup defeat. One good win against a truly wank Albion doesn't suddenly change the fact that QPR are fucking shit and we are going to smash them.

Can't really be bothered to check, but isn't that league record since Christmas pretty much identical to ours? including the Albion result

[Toronto Villa]

I am shitting it. Ramsay will know exactly how Timmy is going to play it and from what I have seen is probably a more intelligent one than our Tim. I can see them going a couple up before half time and us having no real answer to it.

doesn't that apply the other way around too? Surely Sherwood knows what Ramsey prefers as a coach. This is our home game against a team that (hard to believe sometimes I know) has been a more sank this season than us. There is no reason to be afraid. Just like games against the Albion when it looked like the sky was falling in we came up with two huge wins in a week. We have to do it again tonight.

[exigo]

This is how I feel right now.*



*Subject to change at the slightest mention of words like Austin.

[Damo70]

I am feeling a real big game nervousness. Not unlike when we played them at Villa Park at this stage a couple of years ago. I think we will win. The last time QPR won two on the bounce they were playing at White City.

[Clampy]

I am shitting it. Ramsay will know exactly how Timmy is going to play it and from what I have seen is probably a more intelligent one than our Tim. I can see them going a couple up before half time and us having no real answer to it.

Couldn't you also argue that Tim will know how Ramsey will play it?

[brian green]

Just setting out to drive to the game.  The Villa I have got to know over the years will lose this one and beat Tottenham.   Time for these truly horrible ends of season to be addressed and rectified.

[eamonn]

Their record from Boxing Day onwards, W2 D2 L10, plus a cup defeat. One good win against a truly wank Albion doesn't suddenly change the fact that QPR are fucking shit and we are going to smash them.

Can't really be bothered to check, but isn't that league record since Christmas pretty much identical to ours? including the Albion result

Yep, both sides other win was at Sunderland too. We're both gubbins.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm sorry but QPR are terrible. I don't care what they did at the weekend when basically everything they tried came off. They're an awful team and we should beat them comfortably. We have enough good players and if we play well we'll win.