AFC Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic versus L'Aston Villa Pre Match Thread.

[clash city rocker]

The plus side for us today is that Bournemouth's pre match talk will not include mentioning us as they won't have a clue about most of our players and how Sherwood is going to set the team up.

[richard moore]

Gorgeous day down here on the south coast, safe trip down if you are coming. An Ashes and Villa double header would do very nicely. Hope springs eternal, please just let us see some decent football of which we can be proud, a bit of a method to our madness and some sort of long-term plan centred around the way we intend to play, some goals, decent defending and excitement that isn't centred around us being in the bottom five

[silhillvilla]

Didn't realise they'd signed Sylvin Distin ! He must be in his 40's . Hope Gestede gets a start perhaps with Kozak or Gabby

[Concrete John]

The team I'd play:-

Guzan
Hutton Richards Clark Amavi
Guieye Westwood Veretout
Ayew Gestede Sinclair

2-1 to Villa

[richard moore]

Didn't realise they'd signed Sylvin Distin ! He must be in his 40's . Hope Gestede gets a start perhaps with Kozak or Gabby

37 I think

[Steve kirk]

Heart says a 2-2 which would be a nice steady start, head says we lose by the odd goal, I hope I am completely wrong and its 3-2 Villa like in Big Rons first game away at Sheff Wed another time when we were unsure how we would fare due to lots of changes, pretty sure we were 2-0 down at one point on that occasion
Cmon Villa make us happy

[Matt Collins]

Imaginr that. Two down and then three up. Ooh that would be nice! Veretout to come off the bench and burst through to get a late winner . .

[Comrade Blitz]

Now the featured 10am match in the U.S. on NBC Sports Network

[adrenachrome]

SSN reporting Okore out with knee injury.

[cdbearsfan]

We've known that for ages. Out till September I think.

[Percy McCarthy]

Hope winning the Ashes is not an omen. 2005, newly-promoted team away, 0-4, Harewood hat-trick.

[john e]

It's on the telly live in Casey's bar , Ibiza

Result

[Villa in Denmark]

Hope winning the Ashes is not an omen. 2005, newly-promoted team away, 0-4, Harewood hat-trick.

Could be worse

We could end up buying their centre forward for about £8M more than he's really worth 3 years later.  Oops.

[richard moore]

It's on the telly live in Casey's bar , Ibiza

Result

Would love to be there, though it is Ibiza type weather here on the south coast. Also the commentary match on R5

[Legion]

Getting unusually excited...