Aston Villa (R) v Southampton - Pre Match Thread

[Oscar Arce]

Boo the fuck out of the lot of them with particular ire aimed at one P.Rielly who still has a place in this ship of fools

[MillerBall]

The crowd will be announced at 32,000 of which 7,000 will be empty seats. In addition to which there will be 10,000 real empty seats.

On the field will be a group of "empty heads" wearing our club colours and the latter will attempt to give the impression that they have a remote idea of what they are doing.

Every now again the Blind Man will stumble across the right path and so who knows we may even score a goal on Saturday.

[darren woolley]

2-0 Southampton.

[PeterWithesShin]

We'll almost certainly lose. I'm going to go and watch Bromsgrove Sporting instead.

[Chris Jameson]

It was bad enough Bournemouth taking pity on us but if Southampton start taking the piss. Having said that I hope our excellent support will spend the 90 minutes taking the piss and expressing their anger.

A defeat despite 'the lads' turning in a 'great performance for the fans'.

[PeterWithesShin]

Has there ever been such a poll result for a home game before?

[UK Redsox]

Has there ever been such a poll result for a home game before?

What, you mean with someone actually thinking Villa will win ? 

[UK Redsox]

It was bad enough Bournemouth taking pity on us but if Southampton start taking the piss. Having said that I hope our excellent support will spend the 90 minutes taking the piss and expressing their anger.

A defeat despite 'the lads' turning in a 'great performance for the fans'.

If the players do turn in a good performance, they deserve even more booing than if they're just as crap as normal.

Playing well when it doesn't matter is nothing for them to be proud of or for us to celebrate. Basically, these are four glorified pre-season friendlies for a Villa point of view.

[Ads]

If I wasn't taking my son down to see his grand parents I would boycott this.

[Dave P]

I think Southampton will sneak this and I may have 25p on it.

[Duncan Shaw]

Who thinks we'll win?!!

[levico]

It'll get worse. Easy Saints victory.

[Chico Hamilton III]

We still have to play games?

Really? Can't we just forfeit the remaining matches? Might as well do, the result will be the same.

Isn't it an automatic 3-0 loss is we forfeit a game? That sounds like a pretty good deal to me - same result but we wouldn't have to wash any kit afterwards

[mallo]

A result to question the very description 'football'. Widely recognised as the most abject display of 11 professionals ever recorded. A display fit for the owner.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

We still have to play games?

Really? Can't we just forfeit the remaining matches? Might as well do, the result will be the same.

Isn't it an automatic 3-0 loss is we forfeit a game? That sounds like a pretty good deal to me - same result but we wouldn't have to wash any kit afterwards

We have a duty to all  the other teams to uphold the competitive integrity of the League. Losing by a couple of goals or getting stuffed out of sight 6 or 7 may have a bearing on their final positions. What would Mr McGregor say ?