Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest - Pre Match Thread

[Hookeysmith]

I miss this game - bugger as really looking forward to it - cannot even watch on TV live 

I think once this team settles and gels we will twat someone - really need back to back wins now to put us up the top half of table

UTV

[AVH87]

2-1 to Villa. Need 3 points.

[leylandalbion]

1st game of the season due to holidays...season starts here, hoping the feel good factor after the transfer window carries on - 2 wins in a week and we are in the mix.  2-0. Kodija / Elphick

[Toronto Villa]

We take the chances we have been creating in previous games we'll win this comfortably. That's really the critical piece missing in our recent results. We should have been out of sight but instead we fucked up chance after chance and then put pressure on ourself. We need the confidence of a good lead and build momentum from there.

3-0 Villa - Kodjia, Ross, Jack

[Clampy]

That's the thing for me as well. We should have won all our games so far so like someone said earlier, we'll hopefully give someone a battering at some point.

[Ads]

Its a game we ought to be winning.

They may be 7th, but its far too early to care about the table.

They've been poor away from home and the general view is that they're dire at the back, which based on the Brighton game, seems an understatement. Wiganer who went to the Forest game at their place thinks they're mince too.

We've got to put them away, especially being at home. Clampy is right, we could have won all the games we've played and the time for wasteful profligacy has to be behind us. Plenty of attacking options.

We'll have it won inside 45 minutes.

[Jimbo]

We'll have it won inside 45 minutes.

I know it's not what you mean, but I think this has been at the root of our problem. A game lasts 90 minutes, but we seem never to understand that fact. Even if we're 6-nil up by half time, we should run and battle until our lungs and knees explode, or the ref blows for full time, whichever comes first.

[Matt Collins]

I don't think they just stop trying at half time!

[Jimbo]

I don't think they just stop trying at half time!

Neither do I, but they lose concentration, organisation, shape, nerve, 'intelligence' and the collective will to grind out the result. We've all seen it a million times.

When you're under the cosh, you have to try twice as hard as when things were going well. I think fitness, both physical and mental, is a problem for us across the whole 90 minutes and has been for a long time. And everybody knows it.

[QuintonVilla]

Does van Hooijdonk still play for Forest?

[eamonn]

Another frustrating afternoon. Usual second-half disintegration. 2-2.

So what's the cure?

[Des Little]

Sunday is when we finally get lift off.  Villa 4 Forest 0.

[PeterWithesShin]

Does van Hooijdonk still play for Forest?

Still on strike I think.

[QuintonVilla]

Does van Hooijdonk still play for Forest?

Still on strike I think.

 


Everyone pumps Rotherham so we're still yet to beat a team who are even half decent. I think we'll win Sunday, I just hope we can play well for both halves and make it fairly comfortable. 2-0, Draper and Barry.

[Jimbo]

Another frustrating afternoon. Usual second-half disintegration. 2-2.

So what's the cure?

Not sure, but I think it lies somewhere in believing that every single point has to be earned through sheer hard work, even at a 'big' club like the Villa.