sha v Aston Villa Pre Match thread

[LeeB]

going to get a tonking i just dont feel confident one bit.

Who will get a tonking? I am just confused as at the start of this season you said:

'after 6 weeks of forgetting this  lot its back to reality and another season of Blues'

The Blues word filter strikes again.

[Tugby Villain]

Steve Bruce article in guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/27/aston-villa-steve-bruce-fans-birmingham-derby-west-ham

[ez]

I wonder when we last went into this fixture as the underdogs.

[Lastfootstamper]

I wonder when we last went into this fixture as the underdogs.

Never have, aren't now, never will.

[Richard E]

I wonder when we last went into this fixture as the underdogs.

Never have, aren't now, never will.

Is the right answer.

[VillaAlways]

I wonder when we last went into this fixture as the underdogs.

As if

[dave.woodhall]

I wonder when we last went into this fixture as the underdogs.

Best you can get on us is 13/8. Shortest on them is 17/10.

[preston28]

Head says win but heart says a 1-1 draw!

[PeterWithe]

Was it in the 80s about 84 2-0 to us Gary Thompson cracking header to put us 1-0 up
I wS in the railway end upper loads of villa up there

I was one of thousands trying to get into the Tilton Road End. Got in the ground just before half time. Pandemonium broke out. From memory I think that was Thompsons header. Wasn't that the day someone painted AVFC onto the grass in creosote the night before?

I'm sure that was the time when there was only about two turnstiles open for us to get in. Bloody scary. I can remember feeling like all the air was being sucked out of my body in the crush with police on horses forcing us forward.

I finally got into the ground and rounded on a steward next to those bloody awful open air toilets telling him they needed to tell someone to do something as someone was going to get really hurt. Luckily my mate pulled me off him as I was so irate I would have got nicked, something I'm not very proud of but couldn't help after what I'd just seen.

I still can't believe there were no injuries that day. Such poor policing and non existing stewarding. Every time I see a reference to Hillborough I think of that day.

I can remember the win but that day is tainted by what could have been.

Exactly as I remember it, Villabear.

I remember being in the second pen and it being scarily crowded, you really didn't have any way of moving, whilst the few thousand SHA fans could lounge around at their leisure.

If they hadn't opened the third pen it could have been very bad as the thousands outside made their way in.

[West Derby Villan]

Shit ground, always has been - always will be, end of!

[wittonwarrior]

The match - Bruce will have the players pumped up like being on Jack's stuff.  A  win is a must and will happen.

Everything about Small heath is small and petty.  They could win the world cup and still not be bigger than  the Villa.

As for the rivalry  to the club (not the fans) Tescos is the biggest rivalry - this probably pisses them off as well.  Anything that pisses  Bloose  off is good in my book.

[West Derby Villan]

The match - Bruce will have the players pumped up like being on Jack's stuff.  A  win is a must and will happen.

Everything about Small heath is small and petty.  They could win the world cup and still not be bigger than  the Villa.

As for the rivalry  to the club (not the fans) Tescos is the biggest rivalry - this probably pisses them off as well.  Anything that pisses  Bloose  off is good in my book.

Agree 110%

[oswald funkletrumpet]

i was using google to look for small heath asda and found small heath alliance

jesus wept

[Clampy]

I can't decide whether i'd start with Tshibola in the midfield making a 4 man midfield and over-running theirs like Burton did or start with Uncle Albert. The problem with starting with Adomah though is that you've not got anyone like him to come off the bench for the last 25 mins when they start to tire at the back. Maybe a compromise and start McCormack and have him sitting just in front of the midfield three. I reckon he'll go with Gestede though.

[Holte132]

Was it in the 80s about 84 2-0 to us Gary Thompson cracking header to put us 1-0 up
I wS in the railway end upper loads of villa up there

That was 2-1 in 1987.

i don't remember Mark Walters returning to Villa. Which club did we sign him from?

We didn't (unfortunately). We sold him to Rangers later in the year.

i thought he went way before that

Bit late to the party here, but did the ball really go in for their 'goal'? Looks to me as if it just went past the post!