Aston Villa v Burton Albion 26.12.16 Pre Match Thread

[pooligan]

Please Villa  don't balls this up. Win this and we go above Small Heath as they are not playing until Tuesday . A nervy 2-1 to Villa

[olaftab]

I really don't see how we are going to balls this up. We are not an exciting team under Bruce but  we will be far too efficient for Burton.

[Tayls_7]

I really don't see how we are going to balls this up. We are not an exciting team under Bruce but  we will be far too efficient for Burton.

Even under Brucie I think we are a little bit away from guaranteed wins.

[PeterWithesShin]

BURTON Albion will make the trip to Villa Park on Boxing Day hoping to pick up their first away win of the season to give the Albion fans a late Christmas present.

Aston Villa come into the game off the back of a 1-0 win away to Queens Park Rangers last Sunday with summer signing Jonathan Kodjia scoring his 8th of the season since joining from Bristol City for a fee which could rise to £15 million.

Villa currently sit 13th in the Sky Bet Championship table with 31 points from their 22 games so far. They have drawn 10 games, the second most of any Championship side with Bristol City having one more with eleven.

Villa have impressive home form this season having not lost at Villa Park with five wins and five draws proving the game will be a difficult task for the Albion.

Nigel Clough’s men will head there hoping their good play in defeats against Huddersfield Town and Newcastle United will help them in the first competitive fixture between the two sides.

Defender Ben Turner could return to the squad following his two-match suspension whilst Brewers forward Jamie Ward, a former youth player at Villa, will be hoping to return to Nigel Clough’s line-up after being on the bench against Newcastle.

The Brewers boss said ahead of the game: “Steve Bruce has a big, big job. When a club has been in decline for a period time, not just a few months but last season and maybe a bit before as well it takes some turning around. You have to stem the tide of defeats, which he has done and start building from there. But it’s still early days for him and it will take maybe 18 months – you would expect them at the end of next season to be up there challenging.”

Stephen Martin will be the man with the cards at Villa Park. The Staffordshire-based referee has given 46 yellow cards so far this season, just an average of 2.5 per game. He has also brandished two yellow cards this season which both came in the same match between Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United.

Tickets will not be available on the day for supporters and with over 2,000 Brewers fans making the trip they’ll be plenty of noise in the away end.

In order to get fans to their seats in time for kick off, the TV’s in the lower tier (Q block) concourse will be turned off 15 minutes before kick-off  at Villa Park.

[Leicester_Villian]

What can possibly go wrong? Full house playing Burton ....oh yes this is Villa we are talking about ......

So come on lets put a performance in and show 42500 what its all about ........ above Small Heath (that could be 6 points clear in a few days)

Lets make Villa Park rock bigger crowd that Small Heath and Baggies put together !

[brentastonb6]

Best Boxing Day game of recent years was the 2-2 draw with Arsenal at home. We were 0-2 down despite battering them all first half. Zat Knight equalised in injury time and the ground exploded. That put us 4th in the table.

Best Boxing Day ever was the 3-0 v manure (followed up by the ny day 2-1 v arse). Never been so packed in tight on the Holte. Made even sweeter by the fact the old man came, he supports Man U. He had his sheepskin coat on and was standing next to a fella wearing a Barbour jacket! Only one winner there! Back end of the Queues from L and K met outside the front door of the Holte pub. We were queuing for K then saw a lad from school there and ended up going in L and only just made it in. Up there with my best ever Villa Park times. The belief of the crowd in both games was absolutely amazing. Fucked the Cockney Fuckers twice in a week!

unbelievable, I'm laughing out loud reading that because I did exactly the same
same match, stood in the Holte with my old man who also supports Man Utd he wasn't wearing sheepskin though on memory

Good to see so many glory hunters having decent children 

[peter w]

Staffordshire based referee? Excuses already lined up.

[MorrisNielson]

*Disclaimer – Boring Post Alert*

As we haven’t played Burton Albion in any meaning way until now, here is some of my general ramblings about Burton.
This isn’t the first time a team from Burton has been seen in the second tier of English football. Burton United were a football league side around the turn of the 20th century (which contained a few of our past fringe players like Chris Mann, Charlie Aston & Will Devey).

We’ve played in Burton a few times, mainly in the Bass Charity Vase. We won it in 1893 at Peel Croft, Burton, when Derby decided not to play extra time when we drew 2-2 the Final! We won it properly a year later, beating Stoke 4-0. Alas, we relinquished cup in 1895 going out in the semis to Leicester with a weakened team.

Some 90 years later and we were invited again to play for the now pre-season Bass Charity Vase. After losing the semi 1-2 to Derby (played at Gresley Rovers), our first meeting of our first eleven(ish!) with Burton Albion was the 3rd place play off for the 1985 Bass Charity Vase (Allen Evans & Paul Birch doing the necessary in a 2-1 win). The team of Poole, Norton, Gibson, Evans, Glover, McMahon, Birch, Shaw, Daley, Walker, Walters was quite strong.
The following year we again started the pre-season in the Bass Charity Vase. A 2-2 draw in the semis with Burton Albion, with Albion winning the shootout 4-5. Now, when in the next World Cup when Martin Keown commentates on a shootout and he states he’s never took a penalty in a shootout, feel free to correct him by saying that he put us out of the Final of the 1986 Bass Charity Vase by missing the sudden death pen. The baboon faced bastard.

However, the first time our paths crossed, was 02/09/1950 where our third team beat Burton Albion 2-0 in the Birmingham & District League (Arthur Proudler & Ray Spencer scoring). We played them in 6 consecutive seasons in the B&DL (3 Villa wins, 8 Burton wins, 1 draw. Our home games varying between Redditch, Somers’ in Halesowen or switched to Burton).

The only proper first team friendly encounter was pre-season was the 2-1 win in 2012. The only 3 players still on our books who played that day was Gabby, Gary Gardner and Alan Hutton. Hutton was then promptly bombed and was not to reappear in the first team until pre-season 2014.

[cdbearsfan]

I never realised we had a player called Aston.

[AVH87]

The talk about the sellout has got a bit too Newcastle for my liking.

Hoping the game goes well though, we need to get on the tails of the top 6 soon.

3-1 Villa

[LukeJames]

The talk about the sellout has got a bit too Newcastle for my liking.

Me too, I cant stand that kind of shit.

[LeeB]

Going back to that Man U game we could not get in so Damon climbed up the Holte End gate.  Clinging to the top of it he shouted a running commentary to the rest of us.

Good job it wasn't Theresa May up there.

"There are two teams playing"

"We will get the best result for Aston Villa"

"It will be a Claret and Blue fixture"





"Yes, but what the fuck is actually happening?"

[Brend'Watkins]

"The crowd has spoken, attack means attack, we will be going forward and there will be no passing back"

[oldtimernow]

we will not be giving a running commentary..........



.no change for avfctv then

[Andy1874]

Looking for a spare for my brother if anyone has anything ?