Villa v Leeds pre-match thread

[brian green]

In Paddy Power in Newmarket Adama Traore is 8-1 to score the first goal for Villa.

[itbrvilla]

In Paddy Power in Newmarket Adama Traore is 8-1 to score the first goal for Villa.

Its a sign!  Villa defeat!

[olaftab]

We've lost two in 12, 5 all season. Nobody has beaten us regularly. Only Brighton have lost fewer games, while everybody bar Fulham has lost more.

Maximum defeats that can be inflicted by anther team=2 However we don't get beaten regularly so far this season.

[liam]

Got to be honest and say for the first time in 20+ years I really don't fancy going tonight...its only because the kids are badgering me to take them. Last season we were so poor I felt obliged to go and support them. But the last few home games I've been bored senseless..its cold and on the box and I guess middle age is getting to me, the pub seems a more attractive proposition. Can't see past a draw, but I really hope they surprise me. Better go dig out the big gloves for tonight and hope the sacred heart isn't as rammed as boxing day!

[Clampy]

Wood and Hernandez both back for them apparently.

Wood couldn't hit a barn door from 6 paces, they'd be better off with 10 men

Didnt he score up at elland road?

[PeterWithesShin]

Wood has scored 14 this season. That's more than our top 2 scorers combined.

[Malandro]

In Paddy Power in Newmarket Adama Traore is 8-1 to score the first goal for Villa.

I'll have a bit of that

[russon]

Wood has scored 14 this season. That's more than our top 2 scorers combined.

He reminds me of that lump at Derby/Fulham, Martin I think he's called. Big and rubbish but keeps getting picked. Still, if he's scored 14 then i must be wrong, just that whenever I seem him he looks like a tall Adrian Heath and, for the benefit of younger readers, he was absolute mince.

[four fornicholl]

Wood has scored 14 this season. That's more than our top 2 scorers combined.

He reminds me of that lump at Derby/Fulham, Martin I think he's called. Big and rubbish but keeps getting picked. Still, if he's scored 14 then i must be wrong, just that whenever I seem him he looks like a tall Adrian Heath and, for the benefit of younger readers, he was absolute mince.

Its not because he played for the baggies then?

[PeterWithesShin]

'Interestingly' he rarely scores twice in a game. Just looked up his stats and he's scored 27 since the beginning of last season but only once scored more than one in a game in that time.

[Chipsticks]

Got to be honest and say for the first time in 20+ years I really don't fancy going tonight...its only because the kids are badgering me to take them. Last season we were so poor I felt obliged to go and support them. But the last few home games I've been bored senseless..its cold and on the box and I guess middle age is getting to me, the pub seems a more attractive proposition. Can't see past a draw, but I really hope they surprise me. Better go dig out the big gloves for tonight and hope the sacred heart isn't as rammed as boxing day!

Our best home record for [a significant amount of time, anybody want to shed light on this?] and people still find a reason to complain Make the most of this!

[PeterWithesShin]

I think it's the first time since 1993 we've won 5 home league games in a row.

[Chipsticks]

I think it's the first time since 1993 we've won 5 home league games in a row.

I was born in 1995 so that would make this our best home run in my lifetime.

[PeterWithesShin]

Just double checked that season and we won 7 in a row at home from Dec-March.

[damon loves JT]

I think it's the first time since 1993 we've won 5 home league games in a row.

I was born in 1995 so that would make this our best home run in my lifetime.

Truly you have lived through a golden era of Villa history. How blessed you are