Aston Villa v Sheffield Wednesday - Pre match thread

[PeterWithesShin]

A few of these wouldn't go amiss

[four fornicholl]

Fk me we were good back then!

[LeeB]

Fk me we were good back then!

To be fair, so were they. I don't think they'd lost for ages before that game, but had it not been for Chris Woods we'd have put 5 or 6 past them.

Pound for pound probably the best Villa performance I've witnessed.

[olaftab]

6-1

Adomah (3' minutes),Bannan (40' minutes og), Hourihane (50' minutes pen), Kodja (88' minutes, 90'+1 minutes pen), Davis (90'+5 minutes)   

Bannan (62' minutes)

Your prediction is good but I think only 4 minutes of injury time will be added on Saturday. So 5-1.

[olaftab]

Fk me we were good back then!

To be fair, so were they. I don't think they'd lost for ages before that game, but had it not been for Chris Woods we'd have put 5 or 6 past them.

Pound for pound probably the best Villa performance I've witnessed.

92/93 BFR team is the best footballing Villa side in my lifetime.

[Duncan Shaw]

Should have won the league......

[wombat]

Fk me we were good back then!

To be fair, so were they. I don't think they'd lost for ages before that game, but had it not been for Chris Woods we'd have put 5 or 6 past them.

Pound for pound probably the best Villa performance I've witnessed.

92/93 BFR team is the best footballing Villa side in my lifetime.

Look at the movement
Look at the passing
Look at the finishing

Jesus we are a pathetic shadow of that over the last few years.

[robbo1874]

How many of our current side would get in that Villa side from 92/93? Probably none is my guess. I wonder how the relative player salaries stack up between now and then, adjusted for inflation?

[eamonn]

Kodjia would just about get the nod over McAvennie.

[Hookeysmith]

I think more than anything it shows the power of sky marketing to keep rebranding the product as each year being better - you cannot tell me football today is any better than it was back then. Not just us but the games were more exciting than today where most teams can cancel each other out

Agreed also that BFR team should have won the league

[mr underhill]

be interesting to  see how Rhodes plays tomorrow ; I wonder how serious Bruce was in wanting to buy him, only to turn to Hogan?

[in exile]

I'll be missing this game as I too am going to Coleshill Towns FA Vase Semi-Final, which is a shame because I have just found out that a good friend of mine is linesman at Villa Park (Derek Eaton)

[robbo1874]

I think more than anything it shows the power of sky marketing to keep rebranding the product as each year being better - you cannot tell me football today is any better than it was back then. Not just us but the games were more exciting than today where most teams can cancel each other out

Agreed also that BFR team should have won the league

you could maybe say that football in general is better to watch now. I seem to recall watching many turgid Monday night matches in the pub back then. Villa though- light years in difference between then and now, sadly.

[Villatillidie25]

that first goal...

[simon ward 50]

I'll be missing this game as I too am going to Coleshill Towns FA Vase Semi-Final, which is a shame because I have just found out that a good friend of mine is linesman at Villa Park (Derek Eaton)

We need you there on his side of the pitch!