Wolves v Aston Villa Pre-Match thread

[cdbearsfan]

Ta.

[Legion]

Holy moly they're out in force on their website.

Bigger club than the Vile bay we
More fans bay we
Birmingham is mainly Blues bay it

They're on another planet.

You’re talking about Wolverhampton, where the opening of a new Debenhams is the spectacle of a lifetime.

And where the residents visit the Black Country Museum to get a glimpse of what their life will be like in the future....

That is a quality comment. <Applause>

Very. Have they got electricity and running water yet?

[clash city rocker]

Wulves a bin to good since ourr  stevie jacked in. But let me tell yo villa lot sumat. Weem on the up see and it wo b long til we wins fings in the eec. Yo lot wo know what's hit ya when yo heer the Wulves roor tomorra...

[levico]

Same as last season. 1-0 to them.

We are better than last year but so are they.

[dave.woodhall]

Bit of Travel advice

If your going on the Tram it doesn't go all the way to Wolverhampton currently, you need to get off @ The Crescent and then you have to wait for a bus....Can be a pain

I was planning on going to Bilston. Is the Crescent further from the ground or closer?

Closer. Next stop after Bilston Central.

Bilston's miles from Wolverhampton. You're just after orange chips again.

[spangley1812]

Bit of Travel advice

If your going on the Tram it doesn't go all the way to Wolverhampton currently, you need to get off @ The Crescent and then you have to wait for a bus....Can be a pain

I was planning on going to Bilston. Is the Crescent further from the ground or closer?

Closer. Next stop after Bilston Central.

Bilston's miles from Wolverhampton. You're just after orange chips again.

In his defence Major's is a quality chippie

[Smirker]

If we win tomorrow we will only be 2 points off top spot 

[Lambert and Payne]

"When Villa won the league in 1981 and followed it up with the European title they took the mantle of the west midlands biggest club, no argument possible,but for 60 years before that Wolves were the top club in the region by a mile , 3 league titles, 2 fa cups, 2 league cups and a European final to Villa's I fa cup and 2 league cups (I don't count their 1961 as we didn't enter). Most of Villas history was between 1890 and 1920 fact !"

If you don't count the trophies before Wolves one a thing or two, they were a bigger club...

Like many people, you equate size to trophies won. To me that makes them more successful, not bigger.By your rule Nottingham Forest, Derby Co. we’re bigger than Man Utd in the seventies, they weren’t. To me there is only one measure , and that’s how many fans do you have. Big clubs can win trophies and small clubs can win trophies. It makes no difference to their size, only their stature.

No, it's a mixture of a lot of things. Past, present, future and support being the key for me.

Wolves are joint second biggest club in the midlands for me. They're pretty much on a par with Albion IMO. But neither are anything close to us

[Villa75]

Two great results for us tonight.

Big, BIG, game tomorrow. Let's not fuck this up, Villa!

[QuintonVilla]

"When Villa won the league in 1981 and followed it up with the European title they took the mantle of the west midlands biggest club, no argument possible,but for 60 years before that Wolves were the top club in the region by a mile , 3 league titles, 2 fa cups, 2 league cups and a European final to Villa's I fa cup and 2 league cups (I don't count their 1961 as we didn't enter). Most of Villas history was between 1890 and 1920 fact !"

If you don't count the trophies before Wolves one a thing or two, they were a bigger club...

Like many people, you equate size to trophies won. To me that makes them more successful, not bigger.By your rule Nottingham Forest, Derby Co. we’re bigger than Man Utd in the seventies, they weren’t. To me there is only one measure , and that’s how many fans do you have. Big clubs can win trophies and small clubs can win trophies. It makes no difference to their size, only their stature.

No, it's a mixture of a lot of things. Past, present, future and support being the key for me.

Wolves are joint second biggest club in the midlands for me. They're pretty much on a par with Albion IMO. But neither are anything close to us

Wolves are bigger than Albion. Far more potential there.

[rob_bridge]

"When Villa won the league in 1981 and followed it up with the European title they took the mantle of the west midlands biggest club, no argument possible,but for 60 years before that Wolves were the top club in the region by a mile , 3 league titles, 2 fa cups, 2 league cups and a European final to Villa's I fa cup and 2 league cups (I don't count their 1961 as we didn't enter). Most of Villas history was between 1890 and 1920 fact !"

If you don't count the trophies before Wolves one a thing or two, they were a bigger club...

Like many people, you equate size to trophies won. To me that makes them more successful, not bigger.By your rule Nottingham Forest, Derby Co. we’re bigger than Man Utd in the seventies, they weren’t. To me there is only one measure , and that’s how many fans do you have. Big clubs can win trophies and small clubs can win trophies. It makes no difference to their size, only their stature.

No, it's a mixture of a lot of things. Past, present, future and support being the key for me.

Wolves are joint second biggest club in the midlands for me. They're pretty much on a par with Albion IMO. But neither are anything close to us

Wolves are bigger than Albion. Far more potential there.

Wolves bigger than Albion for me too. Not keen on either but looking at it objectively put Wolves and Derby as 2nd biggest Midlands clubs

[Lambert and Payne]

"When Villa won the league in 1981 and followed it up with the European title they took the mantle of the west midlands biggest club, no argument possible,but for 60 years before that Wolves were the top club in the region by a mile , 3 league titles, 2 fa cups, 2 league cups and a European final to Villa's I fa cup and 2 league cups (I don't count their 1961 as we didn't enter). Most of Villas history was between 1890 and 1920 fact !"

If you don't count the trophies before Wolves one a thing or two, they were a bigger club...

Like many people, you equate size to trophies won. To me that makes them more successful, not bigger.By your rule Nottingham Forest, Derby Co. we’re bigger than Man Utd in the seventies, they weren’t. To me there is only one measure , and that’s how many fans do you have. Big clubs can win trophies and small clubs can win trophies. It makes no difference to their size, only their stature.

No, it's a mixture of a lot of things. Past, present, future and support being the key for me.

Wolves are joint second biggest club in the midlands for me. They're pretty much on a par with Albion IMO. But neither are anything close to us

Wolves are bigger than Albion. Far more potential there.

Wolves bigger than Albion for me too. Not keen on either but looking at it objectively put Wolves and Derby as 2nd biggest Midlands clubs

Similar history and fan base, wolves have more potential, but Albion are better at present.

I think considering Wolves is a one club city, with lots of areas to pull fans, there support is actually pretty poor

[olaftab]

Holy moly they're out in force on their website.

Bigger club than the Vile bay we
More fans bay we
Birmingham is mainly Blues bay it

They're on another planet.

You’re talking about Wolverhampton, where the opening of a new Debenhams is the spectacle of a lifetime.

Yes they now have the status  equivalent to Justice world's from being incarcerated  to tagged.

[Richard E]

Who's bigger - Wolves or Albion? - is two bald men arguing over a comb.

[Meanwood Villa]

Surely in any discussion of size of club periods of sustained "success" have to be a primary factor. Now success can be defined in a number of ways but let's go with being in the top flight as one example of it. We are living through a rare occurrence, a historical aberration that sees Villa in the second tier. For the Wolves of the last 30 plus years this is the norm. 4 seasons in the elite division in 34 years. Maybe in 1974 Wolves could look at the post war era and say they were bigger than us but everything that has happened since then has put us so far ahead that the very idea of them being bigger than us is frankly insane.