Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[Steve67]

Last 10 games we're 2nd.

http://www.soccerstats.com/formtable.asp?league=england2

If this is the same after the next ten games, I might just start to believe! I know that the second half of the season mirrors the first, but somehow I feel that we've played the easier games other than Wolves and Cardiff away.

[XXVilla]

Difficult games to come. Wolves Cardiff Sheff Utd at home. Sheff Utd and Leeds away. The rest all winnable.

[Matt Collins]

It’s certainly true that despite the upturn in form we’ve still not been great against the best sides in the table. Maybe Fulham was the exception to that.

A win at Elland Road would really start to get some momentum going

On paper doable. But villa have always struggled at Elland Road in my lifetime. Can’t think of many wins

[PeterWithe]

We’rent Ipswich second a few games ago?

There really isn’t anyone to fear in this league, Tatters apart all the others are pretty poor.

[VinnieChase84]

Game was over at two nil and you could tell both Ipswich team and supporters knew it - they were incredibly quiet second half. They were more lively on New Street platforms after the game than they were during it.

Saw it kicking off just outside the away end after the game too!?

[robbo1874]

Re Alan Brazil, my son Holte Lower RR113 is also watching the Ashes.  If Fatty Brazil bumps into him he will get the same treatment.

i went on Friday afternoon- didn’t see fat Alan Brazil though. I did see a bloke in a Villa shirt with a rough looking bird wearing a blues shirt in tow. Fair play for making her walk behind him. Also had a chat to a very strange person wearing a retro cov shirt who was with his equally weird offspring. The lost tribe of Albion (who I first saw in Wellington a few years back when Root and Compton were starting out - what happened to Compton?) were also in attendance. No sign of any bitter ginger Scottish piss- heads to report though, thankfully. For those interested, there was quite a bit of scrapping towards the end- aussies can handle their beer and banter usually-  just not at the same time unfortunately.

[manic-road]

It’s certainly true that despite the upturn in form we’ve still not been great against the best sides in the table. Maybe Fulham was the exception to that.

A win at Elland Road would really start to get some momentum going

On paper doable. But villa have always struggled at Elland Road in my lifetime. Can’t think of many wins

I went in January and December 2000 and we won both games 1-2, don't think we have played them much in the league since then so hoping for another 1-2.

[jeowje]

This time last year when we played Leeds away we were also on a good run. As I remember it, defeat set us in the road to a truly horrible set of results which ultimately ruined our season.

Let’s hope this can be an occasion to accentuate the difference between the sides this year and last, and take a bit of revenge. It’s going to feel like an old-style premier league game, in many ways the biggest game of the season so far- win here and it really is all systems go, and might go some way to excorcising the misery of Cardiff and Wolve away.

[Deano's Mullet]

Game was over at two nil and you could tell both Ipswich team and supporters knew it - they were incredibly quiet second half. They were more lively on New Street platforms after the game than they were during it.

Saw it kicking off just outside the away end after the game too!?

yeah I was coming out the North and saw loads of police rushing around the corner to  the away section. Before the game I saw a Villa fan with a battered and bloody face standing outside the Witton Arms being looked after by his mates. I had just been in the bookies and seen a very noisy and gobby bunch of  Ipswich fans go past about five mins earlier so I don't know if they were responsible. They were all young 'uns and making a lot of noise, mainly about Norwich.

[wittonwarrior]

Took in the Melbourne test in 1997. Boxing Day gough bags a hatrick where was I still in bed following the proofs how many hours on the ale