Aston Villa vs Cardiff City Pre Match Thread

[john e]

whatever the result it won't be a decent game of free flowing football that much we can predict

the winner will probably be the team that manages to keep 11 men on the pitch for 90 minutes

[Toronto Villa]

I have to decide whether I can be arsed to turn up to this now when I was chomping at the bit to go last Friday night.

Apparently the club are suggesting around 34k for this game which is astonishing given how things have been of late and it being a Tuesday night. Ain’t exactly warm either from what my mom tells me.

[Ads]

They looked wank against the Wolves. Just awful kick and rush.

It's a tactic I suppose.

Not expecting entertainment.

Johnstone
Hutton
Terry
Chester
Elmo

Jedi
Grealish
BB

Kodjia
Grabben
Snoddy

[berneboy]

Calum and Rushian are playing tonight so they won't be involved tomorrow.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

a very hard fought 2-1 away victory

[Mister E]

Pros: I ought to attend, I have a ST after all; we might just offer another Wolves-type game; the atmosphere will be tasty with a large number (presumably) of our Celtic cousins; I can shoot the breeze with a few other diehards.
Cons: I've been to all the crap games recently; 250 miles round trip - get home around midnight; football quality probably going to be low-grade.

It's a tough one .... I'll probably decide at around 3.15 tomorrow.

Re the game: a scrappy draw seems likely; or a late away winner.

[SoccerHQ]

I have to decide whether I can be arsed to turn up to this now when I was chomping at the bit to go last Friday night.

Apparently the club are suggesting around 34k for this game which is astonishing given how things have been of late and it being a Tuesday night. Ain’t exactly warm either from what my mom tells me.

It had the big game feel a few weeks back and even on Saturday morning as if we'd won we'd only have been four points off them. Then we kicked off at Carrow Road....

We tend to average about 29-30k on the Tuesday night games but remember Reading last week barely managed to bring 500 fans, I assume Cardiff are bringing the full 2.8k so that will bump things up aswell.

[SoccerHQ]

Hasn't SB said Terry will be rested Ads?

Probably going to be Jedinak at CB but I'd like to see Axel given a go there as it is supposed to be his main position.

[Fasth56]

My car is off the road so cant get to and from this one,i know its a tall order but is there anyone coming through or from the Bedworth/Exhall area who i could beg a lift from? id sure pay towards fuel costs.

If you could get to Solihull, I could give you a lift

[Malandro]

I'll be rooting for Fulham tomorrow, go for it Villa!

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

we sold out our allocation after only 48 hours of going on sale 2 weeks ago .  would have been nice to give us at least another 1,000 tickets as we gave you close to 5,000 earlier in the season HQ . Think it's going to be hell of an atmosphere tomorrow night can't wait .

[vilan461]

My car is off the road so cant get to and from this one,i know its a tall order but is there anyone coming through or from the Bedworth/Exhall area who i could beg a lift from? id sure pay towards fuel costs.

If you could get to Solihull, I could give you a lift

Many thanks for the offer-the problem would be getting home after the game.,reckon i,ll get in a few Guinness cans,and luckily its live on Sky so i will be able to watch it at home,
thanks again its nice of you,--UTV

[frank]

After the utterly depressing trip to Norwich I really don't feel like driving 320 miles from Sussex and back for more of the same, but I've arranged to meet a couple of the Latin Lions at the Barton's, and they've obviously had a much longer journey. I only hope that dinner in the pub and an afternoon visiting Hereford won't turn out to be the highlights of their trip.

[ChicagoLion]

we sold out our allocation after only 48 hours of going on sale 2 weeks ago .  would have been nice to give us at least another 1,000 tickets as we gave you close to 5,000 earlier in the season HQ . Think it's going to be hell of an atmosphere tomorrow night can't wait .

The atmosphere will be pretty tepid, this is no longer a big game for us.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

this is a top end of the championship game of course it's big game for both sides . i,m sure SB will rally his troops for this one . as for atmosphere pretty sure our lot will make hell of a racket . pretty sure if you score in the first few minutes your lot will crank up there voices too . i got a feeling warnock will park the bus first half and throw everything at you second half even the kitchen sink .  you'll be bored of gunarsson with his long throws after about 60 minutes in -haha