Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Pre Match Thread

[AV82EC]

Anyone know what changes pubehead has made since he took over? Karanka did an absolute number on us back in Nov with Carvalho and Lolley ripping us a new one.

4-4-2.

Pretty much all the foreign flair players are warming the bench now although Carvalho did score at weekend so he could be shoehorned in from the start.

They have new CB partnership aswell.

There’s a shock, though we seem to struggle to get our game going against a 4-4-2.

[Axl Rose]

was too busy getting into Oxford to read Biology, sorry.

I'm confused. Don't you mean, history?

Anyway, I'm a bit of a simpleton, so I may have missed an obvious joke here. If so, apologies.

[XXVilla]

was too busy getting into Oxford to read Biology, sorry.

Don’t you have to have a broad knowledge of all subjects to get into Oxford, or have standards dropped there too?

[levico]

Its been said - difficult to call.

Maybe a game too far given all the recent drama but fingers crossed.

[manic-road]

1-1 draw

[Dr Butler]

tight game but would love a drab 2 nil routine win for the boys from B6

Hause or Mings 25mins
McGinn 72mins

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[St AustellAVFC]

2-0 Villa. Mings and SJM. Picking my daughter up at 1930 from Brownies and I won’t be happy if they are late out.

[Villan For Life]

Its been said - difficult to call.

Maybe a game too far given all the recent drama but fingers crossed.

I get the impression with Smith that he will not let that happen. If Bruce were in charge then it would happen as we saw several times last season. Smith seems to have a manner about him that suggests that he'd freshen things up to prevent it happening.

1-0 Villa

[RichardBatchelor]

Can imagine Keane advising their defenders to hack into Jack at every opp, the anger-issued cnut.

Ha ha love the invented word ‘anger-issued’. That made me laugh quite a lot - and perfect for Keano.

[Small Rodent]

2-0 Villa. Mings and SJM. Picking my daughter up at 1930 from Brownies and I won’t be happy if they are late out.

Can you kill Hitler before you return to 2019?

[Deano's Mullet]

2-0 Villa. Mings and SJM. Picking my daughter up at 1930 from Brownies and I won’t be happy if they are late out.

Can you kill Hitler before you return to 2019?

No Rodent! If you kill Hitler the war will go on and on because cleverer generals will know what they are doing. Lee Marvin said so in Dirty Dozen Next Mission!

[Perthvillan]

After the Stripy lot beat us at VP. I thought the season would just drift away from us, however hope is restored.
It's been a truly bizarre season and last Sunday's events just another crazy chapter.
After the SHA game I looked at the league table and thought if we could just beat Forest and Boro before the international break we could be right in it as Boro, Derby and Bristol City are all looking shaky.
Even 4 points from these next two games would keep us still living in hope.
You've got to be optimistic in football as in life let the dream live on.
2-1 to us tonight.
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[usav]

1-0 us, towering header by McGrath from a Staunton corner.

[Richard E]

It’s the anniversary of Franz Carr’s finest hour, and if that’s not an omen I don’t know what is.

[Jon Crofts]

Tough to call, I'd like to think we have enough to edge it 1-2.