Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace Pre Match Thread - Boxing Day 3pm

[Dr Butler]

Crystal Palace nil please Villa.

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[Risso]

Couple of nice selection headaches for this for Dean.  Barkley back in for Traore, Konsa back in for Hause? 

[jcsutv]

Remember a game before xmas late 70 's perhaps where a john dehean header in front of the holte gave us the 3 points against Newcastle I think. Could live with that again

Jack went to JD’s school. Maybe he will do the same...

John Deehan went to my junior/infant school (unfortunately named St. Andrews) and comprehensive school St. Peters. But he is eight years older than me so our paths never crossed. I do know he lived with his parents in Valley Road Solihull/Sheldon and when he was at Villa he drove a yellow Triumph TR7. I wasn't aware Jack Grealish also went to the same school as me.

Jack went to Our Lady of Compassion, then St Peter’s. I must have been at St Peter’s  around the same time Damo. Left there in 88

[stevo_st]

Watkins hat-trick please santa

[Richard E]

Watkins hat-trick please santa

Given how VAR has it in for him, Ollie has to score 5 to get a hat-trick.

[stevo_st]

VAR to fuck off forever is top of my list, just above Arsenal relegation and Mee to do his knee

[rob_bridge]

Remember a game before xmas late 70 's perhaps where a john dehean header in front of the holte gave us the 3 points against Newcastle I think. Could live with that again

Jack went to JD’s school. Maybe he will do the same...

John Deehan went to my junior/infant school (unfortunately named St. Andrews) and comprehensive school St. Peters. But he is eight years older than me so our paths never crossed. I do know he lived with his parents in Valley Road Solihull/Sheldon and when he was at Villa he drove a yellow Triumph TR7. I wasn't aware Jack Grealish also went to the same school as me.

Jack went to Our Lady of Compassion, then St Peter’s. I must have been at St Peter’s  around the same time Damo. Left there in 88

I used to see John Deehan at St Thomas More church when I was a kid but I think he had moved to the Albion by then. I remember his TR7 - pretty distinctive.

[rob_bridge]

Remember a game before xmas late 70 's perhaps where a john dehean header in front of the holte gave us the 3 points against Newcastle I think. Could live with that again

Pedant alert if it was late 70s it wouldn't have been 3 points.

Bllcks just saw Richard beat me to it

[andyh]

Well, we are front and centre on Boxing Day. The perfect chance to show the world the progress we are making. The fact we are on our way back, big style.

It can’t possibly go wrong, can it?

5-1 Villa.

[Nev]

Remember a game before xmas late 70 's perhaps where a john dehean header in front of the holte gave us the 3 points against Newcastle I think. Could live with that again

Jack went to JD’s school. Maybe he will do the same...

John Deehan went to my junior/infant school (unfortunately named St. Andrews) and comprehensive school St. Peters. But he is eight years older than me so our paths never crossed. I do know he lived with his parents in Valley Road Solihull/Sheldon and when he was at Villa he drove a yellow Triumph TR7. I wasn't aware Jack Grealish also went to the same school as me.

Jack went to Our Lady of Compassion, then St Peter’s. I must have been at St Peter’s  around the same time Damo. Left there in 88

I used to see John Deehan at St Thomas More church when I was a kid but I think he had moved to the Albion by then. I remember his TR7 - pretty distinctive.

I never knew Jack went to St Peters. Me and Damo were in the same year, we left in '87. My family's parish church was St Thomas Moore, the ugliest church in Brum.

John Deehan Snr was my Dad's best mate. John would invite the old man down to watch our games when we didn't have Sky. They were both Villa mad but John was something else, if we were ahead he couldn't watch the last 15 minutes and would go and tend to his roses leaving my Dad alone chuckling away at his antics in the living room. I can tell you dozens of other stories but we're getting off the topic, safe to say lets hope they enjoy Boxing Day from their heavenly sofa.

[Bad English]

FTEFFC! 3-1.

[Monty]

Thought they were oddly unlucky against Liverpool, who surpassed Southampton against us in giving the most ruthless finishing performance of the season. We'll have to be on it to keep up our form here.

[Risso]

I think he was unlucky not to have a better managerial career, Deehan, but he made some strange choices. I saw him out in Wigan after they won the Div 3 title in 96 (I think) with top scorer Graeme Jones.  He left Wigan to become an assistant somewhere else, which struck me as odd at the time.

[gpbarr]

I predicted a 3-0 win at the Baggies so hopefully my form continues - I like our chances here - yes they'll be smarting from the 7-0 hammering last time out and are certainly dangerous up front, but our back 5 have really shown their metal this season and with Dougie and SJM stamping their authority in the middle of the park, I think'll we will have too much for them.   

2-0

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[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

... our back 5 have really shown their metal....

 Chris Nickel was better.