Aston Villa v Newcastle United Pre-Match Thread

[cdbearsfan]

Snowing heavily in Yardley now. You could barely see the ball in the closing stages of the women's match at Walsall. Worried this game could be off or, worse, played in conditions similar to Bolton away. You don't want to play long ball dross like this in the snow, it's a leveller.

[Villa Lew]

Targett is fit to play tonight. He was taken off on Wednesday due to post Covid fatigue. He’s fine now.

 Gregg Evans confirmed this.

Great news

Yeah it is I was getting a bit concerned he wasn't gonna make it, going 2 nil Villa, Ollie and Jack.

[Risso]

Snowing heavily in Yardley now. You could barely see the ball in the closing stages of the women's match at Walsall. Worried this game could be off or, worse, played in conditions similar to Bolton away. You don't want to play long ball dross like this in the snow, it's a leveller.

Surely that's not even a remote possibility with heated pitches these days?  The only time I can recall matches being off for snow is when the surrounding areas are too dangerous for fans to travel, but that's obviously not going to be a problem today.

[paul_e]

Snowing heavily in Yardley now. You could barely see the ball in the closing stages of the women's match at Walsall. Worried this game could be off or, worse, played in conditions similar to Bolton away. You don't want to play long ball dross like this in the snow, it's a leveller.

I'm a couple of miles away from Villa Park and it's sunny here but we keep getting short snow showers. If it stays like this and things aren't massively different down the road then I don't think the weather will be a problem.

[SoccerHQ]

Snowing heavily in Yardley now. You could barely see the ball in the closing stages of the women's match at Walsall. Worried this game could be off or, worse, played in conditions similar to Bolton away. You don't want to play long ball dross like this in the snow, it's a leveller.

Calling off for weather would only happen if 40k were preparing their cabbages and descending on the Villa Tavern and Cap n Gown as we type.

Think last game that was called off was QPR at home and that was due to safety of crowd rather than pitch issues.

[olaftab]

Hause wasn't in the squad against City so not sure if he's fit enough.

Injured foot, as I said before.

So what's wrong with hause?

[Dr Butler]

Hause wasn't in the squad against City so not sure if he's fit enough.

Injured foot, as I said before.

So what's wrong with hause?

olaftab you are naughty

UTV
The Doc

[OCD]

Hause wasn't in the squad against City so not sure if he's fit enough.

Injured foot, as I said before.

So what's wrong with hause?

I dip in and out of threads, I don't read every single comment on every single thread so I'm going to miss some posts.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Hause wasn't in the squad against City so not sure if he's fit enough.

Injured foot, as I said before.

So what's wrong with hause?

I dip in and out of threads, I don't read every single comment on every single thread so I'm going to miss some posts.

Yes, but what's wrong with Hause?

[Flamingo Lane]

We need to get ruthless, and be far less wasteful when in good positions.

I think El Ghazi was very unlucky to not start the other night, and he more than deserves a starting place tonight.

It's tempting to think that this is a game that is ripe for us to hand out a good hiding to the opposition, however Newcastle will be desperate to get something from this game and I've a feeling that a 1-0 win might need to do.

[PaulWinch again]

I think it’ll be tricky. They’ll inevitably sit back - we need to be precise and ruthless.

[RamboandBruno]

Nakamba or Ramsey to replace McGinn? Ramsey seems obvious choice on current selection, but he seems more of an attacking midfielder than McGinnis been playing lately?

[aj2k77]

Not Nakamba, he hamstrings us with his inability to get the ball forward with any accuracy or pace and I don't think his tackling around the area will be particularly suited to Newcastle at home.

[eamonn]

Hause wasn't in the squad against City so not sure if he's fit enough.

Injured foot, as I said before.

So what's wrong with hause?

I dip in and out of threads, I don't read every single comment on every single thread so I'm going to miss some posts.

I thought you were OCD

[OCD]

Hause wasn't in the squad against City so not sure if he's fit enough.

Injured foot, as I said before.

So what's wrong with hause?

I dip in and out of threads, I don't read every single comment on every single thread so I'm going to miss some posts.

I thought you were OCD

I am with some things.