Watford vs Aston Villa Pre match thread - Saturday, Aug 14th 3pm

[PaulWinch again]

Great news.

[sid1964]

Dean is going to upset a few tomorrow who think they should be starting but will be on the bench

Competition for places is key for improvement in our team

[martyn ellis]

When is the presser? Usually done by now but can't find a mention.

[Flin5tone]

1-1
And a bit of a reality check. 

[TaxDodger]

Mark Lawrenson's prediction comments for this were quite amusing. "Aston Villa looked like an established Premier League side by the end of last season" - yes, because earlier in the season when we were beating Liverpool 7-2, winning 3-0 at Arsenal and generally spending all of our time in the top half of the table we didn't look like an established Premier League side at all.

Unfortunately he's predicted us to win so I can only forsee gloom.

[Drummond]

Watkins a doubt...

[Small Rodent]

0 - 3

[Drummond]

The start of a new is generally quite busy for us nerdy types. Just been updating my records.
The Watford game will be our 1001 premier league match. Here's our record for the first 1000:

Our record is pretty garbage against a lot of teams... Having said that, we've a 100% Premier League record against Swindon!

[chrisw1]

Great to hear Buendia's fit and sounds like Bailey will be in the squad too.

The Buendia news has really fucked with me for my FPL team though, I may need to move on to my 85th draft team.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-team-news-watford-21301488

[ChicagoLion]

will it be televised anywhere ?

[Demitri_C]

Bailey will be on bench i think unless watkins is injured. Scrap that forgot we got ings now!

I think buendia will start along with AEG. Traire hasnt ahd enough minutes to start

[ADVILLAFAN]

Bert rated 50/50 too, but seems like Buendia will start and Bailey is available

[Clark W Griswold]

Assuming Bailey, Traore, Sanson, Luiz, Davis and Watkins are unavailable;

Martinez, Cash, Targett, Konsa, Mings, Nakamba, McGinn, Young, Buendia, El Ghazi, Ings
Subs Steer, Tuenzebe, Hause, Ramsey, Chucky, Philogene-Bidace, Wesley

Should be enough there to get a win but always most unpredictable first few games so i'll sit on the fence and say 1-1

[paul_e]

Assuming Bailey, Traore, Sanson, Luiz, Davis and Watkins are unavailable;

Martinez, Cash, Targett, Konsa, Mings, Nakamba, McGinn, Young, Buendia, El Ghazi, Ings
Subs Steer, Tuenzebe, Hause, Ramsey, Chucky, Philogene-Bidace, Wesley

Should be enough there to get a win but always most unpredictable first few games so i'll sit on the fence and say 1-1

9 subs so can add 2 more. Bailey will probably be one of them and it wouldn't surprise me if Hourihane was included as well.

[steamer]

We usually get all the premier league games on the TV
This one is not being shown. The only one not to be shown.
I looked on Villa TV and there is only a radio broadcast. Must be a problem there, I seem to remember the same problem the previous time we played them
Villa win