Burnley v Aston Villa Pre-Match

[LeeB]

Weren't Burnley like half-decent in the 60's or so ?

Yep.

[dave.woodhall]

They won the league and finished runner-up two years later. I'd settle for that level of shit.

[Ads]

If you're impressed by Burnley having a couple of years not being shit, 60 odd years ago, then surely you'd be equally impressed by the Albion or the Wolves. And nobody is impressed by them.

[dave.woodhall]

If you're impressed by Burnley having a couple of years not being shit, 60 odd years ago, then surely you'd be equally impressed by the Albion or the Wolves. And nobody is impressed by them.

As I have always said, them in stripes are the biggest club in our history and we've had our moments with Wolves.

[Ads]

If you're impressed by Burnley having a couple of years not being shit, 60 odd years ago, then surely you'd be equally impressed by the Albion or the Wolves. And nobody is impressed by them.

As I have always said, them in stripes are the biggest club in our history and we've had our moments with Wolves.

That sounds close to a compliment about them you know!

[dave.woodhall]

If you're impressed by Burnley having a couple of years not being shit, 60 odd years ago, then surely you'd be equally impressed by the Albion or the Wolves. And nobody is impressed by them.

As I have always said, them in stripes are the biggest club in our history and we've had our moments with Wolves.

That sounds close to a compliment about them you know!

It's the truth. We've had more big games against the Albion than any other club. In fact, you could argue that we've had more in the past eight seasons than we have against Small Heath in almost 150 years.

[rob_bridge]

Thugs 2.1 Us.

Their pecker is up.

I had a dream the other night we were playing Wolves is this game and we beat them 1.0

[Ads]

If you're impressed by Burnley having a couple of years not being shit, 60 odd years ago, then surely you'd be equally impressed by the Albion or the Wolves. And nobody is impressed by them.

As I have always said, them in stripes are the biggest club in our history and we've had our moments with Wolves.

That sounds close to a compliment about them you know!

It's the truth. We've had more big games against the Albion than any other club. In fact, you could argue that we've had more in the past eight seasons than we have against Small Heath in almost 150 years.

Quarter final in 2010 and the derby in 2019 were the only big games for us. You could argue that the League Cup in 93/94, with it being the 2nd round wasn't particularly big in context. Then it's back to the League Cup in 63 and I'm not sure how much stock anybody put in it then.

The 2 Play Off games were obviously massive for us against Sandwell. Their "bestest team ever" finished 4th and we won the league, so big shrug. But beyond that we're going back generations to Ronnie Allen relegating us and before that, events of 100+ years.

Wouldn't disagree that there's history, I just don't think there's too many alive and kicking who've ever seen our local rivals actually matter an iota to us in competitive terms, beyond a handful of games, if that.

[postal]

Burnley have injuries,  but not sure how many of those are first choice for their starting 11

We are more or less injury free.

It will come down to who wants it more

[baddowvillans]

So definitely not us then?

[Ads]

Why don't we want it?

[Ads]

Bailey and House out. Ramsey a big doubt.

[algy]

If you're impressed by Burnley having a couple of years not being shit, 60 odd years ago, then surely you'd be equally impressed by the Albion or the Wolves. And nobody is impressed by them.

As I have always said, them in stripes are the biggest club in our history and we've had our moments with Wolves.

That sounds close to a compliment about them you know!

It's the truth. We've had more big games against the Albion than any other club. In fact, you could argue that we've had more in the past eight seasons than we have against Small Heath in almost 150 years.

Being from the shires, I always saw Albion as the next biggest club in the area (tho very much in "tallest dwarf" territory), on the basis that met Albion supporters every so often. Whilst I knew the odd Wolves supporter, of the folk who actually lived in Wolverhampton most of them supported someone else. Blues were a bit like Walsall where I only knew one person who supported them, and they didn't go to games.

[boozey182]

We're much better than Burnley and I want us to show it. The last couple of results have been good, but we all know we are capable of playing better. This is a great opportunity to show that we were never in a relagation fight and that we are far too good for the likes of Burnley.

I should say that I haven't watched Burnley at all this season, and certainly not since they sacked their manager, so I don't know too much about them or how they'll play - but I imagine we'll have to fight to earn the right to play football. Get that done and I want us to tear them apart. Control the game - we don't do that enough - and make our chances count.

It feels like things are tunring around in our favour again - this is a great chance to prove that. A draw/loss here and those creeping doubts will be back (1 win in 7, only beat Norwich etc etc), so let's make sure that doesn't happen.

[jwarry]

Bailey and House out. Ramsey a big doubt.

May be an opportunity to try Phil Buendia Ollie and Ings in the same team?