Aston Villa vs Newcastle United pre match thread

[ChicagoLion]

What a feeling this is to go into a top of the table game against a very decent team but having faith that we will be giving it one hell of a go.

A little worried by our growing injury list so would be a little more comforted by knowing maybe Cash and Bouba were back in contention

We are not hearing anything about PC so have no idea if he is even training

The most important thing is that they will come to win, rather than parking the bus, and that will give us  opportunities to get behind them.

This could be a cracker

1-0 us - Watkins

Actually, they do park the bus a bit, keep it tight and hit on the break. They are also masters at slowing the game down and general shithousery. I think it will be attritional.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We don't have anybody to fear, and I don't think they'll be daft enough to think that our non-performance earlier in the season will have any bearing on the weekend's game. I don't think we've played especially well in the games against Leicester and Forest, so will have to up the performance levels, but Emery has already said as much so don't think there'll be any complacency. Apparently they were a bit shit first half against Brentford, so it's not just us who aren't entirely consistent at the moment.

I think player for player the two teams are fairy well matched, although the thought of Saint-Maximin up against Young worries me a bit.

On the place and people, I think it's a great city, and have never met a proper fan in the wild, other than a few "second favourite team, love a bit of Newky Brown, me" types during the Keegan years.

Cashy will be back

Saint-Maximin has a hamstring injury and not expected to return on Saturday.
As Rambo said, they've only lost 3 all season which is amazing and no surprise they have the best defence in the league having only conceded 21 goals (us, 40). Should be a very interesting game. I have a lot of time for Eddie Howe and the way he is building things there, just a shame once again they are owned by scumbags.

Never understood their tears and endless moaning of how we took the piss when they were relegated, as somebody mentioned, they should take it as a compliment not an insult. Football is sanitised enough without them getting all precious, we'd have done the same to plenty of other teams that really shouldn't be getting relegated so they shouldn't take it personally, their nothing special.

I've said before, I look forward to the day the media refer to them as 'United' rather than those plastics at Old Trafford. Now there's a team to hate. Whilst they'll never have the humility of the Mackems, the geordies are generally a decent bunch. How long that lasts with their billions is anybodies guess. Look at Man City..

[hilts_coolerking]

Never understood their tears and endless moaning of how we took the piss when they were relegated, as somebody mentioned, they should take it as a compliment not an insult.

Let's face it, if the roles had been reversed we'd be pissing on about it until the universe collapses.  No slight, real or perceived, is ever forgiven or forgotten by football fans.

[ChicagoLion]

Never understood their tears and endless moaning of how we took the piss when they were relegated, as somebody mentioned, they should take it as a compliment not an insult.

Let's face it, if the roles had been reversed we'd be pissing on about it until the universe collapses.  No slight, real or perceived, is ever forgiven or forgotten by football fans.

I think we tend to be pretty sanguine about all the shit that has come our way over the years.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Never understood their tears and endless moaning of how we took the piss when they were relegated, as somebody mentioned, they should take it as a compliment not an insult.

Let's face it, if the roles had been reversed we'd be pissing on about it until the universe collapses.  No slight, real or perceived, is ever forgiven or forgotten by football fans.

Nah! It was all harmless piss taking, a bit of a giggle on a bright sunny day, last home game of the season. What made it even funnier is they couldn't understand why we did it. Maybe they truly believe they're everyone's second favourite team.

[LeeB]

Never understood their tears and endless moaning of how we took the piss when they were relegated, as somebody mentioned, they should take it as a compliment not an insult.

Let's face it, if the roles had been reversed we'd be pissing on about it until the universe collapses.  No slight, real or perceived, is ever forgiven or forgotten by football fans.

They came down to put that right when we were going down, only by that point we'd all long accepted we were gone and they ended up only drawing and got relegated themselves.

[hilts_coolerking]

Never understood their tears and endless moaning of how we took the piss when they were relegated, as somebody mentioned, they should take it as a compliment not an insult.

Let's face it, if the roles had been reversed we'd be pissing on about it until the universe collapses.  No slight, real or perceived, is ever forgiven or forgotten by football fans.

They came down to put that right when we were going down, only by that point we'd all long accepted we were gone and they ended up only drawing and got relegated themselves.

Yes, we were so bad then that piss taking was pointless.

[Monty]

Nobody could've taken the piss out of us back then more or with less mercy than we did.

[RamboandBruno]

Nobody could've taken the piss out of us back then more or with less mercy than we did.

Paper aeroplanes raining down from holte against Chelsea, heady days!

[brontebilly]

Unfortunately I do think this game might be a bit of a reality check for us. Recent results have obviously been great but thought some players have looked a little leggy late on against Leicester and very much against Forest. With our injuries I think we might struggle with the intensity of what they will likely bring in terms of pace and power. I think it's clear Emery doesn't really rate the Donk but I think he has to start with McGinn pushing further forward. Would prefer to retain Traore in reserve for now.

------------Martinez
Young, Konsa, Mings, Moreno
------------Luiz, Donk
McGinn, Buendia, Ramsey
_-------------Ollie

[Meanwood Villa]

That game against Newcastle was a very rare high point of the season. The utter hilarity of the inflatables protest, which was a great spectacle from the Lower Holte looking towards the Upper, and then realising we might actually get a point.

[Lastfootstamper]

Twice they turned up at ours needing to beat Villa sides of somewhat varying quality. Twice they failed. It was funny the first time, it was fucking pant-wettingly hilarious the second time. If those memories ever stop tickling me I might knock this supporting malarkey on the head.

Honestly, I'm giggling to myself thinking about it right now.

[RamboandBruno]

Unfortunately I do think this game might be a bit of a reality check for us. Recent results have obviously been great but thought some players have looked a little leggy late on against Leicester and very much against Forest. With our injuries I think we might struggle with the intensity of what they will likely bring in terms of pace and power. I think it's clear Emery doesn't really rate the Donk but I think he has to start with McGinn pushing further forward. Would prefer to retain Traore in reserve for now.

------------Martinez
Young, Konsa, Mings, Moreno
------------Luiz, Donk
McGinn, Buendia, Ramsey
_-------------Ollie

I would go with this a well, with Traore coming on if we need something second half. Dougie is brilliant but need something along side him to handle that big lump Joelinton barging through the midfield.

[Rory]

Twice they turned up at ours needing to beat Villa sides of somewhat varying quality. Twice they failed. It was funny the first time, it was fucking pant-wettingly hilarious the second time. If those memories ever stop tickling me I might knock this supporting malarkey on the head.

Honestly, I'm giggling to myself thinking about it right now.

Same. Funnily enough, one of the few people who seemed to take the joke was Shearer. He's always pretty positive and respectful about us.

(Cue a barrage of examples of Shearer being a bitter bastard towards us that I've failed to notice.)

In fact, I still occasionally Youtube the game from whatever year when Dyer & Bowyer got into that fight. Always makes me chuckle.

[The Edge]

I had a look at one of their forums yesterday. Like all football forums, there were plenty of sensible comments, as well as some by brain donors.

A couple of them hate us because we're all Tories, apparently. One has a Baggie mate, and he and other Albion fans principally hate us because of the strong Tory element amongst our support. Nothing to do with spending more than a century in our shadow then.

Right, I'm off to piss on a homeless person before objecting to a planning application for new social housing in my area.

So they're oblivious to the the brutal fascist regime that's pouring money into their club so long as they win some shiny trophies? Ok then. However I'd much prefer to keep politics out of football. I've never had any issues with them previously and I've always thought of our fan bases as pretty similar. This will be a very tough game for both teams. I think/hope we can edge it so I'll go for a 2-1 win for the boys in claret and blue who I'm very proud to say hail from one of the most working class areas of the city.

 

We're better looking, though.

Speak for yourself. I've got a face you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley!! But I'm a nice person really