Nottingham Forest vs Aston Villa pre-match thread

[john e]

When you have the best goalkeeper in the world, whoever the replacement is, they are going to reduce the quality of the team. Fact.

Any other top goalie worth his salt, is not going to be happy sitting on the bench. Fact.

Our manager is not an idiot. Fact.

We need to stop constantly moaning about Olsen and support him the best we can instead of denting his confidence even further.

You’re not gonna stop me moaning
He’s not good enough and more often than not costs is when he plays

[LeeB]

Plus everyone outside of here thinks Villatalk is our only messageboard.

[Border villan]

It’s time this thread went back to discussing the Nottingham Forest match.

[coreyfeldman]

Hopefully martinez gets a rest at the weekend

[Lsvilla]

Just rung the club on the off chance and got two returns for this.

[Clark W Griswold]

We need to be getting the best early twenties goalkeeper that we can, who appreciates the idea of being understudy to probably the worlds best keeper and learning from him with the prospect of becoming our number one over time. We could throw said player in for some experience here and there and the aim would be for that player to be a more reliable option than Olsen even as a relative youngster. And it needs to be someone good with their feet that can play the Emery way. At the moment we have an experienced keeper who is a liability when called upon and offers nothing for the future either. It's nothing personal against Olsen, he's just no where near good enough for where we are, even as a number 2.

[VillaTim]

Just rung the club on the off chance and got two returns for this.

any joy

[Ducksworthy]

Where will people be congregating before the match? I live fairly local so could go anywhere in town really and walk down but as it’s my first away in ages I’d like to go where most of the away fans are.

[Villafirst]

Forest have a lot of injuries, particularly to their strikers. I think we'll beat them 3-1.

[VillaTim]

Awoniyi should be back, he was on the bench last week so expect him to start . Origi and Wood are out

[AV84]

Chris Sutton predicts 2-0 win for us. He also says...


" I remember that Stephen Warnock backed Villa to make the top four at the start of the season and in all honesty I was thinking that was a stretch, but it isn't looking such a bad shout now."

[OCD]

Top 5 definitely possible.

[john e]

Chris Sutton predicts 2-0 win for us. He also says...


" I remember that Stephen Warnock backed Villa to make the top four at the start of the season and in all honesty I was thinking that was a stretch, but it isn't looking such a bad shout now."

Did Chris Sutton play for us once I can’t remember

[PeterWithesShin]

Chris Sutton predicts 2-0 win for us. He also says...


" I remember that Stephen Warnock backed Villa to make the top four at the start of the season and in all honesty I was thinking that was a stretch, but it isn't looking such a bad shout now."

Did Chris Sutton play for us once I can’t remember

Not once, 9 times.

[danno]

Think he only scored once though, against Everton.