Re: Festive Football Chat : Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:21 pm  

WireFanatic II wrote:

Should be a cracking game. We have a great record at Villa Park but to be honest, the way this season has gone, I can see it falling by the wayside tonight. Don't think it will be completely one sided though, as you say, I think one team might nick it in the last 10.

Can see us playing like we did last year when we went there, park the bus and hope not to concede. Will be interesting to see if Rafa starts Aquilani again, I think he might move Gerrard a little deeper and play Dirk up front with Torres. Villa to have our pants down on set pieces, I'm thinking.

[Wanderer]

Re: Festive Football Chat : Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:55 pm  

flipper wrote: Mrs VDS very poorly Oh dear. Bad news indeed.

flipper wrote: Mrs VDS very poorly Oh dear. Bad news indeed.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:52 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Have city fans really nicknamed Mancini as Bobby Manc? Deary me.

Worst nickname.....ever. Or at least since we christened you with your nickname. I am not sure you know about that though

Hopefully the Bobby Manc thing will disappear.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:18 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

Worst nickname.....ever. Or at least since we christened you with your nickname. I am not sure you know about that though

Probably better to keep it that way.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:15 am  

To Hull City FC

Happy belated christmas
Regards
G Megson.

[Wanderer]

Re: Festive Football Chat : Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:15 am  

Sexual Deviant wrote:

To Hull City FC

Happy belated christmas
Regards
G Megson.

Indeed. Time that Eddie Davies woke up to the situation and took action!

Re: Festive Football Chat : Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:52 am  

That's why LFC wilfinish 4th IMO, the ability to go away to a tough place against a team in from and produce the goods, I think CIty will run them very close though but there vulnerability at the back may hamper them.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:29 am  

Mark wrote: That's why LFC wilfinish 4th IMO, the ability to go away to a tough place against a team in from and produce the goods I haven't watched the game, but from reports I'd hardly think that nicking the game in the 92nd minute counts as producing the goods. Jesus Christ the BBC are rubbish: PREMIER LEAGUE O'Neill sees Villa bouncing back Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill insists his side's last-gasp loss to Liverpool will derail their bid to break into the Premier League's top four. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... efault.stm I think Liverpool will probably finish in the 4 because they have experience and motivation to do it. But the biggest reason they'll struggle is because there are so many competitors for the position. When one side alone has been up against Arsenal or Liverpool for 4th place they've usually bottled it. But there's a good chance that at least 1 out of the 4 won't lose their bottle. Citeh's qualification could cause real problems for Chelsea and Man United. Both us and you have a fair amount of aging players who are going to need replacing sooner or later. If Citeh have CL qualification theyy're likely to be chasing all the players we are interested in. They don't need to buy those players to harm us, just be there to bump up the prices we pay. A horrible thought went through my head where I chose Tottenham as the team I wanted to get 4th, but no way do I want them to have any success, so I'll pick Villa to get fourth. Villa 4th, Scousers 5th, Tottenham 6th and Citeh 7th is my choice of what I want to happen. The only reason I want the scousers to get 5th is because the Europa is such an inferior comp that it won't be an achievement for them. For Spurs or a sensible Citeh they would think that the Europa qualification was a job well done.

Mark wrote: That's why LFC wilfinish 4th IMO, the ability to go away to a tough place against a team in from and produce the goods I haven't watched the game, but from reports I'd hardly think that nicking the game in the 92nd minute counts as producing the goods. Jesus Christ the BBC are rubbish: PREMIER LEAGUE O'Neill sees Villa bouncing back Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill insists his side's last-gasp loss to Liverpool will derail their bid to break into the Premier League's top four. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... efault.stm I think Liverpool will probably finish in the 4 because they have experience and motivation to do it. But the biggest reason they'll struggle is because there are so many competitors for the position. When one side alone has been up against Arsenal or Liverpool for 4th place they've usually bottled it. But there's a good chance that at least 1 out of the 4 won't lose their bottle. Citeh's qualification could cause real problems for Chelsea and Man United. Both us and you have a fair amount of aging players who are going to need replacing sooner or later. If Citeh have CL qualification theyy're likely to be chasing all the players we are interested in. They don't need to buy those players to harm us, just be there to bump up the prices we pay. A horrible thought went through my head where I chose Tottenham as the team I wanted to get 4th, but no way do I want them to have any success, so I'll pick Villa to get fourth. Villa 4th, Scousers 5th, Tottenham 6th and Citeh 7th is my choice of what I want to happen. The only reason I want the scousers to get 5th is because the Europa is such an inferior comp that it won't be an achievement for them. For Spurs or a sensible Citeh they would think that the Europa qualification was a job well done.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:37 am  

Villa have had the perfect chance to put forward their bid in the last 2 games and failed miserably. I agree with what you say about City r.e them being very dangerous if they make the CL, I just fear for them defensively as it looks like Lescott and Toure maybe have been panic buys when in reality they had a pretty good CB in Dunne.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:02 am  

Megsons left Bolton, Mark Hughes anyone?