DaveAV1 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 2 hours ago, cheltenham_villa said: love this mate, a brilliant memory, especially as a dad whos now taking his own son. Im hoping to bank a few of these ourselves. Stick as many in the bank as you can mate, they’ll keep you warm for the bad days, which I hope are firmly in the past now! UTV. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 2 hours ago, maqroll said: Conference league is just a glorified Intertoto Cup In terms of status the Conference League is regarded as a major trophy but the Intertoto Cup was not so a clear difference there. Opposition fans seem to get more wound up about Villa challenging for the title when the vast majority of Villa fans seem to be just enjoying the results and what will be will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 2 hours ago, alreadyexists said: Yeah, but a trophy would be lovely wouldn’t it? Absolutely, but I'd hate to miss out on Champions League or even the league title because of player exhaustion and injury exacerbated by Conference League demands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Brumstopdogs said: Opposition fans seem to get more wound up about Villa challenging for the title when the vast majority of Villa fans seem to be just enjoying the results and what will be will be. Yep all the fans of West Ham and below are a bit jealous, thinking if we can do it why can't they, The 'Big six' at first were like 'ahh look at them doing well', now it's turning into anger almost 'how dare they be challenging us. Next step will be fear that they can't stop us. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 8 hours ago, mjmooney said: Seeing Villa win the league? Pfft. Completed it, mate. And your still here ? okay that gives me hope 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 6 hours ago, MotoMkali said: Your death is a sacrifice we are willing to make, I'm sure you understand Heyy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pongo Waring Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) Top of the League at Christmas. Party in here at 10pm tonight. Cya you here Edited December 22, 2023 by Pongo Waring 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 15 hours ago, VillaJ100 said: Yep all the fans of West Ham and below are a bit jealous, thinking if we can do it why can't they, The 'Big six' at first were like 'ahh look at them doing well', now it's turning into anger almost 'how dare they be challenging us. Next step will be fear that they can't stop us. What’s after that? Denial? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Tough tests without Kamara, I’ve been worried because of that. Usually Emery and our players handles pressure well. Dendonker playing after long time (well he did job against Arsenal and last season our best games were with him). I’m just worried about playing the same way with him, even Kamara kept mistaken until learning. Youri would have been a good choice to have as well, hopefully Lenglet will do a good job as he’s a good player going forward (direct replacement for Pau). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Regarding League, FA or Conference. I think it’s too early to ask, there are no Conference games until March so until then nothing to worry about. For FA Cup it’s lesser games but tougher than the Conference, for me as we have easier fixture (and we haven’t been ale to qualify since I’m not when). Just win that, we don’t play many in January and it’s not a midweek game anyway. Win that and see who we draw with. The schedule until March won’t have many contradictions. Until then we’ll hopefully add some players to the squad, Buendia hopefully back. So we might be able to rotate more. Also we can decide depending on our league place, if we’re up there we’d give it the best team but we shall also do what we’ve done in Europe so far, rotate and see were it takes us. FA cup are 5 games or four which takes you to the final. I think 2 or 3 of them are before March. FA and Conference finals should be after the league finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, duke313 said: What’s after that? Denial? Probably. "how did they do it must be cheating/bribing/doping" etc. Edited December 22, 2023 by VillaJ100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Reminder that a win tonight will see us surpass the all important 40 point mark for safety Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 22 hours ago, maqroll said: Conference league is just a glorified Intertoto Cup Nah, Intertoto was a pre-season tournament to qualify for Europe proper. The Conference League is the third tier of European football, basically on par with the Cup Winners Cup when it was European Cup, Uefa Cup and Cup Winners Cup. Europa League then combined Uefa Cup and Cup Winners Cup. The Europa League then became too big with too many teams, so they split in into two. So you could say the Conference League is like division 2 of the Europa League. I agree though that priority is The League. But i'd put Conference League second seeing that we are only 4 rounds away from winning it and a couple of those rounds should be easy enough to get through (unless we get unlucky with the draw). Whereas the FA Cup is much harder to win and we have to get through many rounds. Edited December 22, 2023 by ender4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayEm Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 If we won tonight and Arsenal / Liverpool drew tomorrow, I'd back us to stay top for most of January. However the Kamara / Tielemans / Pau absences across the two remaining fixtures of the year do make that a tougher ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 The belittling from Neville “I think they will drop back, Aston Villa, but if they were to drop back to 5th or 6th that would still be a great season.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adman Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 8 minutes ago, Folski said: The belittling from Neville “I think they will drop back, Aston Villa, but if they were to drop back to 5th or 6th that would still be a great season.” There is no evidence to say we will drop back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted December 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Folski said: The belittling from Neville “I think they will drop back, Aston Villa, but if they were to drop back to 5th or 6th that would still be a great season.” **** him. He's wearing a hoodie and I'm guessing stained (© @mottaloo) grey marl joggers on prime time telly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Predictable as day following night that we would blow our chance to go top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermon Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 I think this was always coming, we need to learn how to break teams down and be clinical. To be losing against the bottom team in the league is so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Nevermind, was fun whilst it lasted. Absolutely HAVE to win against United now. Tbh I think we need to win United, Burnley and Everton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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