Baalberith Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Must wins don't come more must win than this. Nervous already, if we lose we are well and truly in the shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claret75 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Wolves are a decent team but if we played like we did the last 2 games, there's every chance we'll score 3 or 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamsonwoodVillan Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Bolton game was gutting as I actually thought we played some good stuff going forward all afternoon, surely if Ash had put away the penalty we would've got the 3 points. Anyway its all ifs and maybes, boy have we thrown away a lot of points this year. We've been made to pay for some horrific injuries at the back, and in my view some mistakes in the transfer market. Houllier is going through the mill big style for not replacing Warnock in January, and at centre back we've been really poor. As well as Clark has played overall, in my opinion he has made one or two errors/bad tackles that have cost us, Dunne and Collins just dont seem to have played this season. This game for me doesnt quite have a relegation feel to it yet, but if we don't win, then every game after to the end of the season will have exactly that feel. It must be the defining game for Houllier so far, its full circle for him as his first full game was at Wolves, a great away win we came out of with quite a few fans I'm sure secretly (or un-secretly) hoping it was the start of a bright dawn for us. How badly we've been let down since then. GH has led us to seemingly brighter days in the transfer window with strong acquisitions.. But has continued MON's trends of persevering playing players out of position, stubbornly refusing to pick players out of favour, and encouraging the players to back off and hang on when we get our noses in front. The third or fourth game I've said this in a row but: a win puts much needed space between us and them, a draw no good to either team really, a loss leaves us vulnerable to other results (which is definitely not what we want). It should be: Friedel Walker Collins Cuellar L.Young Albrighton Makoun Reo-Coker Downing A.Young Bent but no doubt it will be: Friedel Walker Cuellar Baker Delph Downing Petrov Makoun Albrighton Young Bent I will go with a very tough and hard to take 2-2 draw. Come on lads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Need NRC and Makoun in CM for this please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Given the events of this week, given that Wolves are a battling team used to a fight and up for a fight and we are neither, given that they know they are in trouble and I do not believe our team do and that we are in a right old mess I think we will lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoody Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 -----------------Friedel------------- Walker---Cuellar---Baker---Young --------------NRC------------------- ---------------------Makoun-------- Albrighton-----Young------Downing -----------------Bent---------------- Collins back: Walker-Cuellar-Collins-Young Collins Back, Young Injured: Walker-Cuellar-Collins-Baker Collins Injured/Sacked and Young Injured: Walker-Cuellar-Baker-Delph Must must must must win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Given the events of this week, given that Wolves are a battling team used to a fight and up for a fight and we are neither, given that they know they are in trouble and I do not believe our team do and that we are in a right old mess I think we will lose. Agree with this especially if Wolves score first. Our players will get a very strong dose of the schoots and retreat behind the trouser leg of GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoody Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Very tempted to blow work off and travel to down to Brum for this game... but so worried about it, I can see this being worse than Sunderland if we lose, cant face a train journey back to Wales feeling like shit and very much out of pocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Very tempted to blow work off and travel to down to Brum for this game... but so worried about it, I can see this being worse than Sunderland if we lose, cant face a train journey back to Wales feeling like shit and very much out of pocket But think how good it will be if we win! Do it mate, try to avoid thinking negative before games I know its easy to fall into that trap this season especially but it helps not to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Given the events of this week, given that Wolves are a battling team used to a fight and up for a fight and we are neither, given that they know they are in trouble and I do not believe our team do and that we are in a right old mess I think we will lose. What says we are not up for a fight? think we've shown plenty of fighting spirit over last couple months, Blues, Chelsea, Man City games in particular. Not to mention we've only lost against Blackburn under Houllier who are in the bottom half. So I'd say we have plenty of fighting spirit. Anyway your prediction gives me hope as you are usually wrong I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoody Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 2,416 tickets available for the game. Holte End: K2 and K6 most tickets available (269 and 192 respectively) - R/L corners - Upper Trinity: A1 and A2 (317 and 186) - Upper, towards Holte End in corner North Stand: T5 and T1 (178 and 111) - Upper corners Left and Right Doug Ellis: M5 (240) P2 (108) and P1 (100) - towards Holte End side of Pitch are the areas with the most tickets left available. Probably the closest to sell out we've had. Anybody know what Wolves' allocation was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Wolves have sold out their allocation of 2640 according to their official site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolteEndRob Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 How the **** have we managed to sell 40,000 tickets for this game? Hopefully we could see a sell out crowd! Obviously I'm pleased about it but I'm also totally surprised as I was thinking we'd sell 35,000 max! Hopefully it's a sign of the times and the stay aways have finally realised that we are deep in the shit and that we need all the support we can get at the moment whether you are for or against Houllier! People need to try and put that to the side for 9 games and get behind the lads regardless. We really can't afford to lose this but we are absolutely shocking at the back at the moment and I can definitely see this continuing against Wolves. A draw won't be good enough but I'd rather 1 point than no points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Phil Dowd has been named the ref, making it the first Villa game hes been an official for since the LEague Cup scandal. I mean final. Welcome to Villa Park, you word removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maradona10 Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Phil '****' Dowd!!! He will get booed to the hilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 No good trying to guess the team sheat. So unpredictable is Houllier that I wouldnt bet against Pires making an appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoody Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 By unpredictable you mean 'rotation' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Anyway your prediction gives me hope as you are usually wrong I believe.Only when I predict a win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 17, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted March 17, 2011 I'm going. We'll win. Aston Villa 14 - 11 Wolves Friedel x 6..........Jody Craddock x 11 (all from corners) Houllier x 4 Heskey x 3 Warnock x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Anyway your prediction gives me hope as you are usually wrong I believe.Only when I predict a win Nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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