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Villatone: Sheffield Utd 0-1 Aston Villa

These are sometimes immature kids who don’t understand or appreciate what they are doing, and you wouldn’t want your auntie to see you’ve been banned for abusive behaviour, surely? Au contraire - your elders in the family seeing this and giving you a dressing down is probably going to have the...

Need to boss this one at home and convert our chances, I'd keep Barkley in as I think Ollie is less isolated & with experience will get better from the great positions he gets into.

Last season we played some great football until McGinn got injured but our defensive capabilities saw us surrender so many winning positions due a lack of quality in midfield. Restart saw us become hard to beat thanks to the transformation of Luiz, an improved defensive unit and some priceless...

"Shooting straight at the keeper" - exactly my thoughts and it's what happened in the home game against them. We have seen some superb running with the ball from Jack ending up saved as he takes it too close to goal on his left - he is a hell of player though. The Giroud call I agree with, he's...

Our zonal marking and their pressing game drawing fouls on the edge of the box for their free-kick specialist will be enough for them to secure the win. If I were Smith I'd play 3 CB's for this one at the expense of Barkley, move Jack into the middle and stick Traore up top with Ollie.

Bit late commenting here but so impressed with how Rowe shrugged off his man to turn forward and play that pass, not to mention the build up play that came before it. Barry also showed his class in that foray down the right he's bloody quick eh! I hope we can support him to achieve his clear...

Happy New Year to you all - hopefully we'll be out of this nightmare soon and the Villa continue what really is feeling like something special.

Didn't Traore get subbed vs Palace after Mings got the red? If he's so knackered then his fitness is shyte, maybe he should make way for Elmo who can link up really well with Cash and put it on a sixpence for Ollie. Man U's home record is terrible - W2 D2 L3 F9 A12, 6 of their 9 goals came...

Did anyone notice that we played on the 26th and 27th December in that season, brutal!

He's a confidence player I think, shown by that quick touch to take him past their left back and the quality of his goal. Needs to show up consistently and work as hard as Trez does when we don't have the ball.

There'll be some tired legs out there having played 45 mins with 10 men 48 hours before so I hope with the improved form of our bench, some player rotation happens. A point would be a great result, we have an excellent defence and keeper so 0-0 for me, maybe Jack scores a worldie at the death...

In the promotion season I couldn't get enough of Mings, he was absolute class and played a big part in our success. It was as if he'd found his football home and some were saying he was amongst the best we've seen at VP since McGrath, I agreed. He started last season in confident fashion and I...

I remember that Athletico game like it was yesterday, even in the North upper the atmosphere in the ground was febrile. Thought we would go all the way that year.

Villatone Arsenal 2-0 Villa

I think this game will be a very good test of us, they have started the season well and are getting praise from opposition managers. Should make for an interesting contest.

This game definitely needs technical players who can retain possession, put pressure on the ball and break quickly as well as an outlet to take us up the pitch. Cash/Konsa/Mings/Taylor Elmo/Jack/SJM/Luiz/Trez Watkins

What a great thread, so many great memories of years gone by - here's my team of characters who were cult figures down the Villa: Les Sealey - good laughs with the crowd Chris Price - he's got no hair but we don't care Shaun Teale - that header vs Tranmere in '94 Paul McGrath Alan Wright Ian...

Hard work gets you back to form and fitness, SJM has that in spades. Think his role in the side will be different with Luiz anchoring the midfield whereas last season before lockdown both he and Nakamba were constantly giving away possession, takes time to adjust.

Martinez looks like an excellent signing, calm and alert. Think we just lack that bit of craft to unpick stubborn teams who park the bus, some of our passing from several players was awful and in the space of about 30secs in added time we conceded possession repeatedly. LB, CM and a striker to...