What a difference a month makes with Tim Sherwood in charge of Villa. Two wins against the Baggies, and my optimism and passion for my wonderful club are back, which was something the last manager sucked right out of me. I know we’ve lost two under Sherwood and we’re not out of the woods for our fight for Premiership survival, but the fans, the team, the new manager, it’s an all new mind-set, and I’m ready to face anything.
Sunderland’s form at the moment isn’t the best, so it’s a good opportunity for the Villa to go up there and get something out of the match, and I believe we will. Unlike Sherwood, Poyet looks and sounds like a worried man, and that is reflected in his football teams performances and results. Sunderland football club isn’t a happy place to be at the moment, and I believe that the players have lost the confidence in their manager, just like the fans.
Villa need to get at them right from the start, a crunching tackle, an early goal and the crowd will most definitely turn. Sherwood is going to be his cocky self-assured self on the side lines, and this will get under the skin of Poyet; and when everything is going wrong for the Mackems, Villa will hopefully take advantage. It is very important that we try to achieve these things to unsettle the home fans, and with the Villa fans putting their ‘Two-Penneth-Worth’ in, the fragile mental nature of the Sunderland fans will crack and make the Stadium of Light a toxic place for their footballers to play football in.
Vlaar and Benteke might be back in the squad, so that will give Sherwood more options for his team selection. Villa is still without Alan Hutton, so Bacuna will stand in for him at right back. Unlike the last manager, it won’t bother me who he chooses for his starting line-up, as I’ve got full confidence that all the players will put a good shift for the manager.
It’s going to be an early start Saturday morning, so my preparations for the journey up north will start tomorrow night. A shower, shave and shampoo, followed by a curry and a couple of Newcastle Brown Ale’s will get me into the spirit of things. Good luck to the Villa players and management, we’ll see you on Saturday afternoon. UTV
Have a great time Glen, Wish I was well enough to be on the trip with you & all the Villa faithful heading towards the North East.
100% Passion,Work rate & Commitment is all we can ask for (apart from a goal or two), but that seems to be the ethics that Tim wants from his players as well.
To all of you Villa faithful, have a safe journey,enjoy your day,but please above all, sing your hearts out for the lads.
UTV
I’m ultra confident for tomorrow tbh. They’re one of the worst teams in the league and their support although half decent in numbers is poor vocally and quickly gets on the teams back. We always dominate the atmosphere up there anyway and with the positive mood sweeping through the club our end will be bouncing. Come on the Villa
We always dominate atmoshphere at sunderland are you having a laugh mate you never sell out the away end and your support is one of worst to visit every season also team is worse than our s but will probs get your 1.0 break away goal muppet
Also 40000+ everyseason watching rubbish you cant even come close to our support every away game we sell out again muppet
What a joke that comment was!
Always dominate the atmosphere Villa are amongst the worst fans who visit the SOL.
As usual we are having a rubbish season yet are averaging 43000 a crowd of 45000 Is expected on Saturday.
All this after only 3 top ten finishes in 60 years what’s your average?
Two boring sets of fans , villa never sell out and the mackems have tickets on sale for 10 pound every home game – including the Newcastle match in 3 weeks!
Agree with Bill Bradshaw, the ten pound tickets this season have been available every match this season and my mate Flanny from south shields said every school in the shields area has received 200 free tickets for the villa match- Newcastle never do that and that’s why our crowd figures are so false compared to them
LOL where have the angry mackems come from? Didn’t mean any disrespect but I always find your place very quiet which allows us as away fans to dominate the atmosphere. I did say your numbers were half decent although you’ve not always travelled down here well and again I’d say you’re some of the quieter visiting fans. Hate to say it but Newcastle much louder home and away
Deluded Villa fans, you dominate nothing, we barely hear you in the home end. And given we average 10k more than you & our number are only half decent – that must make yours piss poor?
The statement about £10 tickets every match is a load of rubbish. It happens a handful of times a season and certainly NOT for the Newcastle match. One might think thay the club could be applauded for rewarding fans with cheaper tickets now and again, but I suppose that would go against your anti-safc agenda.
Good luck on Saturday, I hope your manager is as cocky as you all are.
Mags obsessed with us again i see by the way flanny is a cracking lad and sunderland daft cant see him bothering with daft mag like you so must be wind up ohhhhhh sorry barcelona of the north the geordie nation want to watch mind your last crowd was 4/5 thousand down dare i say that about the toon mug
10 pound tickets on about 4 times a season and def not on for mags game bill bradshaw obviously bitter mag see you in few weeks 5 in a row silly boy
Safcftm. .even if you make it 5 in a row your only matching what nufc did between 02 and 06! How is flanny these days? Saw him in a pub and said to him “want a pint flanny? ” He said “No thanks ,I’ve got 1 ear!”
Aye thats flan lol
Can i just ask you what your doing on here when its safc v villa
Dont tell me your overweight still live with your mam in your fiftys the only top you own is black and white full of gravy stains and you walk round with greggs carrier bag
Oh and probs never been to sports direct wongadome
Aye thought so proper shields mag ha
bill why dont you go and smash up a phone box or fight with a wheelie bin or attack inocent fans when you no youve got bigger numbers mind watch themm phone box doors they can hit you back
Were you in the strawberry on derby day this year bill
We popped round to hav nice friendly chat about the match and couple of pints but your lads wouldnt come out the pub to invite us in so we shook hands with a few of you overweight fellows that were hanging around and made our way to the ground taking the michael on route
Absolute bollocks about ten pound tickets every week. Mag propaganda at its finest. Three or four games a season max and it’s to be applauded, not criticised.
Considering the shite we’ve put up with for the last 13 years, to be averaging over 40,000 each week is nothing short of fantastic.
Can only think of a handful of clubs who’ve ‘dominated the atmosphere’ at our ground in recent years. And they’ve all be two or three goals up and we’ve been playing shockingly at the time. Villa definitely weren’t one of them. Never seen Villa sell out our away section either.
FTM.
Haha Mags obsessed with us again trawling internet on anything to do with Sunderland. Ten pound tickets every game? If that was the case who would buy a season ticket if they could get in every game for ten pounds? We have over 30,000 season ticket holders and haven’t had much to cheer about the past few years apart from beating the scum.
So to average well over 40,000 every game is unbelievable, get back in your hole deluded Mag.
Safcftm, the shields mags have dominated the town long before you came on the scene ,the likes of flanny ,et , clemence and jonna cooke have been put in their place time and time again! Ask flanny about it – his scars are always visible as proof of that..least flanny had the balls to fight , you? I doubt it very much
First of all stop dropping names on here daft lad
The names you mention there not any of safc top lads just lads who are game as for mags aleays been on top in shields never heard as much shite in all my life shields used to take 3 or more buses away every week hav few branches now fountain etc mags couldnt even fill bus from cyprus years ago still havent got a branch but your on top in shields give your head a shake man as for me not fighting not blowing me own trumpet but think you be surprised if you ever bumped into me are you one of those hangers on with your burberry on who doesnt no how to through a punch my guess is yeah seem to hav alot to say for yourself
Last comment hav the mags ever lost at fighting football tiddly winks fuck me the mags are awsome
Seems to me every sunderland fan is soft as shite please tell me a safc fan has beaten a mag in a fight before come on we must hav if not you really are awsome you mags i salute you deluded mag
Cant help me self come on mr bradshaw were you at strawberry last derby you evaded the question where were all the mags this year that are normally trying to get at sunderland in escort near ground doi g the hoki koki had every chance do do something what did the biggest firm the world has ever seen do i think if my memorys right nothing sunderland fans go to mags bar and nothing happens there was 50000 screaming orks in there must of been couple of doorman holding them back that would never happen sureley not
Have sunderland even got a firm? I went with the Sutton Coldfield crew in 1985 when we won 4-0, we were only 15 handed and strode around like we owned the place , think their main boozer was ‘the derby’? We went in not a peep out of these lads with perms ,tashes and tracksuits! Worst set of casuals I’ve ever seen lol
Villa fans have no class. Also the biggest hypocrites going, ‘Empty seats me lord’ they have the nerve to sing that its cringeworthy when villa park hasn’t sold out since the 1990s has it?,villa park always looks empty. Small time fans. Running on the pitch the other day like a lower league club giant killing in the fa cup lol.
Safcftm, I’m using me own name are you? Hiding behind the ftm logo eh, we’ll that’s making it very hard for me to find you considering every pretend mackem top boy has used it, thanks for all the reply it’s kept me busy while making me mind up what Burberry I should buy at Top Man on king street ,off for me bait at Greggs now..see you later For a pint in Porters and a dance at OZ ,hope your friends The BOSS don’t kick me head in
Now i no your talking shit never heard of you
Now dont get yourself all angry mr bradshaw you bad tempered little devil its only a bit banter and your gettin all worked up
Ill think youll find porters and oz hav been shut for years barking up the wrong tree my little deluded mag friend youll nver find me you scary man im a mackem born an bred now fuck of or ill get me da onto you
A good combination this regarding delusion Villa and Newcastle United what a pairing.
One set who’s crowds have dipped as low as 28,000 this season because they’re having a “hard”time and have the gall to slag The Mackems who put them to shame for numbers and fervour.
The other lot who think their history started in 1992 and who spout this myth that they’re the best fans in the land.
Have you been to The Landfill? It’s a like a morgue the atmosphere is flat as a fart and they dish out more cheap tickets than anybody.
I remember pre 1992 crowds at St James’ of 11 and 12 thousand.
Two sets of deluded bellends they deserve each other.
And this coming from a club that had 15,000 for a 5th round fa cup game last season and had a whopping 18,000 empty seats for a home semi final first leg last season..come on villa let’s beat these plastic twats
Safcftm..which one of your dad’s are you getting on to me
Bill you reallly are sad mate its a joke ill get me da onto you
You must be as thick as shit and paranoid to fuck as to who you think i am let me just tell you i havent a fucking clue who you are and you dont no me now just stop it please everyone must be laughing there tits off at your patter seriously what a fucking saddo
You really are a bitter mag
Did you catch your mother gettin it up the shitter off a mackem jesus lighten up
Bill that was a joke at the end again before you go out and murder somebody keep taking the pills mate
Hav you got a hobby bill you fucking need one cukoooooo
You will go to prison if you go out and kill a mackem bill it could be 40000 + mackems thats been up your ma fucking serial killer
LOL at all these Sunderland inbreds getting insulted ;D Every-time you hear from one of them they are going on about what great support they have and, have massive crowds blah blah blah….reason they do that is because they are a shit football club and it’s all they have to be proud of that they have 40+ crowds for home games!! Truth is their support may be large but is turgid and frankly stink! They are also some of the most hateful people you will ever speak to can’t stand them! They hate everyone the twats!
Hope we beat these crackers! hate them more than blues if truth be told! UTV
Sorry Villa fans. Do you and Brum go on this bad? Some of us couldn’t care less about our crowds, villa’s crowds, Newcastle or whatever. Some of us just support our team and wonder what the rest of the country think of our narrow-minded and small-time outlook.
Enjoy your day lads, but not too much eh? 😉
Oh and hating Sunderland more than blues is not only unhealthy, but probably classless.
I don’t like hateful, clueless, muppets ‘Steve’! It’s hard to hate other fans more than Small Heath.. it really is but some of your lot really take the piss. It’s not classless it’s common sense.
I hope you enjoy your day getting beat. After that I really don’t care!
btw I’m not that confident. We’ve had 2 good results against WB but I’m not that impressed with the football I’ve seen since Sherwood took over. Was very negative about his appointment and nothing has changed my opinion in that respect. You guys could quite easily take advantage but I F**king hope not!!!!
UTV
Villa hampster
Safc and villa are both big tradational football clubs with great support and history for you to say we get big crowds but we are shit club and turgid fans you are clueless
We are a shit team but we are a fantastic club and the fans are first class
4-0 a great result for Sunderland AND villa.The result is a blessing in discuise for Sunderland. Poyet will be sacked he was taking us down anyway with his negative football. Now this result will enable Elliss Short to pull the trigger. A new manager will give the players and fans a lift like Sherwood has at villa. It’s not nice but it was needed. We sack managers just before the end of the season,we win the Derby and stay up its what we do. One things for sure though no matter how BAD it gets at Sunderland or how GOOD at villa Sunderland will STILL have a bigger attendance than villa at the next home game. At the start that is because the crowd has dropped from 40k to about 20k in today’s game before halftime lol.
46k at the sol today, 20k by half time .lol.