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It fell away at the end. Ended up with 4 draws and 1 win. SWANSEA drew at Crewe (conceded 2 late on) WEST HAM drew with Birmingham (disgrace) HEARTS beat Gretna SHEFF U drew with 10 men Scunthopre (Robson is pish) BURNLEY drew with Colchester - bottom of the league :uzi:

Mine is coming alone nicely at the moment. 3 winning and 2 drawing. Didnt go for the above teams

C'mon you Irons!! Freddie with his First West Ham goal. If we dont beat Birmingham we dont deserve to be challenging for Europe.

Newcastle are a mess. Villa well deserved the win. I wouldnt be surprised to see some more drama at St James park soon. They have Man Utd, Blackburn and Liverpool for there next 3 games - no more than 1 point IMO.

Fuck me 2 goals for Villa in 2 mins Should have taken that 5/2

Our very own Craig Gardiner has just came on for the 2nd half. Pretty quick trip that from Bermuda :fish:

Agreed. He hasnt scored in the league since November 2005

I dont mind if Villa lose or win, find them boring at times. But Newcastle are a pain in the ass due to the soap opera so I kinda hope they lose. It would be funny to see them get brought into the relegation battle.

5/2 the draw and home win isnt bad odds!

Needs another goal now. Villa should have had a penalty. Barton did a John Terry save. But decent start to the game. I wonder what the in match betting odds are at the moment - I suppose il have a look

1-0 to Newcastle - Owen. I thought about Villa on the coupn yesterday but totally changed my mind. Fancy Newcastle to get something because they have to.

I think domestic form will slightly go out the window here and with a better atmosphere the players will be lifted a bit. Its now a knock out competition so WS really has little more options than to press on a bit although he showed at Easter Rd last week he was negative here. But we still didnt lose that and we can do the job at Ibrox. One of the frustrating things is IMO we have a squad capable of going up a few gears and taking the game to Panathinikos. But they are going to be well organised. Its games like this I still wish we had a player like Lovenkrands who could and would make a difference when we are drawing. He had a great record of stepping up and getting us a goal in big games. Thats why Id play Buffel, he is capable of that.

Dundee Utd v Hibs - Home Win Hearts v Gretna - Home Win Motherwell v Kilmarnock - Home Win Rangers v Falkirk - Home Win St Mirren v Inverness - Draw Aberdeen v Celtic - Draw

Good post and agreed with the final 3 paragraphs

IF and big if, we were to spend that cash on a player again, then it has to go on someone who will make a great difference to the team with a good track record and can give us that bit extra. Benni McCarthy 2 million and Kyle Lafferty 4 million

Is it 7 in the SPL? I thought it was less with a few being U21. 7 seems ok but 3 U21's is slightly high, 2 would be a good number here.

McCormack didnt get much of a chance and when he played he looked ok. He took his goal in Porto well. Havent seen anything of him at Motherwell but they are doing good this season. Good luck to the lad but he may be playing Championship football next season as Wigan are right in the dog fight.

Someone want to confirm that this is utter gash!!! No way we should be paying that sort of money for him.

They arent 100% stupid then!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7233663.stm This is a better rule and where the U21 rule should come in. That would give say 5 experienced players on the bench and 2 youngsters per game. Hopefully the SPL see this and do the same.

The more i think about it the more I cant believe how much the Fat Cats are ruining the game. Id love to see West Ham over here but that would be from my view and it would still be wrong for them to play a league match out of England. They are talking about capping players wages but this will only increase it with the amount of revenue the clubs would get from Middle East and Asia billionnaires who would pay for this. What about them running the game giving something back to the fans for a change - that would never happen though. Plus there would be fans who havent missed a league game for years and all of a sudden they have to travel and pay 600 quid to watch there team!!! Nonsense!!! The only POSSIBLE shout for a game out of the UK would be to host the FA cup final somewhere. But that would NEVER be allowed as they need to pay off Wembley. By all means the Premiership clubs can go on Asia tours in the summer but play each other but leave the League alone!!

Early snatch at tomorrows coupon: Aston Villa v Newcastle - Home Won Everton v Reading - Home Win Derby v Tottenham - Away Win West Ham v Birmingham - Home Win Hearts v Gretna - Home Win Rangers v Falkirk - Home Win

Paul Le Guen was the best up and coming manager about but look what happened there and what went on behind the scenes. (Im not sure how he is doing with PSG but he was struggling earlier this season).

I can see that TBH but for me Ferguson just isnt that further forward player we need. Thats been obvious for a while now. Ferguson is at his best playing central midifeld and running the midfield (although he does too much at times) rather than pushing further forward. I'll be interested to see Davis play, I wonder if he gets a game this weekend first! And then of course there is the option of Faye after his superb reserve performance!! :fish: But it would still be Buffel or Gow if I was picking the side.

Again those 3 would look ok but id say a non starter by WS, he likes a big tall striker to hold things up. Another option which a lot of fans would look at is Buffel to play behind a striker with Ferguson and Hemdani sitting in central midfield but once again WS wont do that.

I think thats a non starter. Novo / Naismith with Boyd / McCulloch would be better but for this game my first pick would be Novo and Cousin (if available).