For me as I’ve said before, couldn’t give a rats ass for friendlies, how many times have we seen teams win all their frendlies, and then go and get shafted when the real stuff starts.
I get people want their football fix after so long without it, and they want to see the new signings kick a ball, but it’s a big no no from me, sell my seat, and all the stadium come to that, and sting them hard, Brummie bastards.
I’ll see you at the Swindon home game then
Make sure you take some wet wipes with you to the first game mucka
I never sit down at the games, good job really ain’t it mucka .. 
Probably still need to disinfect the floor though, either that or burn your shoes
…good idea thinking about it … 
Bought tickets for all the remaining friendlies, but there was no option for collection/post and the confirmation email has no link to download them, so is it just a case of collecting from the ticket office?
For me, the 2 home tickets came as downloadable attachments, the FGR ones are collection only. I did buy over the phone rather than online though.
Edit: I think I could have had the FGR one (and the others?) posted out for £1 but not something I particularly need.
It’s free to sign up to villa tv to watch the game
I have had a good look. It felt a bit dirty going through their shite to be honest.
It is a bit unclear, I have seen that you need a £24.99 subscription, then I saw £50!
Then I actually found the below which says you just need a free account to watch.
I’m going to be honest, I’m not even willing to sign up to anything of theirs to watch it, but hopefully those that will can watch for free.
This is the link.
I’m off to puke 
Fook signing up for that I’ll watch it on pirate 
It kept asking me if I wanted updates from Villa TV while I was on there. Might have to do a full recovery of my PC now.
There is nothing more insufferable than a Villa fan
On the 2nd January 1971, for those of us privileged to be there, it was Walsall 3 Aston Villa 0, scorers Geoff Morris (2) and Colin Taylor (pen). Villa missed a penalty. Our team had two ex-Villa players, Deakin and Woodward, and the classic defence of Wesson, Gregg, Jones, Bennett and Evans. Colin Harrison was on the bench; only one was allowed in those days and he was the perfect choice as he could play anywhere.
Villa had Chico Hamilton, Willie Anderson (who missed the penalty), Andy (B)Lockhead and Bruce Rioch. There were 19,203 in Fellows Park.
In the 2 years Villa were in the third division, they did not beat us, home or away.
I really wish I was alive when we beat them. I always hoped we’d beat them again in a competitive game, seems more and more unlikely now. We would have had a couple of shots at them in the league had we got promoted in 2015/16.
I thought it was 1975 we beat them, the year I was born. Must have got mixed up somewhere along the way.
I think I read before that one of those games was a record attendance for Villa. Probably one of the FA Cup games, as I remember seeing a picture with all the fans wearing suits and a hat!
Villa fans only remember 1982 anyway.
Probably best just get a new one. Burn that one
That was a mean defence. Must have been the best or close to in Division 3 in those days.
The attendance for the FA Cup tie in 1930 was around 73,000. Think I read that somewhere. I also think we forfeited home advantage and switched the tie to Villa Park. There was huge interest for that game so playing at Villa Park was probably the safest thing to do.
