We don't always publish the results of polls we run but sometimes we need to. In this particular one, I said I would yesterday.

The poll was created on the back of the story that Birmingham City wanted Gary Cahill and the results are as expected.

After the wonder show from Shaun Maloney last night we asked a quick question today; who should Maloney replace for the visit of Chelsea?

Now, there was the option for him not to replace anyone and that he remain on the bench but a whopping 68.4%, or 282 of you that voted went for Petrov instead.

There were a few heated comments yesterday. Villa to Villa was fine, just cute banter but a few Liverpool fans came in for some stick. I don't particularly like it so ask that if you're going to post, post knowing I can't delete it.

Onto the quick question we posted yesterday, about Craig Bellamy and should Martin O'Neill bring him to Villa. Normally for a question like this it isn't so close.

On the back of something Doc wrote yesterday I started a quick question asking who should get the armband next season. If I'm honest, I am surprised with the voting, if not the actual outcome.

I've watched Barry for years and I've never seen him as a captain but 79.7% of you lot think he should be.

As far as visitors to this site are concerned Mark Delaney shouldn't be offered a new contract at Aston Villa.

Seventy-two point nine per cent of votes counted opted for the no option on Moaning Mark and nine times out of ten the visitors to this site get it spot on.

We ran a poll earlier today asking you what your views were on the potential renaming of Villa Park by our prospective new owner and the results are finally in.

Just under 20% (18.1% to be exact) said it shouldn't be renamed but a total of 79.3% of you said go ahead and rename or only if the money coming in from sponsorship was significant.

We ran a quick question yesterday titled Petrov: Good enough for the Premiership, and 35.1% of you said he was.

The confidence factor was brought into the answers yesterday as we also gave you the option to answer that you didn't care and that you backed Martin O'Neill with any decision he made and that answer picked up the majority of votes with 50.5% of the votes.

We ran a poll yesterday on season ticket sales/renewals and 87.7% of you said you would be renewing or buying a season ticket if Martin O'Neill was the new manager and guess what, he is!

I still can't quite believe it, I've actually not quite recovered from my celebrations last night and can't wait for the first game of the season against Arsenal and fully expect a full house at Villa Park for most of the season.

If you're 25 years old and you've got a choice between Spurs and Portsmouth you're only going to pick the Londoners so let's assume Spurs spend some of the Carrick money on Barry; as long as they spend enough you don't mind that he's going, according to our poll from yesterday.

The amazing thing I read yesterday was that Villa were likely to accept an offer of ?5.5mn for the versatile midfielder but if Carrick is worth ?18mn. surely Barry is worth more?