Pride of Witton

We’d lose our soul moving to the NEC area. Wouldn’t feel right one bit. Would rather us remain inner city Birmingham if we were to move .

Buy the land from Witton Lane to the river - build a new stadium on it and use Villa Park while you do - there's room for both - then use the space where Villa Park is now to build the facilities that make it a benefit to the community and a place where you want to be on matchdays whilst opening up the links through to the park and Aston Hall.

Tbf it helps that both were injured for 2-3 months in that sense because that way both of them have started a lot of games, Moreno has started 17 games with 11 sub appearances, despite having missed 20 games through injury, whereas digne has started 30 games, with 8 sub appearances with 8 games missed through injury, and 19 of those starts came when moreno missed games. So if you look at the games both have been available for Digne has started around 11, Moreno has started 10.

He has 11 goals and 4 assists in 7 games so the answer is definitely yes.

Don’t worry about it you know for sky the are only 7 clubs Man Utd, Man City Liverpool, Chelsea, arsenal, spurs and the others (being the generic mass of clubs that make up the rest of the premier league) it doesn’t matter if us or Newcastle consistently get too 4 we will both always be irrelevant to sky. The only change I could see to this would be if spurs don’t get top 4 for a few seasons in a row because they are not a big club and don’t win anything although there stadium makes them a big 6 club in skys view . Utd and Chelsea could spend ten years in the bottom half  of the league and you would still hear about them as part of the big 6

The other transport system is a monorail that goes over the lake - I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have the capacity for a stadium so they'd need to build something else.  The NEC car parks are going to get difficult - the NEC are building homes on them and making a big play about them being the kind of homes where people won't have cars.

The NEC struggled with the camping and caravan show so it would struggle as it stands with the mighty Villa coming to town.  I’m not against moving full stop, but where that would be to I have no idea. Something big feels like it’s brewing though. 

Hope he wins fans' player of the season or something, he needs to be recognized for this superb season he's had, especially under the circumstances of seemingly being unfancied after being a huge signing under the previous chancer of a manager (similar to Coutinho), and then being completely upstaged by Alex Moreno last season. He's turned all of that on its head. 

The problem is that the NEC group (Blackstone) already has plans in place to develop a lot of the land immediately around the NEC for housing, and there are going to be 5,000 new homes built in the immediate surrounds. Then the most obvious patch of land, the one just the other side of the M42 from the East Car Parks, is where the HS2 station will be going and the land just beyond that is a massive landfill where Birmingham has spent the last thirty years burying its rubbish - that bit would be completely unusable. So what you're left with is the plot that's next to the M6 and the junction with the A446 - which isn't a bad site at all, but loses a little bit of the convenience you'd hope to get from the NEC site - at its nearest it's almost 2.5km from NEC train station - so you'd need to get off the train and get on the planned monorail (no, really) that will link the NEC and the HS2 station, then walk the fifteen minutes or so to the stadium from the station.(unless the club provide shuttle busses). The NEC's parking would be available, but again you'd need the monorail to cross the M42 or face a long walk over a future bridge.  That's all still possible and from a driving point of view, the possibility of adding links to the M42, the M6, the A446 and A452 might make it quite reasonable for drivers (although it would mean the stadium having to include substantial parking). There's plenty of room, but nothing there at the moment but fields and a bit of woodland so there's a blank canvas but a lot of work to add any life at all to the stadium and the area around it. There's a reasonable site there, but it would take an enormous amount of money to develop and there would be a lot to do in order for it not to be the very definition of soulless on non-matchdays - you'd essentially have to build a small town around it as well as provide new junctions and massive parking - all on green belt land that's always been very, very sensitive to the encroachment of the city or the NEC. On paper, it's possible and pre-HS2 it would have been a brilliant site - the proposed national stadium the NEC was going to build was to be situated right where the HS2 station is - but right now, you'd be a tiny bit isolated - separated from the NEC by a massive rail project and a motorway and there would be big objections to it. It's not the slam dunk a lot of people seem to think it is.  

I'd be fairly confident that Emery wouldn't go to United. Too much shit there, he wouldn't get anywhere near as much control and they have a very toxic fanbase.