Tayls

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Golden goal would be better imo

But then it could never end! We could be playing Lille for 85 years. 

Just now, GeordieVillan said:

Anyone else worried about how tired we are going to be on Sunday!

I don’t get worried, worried gets Me. 

Extra time is so crap and outdated. Needs to be gone altogether and games should go straight to penalties 

Has this ref won an experience day or something? 

Decent tournament this 

Shite tournament anyway 

Might as well go all out this second half to grab a goal. Really don’t fancy us having to go to extra time when we have the weekend to think about. 

2 hours ago, CVByrne said:

Having lived through so much pain for Villa wanting CL so much and making it do or die was stressing me out to no end. Being defeatist is a way of avoiding the pain of failure. 

But what is failure? I think we are now a top 8 side and we can compete for trophies and CL places and win any football game against any side. If we end 7th one season and 5th and get CL another as long as we can be sustainable and compete isn't that success? 

So by that metric this season is a success a resounding one. Nothing that can happen over the final games of the season can really change that 

Once I look at it from that perspective life isn't as stressful and every game doesn't bring agonising levels of nerves and stress. 

Am I right guys?! RIGHT?! 

I reckon we’ll just finish 4th.

Just now, Czarnikjak said:

It's done

What is? 

45 minutes ago, R.Bear said:

I honestly think some of you are insane. "There are bigger prizes out there". Well we havent won any prize, big or small for nearly 30 years. There are loads of Villa fans who have never seen us win a trophy. The Championship argument is absolute nonsense as well you know.

The club going backwards? We're having our best season for 30 years. "We shouldnt focus on winning a trophy that we're 4 games away from doing, we need to focus on winning trophies". As I said, utterly insane.

For real Villa fans out there reading this, as we get better with fans coming out of the woodwork and jumping on the bandwagon, get used to seeing this kind of snobbiness and arrogance because you're going to see a hell of a lot more of it. The worst thing is, the same fans who are shitting on a European trophy (that Roma were delighted to win I might add), will be the same fans, front and center, basking in the glory if we do win it. Makes me sick.

You are moaning about something that isn’t even there. A few people have said they’d prefer to get champions league over winning the ECL in response to a hypothetical question. If that ‘makes you sick’ then I think you need to start taking a look at what’s happening elsewhere in the World currently. 

5 hours ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

You know both can be achieved right? Win the ECL, celebrate and then move on to the next level?

Yea, but the question was, win the ECL and get a trophy or finish in champs league… 

Personally for me, being born just before the 90s, I haven’t grown up seeing us win trophies and certainly haven’t been to any parades. So it’s not something I know, or need to experience (Actually seeing that West Ham picture gives me anxiety with those crowds but that’s another issue). If we were to win the ECL, I’d be straight to thinking how can we improve next year to get to where the big clubs are. And I will think that right up to the champions league… if we win that, then I’ll probably become an emotional wreck. 

Im really sorry but I just can’t get excited about winning a third tier competition. It’s not the pinnacle. 

Again though, that’s not to say I wouldn’t be delighted with winning it. But I’d just be thinking that we need to reach the next level now.  

4 minutes ago, R.Bear said:

You can stand by it all you like. It doesnt change the fact that having a viewpoint like that and saying "this is a business" is a reprehensible attitude and something I would expect to hear from plastic Man Utd fans from far away lands, not Villa fans.

It’s a third tier European competition… ultimately it’s not a huge amount better than those pre season tournaments we took part in and won! 

Look, winning a trophy, is great. Good to see, something to celebrate, etc etc. But champions league is the primary competition that we need to be competing in. We need it for a whole host of reasons. It’s what’s going to push us to another level. 

I’ve just realised that we are actually arguing over Villa being in the champions league and winning a trophy for another competition. Strange times eh. 

However winning the Premier League….. trumps it all. 

23 minutes ago, R.Bear said:

I'm ashamed that any of our fans could say something like this.

Play in the best competition in club football against the best sides… or win a third level European competition that’s for teams finishing 6th, 7th or 8th in their leagues and has teams knocked out of the competition above it which can enter at a late stage… 

I stand by my decision I’m afraid. Champions League over winning ECL

3 minutes ago, Alakagom said:

If PL doesn't get 5th spot it will more likely be result of Arsenal and Liverpool going out this round, not Dortmund going through. 

Well it will be both German teams going through. Arsenal & Liverpool going out wouldn’t help. (I think Bayern will beat Arsenal tomorrow). 

4 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Are we less likely to finish 4th now? Confused as we're in a far better position now than 7 days ago and really all the pressure is on Spurs now to find a couple of wins from some very difficult fixtures historically for them.

It’s not really about that currently because 4th is something we can sort of control. It’s more the fact that the PL is now unlikely to get another champs league spot based on results from tonight’s Dortmund v Atleti game. 

5 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Are you a customer, or a fan?

I just want to see us turn a profit… 

No but seriously… we NEED champs league. 

34 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Quick Poll. A or B.

a) Win ECL and finish 5th with no CL
b) Knocked out of ECL and finish 4th 

It literally has to be B. There’s a lot riding on being in the champions league which will mean a whole load of progression and commercial benefits. 

Winning a trophy would be lovely and all but as a business, we need to be playing on the big stage. 

6 minutes ago, Alakagom said:

We literally won away to Arsenal after Thursday night lol 

And….We might not be able to continue that. We could lose to Bournemouth this weekend…  we could also win. Sure. 

Personally, if 5th isn’t going to be CL then I’d be happy with us exiting the ECL to just have prem games to play. If we win the ECL and still secure 4th then I’d still obviously be delighted. I’m not an animal. 

I think if it becomes impossible to secure that 5th spot for the PL, then we will HAVE to focus on the league to land 4th place. We’d essentially need to throw the ECL. 

Soooooo. 4th spot it is! 

Why do teams always lose when we want them to win!