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R.Bear

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  1. That's not cheating. It's the ref's interpretation on what's a booking. United have nothing to do with it.
  2. Fair to say fortress Villa Park is now some rickety outpost with one soldier guarding it.
  3. This is becoming a vintage Villa against United game. Creating chances, not taking them. They're going to sucker punch us for 2-0 then its game over. No matter the manager, the players, how shit they are, we always find every more ingenius ways of losing to these words removed.
  4. This season is just spontaneously combusting before our eyes.
  5. Absolutely zero chance of top 3, if there ever even was. City and Arsenal have hit form an Liverpool are only going to get stronger when Salah is back. We're in a straight shootout with Spurs. If Untied or anyone else catch us then we wouldn't deserve 4th anyway.
  6. Cash and Lenglet? Another routine loss to United it is.
  7. The actual winning of the European Cup is and was the pinnacle of any European teams accomplishment and I'm not taking anything away from previous winners, especially ourselves. I was just saying that the changes they made were good, necessary and made the competition into the elite of the elite. Nothing more, nothing less. Have a good day.
  8. I said the UEFA Cup was harder to win before the CL increased the teams yes. I made that very clear. I would rather have to beat one side from Italy or Spain than 3 others. Especially considering the Champions of whichever country werent often the best team from said country the following year. Man Utd that year had to play Bayern (three times), Barcelona, Inter and Juventus. One of the hardest runs there has ever been. Whereas Arsenal bombed out of an easy group despite being champions which backs up my point above. "Under the old rules" doesnt mean anything because they werent he rules anymore. I don't even think you know what point you're trying to make there. For Liverpool to reach the 1978 European Cup final, they had to beat Crusaders, Trabzonspor, Saint-Etienne and FC Zurich. I rest my case.
  9. I like how you've completely misinterpreted what I've said to suit your own narrative so trying to "argue" your points will be a waste of time. But I am amused by the 1999 point. "If the rules, werent the rules, then it wouldn't have happened." What a great take! I was merely pointing out that the changed to the CL were nothing but positive. Villa fans moaning because you had to be champions when we won it is exactly what Liverpool fans used to do, right up until 2005, funnily enough. It changed, its better, much harder to win. Get over it.
  10. Are people still harping on about this? 25+ years after they increased the amount of teams. The old European Cup was a joke. Have you seen some of Liverpool's runs to win it? Beating absolute shit and even a bye. They changed it for the reasons you said, that the UEFA Cup was harder to win (ignoring how you qualify of course) because you had to beat the second best teams in Italy or Spain instead of playing Ferencvaros and Sparta Prague. Increasing the amount of teams in the CL improved it exponentially. It became the elite European competition again. Yes its called the "Champions" League but who gives a ****? Semantic rubbish. UEFA have ballsed up a lot of things in their time but this wasn't one of them.
  11. You can say that about any league in the world. In fact any league of any sport in the world.
  12. We don't need it? We haven't won a trophy in 28 years, the longest drought in our entire history. Even if we qualify for the Champions League, what if we bomb out in the group stage like Newcastle? Winning trophies should be an absolute priority and it amazes me that any fans could think otherwise, given our horrendous record in this competitions in the last few decades and lack of silverware.
  13. With respect, only Villa fans care about that stuff. 99.9% of other fans wouldn't know or care that our name and colours have remained the same. This is a backwards, almost self important way of thinking. This is modern football. We are a business like any other and need to run the club from the profitability and marketing to the badge and branding, like a business. Notts County are the oldest professional club in the world. Who, really, gives a shit about that today? The only reason anyone outside of the UK has heard of them is because Juventus copied their colours and kit.
  14. No doubt. The star shouldn't be there. It's cringey and small time. The stars above badges for international sides that have won the World Cup look great. It shouldn't be used for European Cup wins from club teams.
  15. Well all of those teams brand their club better than we do so maybe you should care.
  16. We do but that wasnt my point. I was saying that we need to be more visual everywhere. I hate using the word "brand" but this is modern football. We need one to maximise our potential. Ok let me rephrase it. No-one should care about the 1874. Man Utd, Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle, West Ham, Chelsea do not have their founding year on their badges and all of them are nicer than ours. Liverpool do but that's no surprise and their badge is 25 years old.
  17. One thing I've noticed is I never see Villa shirts for sale anywhere outside of Birmingham. Not in Sports Direct, other sports stores. I don't even see Villa knockoffs in the markets. This is where people might say "well its only the CL clubs you see in stores". Not true. I've seen West Ham, Newcastle kits all over. Also, when I'm abroad, and I'm all over the place, I never see people wearing Villa shirts. The few times I have, it's been British Villa fans because I will always say UTV or whatever to someone if I see them. The point I'm making is our brand is non-existent. We have to improve this massively and this farce with the kits and the badge is torpedoing what attempts we've made, if any, of doing this.
  18. Absolutely this. No-one cares and it does nothing for the brand. It clogs up the badge with unnecessary info which most modern badges rightly avoid. All that needs to be on the badge, whatever its design is the lion and "Aston Villa".
  19. Ditch the 1874 and the star, make the name bigger and this would be pretty good.
  20. What approach? I didnt mention one.
  21. Watching the highlights again, the United #5 Auston Trusty just gives up tracking back for the opening goal, likely assuming Ollie had scored. There a million reasons why you should never do that. This allows McGinn to just waltz in and score a tap in. The manager should absolutely savage him for that.
  22. I obviously wasnt referring to the fans. "Our job as a team" means the players and coaching staff. You know, the team. It's a head coaches job to get results. But he cant control what a player does when he goes onto the pitch. Sooner or later, a player has to start playing well and he can only do that himself.
  23. It's not true. Did Collymore ever regain his form after leaving Liverpool? Did Torres? Hazard? Diego Costa? Kaka? It's a stupid cliche with little substance. Your class is only as good as your form. A better expression would just be "players come into and lose form".
  24. It's amazing how much swag he has. Everytime he gets the ball it's like he thinks he can do anything he likes and for the most, is doing exactly that. It's also crazy how teams are STILL letting him cut in and use that left foot to shoot across the goal. It's like Robben, you know its coming but its hard to stop.
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