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  1. Can’t see it being reported anywhere but apparently Sid has just gone into a nursing home - so sad
  2. Considering we are missing the likes of McGinn, Kamara I think that was a good result. Our opening team however was really weird. Duran and Watkins up top and Rogers in mf didnt work at all. Having said that I am sure Emery thinks that with 9 games to go plus potentially 5 in the Conference he has to play these guys in.
  3. I was, like everyone devastated by the Spurs 0-4 defeat at home and convinced that we were well and truly f…..d!! When you lose so badly to your most immediate rival it is hard to see a way forward but….. Within days, it has turned round and I am now convinced we are destined for the Champions League. UTV! VTID!
  4. Would love to play Fiorentina in Semi, have friends near Florence!
  5. Great to see Moussa score! Hopefully, his confidence will now improve. With all our injury problems etc we desperately need our record signing to find some form.
  6. He’s a bit clumsy and doesn’t look like a midfielder.
  7. I am dreading this game. I cannot shake the disappointment of the Spurs game
  8. Deja Vu? When Chris Heck was at Red Bulls he had a similar reception and was gone after about a year. I don’t care what he did at Philadelphia, he has form in pissing off fans and I think he is bad for Villa: https://www.onceametro.com/2012/3/19/2848227/chris-heck-onomics Chris Heck-onomics By Matt Coyne Mar 19, 2012, 3:00pm EDT Generally, in business you don't want to alienate a large swath of your customers -- especially the most loyal ones -- right off the bat. And you certainly you don't want to do it so you end up the face of that alienation. In the case of President of Business Operations Chris Heck, he ended up doing just that after Heck raised season ticket prices across Red Bull arena everywhere but in the South Ward, while dividing up many of the sections, leaving a rather convoluted seating chart for 2012. Suffice it to say Heck and Red Bulls fans didn't quite start off on the right foot. The most earnest Heck haters will tell you what he's doing is absolutely economically illiterate. When you average roughly 20,000 in a stadium that seats more than 25,000 why would you, potentially, price out fans? The supply clearly outweighs the demand. That means prices should drop, not go up. Economics 101. What's worse is the customer service aspect of it, they'll tell you. For a long suffering fan base of a team low on the New York sports totem pole, why would you seemingly go out of your way to raise ticket prices on the guys who are willing to buy said tickets? You know, the guys who are there because they want to be there? Bring him up in certain sub-circles of Red Bulls fans and he's practically persona non grata. Some fans boycotted season tickets, opting for partial season plans or single game tickets. "Heck no" has become something of a rallying cry among these fans. To his credit, Heck has gone on a bit of a PR tour, knowing full well the fans' opinion of him. In December he talked to Goal.com. He had January and February mailbags where he fielded questions -- even letting some negative ones slip through -- from fans and in January he appeared on the Seeing Red! podcast. During his February mailbag he had one answer in particular that stood out. Emphasis (in the answer) mine. It's true that no-shows were a big deal last season. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look around Red Bull Arena during any of the declared sell outs and see that the stadium still had more than a few empty seats. But Heck seems like he's got something up his sleeves here. Making the ticket something of value and forcing people who buy not to skip out by, essentially, forcing them to throw good money away is one of those sounds-so-crazy-it-just-might-work scenarios, like something out of Freakonomics. It's as if we're all part of some kind of behavioral economics case study. Will people value a product differently based on how it's priced? Funny story, there's research to suggest it can (surely there's more, but my time reading economics papers is mostly over). Anyway, even if Heck isn't reading scholarly journals in his spare time and feels the team is giving away tickets below value, at least he's considering the supporters groups feedback on how the South Ward is run. So things could be worse.
  9. This all stinks to high heaven. Based on the way, the round crest was dismissed and the Terrace View and Lower Grounds debacles, we know that Heck (and Hatton) don’t give a flying F… about the fans, so it very believable that they think even less of many of the staff.
  10. I think you are naive and ultimately it is only my opinion. Emery knew we would struggle in three competitions and imho the FA cup was for him the most disposable. As the comments here and during the match thread illustrate, the effort wasn’t there today.
  11. Disagree, he is absolutely a pragmatist. He has no affinity with the fa cup and knows we do not have the squad to compete in three competitions.
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