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    Ollie Watkins

    in Villa Talk

    Posted · Edited by MikeMcKenna

    I think we should be very concerned about Ollie Watkins long term future at Villa following his comments about the team lacking a big team mentality. He one of the best strikers in the PL and wants to win stuff. If that doesn’t look possible at Villa, imho he will be off. Yesterday’s result may come to haunt us! 😞

    Race for Champions League - 2023/2024

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    15 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

    How funny is Antonio.

    Such a lump. 

    Sometimes fast lump, sometimes slow lump.

    Always lump.

    Have always hated West Ham but respect Antonio because he has always worked so hard. Considering he is 34, he still puts in a shift.

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    Ratings & Reactions: West Ham v Villa

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    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. 

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    Race for Champions League - 2023/2024

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    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! 

     

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    Moussa Diaby

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    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.

     

    Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

    in Villa Talk

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    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.

    Q: Several times this year there have been games that were announced as being "sold out". Yet due to the large number of no shows the stadium looks substantially less than full. This seems to be a constant thread when it comes to the sideline seats that get the most time on the TV cameras. Has there ever been any thought given about filling those seats? Perhaps moving the supporters sections to those seats, similar to what DC United has done may be the answer. Ed Kanitra – Hightstown

    A: I agree that that the no-show rate was a big challenge for us last season and we have been working on finding a solution. In the meantime, there are a couple of variables to consider that will have a direct impact in this area: a) many of the seats you point out are owned by new season ticket holders, b) with the higher value of the ticket, we expect a better attendance rate and c) a large amount of those seats were sold to ticket brokers in the past, which is not the case in 2012.

    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.

     

     

     

     

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    Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

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    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. 

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    Ratings & Reactions: FAC4R: Villa v Chelsea

    in FAC4R: Chelsea h

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    1 minute ago, sheepyvillian said:

    Get a grip. You honestly think he would be that dismissive to our support? Honestly, pathetic comment.

     

    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. 

    Ratings & Reactions: FAC4R: Villa v Chelsea

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    1 minute ago, sheepyvillian said:

    No self - respecting manager is going to be indifferent about a performance like that. He sent us out to win the game. If Konsa hadn't been injured it would have been the same line - up from Saturday. He has no affinity with the FA Cup, didn't he get to a final with Arsenal?

    “He sent us out to win the game”

    Disagree.

    Future Club Crest & Brand Identity

    in Villa Talk

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    1 hour ago, skarroki said:

    This is very cynical but whenever one of these "leaks" happens where it's difficult to work out where the leak started, who had the material to put it online, I'm inclined to assume it's a deliberate ploy by someone and not accidental.

    Either club endorsed, to float the current favoured badge internally and monitor the reaction to it around the world to see how people feel about it. 

    Or, what I would think, someone from the external logo design company has done a fairly basic mock-up of a badge for the club based on what the people our side involved on this have requested, this has been sent over and someone probably junior within that company has seen it within an email chain and downloaded the image. So they have sent a mockup of the badge to a news outlet anonymously to try get a bit of cash.

    I normally think if it would involve more than 3 people it's probably not what's happened, so I would bet the club is maybe waiting to next week to understand who has leaked the badge and what steps the company has taken.

    If they know that either this is all fake nonsense, or that it's a genuine design but from ages ago and has moved on since, they won't address this at all because the proof will be in the reveal when a completely different design is shown. 

    Twitter football moves so quickly these days, especially in transfer windows, this will all be buried by midday tomorrow I'd think and no-one will care 

    As @OutByEaster?states it wasn’t ‘a leak’. 

    January Transfer Window 2024

    in Villa Talk

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    On 01/01/2024 at 12:24, HanoiVillan said:

    Well I've got a link to Michail Antonio you can have if you're interested?

    Funnily enough, I was told of a potential link to Michail Antonio at the Burnley game by someone I trust with ‘connections’.

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    New Year 2023/24

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    Happy New Year all.

    My hope is that for the next 4 months the media and opposing fans keep writing us off and we in turn keep proving them wrong.  

    THEN when we get to 1st May, they exclaim “WTF…….Villa could do this!” 

    UTV!!!! 

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    Matty Cash

    in Villa Talk

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    Whether it is true or not, it points to there being a shortage of decent right backs.

    If we are prepared to sell Cash, I hope we have a better alternative lined up as Konsa is needed back in the middle.

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