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Just now, Delphinho123 said:

They’ll score at some point. They’re playing well. 

Are you CVByrne in disguise,

Aaaaare you CVByrne in disguise?

Miles off, never worried.

I love watching Dougie play. He can be frustrating and give the ball away in stupid, dangerous areas. But he's an absolute delight to watch and I absolutely love the guy. I hope he's here for years to come

Rogers and Digne building a partnership of flicked passes to take the piss out of Chalobah and Caceido wasn't on my bingo card for this evening but I'm HERE FOR IT

What a pic

1 hour ago, Ingers said:

Some Golden Lions, and Old v New lion comparisons, side by side for you all......especially @fightoffyour and @Jas10 !

Then, compared to claret lion on blue, and even some no gold options.... I still think the old Lion looks very 'slabby' or flat/tubby (almost dragon-esque) next to the new one (the 'ornamental' old lion is beyond my skills in illustrator).

As a team who are the original Claret n Blue team, I feel we need as much claret and blue in the badge as possible  - or we look very much like claret n gold or that 'bubbles' are involved as another poster said.  Curved top also helps get the font slightly bigger for the name to stand out....maybe Mr Heck knows what he's, no wait, text at the top.....

To repeat whats been said many times, its not that difficult, to get to here - if Mr Hecks offering is from a professional design agency, they are taking him for a ride....

 

Shown smaller like this (as it would be on socials, web and Apps/League tables), it shows how much more distinctive the new lion is in the smaller formats. The old one looks like a blob

2 hours ago, ender4 said:

I don't think this matters does it - If a seat is sold it counts towards attendance even if they don't turn up.

Really? I mean maybe but I always assumed the live "attendance" called out on matchday was usually once they'd reviewed the number of tickets scanned on the turnstiles and allowed for late arrivals and ticket purchases etc.

They normally have it in the 2nd half, where as they could easily give it before kickoff if it was just based on tickets sold?

But we're really nitpicking there, when we're talking 2-300 tickets. The efficiencies are pretty good. It could also be wheelchair seating not selling for example. 
 

We're getting very close to topping out the efficiencies we can get from the stadium as it is. We have started to see some of this already but the next options will be
 

• Increase revenue per fan with drinks/food or hospitality options
• Increase cost per ticket
• Increase capacity; stand rebuilds, more safe standing, filling in the corners 
• New stadium
   

Something going to have to give. The cost saved by not building the new North stand will be great, but the revenue desire will be passed onto the fan in one way or another.
 

The balance the club need to find is how much they can screw out of the fans before they need to bite the bullet on a big infrastructure project. 

5 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Apparently we still have the 8th highest attendance in the league this season with an average PL attendance of 41,765.

Behind Man Utd, West Ham, Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City and Newcastle (in order).

https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-premier-league-2023-2024/1/

 

So what is our official stadium capacity?  I thought we sold out a few times, but none of our highest attendances come to the same number. 

Wolves was our highest with 42,640 which was 200 higher than our second highest attendance. How come we had a higher capacity for that particular game?

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/aston-villa/attendances

 

42,640 is listed as our official capacity. So we sold out and everybody turned up vs Wolves.

The rest of the time will be down to a couple of things

• The Terrace View tickets
• People not showing up
• Away Allocations - sometimes seats are blocked from Away purchase but also not able to be sold to Home fans

Not maximising capacity isn't necessarily lost ticket revenue to the club's as they may have the revenue already from Season Tickets or people not showing up for personal reasons with a ticket they bought.
 

But things the club can do to maximise matchday revenues and minimise these gaps.

• Price games effectively, a couple early cup games were priced badly
• Don't mark games as sold out when they are not
• Release Terrace View tickets sooner to general sale
• Improve reselling systems
• Maximise away allocation efficiency, either in number or location. To ensure maximum seats are available without "lost" seats to separate fans

15 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Jacksons movement is **** terrible 

Then again so is his touch, positioning, finishing, passing... 

I'm blaming you when he scores a perfect hatrick on the weekend FYI

I reckon Brighton get something at City too to give Arsenal some hope, putting it in their hands.... Going to be glorious watching them come so close but still throw it away

I also really like that we bought a big stake in Real Union.

There aren't many ways (or examples of) clubs and owners being able to show their support for their guy. Supporting his private venture that has huge sentimental links to Unai, really puts a stake in the ground that he's our man and hopefully ties him to us a little bit longer

I wasn't particularly worried about losing him just yet, but nice to see it confirmed. Bayern, Liverpool and Man U all looking for new managers. Maybe Barca and Chelsea added to that,

You never know, so good to see the fire put out before it had chance to smoke.

Incredible

Biggest game of their decade this weekend and the captain arrested (and charged) for drink driving.

I wonder if we were ever interested in Hayden Hackney and we'll go back in for him to replace Denconcker and boost our Homegrown quota again?

Or,whether (maybe giving them more credit than due) the journo's figured out we were interested in a Boro player, assumed Hackney and they ran with it but we were only ever interested in Rogers

30 minutes ago, AshVilla said:

I'd go for Tosin from Fulham and Lloyd Kelly from Bournemouth.

Both available on free's in the summer and good for english quota.

There is also Osho from Luton on a free but would be a big step up for him and Luton leak goals for fun he has also scored quite a few OG's this season.

Lloyd Kelly can play CB and LB the alternative is obvious Hermoso from Atletico that can also do that. 

Would love Tosin, but I can't see us spending on a CB (I know he's free, but because of that & his homegrown status, Newcastle, Spurs & United at least are all in for him too, so wages & fees will be high).

We'll have Konsa, Pau, Mings and Carlos next season. Unless somebody is sold, I doubt we'll sign one as we're already spending a lot on our CB wages. Konsa probably our best but probably cheapest weekly too.

I think we'll buy a RB and see Konsa at CB again rather than replace Lenglet with a CB. Unless Carlos gets sold, or Mings is miles off it perhaps?

18 minutes ago, duke313 said:

The Villa podcast were talking about upgrading both our full-backs, in that both need upgraded to the level of the rest of the team if we are to go above the level we are currently at.  Nothing against Cash or Digne, but if they were upgraded to players that contributed more goals and assists, we'd move up another level entirely.

I agree mostly...the problem is we bought two 30yo LBs, both of which were in great form not long ago. It looked like we needed a new RB, sure, but were set at LB for a couple years, with the competition from Moreno really pushing Digne to a new level....

6 months on, neither LB is really at the level and we still need a RB.

I also don't think Unai will want both Fullbacks scoring and assisting freely as we'll be open on the counter. Interesting to see how we react

55 minutes ago, rbcuk said:

Well on the betano site they have put the new badge on the press release 

https://kaizengaming.com/aston-villa-and-betano-announce-principal-partnership/

Ah it's the new-old-new new shit version of our newest badge, no-not-that-new-badge-the-new-new-badge-but-not-the-fake-new-new-new badge just the latest new-new badge

3 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said:

In the years since Leicester won the league, 66 points after 34 games would mainly put you 4th (x4). 3rd (x3) is possible, but not since the Covid season now.

Full List

22/23: 4th (3rd 68pts)

21/22: 4th (3rd 69pts)

20/21: 3rd (Leicester on 63. Man U 2nd 67pts, Chelsea 4th on 61)

19/20: 3rd (Chelsea on 60. City 2nd 69. Leicester 4th on 59)

18/19: 4th/5th (3rd 70pts)

17/18: 5th (4th 70pts)

16/17: 4th (3rd 68pts)

15/16: 3rd (2nd 68pts)

Sidenote: I was surprised to remember Leicester were competitive up until just a couple seasons ago. They were 3rd at this point 3 seasons back (then only got 3 points from 4 games, finished 5th). 8th a season later, then relegated. Madness

30 minutes ago, turvontour said:

What position would we have been in previous seasons on 66 points at this stage? It feels like this should be 3rd rather than 4th typically.

In the years since Leicester won the league, 66 points after 34 games would mainly put you 4th (x4). 3rd (x3) is possible, but not since the Covid season now.

Full List

22/23: 4th (3rd 68pts)

21/22: 4th (3rd 69pts)

20/21: 3rd (Leicester on 63. Man U 2nd 67pts, Chelsea 4th on 61)

19/20: 3rd (Chelsea on 60. City 2nd 69. Leicester 4th on 59)

18/19: 4th/5th (3rd 70pts)

17/18: 5th (4th 70pts)

16/17: 4th (3rd 68pts)

15/16: 3rd (2nd 68pts)

I'm surprised at the talk of just 4 more points.

Personally was doing the guesstimate maths earlier and think we need 6 more

Genuinely forgot all about this