delboy54

Yeah ok you got me on the magic roundabout 

And the Woodentops and Andy Pandy were sh#te, and I knew that when I was 5....

4 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Do you watch football?

I used to and would still love to, but at nearly 66, my high speed bursts down the wing, beating 2 defenders, cutting inside to deliver an inch perfect shot into the top corner of net......are well gone.....!

When my kids were younger it was Thomas the Tank Engine narrated by Ringo.....and Wind in the Willows narrated by David Jason, these episodes were genuinely very funny. Not forgetting Sesame Street of course...

In my day it was the clangers, magic roundabout, Thunderbirds and stingray.

Today's kids stuff is total rubbish in comparison, as mentioned on this thread, some of it is very disturbing, odd, and strange stuff that kids watch. I am sure the program makers were/are on drugs.

My  year old grandson loves watching somone playing and commentating on some Mario game or something similar on the telly or tablet via YouTube.

I cannot get my head around it, I would much rather play the effing game than passively just sit and watch somone else...what's all that about?

First ever watching a live womens game for me.

General observations, not as much cheating such as shirt pulling and rolling around as if being shot and more respect for the ref. Thought we might get more than 4000 yesterday, is this usual for a womens game at VP? Perhaps it reflects the poor performances this season.

Villa, seem low on confidence, loads of misplaced passes, poor first touch and decision making. Thought our keeper looked very solid to be fair on her debut, really disappointed for her with the soft goal at the end of the game. 

West Ham, their number 20 was a very dangerous player we had trouble keeping her quiet - very good player for them. Their number 9 also looked good.

Conclusion, would I go again YES! As long as it was at VP. It was a fun day out, far less stressful than watching the mens team! It was also good to see the match from a very close to the pitch side in C6 row 10 instead of K5 row 27 at the back of the Holte!

Ps my granddaughter loved it and although is a confirmed Ipswich supporter she might just now be a Villa womens supporter ....

VTID

22 hours ago, Zero7 said:

Going to this with my entire under 13s girls team. Shame about the crap weather 

Were you in C6 rows 8 and 9......?

Imagine this happening the night we play the scousers....

Comprehensively beating liverpoo

Confirms 4th place

Also we can celebrate small heath being finally flushed

11 hours ago, calcifer said:

I don't get annoyed anymore, I just laugh at it. 

What I can 100% guarantee is if Spurs get 4th it will all be about Spurs big club mentality showing through and Villa not ready to sit at the CL table, it was a one-off season and normal service will be resumed with Chelsea and Man Utd taking the top 6 places etc

Sky have to pander to their average viewers. Which is the sky 6. 

Don't you mean the average age of a sky viewer is 6.....!

My grandson has just turned 7 and one of his relations bought him a liverpool kit for his birthday.....the little s#d seems to be already brainwashed.......feel I have failed as a grandparent

Taking my granddaughter to this game, she has never been to VP. she is 10 in September, currently supports Ipswich but hopefully a win today and a visit to the club shop should cure her....

First ever time for me (and her) watching womens football, but it's at VP always a good excuse to go there ☺

VTID

While I think the race for that CL spot is exciting and yet it will be disappointing if we miss out to a spuds lucky winning streak.

I think the real dread for all of us is if we miss out on 4th, will some players be tempted to leave to play for other clubs that are in the CL or Villa might need to sell for financial reasons.....that is the biggest concern tbh

Some are saying that Chelsea were very good - well we let them hassle us, bully us and tactically nullify us.

We had a bad day at the office and didn't play well when we had to play better.

Some are saying that with EMI still in goal we would have won - not sure to be honest.

Would we have won that with Mings, Yori not being injured, Kamara, Ramsey and Douggie on form ? - of course

It is what it is, 1 point instead of 0, play badly and not lose.

All this guff about spuds, games in hand means nothing unless you win them, they have some tough games against teams who still have something to play for...

8 hours ago, ChicagoVillan1983 said:

Emi is the conductor of both our defence and attack.

Without him at the back to start the attack we were paralyzed.

I understand that, but as we saw when gresford played for us, we should not keep depending on one player...

Any idea when tickets are going to be announced? 

Cannot believe the Semi final is coming round so quick its next Thursday, I am also overwhelmed by all the media attention of the Villa being the only English club flying the flag in Europe.......(not!)

I am being dragged along tomorrow night kicking and screaming by my wife to see her all time favourite band Jethro Tull at Cambridge Corn exchange. Jethro Tull is not my cup of tea, but its live music and it's got to be better than watching telly ..........isn't  it??????

VAR ruins football. Winning goal against any of the sly 6 in a semi final in the last seconds is always going to be ruled off...

Sorry to say that no way is a Coventry v man 115y final a more attractive game worldwide than yanited v 115y........all those plastic fans will generate lots more €£$

And that's all that matters these days

Can't help thinking that if the club involved was Liverpool, man 115y, or arsenal etc instead of Aston Villa, then the decision by EUFA about the goalkeeper being banned for the first leg would have been different......

Confusion over all these yellow cards that EMI has accrued.....either way the club will surely contest that second yellow last night by the card happy ref....?

Just now, delboy54 said:

And the BBC site says Lille win 3 - 4 on penalties............

and its now been corrected !

And the BBC site says Lille win 3 - 4 on penalties............

Well at least we can concentrate on the league.......

7 hours ago, ender4 said:

Nottingham Forest have announced 24% average increase for season tickets.  Also youth tickets only up age 17 rather than age 19.

 

Liverpool seem to have the smallest increase so far of 2% and that’s caused their fans to protest

 

 

24% average increase?....... That is awful, I hope that doesn't to Villa for next season as I am out to be honest

A review...

I have now finished the first book. After a very slow start the book got more interesting and readable, I think the first half of the book was just scene setting though.

Anyway my favourite character by a long way was Tyrion, probably the only one with humour and believable. I was getting very confused with the family trees of all the characters and it did help once I got to the end of the book and found the appendix! Why was this not in the front of the book? This novel was made more difficult to follow by having several characters using their names and then occasionaly referring to their "nicknames". Define their nicknames at the beginning and use it throughout the novel would have made it easier to read.

Over description of armour and colours of clothing etc, I skipped most of this everytime.

Another couple of whinges, the printed maps do help but need a magnifying glass to read them, 2 other maps are shown and seemingly have nothing to do with the first book. After thousands of years fighting medieval style wars, why has nobody come up with advances in science like gunpowder etc?, that fact alone I have found very annoying with this novel. I mean they can all manufacture steel and fancy swords, but have stuck with bows and arrows, maces and lance's for hundreds of generations.....

I think I will read the next book though...

Wow I suddenly feel old.......they are all younger than me !

Still annoyed that they took 6 points off us this season...

I have been reading comments this evening from opposition fans congratulating Stockport County on their promotion. I have to say it is a refreshing change from the Premier League and the plastic fans slagging each other off.

Stockport County, sounds like a real football club!