lee_av

i think we will sign Steve Sidwell in the next few days. You heard it here first. Does anyone know where i can get odds on this?

Nope, but I'll offer you odds that he doesn't

i'd like jagielka at villa. Can do a job at right back

So can Aaron Hughes - doesn't mean he's good enough.

anyway appears Sidwell is being linked with Man Ure, Chelsea

is he mad ???

or money driven ?

Ambitious ?

Is it ambitious to go to a team and probably end up on the bench or on a seat in Stamford Bridge?

He will probably break into the first eleven...and it is as true as Reading will win Premier next season. He will halt his career and soon be forgotten...

Chelsea are making their team stronger...yes...but will the players like to sit most of the next season on the bench? Is that to be ambitious? Chelsea are ambitious...the players are moneyhunting ho's.

How do you know that he might not be a new first choice. Why should he be going there to sit on the bench.

He's moving from Reading FFS, to a club that is challenging in Europe and domestically. Ambitious yes, but who knows if it will pay off :roll:

Is Sidwell that good? Do you really think he kicks out Lampard, Ballack, Makelele, Geremi or Essien from a central position?Only if Chelsea decides to sell...Sidwell is good...but not in the same class as those players!

Players develop when they play with better players. Wenger himself said that he thought that Sidwell could play at the highest level. Only time will tell, and he has a good chance as any at Chelsea.

Anyway, Ballack has been shit, and so has Geremi.

We've got to sign Barton, as he would provide us with exactly what we need in our midfield.

I agree - the one player that would make us really hard to beat. I think that MON could put him on the straight and narrow.

**** hell, the shite has started already.... if Defoe joins us, I won't only be disappointed and amazed MON has such poor taste...... but if Bent joins spuds... I'll do something, I don't know what yet.. but something like eating one of my own poos....

If we take anything from spuds, it must be Keane!!

Someone posted on here a while back about eating their own poo Nick, be careful

anyway appears Sidwell is being linked with Man Ure, Chelsea

is he mad ???

or money driven ?

Ambitious ?

Is it ambitious to go to a team and probably end up on the bench or on a seat in Stamford Bridge?

He will probably break into the first eleven...and it is as true as Reading will win Premier next season. He will halt his career and soon be forgotten...

Chelsea are making their team stronger...yes...but will the players like to sit most of the next season on the bench? Is that to be ambitious? Chelsea are ambitious...the players are moneyhunting ho's.

How do you know that he might not be a new first choice. Why should he be going there to sit on the bench.

He's moving from Reading FFS, to a club that is challenging in Europe and domestically. Ambitious yes, but who knows if it will pay off :roll:

Bent will join Spurs on Monday, and Defoe will join us next week. That's a fact.

You heard it here first. Well, almost first.

Really, thats amazing as the transfer window is not even open then!

Don't sour my post by introducing pesky facts.

He will join us, you'll see.

Pesky facts which stop your post from being true? Oh...

Sidwell is having a medical at Chelsea today - so your point is?

Bent will join Spurs on Monday, and Defoe will join us next week. That's a fact.

You heard it here first. Well, almost first.

Really. thats amazing as the transfer window is not even open then!

Inside Knowledge maybe

Defoe aint coming to us

Bent will be a Spurs player, leaving one of there main ones surplus to requirements. This could well be Defoe.

anyway appears Sidwell is being linked with Man Ure, Chelsea

is he mad ???

or money driven ?

Ambitious ?

I would honestly love Dean Ashton to fill the Angel void. He's an amazing talent, and model professional, and a hardworker. Can score a goal or two as well

Lets hope the buggers go down and we can get him. He is of the similar ilk to Carew with a good eye for goal that would give us lots of options

General Krulak here:

My only point was that we might try to do something special for the 25th...and that it might spill over into next season.

Perhaps a 25th Anniversary scarf sent out to season ticket holders old and new?

Or Aston Celtic as we now know them!

Never :winkold:

The word on the street is that Bobo Balde would have been bought by Martin O'Neill as well if he hadn't been injured...

Come off it I know several Celtic fans and they are all keen to lose Balde, asap. Maybe O'Neill is mug enough to take most of your rubbish off you for a price, I'm hoping even he isn't daft enough to try for Balde.

Both Petrov and Maloney have both won players of the year in Scoland, and are players that he knows well.

Agathe and Sutton have been stop gaps. Word on the street means nothing, only actions. Get over it.

If there were ever any doubts about the true feelings of the Villa fans, then the ovation Martin O'Neill got at the end of the Charlton game, despite just conceding a late goal, says it all. We are 100% behind Villa, Martin and the board.

His humility speaks volumes when he came over to the away fans and held his hand up to say sorry.

General, thanks for that, and Randy seems to have done well to get the great man back down to VP.

Now that the Serpentine land sale is going through, what plans do the club have for alternative match day parking once this land no longer is owned by AVFC?

This is a huge carpark, very close to the ground and is used extensively for supporters club coaches as well. The loss of this site could cause further issues around the ground with unsafe parking.

We are told that if you are a season ticket you can gain access to the Holte Suite before and after a game

Just wondering do you have to have a season ticket in the holte to gain access or can any season ticket holder go in?

I'm told that after the match you have to be a season ticket holder. Prior to the match, you can pay in and retain a ticket for re-entry after. I believe that it is for St'ds only, but I'm not sure.

as I said Lee, I went back later and it should be OK for Man city but the major room had been fitted out for the function hence the reduced space.

I know with fixtures moving the issue of functions is difficult but we are first and foremost a football club and the supporters should be the first concern. No complaints about the door staff though, very professional in dealing with the complaints.

So they let you after? Amazing.

There is a bar upstairs I'mled to believe that seems like its never used. All that money spent and the space is not utilised.

General, one point today, we went for a drink ion the Holte suite today and was barred as a function was on and only those who drunk there before the game were let in.

this is not right, we are first and foremost a football club, the Holte suite should be OURS, we are a football club first and foremost and we should get priority !!!

General, I was going to post the same thing, and I bumped into Ian outside there too. This really cheeses a lot of fans off, some I know that don't post on the Internet have also said the same thing. We are told that if you are a season ticket you can gain access to the Holte Suite before and after a game. I only ever go after the game to be fair for a pnt with my mates after the match. Instead, we are told that there is a function on by the door staff. No other explanation.

What gets me is that it's only open for one hour after the match. More than enough time for evening functions to take place after.

I went for a pint in the Academy (Gordon Cowans suite) after and the place was empty. The kids had a knock around on the artificial pitch for a while, until they got turned off by another jobs worth.

|Full blooded meateater

Hm, may I come with a small suggestion, General? What about you getting yourself an avatar, supposably a picture of yourself so one might get to know how you look like, so it will be easier to find your posts? After all, even if I try to read every post on here I find yours as the most interesting. Can't understand why that is... Anyway, just a small suggestion.

Wikipedia has a very good biog.

No we are not. We are called Villans.

We're called both hence

:winkold:

General Krulak here:

A very tough loss. Not much to be said except that the Fans who made the trip were absolutely brilliant!!!! What more can be said about Fans who made the long trip and did not sit down...even when things were at their worst. I can tell you, Randy was so impressed with the Villa fans and what they meant to the team. You can imagine the dressing room...the loss was very hard to take but to take it in front of such magnificent fans...tough. This is a solid team and Martin is a tremendous Manager....we WILL get there!!! WE WILL!!!! Again, we have players who care and a Manager who will work magic...we just need to believe.

Semper Fidelis, General Krulak

We have played probably the best team in Europe tonight on their day. It's disappointing, but we will have forget this result tomorrow, as we now have HOPE.

Respect to the following tonight. They made us proud with their noise once again.

Fantastic news about the William Mcgregor Statue, i actually said YES out loud. Also, guys stop harassing the General about buying players.. how many times do you want him to repeat that it is down to MON and that the Board will back his decisions?!

Keep up the hard work General.. you can see how it´s appreciated. The cancer has finally been removed from OUR club and the antidote is now in place.

That's great news too. His legacy was not just to Villa, but the football world as a whole. Perhaps the FA, can assist in fundingat the statue as a way of thanking him for the powers that be having highly paid jobs at Lancaster Gate.

Seriously, I know the Trust had some preliminary work reagding the statue. Since the Takeover, I'm not sure if the people that used to be involved with are still looking for funding.

Thanks for that General.

There are a lot of fans from other countries that support our club. Have you any plans to canvass the secretarys of these clubs to see how the Villa Park experience improved for them also.

There are also a lot of local Supporters Clubs, that I think may have been neglected a little in the past. In the early 80's, the club actively encouraged players to visit local pubs and clubs as away of bringing the club and the players closer together. I know that times have changed and football has moved on a little, but you have seen first hand now how kids feel when they meet their heroes. The Villa have lost a lot of the "Liquid" support in the Midlands over the last 20 years or so, but we should be encouraging kids in the Midlands to bind their loyalties to their local club at an early age, and not just support Teams from their armchairs.

That's what happenned to me and I have been bound to the club through thick and thin since the late 70's.

Perhaps the club can be a proactive and canvass these clubs for ideas on how communiction can be imporved. The club to be fair have improved over the last few years, but I'm sure that there is more that can be done from both sides.

Keep up the good work.