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Risso

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  1. I remember Purslow talking a bit about kit deals when he first arrived, saying how difficult it was to manage initially after being promoted via the play offs. One moment you're a Championship club, then 90 minutes later you're a Premier League club and everything changes. From memory, it wasn't really Luke and Kappa as kit suppliers was it, the deal was with Fanatics with design being done by Luke and Kappa. And Fanatics had done the Bucks kits so maybe that intro came from Wes. But anyway, impossible to say how much influence Heck has had on this.
  2. Impossible to know. But like the Gerrard appointment, perhaps Nas was happy to leave those sorts of decisions to Purslow to start with. Maybe Castore were offering people like us and Newcastle silly money to build their brand ahead of the more established suppliers.
  3. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Nas, who's on the board at Adidas, might have had slightly more to do with it.
  4. And if you believe they're going to do that, I've got some magic beans you might be interested in.
  5. There are provisions in the UEFA FFP regulations to apply for a voluntary agreement. If this was as a result of having reduced income for two years because of knocking down a stand, I can't see that there's any way that that's not going to be agreed to. So if all other being equal, we'd only breach their break even regs because we were without the 6,000 seats in the Noth, they'd accept this if the future cash flow projections showed that we'd be back well into credit when the stand was finished in two years.
  6. Risso

    Wordle

    Good second guess for me on that one. I can see what everybody else did and I'd definitely have gone that was as well. BUT I DIDN'T, SO SUCK IT UP LOSERS!!!!!11111
  7. What did you think people wee going to be talking about in a topic cunningly called "Future Club Crest & Brand Identity"? There are plenty of other topics for you to look at if you're not interested.
  8. Like all investments, there's never a perfect time to do it, but the sooner you commit to it, the sooner you start to see the benefits. The FFP rules were updated last year, and allowances are made for anything that improves the facilities at a club. So for example, knocking a stand down would mean less income obviously. The loss of this income would be allowed in the FFP calculations. So effectively, the calculations would still be made as if the stand were still there, which wouldn't alter the ability to bring in new players etc. Other than that, the majority of the increased income from being in the Champions League comes from commercial sources, and wouldn't be affected by not having the North Stand there at all. Sorry Pete, it makes no sense at all. Villa Park isn't big enough, and the longer we take to make it bigger, the more and more we'll fall behind in revenue terms. In 2026 we could have a 50,000+ stadium, with enhanced facilities and a much better corporate offering, and we'd be bringing in millions more a year. Now we won't, and we're stuck with an eyesore of a stand with terrible facilities.
  9. Revenue, you say. I've got an idea, let's take our oldest and smallest stand, and then increase it in size so we've got an extra 10,000 fans in the ground.
  10. A blithering idiot. They’re not going to use a badge they haven’t got the trademark for, because then anybody could copy it. Obviously this is the new badge.
  11. That's miles better. The colours work, it's properly spaced out, and the fonts are decent and consistent. if Villa fans can churn this stuff out in half an hour why do the club always make such a balls up of it?
  12. This is the simplified one from 2015: If they wanted the words 'Aston Villa' in they could have just changed the AVFC at the top, and there we go, job done in about 30 seconds. Also, yet another completely avoidable amateurish way of going about things. Saying you're going to reveal the crest in a few weeks then letting somebody find the designs on the trademark website. Heck hasn't got the first clue how to do anything properly, I think he's actually the George Weah's cousin of the marketing world. Apparently at Southampton they used to stand around scratching their heads watching the fake player in training, well it's exactly how I feel watching Heck in action. Sooner or later they're going to do a Scooby Doo reveal and work out he's really a used car salesmen from some small town off the interstate in Iowa. He's making it up as he goes along and wondering how long he's got until somebody works him out.
  13. They were doing that with the Lerner badge already, and could have carried on doing that, without wasting everybody's time for the last two years.
  14. Well, no. But taking the widely disliked Lerner badge and leaving it almost the same with a pale yellow lion on a blue badge background was never, ever going to go down well. The Lerner effort was badly designed and shit, and they've just tweaked it to make it worse.
  15. That is genuinely terrible. Taking the Lerner badge, and almost unbelievably, making it worse. Way to go, Heck!
  16. Risso

    Jhon Durán

    Get a proper back up to Ollie in, then loan Duran out, or sell him with one of those fancy buy back options.
  17. I think I'd go for Konsa, as he's been the model of consistency, and has really raised his game in the absence of Mings.
  18. Risso

    Wordle

    I think Bicks already did it? Anyway, not me today! Wordle 927 4/6*
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