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Something I quickly edited.  Not perfect but you get the idea

6 minutes ago, M_Afro said:

After last night, surely it’s got to be Wild Boys by Duran Duran

I mentioned this song a few years ago, when it was last discussed.  It would need to be edited from the 12" version to give it a great build up/fanfare

5 hours ago, Callum said:

seems he’s already away on one of his summer fishing trips. 

I can picture it now tbf: Dubai, yacht, sun beating down, fisherman’s hat on, and an absolute beauty on the end of his rod

Best team won.  Damage was done 1st leg with fannying around.  Just about got away with it against Lille, weren't going to get away with it for the semi

3 minutes ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said:

Did he not only have 1 year left on his contract at the time?

He did, but then we paid £25m for Danny Ings who had a year left with the Saints

1 hour ago, sidcow said:

Rated by Arsenal who are constantly linked with him.

Rated by Emery the best manager in the league who constantly picks him week in week out and constantly sings his praises.

Rated by the West Ham fans I was chatting to before the game the other week.

"Overrated" does not mean "not rated".  How much did Arsenal offer for him the other year?  Obviously, they they dont rate him as highly as people think.

1 minute ago, Farlz said:

If Kamara magically returned tomorrow you'd have Dougie run the show against Brighton. Absolutely certain of it.

It couldn't be more clear as day that the formation and personnel changing has had a big effect on him and the rest of the team in fact, building out from the back nowhere near what it was pre Kamara injury. 

Just like McGinn and Tielemans ran the show agasint Arsenal?  Who's really the odd one out at the moment?  Thats why I would say he's somewhat over rated because he can't adapt as well as the other midfielders. I think that's clear to see.   And lets face it, he's had plenty of time in that position since he's been at Villa to be able to do a half decent job at least.

A mixture of being out tacticated and keep one eye on the Brighton game.  Villa will turn it around in the next leg, but this idea managing the game in a certain way to conserve energy backfires too much.

Bambi on ice this evening, unfortunately

2 minutes ago, Xela said:

He needs Kamara alongside him to be at his best. 

If he can't step up to the plate when better players are injured, then Villa need to cash in on him 

5 minutes ago, VillanousOne said:

how many times has he lost the ball in or outside of the penalty area, or give away a foul there

Too many. Always itching for a card too

9 minutes ago, claretman said:

 It is also Alan Smith who grew up supporting Aston Villa, having been born just eight miles from Birmingham. 

A quick google confirms what I thought I knew.  As I said, he tries a bit too hard to compensate during his commentary.

He's been very consistent at for many a year, which always led me to believe he wasn't a fan.

I noticed some aloof comments in the "Aston Villa Crest" thread, about how we live in an era where people have "contempt for experts", which were verging on the apeal to authority fallacy. So I thought I'd post this here.

This amusing documentary is just one example of why sometimes so called experts draw contempt.  A self taught recluse from Bolton (who lived just down the road from my uncle), fooled the British Museum and antiquity dealers for years. Armed with supplies from B&Q and a garden shed, he became Britain's greatest ever forger.

9 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

I thought someone posted the new rules saying majority of fans have to be in favour.  How are they going to judge that if they don't put it to vote. 

 

Sales.  Put it on an Adidas shirt, sales go through the roof, et voila, set it in stone for the next 15 years.

3 hours ago, thabucks said:

Sad part of FFP for me is that it incentivises the selling of homegrown academy players and from that POV it makes sense financially to sell Jacob Ramsey this summer to book pure profit.

It shouldn't incentivise such sales.  There ought to be FFP concessions for young players being developed from the academy up to the age of 24-25, depending on how many PL games they play.  That would be a great way to incentivise homegrown talent.

2 hours ago, Enda said:

The “hard to distinguish from a marketing perspective” is an ill-fated approach, in my view, on two fronts.

Firstly, every actual fan recognizes it immediately. The only people who don’t recognize it are people the club are trying to attract. The focus is thus on potential new fans, rather than the existing life-long supporters. That’s a mistake, in my view.

Secondly, I reject the premise that this should be dictated by the marketing team. Football is a business, I know, and revenue generation is important. I know. But the crest of the club is something too important to be left up to the marketing team. It’s iconic. Handing the reins to Johnny in marketing (or Chris H) is cheap and short-sighted. Give it more class, you money-grabbing dickwads.

Just another drop in the ocean of marketing "experts" appealing to the lowest common denominator, in this case potential fair weather fans. 

The only thing to do is not buy any products with the new badge on, but i suspect most fans will get their wallets out anyway.  That's why they think they'll get away with it.

20 hours ago, DCJonah said:

Thought Heck was a disaster. 

Maybe we should let people do their job. 

To be fair, people aren't trying to stop him from doing his job, they're trying stop him making a big balls up of the badge.  

I called this back in June:  Heck will put out some cheap tacky plastic badge. 

Simply dont buy anything with the new badge on.  That's the only way to get the message through.  Maybe Heck thinks that he can just do as he pleases because he expects all the fans to get their wallets out when a new shirt is put out.  Don't like the badge? vote with your wallet.

It sure does!

1 hour ago, Jas10 said:

Can’t understand why anyone with half a brain would think sticking with yellow on light blue would make sense or work…

"Trust the experts", apparently.  I kinda get the sense that those who moan about the roundel are also those who moan about claret shorts

Dewsbury-Hall, is a good shout to strengthen the left side and add creativity.  8 goals and 9 assists for Leicester so far.  He can also play centrally too.

4 hours ago, nick76 said:

For some fans maybe but for the majority who wanted a round badge this was bad idea.

The U-turn on the roundel is even worse given that the badge was born from fan consultation.  It was a big middle finger to the fans, imo.  It's also interesting that a minority of fans who dislike the roundel, label it as "nostalgia", despite the fact that of all the badges Villa have had, it's the only one that's actually worked effectively.  Yet whatever the badge will be they still want the same old Lion Rampant.

16 minutes ago, DJBOB said:

He’s got a lot of credit in the bank so I think an off night is due. 
 
But this game a reminder that if someone is willing to offer silly money (100M+), it should be considered because only the Messi’s of the world really should have that kind of valuation. 

If City came in at that price I'd snap their hand off.