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cheltenham_villa

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  1. Yeah but if you don't have kids, who do you send to the shops to buy your fags?
  2. A positive, the new options provided in the lower holte last year for purchasing refreshments are excellent. Self serve, staff less kiosk and the pre order have been brilliant In helping to reduce queues and wait times around the bars. The food is unfortunately poor still in the stadium, the quality from the external caterers is much much better and I quite like the fan zones. Would be great to see them expanded with more options. During the winter, would the club consider letting the street food caterers come into the stadium? Final thought is I would love to understand the policy on drinks bottles. I can't buy a coke with a lid (which would stop my lad spilling it) buy the old guy next to me can take in a 2 litre thermos with boiling water.
  3. i wouldnt start him, mainly because im so nervous about his injury record. I also think Everton may try and start brightly, capitalise on a lack of confidence following the Newcastle result. I wouldnt be adverse to seeing him introduced at half time though so he can build slowly.
  4. I dont know anything about Acuna but ive heard people say he can cover either flank. Is it possible that we come in RB/LB cover and we dont see a direct RB. Especially as its likely we will see 3 centre halves often in the back 4.
  5. the info about the plane is reliable. Is the info about the passenger list reliable?
  6. the few things that are worrying here, we talked flippantly about moving on the likes of Digne and managing our FFP compliance. That still leaves us a long way from being profitable. Im not sure its sustainable for us to be 100m into the pockets of our owners every year. Eventually even billionaires get bored of that.
  7. i know, im clearly a little facetious, clearly we have a big push to drive up revenue, the club will be comparing us with the money Brighton are generating on player sales, the money spurs are generating from their stadium and we are lagging a long way behind. Raising ticket prices and player sales will continue to be drivers im sure, at the same time, it doesnt make sense to me to that we would turn down something easy like a stadium sponsor. I cant stand the logo on our home shirt, but its become a widely accepted thing. A name in front of villa park is money for nothing as far as im concerned.
  8. if it means my season ticket doesnt go up by 20% next year, they can call it what they want. Ill still call it Villa Park
  9. best place for him, more week for all of the knee specialists we are currently recruiting.
  10. arguably pre Unai, people would have drawn many parallels between Mings and Maguire, many concluding that Maguire is the better player. Like many others i see the mistakes, Maguire does add to the leadership and organisation gaps that Mings has left us with. I wonder under Unai if we could see the rate of development that Mings has shown?
  11. fascinating insight, thank you. Please continue to share knowing that many really enjoy these posts
  12. Worrying how slow he looked. Decent with the ball but teams may target the ball in behind him if he's stood on the half way line.
  13. When people talk about finishing top 4, I always tell them that it will never give them the feelings you describe above. I've seen us win two trophies, two of the best days of my life.
  14. I think most fans did indicate they wanted this. They just didn't want the prices that it comes with or anticipate it being a season ticket option for those on the waiting list.
  15. I think he'll benefit from playing opposite another wide player. He's often isolated on the wing with no support from a deep lying full back. I thought it was interesting that he really encourage Diaby to come, Leon obviously doesn't read the message boards
  16. That's good to know, I stand the whole time at the moment, I've got a good few years yet but I also don't think it's right if people have to move.
  17. but we at least took good money for Chuck. Outside of that, Cahill was the only one that probably could have had a buy back clause. Other than that, the young players generally just disappear from footy.
  18. this isnt really where the all of the time has come from. They looked at the number of minutes the ball is in play in a game and found it was reducing each season. In league 2 last year the ball was only in play for 48 minutes. They also look at the average stoppage time for a goal, this is now 60 seconds where as only 30 was being allowed, the same for substitutes. Obviously they also want to address obvious cheating and gamesmanship, but the majority of the changes dont relate to time wasting, just a fairer distribution of added time. Im a fan (except when Emi starts getting booked).
  19. Im struggling to think of anyone that weve got this wrong for, any kids that didnt get the playing time and went off to better things. Cahill is probably the only one in my mind. Im that basis this just seems a smarter way of moving on youth players who probably wont be good enough but giving ourselves an insurance policy.
  20. Id hope not, im all for some safe standing in a lot of places but i dont think people should be excluded if they do not want/cannot stand for the entire game.
  21. I think Olly cannot play every game, certainly not with our conference fixture list. Im sure i saw someone say we could realistically play 30 games before xmas. I think Ollie played 39 game last season. I would not want Archer to leave without an adequate replacement.
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