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They'd rather Dock Notts Forest and Everton another 20 times before they touch a 'big' club.

Just now, chrisp65 said:

That’s a good point on dates.

One of the reasons we abandoned the local Tesco and Morrisons was how tiresome it was that pretty much everything in there was always short use by dates. Wouldn’t be so bad now with 2 of us shopping for our evening meal, but a massive pain when shopping for 4 for a week.

During Covid we switched to shopping for at least 2 weeks at a time (at 9pm-recommended), which we have done ever since. That pretty much rules out getting any fresh chicken. Although the meat at Lidl is a little better than Aldi on this score. 

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

I’m feeling a bit victimised here.

I shop in… Waitrose, M&S, and Lidl.

It’s really different shops for different things and some of the stuff in Lidl is excellent. Their cheapo chocolate is far superior to the usual branded shit and just a different animal to main supermarket cheapo chocolate. Their fresh noodles, pak choi, samosas etc is cheaper than anywhere else and no obvious difference in quality to me. 

But then, the parmigiano in M&S is actually cheaper and better than the one in Lidl. 

There’s a kikkoman soup base I can only find in Waitrose and nowhere else.

M&S takeaway is the best supermarket takeaway.

Some Lidl wine is really good. But the La Chouffe beer in Waitrose is cheaper than I’ve seen anywhere else locally.

The one thing I personally do avoid like the plague, mid ranking supermarkets. The local Morrisons and Tesco shite. And full of riffraff.

I guess we’re lucky having the time, money, and transport to be able to shop around. We don’t really do ‘the big shop’ or get an order in to be delivered or any of that stuff. 

I shop in Lidl and Aldi, but I must concede that their fresh meat, while not bad quality, does not last well, even in the fridge. Chicken in particular has a very short home shelf life. 

Last time I shopped in Tesco the quality of everything was garbage. Way worse than the so called budget options. 

20 hours ago, imavillan said:

here we go

 

 

To everyone who has read this post:

You may post on here saying that you are not on What3Words as we speak, checking every square metre of St. Andrews to see if there are any other appropriate references, such as ///troglodyte.asbestos.nightmare. But I won't believe you. Happy hunting, boys.

19 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

The past 18 months has seen me re-evalate my all-time Villa XI. A few 90s players have dropped out but I still really adore the 90s era teams.

I think Steve Staunton actually would be a player from the past who would be effective in this team, McGrath obviously also. In a way the midfield we have now surpasses the likes of Barry for me. If anything, An Andy Townsend in the engine role might enable our current midfielders to flourish even more. Ian Taylor too bursting forward from midfield would be a fine squad option today.

 

But we have no real weakness today so I wouldn't really swap anybody out. 

See I loved Staunton, but I don't think he'd make it now as a fullback. Current fullbacks can't really survive without pace these days. If we could convert him into a 6, and play him in a double pivot with a ball winner laying it off to him to distribute with his monstrously good left foot, then I think he'd be great today. 

Up until this year I would have swapped Yorke and Ollie, purely based on talent, no off the field stuff, but this year Ollie has gone stratospheric, and I don't think I would now.

Oh Man, mid way through chapter 17 in remake. The end is in sight, but I have kids and these 2am sessions which start as 'i'll just do the next bit' are killing me. Do I try and get by for a full week of 4 hrs sleep a night, or take a break? Aaarrrggghhh but there's Sephiroth. God damn.  

8 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

That wording makes it seem like Emery was the one who triggered the extension. He loves it here innit

I wonder if he thought he'd have to win us over, like the Arsenal fans, when in reality he had us at 'sign here'. 

50 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

I imagine they’ll think of another name for us, possibly of five letters, and ending in unts

DVB Mate.

8 minutes ago, Craigy1874 said:

He does, I met him last week in the Hyatt and told him this.

And? Well? What did he say??? You're killing me over here.

1 minute ago, GarethRDR said:

When your badge's upside down

and it's making you frown

that's Castore.

Bravo, sir.

1 minute ago, Talldarkandransome said:

Tbf to Emi, when he looks down at it it's the right way up. Like a nurses watch. 

It's so weird that only the lion was upside down. I could understand if the whole thing was flipped, but just the lion make no sense to me at all. 

1 minute ago, Jareth said:

The keepers jersey was actually Gauci's, they wanted to make him feel at home

Late to the party as usual, but did anyone ever get to the bottom of why the lion on Emi's badge was upside down. And why no-one, even Emi, actually noticed it?

Just now, RichW said:

Guess none of us will know the finer details but the wording of The Athletic article about sitting down with the owners in the summer and prolonging his terms further would indicate to me at least both the club and Emery have agreed for the option of the extra year to be triggered and that in summer he will sign a new contract with higher pay, bigger release clause and maybe additional years? 

The fact its news that his extended to 2027 even though he was already tied to 2027  would tell me that the final year was definitely an option. I guess the club will wait till the summer when his signed his new contract before it's officially announced from the club as they've not mentioned anything (yet).  

I'd be really surprised if this was the case. It would be a huge boost to everyone to announce it ASAP, even if it was with caveats. 

Just now, Mantis said:

I presume he's gotten a big payrise - well deserved!

Indeed.

Breaking now on the BBC.

Click to be happy.

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Emery extends Villa contract to 2027

Just now, Mantis said:

Amazing news! But wasn't his contract already until 2027?

I think it's more a statement of commitment. Hopefully. So we won't get any stupid paper talk, and it won't undermine us getting players in the summer who want to work for him (who wouldn't?).

Be really funny now if we kept Unai, and built a new 60,000 seat stadium that hosts NFL games. 

I hope he has some understanding of how much we love him here. 

2 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

isnt this just a pay raise or pay rise with some clause changes?

im pretty sure his original contract ran until 2027?

Don't make my bonfire all wet and smelly.

Not on official site yet. 

OMG that is the best signing we could possibly have made. 

1 hour ago, Pinebro said:

Issue is that clubs are not showing the same level of energy when decisions goes for them.

Forest would celebrate like crazy if the roles were reversed and they won with Everton denied 3 stonewall decisions.

So ultimately clubs won't be taken seriously  until they stop contradict themselves.

Not sure I understand. It would not be their place to object on those grounds, it would be Everton's, no?