thegiddygambler

Always worn SMALL MENS except 11/12 as Nike fooked up the sizes so I squeezed into a large boys (bonus of having no shite sponsor). Looks like this time I'll be forced to go down to an under 5s kit based on these sizes. Oh well, at least no sponsor and kit will be even cheaper!

Yep that sounds much better, + the harmony bit very good. HASTEN! LOL :oops: :oops: :oops:

Here's something I just wrote after reading this thread for a bit of fun. Please feel free to criticise and pick it to pieces. It is vague I suppose you might say but then a statement cannot be too long. At least it occupied 10 mins of my time! In view of the protracted sequence of poor results, not least the worst home record in our entire 138 year history, Aston Villa supporters hereby respond to the official statement put out by Messrs Lerner & Faulkner on the 25th April. Our opposition to managerial decisions made at board level have been consistent since June of last year. Despite our widespread misgivings about the appointment, our relationship with the current Aston Villa manager has always been cordial. Which is why, displays of dissatisfaction have been overwhelmingly respectful, Tuesday night perhaps being an exception in this regard. With absolutely no sign of things improving, and three critical games to play to secure our 20 years Premier League status, we would like to re-emphasise our support for the team during this difficult period. When the Premier League season has concluded, hopefully with Aston Villa still being a part of that, we desire two outcomes. A) The club’s results and performances this season will be closely scrutinised and decisive action taken to hasten the continuing depreciation of ‘Villa’ as a team, club and brand. The club will look at, what is now perceived by many, to be a very distant relationship between the supporters and those at board level.

I hate this song (no offense) it just reminds me of Luis Suarez. I can't concur, look forward to singing it.

Good luck with it, my personal fave aways are Everton & Liverpool. Nice old grounds and I like the pubs, Arkles and the wetherspoon aint bad either, no animosity. Blackburn was always good but I dunno what it's like now as the Fernhurst is shut. Fulham is good if you fancy something a bit more upmarket, nice selection of boozers. Stoke City are animals! UTV

If, and it's a big if, Lerner ever redevelops the North Stand I'd like to think some kind of AV lighting arrangement could be done with the floodlighst beaming down from that stand. A gable like the old Trinity Road one wouldn't go amiss on that side also.

I often read mention of this guy, and the only one that I think fits the era is the chap sitting behind the corner flag here, next to his dad. Is this to whom you refer? Yeah he does still go down. I believe he frequents the Sty also occasionally. His collection of masks have given him infamy that he enjoys, bless him.

Glenn Hoddle!

I dunno how you can think like that mate. Relegation is a damgerous game, we could then be in the Championship for 10 years! Getting out of that league is as much to do with mental toughness/ability as it is to do with talent of the squad. I'd be suicidal if we went down, I thankfully think we'll survive by the skin of our teeth!

we had something like just one team that finished top 6 in 10/11 in our first 12 games of the season. We should have been well in the mix with a 1/3 of the season gone............but this shite manager messed it up. :-(

It wasnt ALL down to the signing of Heskey, but that January 2009 was the most crucial transfer window for the club. I remember leading up to it on these forums, people were saying if we can just buy a decent striker, we will get 4th ahead of Arsenal. There was talk of Darren Bent, Huntelaar and a Luca Toni, but in the end we got Heskey. If we had sóf signed Bent or someone of the same quality, I think we would of held of Arsenal and got 4th. The gap was only 7 points in the end. The current mess the club in, is not all down to Heskey, but that is a big factor. The most important transfer window in the clubs history, and the club got it horribly wrong. Isnt obvious that by then Lerner wasnt prepared to invest in the likes of Bent etc? Heskey was a terrible buy but you cannot assume that money was available for better. But the money that the club spent after that period suggests the money was there. Surely they could see Heskey was not the answer. Yes clearly so.

C'mon I don't even believe you yourself believe what you've just typed there! Given out league standing in that January transfer window and our aim seemingly being close to fruition..+ what want on in the following summer where we spent again...I think we all know that O'Neill could have broke the bank and bought in a £15 million ilk striker had he so wished.

Were waiting till everyones got there tickets sorted it's that simply obviously we want the whole group together nothing to do with secrecy just purely wanted to be together in the block! ok bud fair enough.

I don't know why don't just announce where you'll be sitting. No idea why this group feels the need to do things in secrecy. This plus obscuring your faces in pictures, you only wave flags, hardly think you need to cover yourselves up for doing that! Anyway, you'll be sitting in cheaps seats, so you'll either be sitting in L8 or upper K1 or scattered along the front of the lower Holte stand. Seeing as you wanna be noticed it won't be L8. It's therefore a toss up between front of the stand and K1! UTV

He seems like too much of a luxury in anything other than a 5 man midfield IMO.

i believe Nike were paying us £2mill a year for us to wear their kit, so we would lose that for starters. I'd hope Macron are paying us more then Nike, and thats why we have gone with them. Unless we're getting more money there's absolutely no point in going with Macron, not sure they've got the dosh to be giving us much though...... I genuinely believe it's just as likely that we only "ditched" Nike because they said "hold on..we were paying you £2m a year and you were up there competing....now you're going backwards...how about £1.25m a year?" Nike wouldn't be following a very good business model if they didn't try to negotiate at lower terms. I think that's why we've "ditched" them. So in reality Nike have ditched us!!!!!

WOW! Though I'd say the upper Holte being standing is probably a non starter. Not sure the split but I'd say there's a more seats downstairs, 7k perhaps, so maybe an increase of 7k in the stand. So 14k roughly lower Holte & 6k seated upper. Cool, that would be almost the same capacity permitted for the old terrace in 94 @ 19k I believe?

I'd be very interested to see by how much it would raise capacity. By that I mean, the German stands can revert back to seating in most case I believe (seats are purely "locked"" when it's a standing game) What is the defence@ E.g Shalke East stand (seating used holds?) Shalke East stand (terrace used holds?)

AFAIK it wasn't generated by mass drinking on the terrace. Though I'm sure the odd fan smuggled a hip flask in back in the day.

each to their own, my take is it seems more natural to stand up when watching. The option of doing both is my hope. So we do do that now I guess if you can't sit down, stand up, sit down, stand up...every time a corner or run down the wing happens.

Oh yeah of course laws are never changed...................that's why I must have dreamt that 2 men were convicted of the murder of Stephen Lawrence a couple of weeks ago and the repeal of an 800 year old "double jeopardy" rule back in 2005 that you can't be tried for the same crime twice. So no, it isn't a bit stupid really. Any mention of it in local & national press builds momentum. As will coverage of terraced Ibrox. It's called building momentum. A bit obvious really............

If the corner between the Holte & Trinity is the "test area", according to the mail, I don't see that raising the capacity very much! Who'll be in favour currently? Villa, Everton, Liverpool & Spurs 100% Possibly...United, Ci£Y, Cheski, Wolves, WBA Against: Arsenal, Bolton, Wigan, Swansea, Just my thoughts on who'd back it!

Nice boy but I don't think he's good enough. IMO opinion he should be dropped after Sat. I watched it on MOTD and he KNEW that player was behoind him, he turned and looked....the didn't bother to get goal side and started pleading with his hands after Everton scored. Why the **** didn't he earn hos £ and get goal side? He 150% knew the guy was there...lazy, couldn't be arsed, apathetic to it all...was and is my view of it. As for his crosses Sat....the were teriibly slow in delivery, pace wise I'm talking, keeper could easily collect as they came across slowly without venom and at the perfect height for catching them. I think we probably would have won if Nzogbia had offered a threat rather than MA on Sat, he's got more tricks & ability in his tool kit.

On FIFA 12 when you first play the game you are asked which team you support and this is linked to your online profile. Here is how the Midlands looks in terms of total fans for each club on FIFA 12 on the PS3: 1. Villa - 34,294 2. Wolves - 13,791 3. Blues - 12,059 4. Forest - 10,217 5. Stoke - 10,162 6. Albion - 8,692 7. Leicester - 8,400 8. Derby - 6,699 9. Coventry - 4,265 IMPRESSIVE, though I suppose not surprising seeing as all the other club's are up and down the leagues more often than Ryan Giggs's trousers.

When it was Hummel I never bothered and if it becomes Macron I won't bother either. It don't purposely buy these crap names in general so I'm not gonna bother doing so just cos Villa have linked up with these crap names. It's all about personal choice I guess. Nike, Adidas or Puma and I'll get one.