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On 23 July 2016 at 13:19, Gary Thomas said:

Me too - still waiting for my sons.

6 days on, so hopefully your sons card has arrived.

My wife's card arrived 10 days after my son's and my cards. An adult with the same surname so no logic for the different arrival times. I suppose provided it arrives a week before the first home game there's no need for concern.

On 23 July 2016 at 14:38, markavfc40 said:

Almost 20k sold apparently which is good going and compares well to recent seasons. I think the recent peak was around 26k under O'Neill in 2008.

Hopefully crowds will initially be 28k+ and if we can have a decent start can get up to 30k+.

Without decent results, I think the amount of paper tickets sold will be massively down on the Premier League seasons so even with 20k season cards, and a couple of thousand away fans, I wouldn't be surprised to see crowds as low as 26k. I'm hoping for good results and a positive vibe at Villa Park (when was the last time we had that?!), that could regularly see crowds of 30k+.

Guzan was a decent keeper but we all know his confidence is shot at Villa so I think it's best for all that he moves on. I don't know if he'll ever get his mojo back at another club but I really don't think he'll get it back at Villa.

30 minutes ago, bringbackbigron said:

This optimizes our transfer dealings last year. (Just want to be clear i'm not at all worried about him leaving). But, why buy a potential talent for £9million and have a £7million release clause built into his contract. Seriously how much were those jokers getting paid to negotiate this?

Transfer dealings aren't as simple as many people think. For all we know, Gana wouldn't have signed if there wasn't a relegation release clause. Perhaps we offered a £9m release, Gana's agent insisted on £5m and we negotiated £7m. Without all the facts it seems unnecessary to brand anyone as jokers.

2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

But the trouble with demanding visible public condemnation of everything is that it could end up filling your life. 

Is this was is known as a 'Scouser'?

Micah is a winner and a born leader so he deserves to be playing at one of the top clubs, like Sunderland.

50 minutes ago, Paddywhack said:

I know a flight attendant who told me he was on a flight once that was kept circling the airport after a take off because a little boy's Nintendo DS was still connected to the airport's WIFI.

It's known as 'tethering'. The pull of 'tethering' is strong enough to force aircraft to keep circling the airport, just like a dog tied to a post. The solution is to very gradually close together the two screens of the DS. A sudden disconnection of 'tethering' can result in a slingshot effect causing the aircraft to be launched into space.

We live in worrying times. When I flew back from Paphos last week, I got footage on my phone showing the aircraft was actually being piloted by Pikachu.

34 minutes ago, villan-scott said:

A little far fetched, but maybe RDM is holding him back a little to keep clubs away?

RDM in a wig...

16 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

I stand by it being embarrassing. Imagine if the new owner of blues tweeted happy birthday to Jimmy Saville... I'm sure we'd find that embarrassing.

If their owner was British and really should have recognised Saville from the photo, then it would be embarrassing for them, not for me.

As Tony isn't expected to recognise infamous British sex predators, it's not embarrassing, it's just a poor taste practical joke.

32 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

When our owner wishes Jimmy Saville happy birthday?

Yeh.

Our owner didn't though. Did Tony wish someone's uncle happy birthday and not realise the photo was of Saville, or did he actually wish happy birthday to a dead sexual predator? There's a big difference! Chinese culture is one of the few areas that Saville hasn't touched (!), so why should Tony be expected to know who Saville was or what he looked like? Even if you think Tony should have someone filtering his social media, why were you embarrassed? Only two people should be embarrassed by it. One of them is dead and the other has closed his Twitter account.

17 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Our owners tweets are embarrassing. 

Are are you easily embarrassed?

Just now, sparrow1988 said:

 

I would hope that the change in attack invloves Rudy and that he is not our primary attacking option.

Ideally, yes.

15 minutes ago, Daweii said:

Maybe simplifying it a bit? Goals never change yes, but quality defenders do. Gestede struggles in the Premier League because the quality of player and defending is vastly better than in the Championship. He was a threat in the Championship, he wasn't in the Premier League and that is largely because he's not cut out for facing players that are actually semi-decent at defending. 

Unfortunately for us and Rudy there will be a few semi-decent defenders in the Championship and they'll most likely be playing for the clubs we need to compete with for promotion. It is still difficult to ignore Rudy's recent successful record in the Championship but I hope RDM will know when to use him and the occasions when a change in attack is needed.

21 minutes ago, HeyAnty said:

More important, what is the two geese sitting on the table beside the guy at front.  Is it their attempt at humour? 

Do you mean the ceramic chop sticks rest that everyone around the table appears to have?

3 hours ago, Gary Thomas said:

Same here - the one that has not arrived is a junior - think they send a slightly different pack for the kids, hopefully next week.

Strangely, I've received mine (adult) and my son's (under 21) but the missing season card is my wife's (adult). I'll ring up the ticket office if it's not arrived in a week or so.

Two out of my three season cards arrived this morning. As they were all ordered at the same time, I assume the third season card will arrive early next week.

47 minutes ago, OLDVILLAIN said:

can anyone realistically see lescott,richards and bacuna being shipped off to the chinese superleague?

I think more people can see those three in another Chinese institution.

Formula One radio rules are set to be released as a parlour game.

1 hour ago, alreadyexists said:

So are we pronouncing it "Shi-Bo-La" like with a silent T? 

As one who struggles beyond Smith and Jones, I have settled for Toshiba. Betamax was ace in 81.

Well that British GP was fairly boring.

2 minutes ago, StanBalaban said:

If it means anything, Jack Grealish has started following him on Twitter today.

Tantamount to a signed contract.

Welcome A. A. Ron. Don't follow Jack.

31 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Just heard he signed this morning but can't see anything in the Internet 

1 minute ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

I can't see it for some reason

Sorry SGC, I was just having a bit of fun and hoping VT qualifies as 'the Internet'.

6 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Where?

I quoted it in my post.

5 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Just heard he signed this morning but can't see anything in the Internet 

Now there is.

22 hours ago, sparrow1988 said:

Maybe RDM decided there's no way anyone is going to touch some of the players that he wants rid of and some parts of Austria are pretty remote and Mountainous obviously so - easy to "lose" people. He could possibly have devised a mountaineering exercise where the players are split into groups and have to fend for themselves and find their way back to a base camp over a number of days.

Gabby, Lescott, Richards, Bacuna and Guzan are all in the one group. And hey presto, we've "lost" a group of squad members who nobody wants. That's a shame.....

Our very own tragedy. Play it right and we could gain a few million fans.