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Yep, I'm half expecting us all to turn up for a future season's first home game only to see an A4 sized poster stuck outside every closed turnstile stating - 'Aston Villa FC have moved and will announce the new stadium location in a few weeks. You are welcome to follow the team's progress via multiple media outlets. You have not been charged for reading this notice, however future unnecessary visits to Villa Park may be charged.'
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98th and 100th minute goals it is then!
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Imagine the conspiracy theory nutjobs if it does happen!
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The new board appointments make me slightly less nervous that whilst NSWE were good in supporting Emery's team to achieve footballing success, they were also happy to milk more cash from those of us of an increasing fan base that could fit inside an unexpanded and increasingly outdated Villa Park.
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As unlikely it is to happen, surely they wouldn't buy the businesses but pay for relocation costs and any temporary loss of business compensation.
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Ouch, look at those two arrows! It's never a good sign when the percentage chance of your success doesn't fit inside the bar graph!
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I expect Unai will have had a dozen or so scenarios he'd planned for, including the dream of rotating players at 4-0 up, helping today's game and in turn, the return leg. Emery would be frustrated that every unconverted opportunity would likely see his top choice scenarios disappearing.
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Agreed. Of all the players, I suspect Ty is the best prepared mentally to bounce back; both from previous experience and a very strong will to play and perform.
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Plus the overall value of the club increases because the annual revenue has increased (from the extra ticket sales and increased hospitality a new stand provides). I'm still at a loss why the new North Stand was canned. If, and it's a big if, the next 6 months sees Villa announcing a bigger plan, I'll be saying 'ahhh, that's why'. If not, it still points to the club squeezing every drop out of us in the same, or very similar, conditions.
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If I had to guess, based on the information and images made public - Buendia fairly likely, Mings less likely.
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FTFY.
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Exactly this, I agree. Anything else is irrelevant or superfluous.
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I'll take a 10 year average as a better indicator than just 5 years. In any case, why should a team finishing with poor form on 60+ points deserve to finish below a team finishing with good form on 50-something points? Even if a team's form is good or poor in the earlier or latter parts of the season, they deserve where they are in the table after 38 games. Unless you think games in the second half of the season carry more weight than the first? Perhaps 4 points for a win from game 20?
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The average points to finish 4th and 5th in the Premier League over the past 10 years is 68.8 and 64 points, respectively. We're currently on 60 points - with 6 games remaining. Virtually every team has differing form over a 38 game season, so why would us finishing on a point total around the average for 4th or 5th place be down to other teams 'messing up' this season, when the average points per position table doesn't show that?
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You're welcome. As the next stage in his Villa life, we bought my son a half-season ticket for Christmas. He'd have been 7 years and 4 months. It was fortunate that a seat next to my wife and my forever seats in the Holte became available (otherwise he'd be sat next to strangers), although that situation was bought about by the sad death of another season ticket holder. My son passed his half season 'test' so we were happy to get him his first full season ticket, beginning a couple of weeks before his 8th August birthday. I was hoping an expanded Villa Park would lead to the relocation (through choice) of a few Holtenders to a new North Stand, which would enable my still too young grandchildren to sit with or very near us. No such luck yet!
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It's a fine line for me. I'll boo opposition players and incorrect decisions by the ref, but I don't join in with personal or overly offensive insults. Kind of like booing the villain at a pantomime is acceptable but shouting the actor is a clearing in the woods, isn't.
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@alreadyexists As it may directly affect you, I feel it's right to point out that, with the way you worded 'you can decline once, is that right?' followed by 'ah right, three separate occasions', - it is actually twice you can decline because the third time would see you removed from the waiting list. I wouldn't want you and your son missing out in the future, based on a vague memory of being able to decline three times. I note you said you're waiting for the right age. My son went to an occasional game aged 5 & 6 and was ready and fully focused on games for a season ticket when he was 7 (a seat he's still got now aged 26), although I do appreciate there can be differences in circumstances and children.
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Poor bloke. I bet he replayed that unfortunate moment over and over again. Amazing that HDE thought it was the right thing to do. What a Muppet.
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So the 'cant be offside from a corner' overrides the player actually being offside (forward from where the corner was taken). What got me wondering was the habit over the last few years of placing the corner ball almost outside the arc and almost a yard from the goal line. Easily enough distance for VAR to draw an offside line, should the ball be played forward to a player on the goal line.
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I know the upper tier blocks nearest the Holte End of both the Trinity and D E stands are reserved for the LG, as I regularly watch those blocks fill up noticeably late (a few mins before k.o.). Presumably they have made the most of the hospitality and then had to walk around from under the Holte. Not sure about the lower D.E. as it's less in my eye line from my Upper Holte seat.
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It is said 'you can't be offside from a corner'. Picture this scenario - the ball is placed on the very edge of the corner arc, a yard back from the goal line. The corner is 'taken short', passed forward to a player stood on the goal line in an offside position (the player has received a forward pass with fewer than two opposition players closer to the goal line). Would that be called offside or does 'you can't be offside from a corner' override the technicality of this offside?
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About the poor website?
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Just a few weeks...
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So is the plan for rebuilding the North Stand.
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The block, was it in the upper tier and closest to the Holte End?
