brommy

1 hour ago, Leeroy said:

The average points for 5th over the last 5 years is 67 points, but ok if you want to go back 10 years. 

 

I’m not saying we haven’t done incredible work this season, we have, first half of the season was some of the best football I’ve ever seen us play.

 

I guess I just watch us play at the moment and we don’t look like a team that is in the top 4, in fact we don’t even look close to that level at times. But I guess Spurs fans will be saying the same thing about their team which is why it’s a strange season.
 

 

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?

36 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

Thanks Brommy! That’s perfect. Yeah, he’s 6 now and he’s been to a game. He loved it, but it was hard to keep his focus and attention, obviously. I think I’ll try and take him one or twice more this year (including next season) and see how it goes. It’s looking quite good timing wise though, I think he’ll be 7/8 when I get the chance to buy so that’ll work out well.

thanks again bud.

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!

19 minutes ago, wedge said:

Agreed, hostility isn't a bad thing, this isn't tiddlywinks after all!

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.

On 25/03/2024 at 13:27, alreadyexists said:

That’s exactly my stance too, my and my son are on there, but he’s 6 so I wouldn’t be buying him an ST for a few years at the very least. My guess is as the price goes up less and less people will be able/willing to buy one. I bet at least a 3rd of those on the list if offered one today would decline. You can decline it once is that right?

On 25/03/2024 at 13:54, alreadyexists said:

Ah right, three separate occasions then… thanks 

@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.

3 minutes ago, TRO said:

Me too.

I knew the guy well, at the time,  He told me in the Aston Social after the game, he was under orders from HDE.....His red face lasted hours, poor soul.

He was told to do it, and when he told him/them it would go down like a lead balloon....He was reminded, he was being employed...do as your told.

Ps his pink suit, didn't help either.

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.

59 minutes ago, bickster said:

As soon as first player receives ball normal offside applies

1 hour ago, tonyh29 said:

i think the law states  ,  There is no offside offence if a player receives the ball directly from:

a goal kick , throw-in or a corner kick 

so presumably the position is irrelevant 

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.

54 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Lower tier next to holte 

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.

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?

Just now, andycv said:

True - which says something too.

About the poor website?

Just a few weeks...

1 minute ago, andycv said:

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/december/15/v-sports-announces-investment-from-atairos/

 

Still on the Villa site

So is the plan for rebuilding the North Stand.

2 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said:

I thought that but thought it was too much of a coincidence to have rows and rows of empty seats together in that one block of Doug Ellis stand.  

The block, was it in the upper tier and closest to the Holte End?

1 hour ago, TRO said:

For the Liverpool game...........We need Dave Chance to sing "You'll never walk alone".. at half time.

That gets the Holte End going.

I remember that like it was yesterday. I still can't believe one person involved in arranging the festivities at Villa Park that day thought it was a good idea, let alone it making through any planning meeting. Crazy.

3 minutes ago, villanmac said:

No but certain areas of the Trinity and Doug (i sit all around the ground as i dont have a ST) you will sometimes notice funny looks if you have the temerity to shout or sing. The place is library. 

Hopefully you ignore the funny looks and keep up the support.

25 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

I'd much rather be 4th than being chasers

Especially after game week 38.

51 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Just the fact they’ve written decoy and put it in a big yellow box shows how incompetent they are. Or is it some crazy double bluff?

Also, wouldn't a 10 metre by 4 metre label tied to the rear rotor, seriously impair the performance of the helicopter?

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Pay cut?

Don't be daft, that's Digne's 0.01% annual pay rise. It's capped because numbers don't go higher.

4 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

They aren't though are they. They are 6th and have picked up spawny results all year

I understand your concern but couldn't that be an argument that they are now due less 'spawny' results?

9 minutes ago, Villa_Vids said:

What is stopping us building below, lowering the pitch and adding more seats?

There's not that much room around the pitch - currently an ideal distance in my opinion, unless you advocating a smaller pitch or throw-ins taken from the third row.

8 hours ago, est1874 said:

How is that even feasible?

What are the charges intended to achieve then?

NUFC apparently stating, or 'leaking', they are not expecting any further punishment for Tonali, reminds me of defence lawyers who attempt to influence sentencing by stating they are not expecting any custodial sentence to exceed any time already spent on remand.

I wonder if NUFC will appeal for any punishment to be concurrent and not consecutive to his current ban and will the punishment depend on a persuasive payment.

If that's not a penalty, why do defenders bother tucking their arms behind the body?

If that doesn't constitute handball, why don't defenders make themselves bigger by having their arms out whilst pointing?

26 minutes ago, AVFC_Hitz said:

Mate of mine saw this and wants it explained. 

Is she a brunettie or a...?

The Daz is low or ...?

6 minutes ago, Deano & Dalian's Umbrella said:

That's exactly the same as our re-sale system isn't it?

No. The club give you 80% of the 1/19th of the season ticket cost and only if they can resell it on for the match day price, which is obviously higher than season ticket average game cost. For category A games, it's near 100% profit increase for the club.

I've no issue with the club making an increased profit by reselling at the higher match day price, but I think the ST holder should get the full value of the ticket (ST cost/19), even if the refund was limited to say 3 matches per season before the 20% charge was triggered. This would prevent people buying STs just for a few games, knowing they'd get a full refund for all the other games.