Don_Simon

I noticed it when we played them at WHL and again today, their players are so much bigger than ours. We get bullied so easily and in a game of fine margins, that can make a significant difference.

Forum warning points need to be given for anyone who uses the phrase "bottled it".

Going forward we look absolutely woeful. Wrong decisions made time after time.

Unai masterclass incoming.

4 hours ago, stewiek2 said:

I know it's Joey Barton's podcast but the one with Keiran Maguire is interesting. In it Maguire says that the £105m figure was implemented in 2013 and hasn't changed since. This means that clubs are trying to operate at that year's 3 year cycle. The player salaries for Villa in 2013 were around £32.78m for the 13/14 season, compared to around £117m now.

The issue with the FFP/PSR 3 year £105m is that it has stuck at that whilst the whole cost of football has sky rocketed. It hasn't changed with the economic landscape at all.

 

Kieran Maguire did a podcast with Joey Barton? 

I now think substantially less of Kieran Maguire.

1 minute ago, TRO said:

must be the only guy still there.

Erm, what?

1 minute ago, MCU said:

Happy with that. But when on earth do they get these refs from?

Albania.

That's smacked of a training game at times. 

3 minutes ago, stewiek2 said:

This referee is utter corrupt. Unbelievable. Never a second for either player.

Corrupt for what purpose?

10 hours ago, useless said:

We aren't looking to sell any of our major players unless they demand to leave, you can take that to the bank, this is why out of all of them Ramsey leaving is actually probably the least likely, but we aren't looking to sell any of them.

Not sure why people are obssesed with such a negative subject as selling our best players anyway, we're currently having our best season in years, maybe decades, it could potentially be our best season since we won the European Cup, but threads like this you would think we were back in the days of Xia, we have to sell to buy, but that's not the same as having to sell our very best players

 

Whose obsessed?

3 hours ago, nick76 said:

Should go in the bin with ‘How long will Emery stay’ thread…

I love this!

Emery stays. We sell no players and we bring in even more incredible players to fuel the Champions League Winners push.

Your version of reality is so much more fun than mine.

If, as conjectured we need to sell a Crown Jewel in the summer. 

If we get good bids, relative to the players value.

Who do you sell?

2 minutes ago, punkiller1981 said:

Spurs have to play them 3 as well in consecutive games starting the week after they play Newcastle away

Did not know this! Now feel slightly better. Keep em' coming Punkiller!

7 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

,If we beat Spurs on sunday I think it's sealed

Our games against Liverpool, City and Arsenal still make me nervous. 

7 hours ago, TS said:

I was at the game and surprisingly there were some away fans, about a row or two of them so I'd guess somewhere from 10-20 people.

 

Fair play to them it's a hell of a trip.

The internet, on occasion is a wonderful place! Thanks for the info buddy.

"Super, Super Ash, Super, Super Ash, Super, Super Ash, Super Ashley Westwood!"

21 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

Get a round of "Dean Smith's *insert Charlotte FC colours here* army!" Going 

54 minutes ago, MapleVilla said:

They have no away sections at the grounds here. So that should tell you enough about travelling support! Having said that, they're all family friendly places so there's no shouting profanity at a dodgy free kick decision. Worst you hear is "ref you suck"! I'm hoping to go to the Charlotte vs Toronto game here. See if I can shout "UTV" as I'll be near the touchline/benches.

Shit support my lord.

Ah yes. Epic fail.

Just bought my son and I a ticket for the game. £33.50 - Villa nailed it on this one. VP will be bouncing. His first European game too, (my last one was Ajax!)

6 hours ago, Hornso said:

Went to Vancouver and got a 1-1 in his second game in charge.

A 6,000 mile roundtrip. Wonder what the away following was like?

12 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

I'd rather the lawyers for the independent panel commissioned by the Premier League and the Premier League itself and lovers of fair play everywhere beat the lawyers of the Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and possibly his Tory handmaidens. 

Yup. Us too.

Doesn't answer my question though.

2 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

Is there really any doubt they won’t? Hence the problem. Cheats. 

Would you rather Spurs and United beat City to evidence cheaters don't prosper?

Would NSWE, Monchi, et al allow us to get into difficulty with this? It's such a dereliction of duty. They know the rules, it would be against everything they've done so far, (bar Gerrard), to allow serious FFP issues to occur.

This is truly disgusting.

It's Stoke all over again.

This is interesting...

Advantage Spurs.

Matt Law from The Telegraph believes it's advantage Spurs for 4th as they play less games. 

Whereas our manager wants as many games as possible. 

I think I'll side with Unai on this one.