Villaphan04

2 hours ago, Captain_Townsend said:

Cannot warm to this bloke. Don't think he 'gets it'.

his remit is not to "get it", it is to make sure we are competing financially with the top clubs in the PL. 

53 minutes ago, wishywashy said:

Clearly the appointment of Heck and co. is an Americanisation of the commercial department. I do wonder a bit about the viability of his quite public committments to increasing prices and targeting hospitality while the non-footballing services on offer (including to hospitality fans!) have been dreadful for a long time and are somehow getting worse. You'd imagine something's going to give at some point if there aren't marked improvements. He's got a lot on his remit, to say the least: even if you ignore the hospitality conflict some areas such as Villa Park and the commercial strategies have been pretty questionable in their approach. I've only done a bit of marketing in my life but I'm not sure announcing a highly controversial and divisive decision on the badge (with radio silence since then..) within the launch itself was a clever move. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm also pretty sure they didn't even bother to put up the kit launch video on social media, only on VillaTV (Straying off topic for a minute, I beg of you Heck, please do something about whoever Villa outsourced the website to, it's baaad. A good website does not take 10 seconds to load an article page).

Most of the commercial issues obviously precede Heck, but going to have to improve on his first impressions pretty rapidly: his first move being to cause a palaver over the badge and his first in person meeting at the AGM seemingly terribly thought through is not the greatest of starts. We'll see. Given the state of the commercial department at the moment it can only really get better from here. You hope so, anyway.

I definitely think it is the club trying to go the way of other clubs who have increased their commercial activity and most of those were in ways that can be considered "Americanization". 

33 minutes ago, PaulC said:

If the new American owners get Premier League approval that should make a huge difference to the club. I don't think they will stick with Dyche if results don't improve. 

They are in a battle but it's still early days to suggest they are doomed. They should have won the first two home games.

knowing 777's past ownership history, it will be a very negative difference. 

hmmm

Just now, villa4europe said:

Honest... Still don't know, it's really close to being a brilliant tackle, he touches Watkins before the ball but the full contact that brings Watkins down comes after he touched the ball and then after that he's got good clean contact on the ball

There's no right answer to it and no way would you get consistency on it, if that went against us thered be a fair few complaints

Its not a case of "shit ref got it wrong" thats a really hard decision to make, I think fair play to him he stood by his original decision which if he's unsure imo is what he should do

it's exactly why refereeing is subjective. I remember reading the article last year on refereeing/PGMOL and how decisions are split (they polled the refs and there were differing views). 

this one if the ref calls on the field, he didn't overturn it on VAR. No chance that gets called a pen if the on-field decision is no foul. 

was invisible after the early yellow. 

he plays so silky despite his build. absolutely loves a nutmeg

I know this could be controversial, but I'd start Bailey & Diaby together in most home matches. Their link up play has really shown imo

can easily see why Unai wanted to get him. comfortably the best passer/distributer in the squad (with Luiz). Can be weak defensively at times, which is why the Mings injury stings so much. 

more worried about Konsa than Pau tbh

today showed why he was/is our backup striker (and above Archer in the striker order)

He is the first villa player to score in 4 consecutive PL matches at Villa Park since Gareth Barry in 2006.

2 minutes ago, AvonVillain said:

SO many games to play this season (including this next 45 minutes) to choose from. Really poor decision for me.

fair enough, but he needs games and was the third choice striker (judging from the first few games)... I imagine he was also pushing for more time 

2 minutes ago, bobzy said:

Apparently the Man Utd disallowed goal might be quite controversial.

Haven't seen it at all, but that's VAR getting involved at Old Trafford to disallow a Man Utd goal which apparently never happens according to the conspiracy theorists.

nah, there's a clear shot of the ball being out of play right before it gets played over for the goal. there'd be a firestorm I'd think if it wasn't ruled out

if we hadn't sold Archer, who does he replace in the XI? There's not a position available for him (also add to the fact that Durán was preferred coming off the bench over Archer)

i think that's a concussion sub?

that looked like a fantastic save, Richards very fortunate to not give up an OG

commentary mentioned that Dougie has scored in the last 3 home games, and if he scores today, he will be the first to score in 4 consecutive PL home matches since Gareth Barry in 2006.

Paul Robinson on co commentary 

lets go lads

17 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Thought they were poor against Liverpool

Luiz was our best player vs Liverpool imo... and i think we needed Kamara or Dendoncker vs Doucoure in the midfield today

Liverpool is a different team away then at anfield.

8 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

why are they dodgy? they own about 8 other football clubs

what they are seemingly is a proper investment firm who have just added to their portfolio, they wont give a single ****...as long as they stay a PL team and continue to increase in value, any notion of "get us back to where we belong" can go in the bin

There was an article on them a month ago I think? https://josimarfootball.com/2023/07/03/the-777-football-mystery/
 

Several of the clubs they own have had financial issues, fan protests against them, they themselves have a checkered past… one of the directors has a criminal background (drugs offense I believe)