Chewie

My birthday & 1st day of 2021 - therefore 1-2 Villa!

WDFAFC x 1,000,000 

35 minutes ago, imavillan said:

Sorry but I think i've left it too late now tbh 

No worries. 

You setting something up before tomorrow, @imavillan?

On 04/09/2020 at 21:58, imavillan said:

BUMP

@Chewie Any thoughts on this old chap?

I'm just about to start a new thread to see if there is any interest for next season on a specific site, superbru.com,  which does it all for you.

Let me know before i start the new thread. 

 

I appreciate you "checking in" with me mate, but I won't have time to do this. Please go ahead with your plan, I'll happily play along if you could tag me when you get it setup?

Cheers

2 hours ago, screwdriver said:

I demanded top 10 and silverwear this seaon.  Smith is doing adequate so far.

fair **** there has been improvement..... start of seaon subs cost us.... last few games subs have made big impacts. DHLelmo last night...delivered.

Mentality of Targett has infuriated me the most there. Just at least try and get up and you may just put Deeney off. Sums up the desire of our players.

Every other team when the opposition goes down to 10 men =

Villa when opposition goes down to 10 men =

3 hours ago, screwdriver said:

Smith should not be untouchable. Since he had his new bumper new contract we've only accumulated 1 point.

Lecicestor had no hesitation in axing raneri when they went through a sticky patch.....after he'd won them the prem title. the butchers had no pity on him!

Fans went ballistic last season when we only had one fit centre half at the club. Bruce caught a bullet for that fiasco. and rightly so, it's worse than bad managment it's gross misconduct!

Now we have a similar situation up front. Its nothing short of a disgrace. I told anyone who'd listen in the summer we needed proven prem class. Even a veteran like Sturridge on the bench. Wesley could watch him in training, room together, be his mentor.

Jesus's head should roll for this, it's the one thing we didn't want to happen.

16 hours ago, useless said:

If we don't win this I'll self-combust and Christmas will be ruined.

Yet there is only one game on Sunday. Madness!

5 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

Completely agree - Nice to see you Chewie!

Thanks mate, had a little hiatus but nice to see the familiar friendly faces. UTV!

Last 10-15 minutes have been much better. We've been unlucky and it might be "one of those days", but we've settled and there are very positive signs for the rest of the season as we grow as a team. 

Edit: Mings a very lucky boy

23 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

Apologies for the blurry pictures, it’ll only let me upload very small files. So without hosting the images elsewhere this is the best I can do.

@OutByEaster? - the tweet is gone but it was in my cache

 

Appreciate it, but why not upload them to Imgur.com full size and then link here?

I had to Russian to this thread with the post count so high, but it's all just Myanmar'd with terrible country puns I've been racking my Bahrain trying to work out how the mods allow this? I ain't Ghana hang about since I need Togo and it's about time Iran off to the shop. Who Nauru it would get like this? Such a bad Oman for future discussions. I'm absolutely Napal'd with you VT'ers, Jamaican me crazy!

3 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Some article I read earlier said that's where they are from. I had never heard of them until today

Got ya, cheers. I doubt it's a Philippines company FWIW, but I'll do some digging at a gaming event i'm attending in a couple of weeks ‍

14 minutes ago, Zatman said:

W88 are from The Philippines, maybe this is linked to us trying to sign Etheridge 

Where did you read that mate? They perhaps have a gaming licence issued by the Philippines, but most gaming operators who operate in Asia do.

https://w88.co.uk/pages.company-details.aqp

9 hours ago, MaVilla said:

oh right, are the Phillipines not a football loving nation?

Basketball for guys and volleyball for girls, usually. Soccer (sorry) started to pickup nicely about 8 years ago when the national team started making some strides with the Younghusband's. That's died down a bit now, but having players like Etheridge helps immensely of course. Interesting the South of the country is much more into soccer with local teams and such than the North, but literally the entire population lives in the the capital, Manila.

9 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I read that he own a Goalkeeping academy in Manila. For a lad that was born and bred in the UK I like the sound of that. Seems a good guy. 

Yeah, Chelsea have a small academy here too. I'd love for us to sign him tbh. 

32 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

Ethridge might be a good signing from a financial perspective, isnt he the only Philipine national in the Premiership?, if thats true we would basically have a 100m Phillipines population with one Premiership club to support

Reminds me of the 90s with Nakata (Japan) at Fiorentina, i remember them saying they made 3 or 4 times his transfer cost via merchandise etc.

 

Might also be looking for a good Asian/Japansese player.......

I know money isnt everything, but getting a foothold in emerging fottballing countries with multiple millions of people wanting to support a club with one of their own nationalities playing is good business sense, if you can find a player of suitable quality.

 

If they get him on local TV singing or doing some stupid stuff in a Villa shirt then maybe 4 or 5 people might take notice  Not that it matters, Fanatics don't ship kits here anyway. I'm 100% behind the signing though, will save me loads of time explaining who Villa are when I can just say "Our keeper is Filipino and our owner own's the bucks" ('dem Filipino's love basketball). Might also stop the Mrs being a secret Manc

Can someone represent the little guys and ask them to look into the global shipping of kits, please? I can't purchase a kit in the Philippines because they decided about 5 years ago not to ship here. How does the club expect to grow internationally when we can't even have merchandise delivered. It's so incredibly small time. 

Follow Up question. Plans to expand in Asia in general? Tours in SE Asia? Academies?

Thanks

5 minutes ago, Merson08 said:

Whats this even mean? I keep seeing it and cant break it down to come up with anything.

 

We Do **** All From Corners. Old VT meme which I think was actually used sarcastically during the MON era when we actually did do **** from corners. But since then we never do **** all 

Think it has to go to pens, looks like we could be out there all night and still not score

Can't even get the match centre to load in the app

4 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Are you in the Philippines?

Sure am.