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    Much appreciated
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    We both want what is best. It's just I have seen two previous plans for a new NS stalled over the past 25 years and nothing ended up being done. I would rather we just pushed ahead rather than delay - even if it is to plan something bigger. Events deqr boy, events. I can easily see a scenario where something unforseen goes wrong in the next 3 or 4 years (remember the impact of Lerner's Divorce!) And we end up looking at the 1977 North stand and thinking "blimey, how many lives does that thing have". On Purslow, he definitely left things in better shape than he found them and those now occupying senior roles inherited something of a different plane to the mess he walked into in 2018.
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    All sounds great and I would agree with you 110% on the scale of that. Regarding the plan we had for the new NS and Villa Live etc, I don't see how they are incompatible with what you outline to be honest. The tagine of the video render two years ago even ends 'New era for Aston and Witton' and they always said there were other phases to follow. Also, I still query a comms strategy of going from a bombshell announcement coming up to Christmas and no follow up over the next 6 months - we were accustomed to being kept in the loop by Purslow. Even a sentence 'The club is still working on plans for redevelopment of Villa Park and will update in May 2024' would have gone a long way. The lack of said sentence has led to speculation ranging from we are copying Chelsea with a 40k range stadium but full of premium to we are building a new stadium!
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    Well said. I mean, four years ago we were wondering if the league cup final would impact our survival chances. five years ago we were trying to get promoted via the playoffs. We have come a long way. UTV
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    To clarify my earlier post, I obviously want us to do both, win the cup and finish top 4. But league should always be the priority and if the league isn't going well, as in say 93-94 or 97-98 focus on a cup run. If flying on all cylinders chase both as in 95-96 or 23-24!
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    Elon Musk

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    What a thick bollix Musk is. Honestly, stupid there on so many levels
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    Great to see. I honestly felt he would have had a big season for us and would have contributed so much. Keep fighting Emi!
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    Can you elaborate a little? Which bits?
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    Aye, but you see we had a big master plan. Very well publicised. Video render on YouTube and they just said we aren't doing that with nothing else. Hence all the speculation.
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    We were stuck in the 90s long enough until Emery came in. The game moved on and we got left behind. Arguably we we were the last of the big clubs to move on into the idea that you need a squad! Brian Little, John Gregory and MON all stumbled as managers compared to their peers in this regard (Little acknowledged this in a podcast a couple of years ago). Getting into the champions league, and seeing, clearly that this is where its at if we want to grow and become a club that wins honours, keeps its best players and attracts the best players is the next phase of our revolution. Even if we only qualify once this decade, we will be able to attract players on the basis 'Villa are a club capable of top 4 and have recently done it'. Nobody playing football today remembers when we won the league cup in 1996 even though we treasure it and it is my best ever moment as a villa fan.
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    Hopefully. If that's the case, though, why not give a bit more info last December beyond 'we aren't doing that' and it was 'a bad idea' etc.
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    Yes but with the Euros in 2028 as a firm deadline we have probably blown our chance of getting it done this side of 2030 and capitalising on the Emery era to get more bums on seats. 2026 was the original timelime (actually 2025 was when it was first announced!).
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    Is the correct answer.
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    Work rate, goals, pressing, experience, creativity, and something a bit different. I agree. Of course we missed him, majorly and wouldn'tbe selling.
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    Amen. I really don't like the 'typical villa' type posts when this club has shown bottle time and time again since 2019.
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    Yellow is one I have gone off as we were relegated with it in 15-16 and, I believe we also had a yellow away kit in, 86-87.
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    Aye but the stand is the thing we really meed to get done imho.
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    Sorry to open this can of worms again! Just rewatched the redevelopment video on YouTube. It was uploaded before Christmas 2022. Then on 19 July 2023 they posted a new video on the club website detailing the updated plans with the warehouse in place of Villa Live. Then, as we know, 5 months later it emerged it was all on hold. It's just so odd that they would go to the bother of updating the video and announcing an update to the plans last July and then just defer it 5 months later. Maybe this truly was just a communication cock up (a big one) and we have merely been looking into a way of minimising the disruption while the build happens. Hopefully we find out more soon.
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    The 76-81 umbro white away is nicer imho than the, also nice, iconic 82 away kit. Funny that we won the league in one and won the European Cup in the other.
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    In a way we are being greedy. I mean we are 7 points clear! We'd have taken being clear on goal difference at the start of the season. We have such a great chance- would have been nice to wrap it up yesterday but we still are very likely to do the job.
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    You are brilliant on it! John is probably going to be great but his reference points begin in about 2010! He missed out on Richardson and Townsend in discussing our best PL era captains for example!. The debate they had on staying at Villa Park v building a New stadium, also, could have been so much better. The points raised on the Villa Talk threads were far stronger, for and against.
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    For me, McGinn is already a Villa legend.
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    We have some unbelievable critical fans, online at least. Been a magical season, whatever happens.
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    So we are a goal better off than we were this morning!
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    The squad was hit my 3 ACL injuries to important players and several other injuries all season. I think the squad has done incredibly well to sustain things this far.
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