Captain_Townsend

Because of Joe our progress stalled. Had he been loyal to us and stayed we could have made Europe that season and have been right up there now. And he would still have time on his side.

I honestly doubt Joe was ever really a villa fan. He liked a lot of Man U tweets in his youth.

I think England will go all the way

We always liked a big man up front: Gray, Withe, McInally, Savo, Dion!

Traore no.9 is odd.

I trust Emery on this.

Screw Spurs, screw Sky and screw Murdoch!

Russia needs to be punished, severely, for the pure evil it has unleashed.

Buendia's injury really does throw a right spanner in the works. We probably were looking at a striker/Felix type signing. Now we probably need more of a Buendia type.

Typical. Speedy recovery.

If we want to get back to the top we have to be ruthless and financially savvy. Look at the Lerner years. Too much sentiment. Too many long contracts and Too much wasted money.

Am surprised we are thinking of selling Archer. Don't we need a quota of home grown players?

Why is twitter flooded with speculation that the UK government will campaign to leave the ECHR? Only Fascist Russia and Belarus have left the ECHR and the Good Friday Agreement is built on the ECHR. When will this madness end?

Oh dear. What a shame! Not!!

The planet is burning and that stupid, thick, narcissistic, fascistic, climate change denying word removed Donald Trump is the main political issue in one of the few countries that could actually help us save the planet if they could get their act together. What a stupid species we are.

We were the pioneer of claret body and blue sleeves. Giving that up because other teams copied us a long time ago would be, eh, a strange move.

I used to love the way Aston Villa was spelled out in the old Trinity. Shame the new one doesn't spell it out.

Would those new rows be an overhand type thing?

Paul McGrath was one of the best players in the world over the 7 seasons he played for Villa.

Will be very useful this season.

The weird thing about Villa, compared to say Spurs or Everton, is that our modern successful eras have come sort of at a time when English football was utterly dominated by other clubs- Liverpool and Forest late 70s/early 80s and Man Utd in the 90s. We have never had an era where we became successful at a time when the field was clear because of the collapse of other dynasties ( Man Utd somewhat fortunate Liverpool were a mess in the early 90s, you could say Liverpool and Man City have been somewhat fortunate that Man Utd post Ferguson have been a bit of a mess). I honestly think we are on the brink of something and yet again it will involve us having to burst through a really tough field of teams to win honours. That said, if a Man City were to implode in coming years who is to say the planets wouldn't align for a tilt at the league championship?

Some true classic games of the past 30 years or so and amazing memories Aston Villa 3-1Tranmere Aston Villa 3-1 Man Utd league cup final Aston Villa 1-0 Inter Milan Aston Villa 2-0 Liverpool Aston Villa 3-1 Man Utd Aston Villa 3-0 Leeds League Cup final Aston Villa 2-1 Liverpool JG first game Aston Villa 2-2 A. Madrid Aston Villa 3-2 Arsenal Aston Villa 3-2 Coventry Aston Villa 3-2 Leeds FA Cup Aston Villa 3-1 SHA Aston Villa 3-0 Sheff Utd Aston Villa 4-1 Newcastle Aston Villa 5-1 SHA Aston Villa 2-1 Ajax Aston Villa 6-4 Blackburn Aston Villa 6-1 Sunderland Aston Villa 2-1 Liverpool FA Cup Aston Villa 2-1 Derby play off final Aston Villa 2-0 Everton first win back in PL Aston Villa 7-2 Liverpool (can't believe I left this out!) Aston Villa 3-1 Man Utd Unai's first game

The Bells Are Ringing sounds great, here, from 11.30 on:

We have appeared in 4 major finals since our last trophy win. You would think, by the law of averages, we would be due a win if we make another final...

Trophy. Edited. On reflection, maybe top 4 would be equally as good as winning a trophy. I think winning a trophy would be better, as a fan, but then again, the last time we finish 4th was also 1996 and 5th was 1997. Topping the 6th place finishes of the MON era would be a big milestone. Maybe I will be greedy and go for a 95-96 style trophy and top four finish!