samjp26

It's like Christmas bloody morning!

Great prospect that they're signing, cheap wages from the French league too - although as was said on SSN the other day, if you keep going to the well..

I'll try and break this down some more for the doom mongers who are worried Genting Casinos could decide the fate of our club: The main purpose of sponsoring a football team's shirt is to increase brand awareness, and isn't based on the pity wealthy business men have for shit sportsmen (shocking I know!). In our case, Genting currently pay us money so that we print their logo quite largely on each and every adult replica shirt sold, selected training gear and outerwear, sponsor boards in pre-match and post-match interviews, as well as on the shirts of the players who take part in our games. Lets say Aston Villa sell 50,000 replica shirts in a year worldwide (could be more, could be less, I don't know for sure). That is 50,000 people sporting the logo of Genting Casinos who will easily each come across hundreds, if not thousands, of people whilst wearing their shirt. Let us also combine that with the fact that there are millions across the globe who will have seen the Genting Casinos logo whilst watching matches, interviews, AVTV, Benteke's backheel to Weimann on Youtube etc. Genting Casinos pay Aston Villa for the service of allowing them to reach the huge audience that Aston Villa commands, and if they have indeed decided not to renew the 2-year contract that is coming to an end (whether it be due to a lack of funds; achievement of whatever goal was set by originating the sponsorship; not achieving whatever goal was set by originating the sponsorship or simply the fact that Aston Villa lost 8-0 to Chelsea) then I am pretty sure the people towards the top of Aston Villa will have no problems in finding a new shirt sponsorship partner if they are not in talks with one already. Now, how about switching this topic up and simply stating who we might want on the front of our shirts next season: I'll go with Acorns again because I feel spreading the word about their good work is a much better cause than a putting a few million into the club, and would also give us some good PR again rather than the press taking the complete and utter piss out of us.

M'Vila going to Russia for a shit load of money. Shock! Alot happier him going there than to one of our rivals.

Makes you wonder why nobody else was in for him. Pretty sure QPR, Newcastle, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton, even Swansea could afford him. I'd even go as far as Arsenal and United being able to improve by signing him. He's always been good enough for any team in the Prem, or in the world for that fact. Really think there is more in it than what we see or hear, because there is no way on earth that only one team in the world wanted him.

Cheaper than what we paid for Ashley Young, I'd take him in a flash to be honest, the potential is definitely there and could well be realised with the coaches and youth set up that we have in place

Okay, I guess next year we will play with no sponsor on our shirt because we're so awful that out of every league in football, including Little League Ladywood Under 15's, we are the team that no company will sponsor (aside from the fact that we are actually already sponsored by Fiat, Heineken, Macron and so on). I'd also like to point out that with Acorns, we actually donated money to them and raised awareness for the charity, it was a bit more than simply shoving their logo on our shirt as a placeholder.

Our loss was more to do with us playing shit than them playing fantastic. I tip my hat to them as they put their chances away, but if we had done that then it would have been a different story altogether since we had plenty. Looking forward to the atmosphere as I think we'll be reaching the 40k mark for this one. If we score an early goal then we take it I reckon.

I still think this is down to confidence, when he was at Wigan he was always trying to leather in a wonder goal and they would often come off, for us I see that after a few missed shots he stops taking them. I'd actually prefer it to be that way if it wasn't for the fact that we know he can actually pull off some pretty good long range efforts. He and Benteke will be key for us on Tuesday, both need to be shooting from outside the box if we can't get into it, could be our way to open them up!

Genting are hardly a giant company btw - I really wouldn't be worrying or looking into this too much, we'll get a new sponsor without any trouble whatsoever

If Reading are in for him then there is no reason at all why we shouldn't be, would be a fantastic signing, shame hes way too good for us and he'll go to Arsenal/Tottenham/Tony Fernandes

Do AST Computers exist any more?

Also like to point out that he's always played on the wing for us really, only now is he being played in the middle, which is arguably his best position!

I thought this too until I saw the interview in the paper about how happy he is under Lambert and how everybody is one unit now etc. Hope he goes out there and continues what we saw today, still slightly greedy with the ball, but maybe just needs his confidence boosting so he can let off some shots and quicker passes. Fingers crossed Lambert tells him how well he did today.

Has he actually scored a shit goal yet, another cracker today.

Thank **** he is back.

Can't count the amount of times I've said it this season but: I would have taken the point before the game, but we really should have held on to our lead. Still, out of the drop zone, which is always a good thing. N'Zogbia MOTM for me.

2-2 draw now I reckon, typical of us, we let one in and completely shut down

Lichaj and Lowton looking decent on that side of the pitch

Indeed, think Guzan in front of the defence rather than behind it could be a risky one

Yes we should have put Bent in defence 100%

Think we began playing it just after he got injured

No Weimann at all, baffled to say the least?

Reading now beating Newcastle, if things stick I think we go up into 15th or 16th if we can get a win (correct me if I am wrong) - a position I would be more than happy with.

Reading just equalised too - good results for us today in regards to the relegation battle