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37 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

To be honest anyone under the age of 25 is going to hear 'Theme from an unmade silent movie' and think what the **** is this shit and what does it have to do with Aston Villa? I'm 33 and I don't know what it's connection is really. A song we played in the 70's? I think it's pap to tell you the truth. 

Football spans generations, if we have to have walk out music then surely we can find something that suits the majority?

I remember thinking it was awful back then  , sounds even worse now

6 minutes ago, blandy said:

There's a difference between the general pre-match playing of music over the tannoy, the "and happy birthday to Kevin Smith from Erdington, who sits in the Witton Lane stand" type stuff they used to do and the kind of contrived fanfare/entrance music thing they do these days. In the 80s they just used to have the PA announcer play some records and read out marriage proposals, anniversaries and birthdays and stuff. Not the same IMO.

We used to run out to the theme from the unmade silent movie , thus why it appears on many of the videos from that era

Without a doubt we were playing music in the 80's as the players walked out

1 hour ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

I think people over think the entrance music, I couldn't give a ****. I'd be happier I reckon if we didn't enter to any music at all.

Can any of our older generation tell me when that became a 'thing'? I can vaguely remember back to 92, but I don't remember hearing anything then?

I recall we were playing entrance music in the late 80's , but cant go any further back

I thought it was a lot more positive on saturday with the atmosphere at walkout

It breaks yer heart

Yet on Tuesday one of the Bristol players constantly berated the linesman and was up in his face at one point , i can't even recall him being booked. Bacuna's fault this but the lack of consistency is annoying

13 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

As a season ticket holder you do encounter people who seemingly turn up for one game here and there and use it as a sounding board to chuck a tirade of abuse at the player who happens to be their scapegoat of the month. It used to really wind me up, but it has become a bit of a standing joke between us now. Jeff from Castle Browmich rocks up and by 23rd minute he is screaming at Albert Adomah, ensuring he knows just how shit Jeff from Castle Bromwich thinks he is. 

It does grate. We're talking about the people who booed at half time on Tuesday. It strikes me as entitlement and I want nothing to do with it and I don't like to hear my club represented in such a fashion. 

Absolutely , there were a group of lads near me on Tuesday that i'd never seen before , actually booed and abused Sam Johnstone after one of his kicks , like that will do a struggling keeper the world of good.

I remember us signing an Irish centre back from Man U. His knees were shot , he was 30 and he liked a pint .... The rest is history

59 minutes ago, flashingqwerty said:

Im hoping for a hammering by 4 or 5 to get brucey the sack.

Maybe next time we could bring in a manager who knows how to use creative player and not leave us open at the back.

Thats the spirit ... League 1 in no time.

 i have just renewed at £644 for 2 adult and 2 child , works out at £28 a game , pretty difficult to turn down

11 hours ago, Davkaus said:

Just had a look at the prices. Are they taking the **** piss?

£500+ in the Holte for a ticket in the Chumpionship after this **** embarrassing shambles of a season? **** off. The club should be **** ashamed. Regular attendances below half capacity next season, IMO.

You can't charge Premier League prices for this shit.

Sadly this is now the cost across the board we are relatively cheap compared to many championship clubs , the fans no longer matter

Prices have been reduced , available from tomorrow (my bad it seems only some have been reduced)

Amazing , a few weeks ago he was fat , lazy and had a terrible attitude. A few loses later its all Bruce's fault , we can beat Bruce over the head with a few things , i'm not sure McCormacks efforts are one of them.

On 2/13/2017 at 13:57, VILLAMARV said:

Cant find a similar thread but merge it as ever mods if there is. Just noticed Iwan Roberts calling for the Welsh FA to stop under 10's heading footballs.

BBC

The Stirling study article from October 2016:

also BBC

Thoughts?

 

For some time now i have been asked not to encourage develoment players to head the ball , you get to a stage (usually around 10-11 ) where heading the ball becomes a natural reaction

I thought we played well until the penalty decision (which was very dodgy to say the least) , Heads dropped a bit after that and i thought the ref was shocking , he couldnt even keep up with play at times.

20 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

Agenda points:

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• Charges: A little detail on what the fixed and floating charge over many Aston Villa related companies registered at Companies House in favour of HSBC (Nov 16) means for us.

 

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that is somewhat worrying , i assume this means we have borrowed from HSBC?

What is the thinking behind outsourcing our merchandising to Fanatics , will there be financial benefits to the club , and has there been a further impact on staff losing their jobs?

Could you raise removal of villacash mid season , removed literally thousands of pounds of fans cash , think we had about a weeks notice

Talk of sacking is ridiculous , pretty much everyone was happy when Bruce came ,whats next appoint someone until the end of the season then sack them as well and spend another 50m on players. We cannot repeat the same mistakes over and over again

Lock the thread another mass over reaction

He was terrible , but if you have 3 midfielders in front of you who don't have a clue who is doing what , then this is what happens

He missed nearly 2 years with his ACL i believe , so nothing at all to take lightly

Just now, TheMelvillan said:

£9m plus addons is the rumour. which is much better. especially if the addons are related to goals scored and promotion

indeed

Seems a lot of money if you consider the injury record , can't see it being the reported 15m myself