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Fair play to him. Didn't celebrate much either, he had every right to.

Are the club going to put out an official statement on this or what? Would be nice to know exactly what is going on.

I doubt there will ever be a European Super League. A World Super League funded by the Saudis though..

Saudi. And obviously it won't be free for long. Once they're in, they're in.

I really, really hope this is just Heck playing the scapegoat and the club don't want to admit they're delaying it because they want a full stadium for a potential CL campaign. They obviously couldn't just come out and say that if that's what really what is going on.

I do wonder if something else is at play here. Andy Street has been bigging up the expansion for a long time, and has recently been teasing big news that's imminent, I would assume we are constantly in communication with the council about the comings and goings of the new stand. The club has also spent years of time, effort and money getting these plans ready, all for it to go to waste with less than a year to go? Then we have the investment announcement last week, with very little explanation as to what they are investing in. Something is up. If I had to put money on anything, I'd say a new stadium. And I don't believe anything Heck says to a reporter about it now being true, he and the club have said the new stand is going ahead every time they've been asked up until now.

This!

I'm absolutely gutted about this. Apart from winning a trophy or potential CL football, that stand was the thing I was most excited about going forwards for the Villa. It started to feel 'off' when they changed their plans for Villa Live (which I thought would be a really cool idea), then they just started to go quieter and quieter on the whole redevelopment. For me the new stand was going to be a big part of the legacy of the owner's time at the club. Something to be really proud of. Now I'm left wondering what hidden messages are surrounding the shelved plans and whether it's a sign the owners may not be around in the long-term after all. As others have said, we really needed this stand to look the part, and keep moving forward along with other clubs we're competing with. All our supposed rivals have either got a much larger stadium, built a new stadium or have improved upon an already existing stadium. We haven't done anything to ours since I was 9 years old!

The ST prices next season are going to be scary.

None of it reads to me like they're delaying because of travel, or even potential CL football next season. It reads to me like it ain't happening. To be fair it feels like it's been coming, there has been a feeling for a while that something is amiss with it being knocked down next summer.

It doesn't sound like he's paused the plans, sounds like he's ended them. Its never going to happen.

Maybe they want a new stadium instead.

Oh for **** sake. This is never going to happen is it

Rattled

Imagine their new 40,000 stadium with 1/3 of it full. Funny.

They've lost a generation of fans due to their previous owners and our rise. Solihull used to be a staunch Bluenose area but it started to be 50/50 when I was at school. Now when I take my kid to football training, there isn't a single Blue's shirt in sight. Majority of kids are Villa, with the rest being City/United/Liverpool fans.

Vilers mate

1-2 hehe. What's with all the empty seats? I thought they had repaired all the stands now? Some of them at work keep going on about a new stadium, what's the point if you can only half-fill the poxy one you already have?

£25m looking like a bargain all of a sudden.

Especially when this was supposed to be our nightmare run that we were all dreading at the start of the season. Emery is performing absolute miracles here.

Usual bedwetters complaining when things aren't going our way, even abusing our wonderful manager in the match thread. Give your heads a wobble and enjoy what's happening.

He didn't fall for anything Maupay was doing, he was using what he did as a way to waste time, it was working perfectly until Kamara lost his head.

Maybe he fancied Christmas off? He'll have new year off now too.

Loved that celebration. Clearly some fat prick in the stands giving him dogs abuse all game.

Brilliant dark arts at the end, unfortunately Kamara ruined it by doing something stupid.