Pongo's Socks

5 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

Not if you’ve done it before. However you do need your Covid pass/proof of negative lateral flow.

Beat me to it

26 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Do we have to register the covid compliance for this one? Don't think I have received an email on this match.

I had an email saying we still need to register, but if we did it for previous games we can ignore it. 

Got 2 Forest mates and they're really impressed with him. I'll ask em again in a fortnight

3 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

But this guy calls them words removed even when they doing well. I think it’s just his pet name for all the players. 

Must've been the bloke sat behind us at WembleyI learnt swear words that day, had to cover my boys ears (we sit upper Trinity with next to no swearing)

1 hour ago, Jas10 said:

? JG?

This may help Gerrard… he’s not “scarred or tainted” by JG’s loss or departure and can work with a fresh, new team…

Give us a whole new identity and way of playing I hope…

That's what I'm hoping and thinking. He's never had you-know-who in his team. I love Smith, still (maybe naively) believe he could have got us out of the sh*te, but undoubtedly struggled without him in his team. Gerrard's Plan A won't have the reliance on that one player. I've seen enough from the brief plus points this season (Everton, Manure, bits of the Chelsea game) that makes me think the right gaffer can get a tune out of what we've got, injuries aside. 

He's still learning on the job. Some will say that's not good enough considering the ambition we have. But the reality is, he's only 3 years into his first massive job, and we're only 3 years into being a 'proper' club again, after years in the wilderness (I mean numerous seasons of barely surviving in the Prem, along with the time in the Championship). The progression we've made since he came in is huge, that's undeniable. I like the patience that the board seem to have with him, they seem to have a long term plan, and see Deano as part of it, and look like they're willing to stick to it. Yes, he's had money. Yes, he still makes mistakes. Don't get me wrong, he frustrates the hell out of me sometimes. He can seem very stubborn at times. But I think Dean and the club are moving/improving at roughly the same rate. 

8 minutes ago, ender4 said:

To clarify that slightly further, log into your own Digital account.

Click on the 3 bars under the icon of a person in the top right. If 3 bars doesn't show, click on "membership" to the left of the person icon.   Then click the 3 bars.

A pop up will appear on the left.  Click on "my account".

Now it will show your personal details and just underneath your claret ID. 

Under that it should show your son's details with "cubs -option 1 membership".   If it does, then everything is fully set up and you should be able to buy tickets for your son.

If it doesn't, then follow the same process as above, but this time log in with your son's login details and see if the Cub membership shows there.  If it shows there, then everything is linked for your son, but you are not set up as group to be able to buy tickets for your son.

If it doesn't show there, then the membership definitely isn't linked to the Fan ID.

 

Thanks ever so much, I'll give that a go

1 minute ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

The fact it’s letting you get that far though sounds like it’s linked. 
 

Very frustrating indeed. Hope you get it sorted mate.

Yeah it's weird, If I log in under my name and try to allocate him a ticket, I get that message, If I log in under his it says 'on sale soon', like he's got to wait for general sale, even though his membership number is showing. God knows.

Cheers again

2 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Don’t click link fan Id. Just click on tickets and see if it lets you buy some. I kept going through the endless loop until I realised the account was already linked. 

Just tried that mate, keeps saying 'the number of tickets exceeds his allocation'. Can even see all of our booking history from pre-covid, he went to 10 games that season.  Cheers for the reply though

Right, I'm about to launch my phone/tablet/head through a window. I'm stuck in an endless loop trying to link my lads membership to the ticketing page. His digital membership is up and running, we can log in under his name (using his mom's email address because I'd already used mine), his fan ID shows up, but for the life of me I cannot see where to link his ID to the ticketing page. Finally got through on the phone after days of trying, spoke to some lovely, helpful Scouse girl (seems it's a national call centre, not anyone affiliated with the Villa), she logged in for me, and told me it was all up and ready for him to link his ID. Guess what? It aint, back in the endless loop. The screenshot on the website showing you where to enter the fan ID does not appear on my browser. I'd swear it was me being thick, but after hearing others having had trouble I just dont know. In the meantime, Everton tickets are selling out fast and at this rate we'll be taking a punt when they go on general sale. 

After losing You-know-who, and considering his contributions over the last few years, I think anywhere around 11th would be some achievement. I also think it would prove we've had a good transfer window, and that we've learnt not to be reliant on one player/tactic. But I also think we may be quite lucky with the amount of other teams going through similar transitions, Wolves, Palace etc with new management, Saints, Norwich losing influential players, and Newcastle blowing hot and cold like they always do. Then theres Everton and West Ham who I find really difficult to work out consistency-wise. Surely Brentford will struggle at times, but conversely surely Arsenal will improve? So I could see us stay where we are, I could also see us improve by maybe one or two places. But as this is the 'expectations' thread I'll say this: I expect champions league qualification, the North Stand to be replaced with a Holte End clone, and beating Shi**y in the cup final during which the snake does a Slippy G and pulls his hamstring, leaving a real local hero to score the winner. Anything else is failure

8 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

I've just sent this to my boss and told him I expect this kind of welcome on Monday morning

5 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

Right, 14th wedding anniversary today and in Cornwall at the moment on holiday.

Mrs F won’t be impressed if I’m glued to my phone and VT all day, so direct message to Jack - please sign your new and improved contract by 9am so I can concentrate on Mrs F and the kids today.  🖊

Congrats and have a lovely time! Me and the missus got wed in Cornwall, on the 26th of May a few years back. My Villa fan ushers chuckled during my speech when I said the date would forever be ingrained on my heart

49 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said:

I was sure this can't have been true so checked for myself, but apparently it is.

We won 5/9 games of which he started in last season which translates to a win percentage of 56 percent. Compared to a win percentage of 38 percent when he didn't start.

Wasn't our goals against really good with him in the side too? Seem to remember we went quite a few games without conceding when he was in the side? 

19 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said:

I don't know, I did the stadium tour just over a year ago and a lot had been spent on the North Stand corporate and a lot of it looked really quite smart. It might not be as bad as some people seem to think.

We did the tour last summer, it does look very smart when you first walk in. The boxes have been knocked through into large lounges with nice bars and seating areas. But when you go upstairs to the restaurant area (being used as a players lounge at the mo I think?), it did kind of feel like papering over the cracks to me. I might be being a little unfair, there was a bit of improvement work going on. Haven't watched a game in there for about 15 years, sat upstairs and it was awful. We sit upper Trinity now so it's world's apart in terms of facilities. 

Saying that, it still had a certain charm, if you like cramped seats, huge queues, and puddles of wee on the bog floor

24 minutes ago, Villaphan04 said:

At what point does he get in the England call up conversation?

Best player in our XI today

Our back 4 would all get picked for England if they played for manure 

I thought he did well today, especially second half. He does sometimes seem a bit slow getting back, but perhaps it's due to the advanced positions he gets into when we do have the ball? He's picked first and foremost as an attacking option, and we are playing with 2 defensive midfielders in front of the back 4, maybe a bit more organisation of Luiz or Mcginn could mean one of them is helping out the full back?

Hello everyone, new poster here. I've thought this for a while. We have the most fouled player in the league playing for us, yet fail to capitalise on it as much as we should.  Since Conor hasn't been a regular, there's nobody I get exited about taking a free kick. We've got some decent crossers of the ball, and players we know can hit screamers from distance every now and again (although not recently). You'd think with some of the attacking quality we have, there'd be someone who can grab the ball in those situations, and you'd know there was something special about to happen. 

Long time lurker here. Been supporting the Villa since the 80s. Too young (just) to remember the title win/European Cup. Got my football mojo back a couple of seasons ago when my eldest lad started showing an interest. He didn't have a choice, he's a Villa fan (child cruelty, I know)

Great memories of Wembley trips, the old Holte End, and actually competing in the League! 

Nice to meet you all

Matt