Deano & Dalian's Umbrella

I wonder if we voted with Man City and Man Utd last week in return for them voting with us on this?

1 hour ago, MaVilla said:

how on earth is it fair or reasonable for clubs in Europe to have to reach a 70% cap, while all the other non european teams can go to 85%?

thats mental.

I thought this was just referring to different rules for uefa and the premier league

43 minutes ago, ender4 said:

It’s funny that we both read the same articles and have interpreted it completely different.  
 

As far as I can tell, and I’m pretty confident that is what The Times and The Athletic are trying to say, is that this new fixed cap will REPLACE the 85% PSR limits. The key word there in both articles is the word “replace”.   
 

Of course, they might be wrong themselves, but that is what they are telling us.  In my interpretation of course.

What about this though ?

https://x.com/johntownley11/status/1784962074273026206

Only manager to never criticise a referee or their decisions, no matter how bad.

most times needing an interpreter to understand Tom Ross in a press conference without Tom attempting to modify the pace of his speech or phrases used whatsoever

2 minutes ago, conorm said:

Weird parallels with our game last night. Early own goal, equaliser disallowed for offside, 2-0 on the break. Hoping Arsenal don't crumble like we did!

Plus a header hitting the post

Up the villa!

up the arse!

On a serious note, has anyone received a confirmation email after booking?

Edit - come through now.

19 minutes ago, turvontour said:

What's all this queueing and are you a robot nonsense.

I'm not trying to buy cocaine.

PM me.

1 minute ago, ender4 said:

Ah you're not used to the crappy ticketing website are you.

I buy tickets on a match by match basis and get that message regularly. Along with all sorts of other error messages that usually don't make sense. 

How do you usually put an Ender to it?

1 minute ago, Stephen_Evans said:

Booking my ticket for Olympiakos is going well.  The website is telling me I’ve exceeded the number I am entitled to even though I’ve not bought one yet.  And I’m a season ticket holder.  

It is doing that for me too and lots of other people it appears.

22 minutes ago, stewiek2 said:

Because, despite having the same number of letters, the words are different lengths. If you centred the text it would look even more odd.

Fair enough - I am an idiot.

43 minutes ago, blunther said:

I don't really give a shit about the badge as much as most people, just wish we'd pick one and leave it alone. But that new one looks like something a kid would come up with on Microsoft Publisher for the year 9 ICT homework. The text doesn't even look properly centred.

Aston - 5 letters.

Villa - 5 letters.

How the holy f*** have they managed to not get the text centered?

There is a very long Daily Mail article published at the end of last month called "why Premier League Clubs want to kill off season tickets". 

It says how the clubs want to get rid of season tickets and sell tickets at full-price every week.

Villa get quite a few mentions for how they are pricing fans out.

I can copy and paste the article if someone can tell me this is allowed?

11 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

That's the picture from fans across the league. Owners from other sports don't like season ticket holders - at some point in the next few years I expect a club to stop selling them and go to memberships only.

I was thinking just the other day how long would it take Heck to think "why are we giving these season-ticket holders a discount when we could sell their seats at full-price each week instead?"

Are  points for a win or a draw awarded at full time, or after extra time, or after penalties? I’m sure somebody’s already said this but I’ve forgotten, thanks

58 minutes ago, viivvaa66 said:

Not true.

 

Points system

Points are awarded as follows:

2 – All wins from group stage (UCL, UEL, UECL)
1 – All wins in qualifying and play-off matches (UCL, UEL, UECL)
1 – All draws from group stage (UCL, UEL, UECL)
0.5 – All draws in qualifying and play-off matches (UCL, UEL, UECL)
4 – Group stage bonus participation (UCL)
4 – Round of 16 bonus participation (UCL)
4 – Group winners (UEL)
2 – Group runners-up (UEL)
2 – Group winners (UECL)
1 – Group runners-up (UECL)
1 – Each round clubs reach from the round of 16 (UCL, UEL)
1 – Each round clubs reach from the semi-finals (UECL)

So are there no points for actually winning the tournament?

While the BBC are reporting the current rules will remain in place next season.

On 02/04/2024 at 16:51, WallisFrizz said:

I’m no expert but surely if the hamstring scan shows a “small injury”, he’s unlikely to be back for the weekend either. Unai was equally dismissive of the Ramsey injury yet we’ve not seen him since. Hopefully, I’m wrong and he’s fighting fit for Brentford. What do you think @Deano & Dalian's Umbrella?
 

Although what you suggest is very logical, there are a number of things to consider here.

Firstly, Emery did not say that the scan showed a small injury he just said that there was a small injury, so they may be purely going on the players symptoms.

Second, MRI is able to detect very small changes in muscles. For example delayed onset muscle soreness, which is what you feel The next couple of days  after going to the gym, will show up on MRI but you would definitely be able to play a few days after that.

Hamstring strains are graded on a three point scale ranging from grade one which is microscopic tearing, to grade 3 which is a complete rupture. The healing time For a grade one strain isn’t really that long, but even then, studies have shown that the average return to play time in professional footballers Is about two weeks.

But I agree with you that if the MRI is showing an actual injury, then Saturday would be either too soon or too risky or both.

2 hours ago, tommytenjobs said:

Music absolutely ruined any attempts at pregame atmosphere. Time and again chants start then stop as you can't hear your self think. 10mins before kick off starting hi ho silver lining and it kept going until kick off itself. No chance for fans to create and curate a build up. Just brash in your face noise and fake nonsense like hhsl. That's not a villa song and never has been. Just generic tune we all know the words to. Sweet Caroline ends any chance at the end too. Fed up with banging this same drum. Feel like a 'better I'm my day' old codger........

There was a point around 20-30 minutes before kickoff where they were playing highlights of Villa goals with really loud, tinny commentary while at the same time playing horrendously loud dance music.

As my headache got worse and worse, I literally wanted to find the person responsible for this and kill them.

27 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

What date were the prices released last year?

24th April