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I honestly think the Birmingham big picture plan has regeneration in mind for that area. I honestly see possibility of a new stand happening in this Situation, as they might knock down homes to bring in new builds. So Villa could take advantage. this won’t be great for locals, but i just get the sense this is long term plan behind the scenes will make the WItton Station more attractive to local government and train companies. The HS2 is a game changer of course I am just guessing

The was pass he did in them highlights that I still don’t get how he did it so quickly and accurately. That one moment was enough for me to be excited to see him play. I hope we get the announcement soon for him

I not sure it be that interesting yet. I already seem some people post pics on Twitter and just looks like a building site atm

I watched him few games and followed what the fans had been saying about him. Even listen to Swindon podcasts that also say this. ‘everyone I spoke said his first and last game was his best. i just said he wasn’t that consistent at the back and could be below par at times. I didn’t say they didn’t like him If you saying the people on forums were lying then fine. I can’t speak to every fan, but have backed up my claim

He had very unimpressive(going backwards) half season with Swindon and decent one with Mk dons. Ask the fans at the club and just loved that gave them some excitement but he lacked consistency like any young player. He still very raw and I think he needs game time. I don’t think that should be with us. I don’t think keeping youngsters are good thing if not giving them regular time. I just don’t see how it gets with cash. The 5 sub thing seems to be easy out, but doesn’t mean we using the 5 subs each game. he has all the tools to be top rb, but let’s give the next step in championship and recall if needed

The population is 26 million. I just hard time believing it lol

well it’s all here. https://thewest.com.au/sport/soccer/aston-villa-manager-steven-gerrard-opens-up-on-australian-sporting-culture-at-the-west-event--c-7589782

Having 3 Million Australian fans according to what Purslow said in Raffles the other night. Even that seems a bit out there considering the population is about 26 million inAus. But why have taken so long to go to Australia. We have been such poorly run club for so long. I am so glad we have these owners now. Data is important to trying to push the club out there to bigger fan base

So saying she part of 3 million reported fans that he said we have in Australia? Seriously though he has been quoted saying that in Western Australian Newsletter.

Can you confirm Purslow said we had 3 million fans in Australia?

It shoud be for uk supporters the global package are not as they don’t have the rights to it. Like me in the states i can only watch it prerecorded

Really hope the CEE has some coverage from Villa tv

Well you be wrong funny enough about being a joke answer. John Mcginn girlfriend went to brum Uni to do her education and she loved it. She made friends easier apparently this way and it made her settle here. So having a Uni of quality can help with Family settlement. Of course I don’t think it makes a footballer choose us over another club, but it does help.

The friendlies have always been a product with ticket sales and I don’t think broadcasters are interested in warm up games. I just think we got brief time when it was free on the internet as they figured out to make cash off it. I not had any tech errors this year but i have in the past. At this point i willing to take the risk of errors, but if it’s big enough issue then the should offer refunds imo, But with tech it’s hard to know what going your end. My was ok on a apple devices. This is the normal now as said with nearly all clubs are doing it. So we grin and bear it or tell our club to not do it and suffer revenue drop that might be small now, but as it’s not a now thing imo. It could cost us more down the road hopefully the service does improve for you as it has for me. You can watch it back if the hours of game don’t suit as well, that’s how i do it

The days of youtube airing free friendlies are pretty much thing of the past for most clubs. Look at other fan bases and you see the same happening. Remember games used not be shown at all. So it’s not a given we should have for free. It’s up to the club. You have to take approach as fan do you want the club to have other revenue streams going forward or do you want to be the only club that offers everything cheap or free. Either way is fine, button be competitive you need all these little things to add up. Then when you grow it adds up even more. This isn’t about the now. It’s about the future revenue streams of our club. The club is losing money. We could run the club like doug ellis again if you want? or we could join with other fan groups in premier league and demand change for more cost measures for fans for all clubs. That would take some effort though. personally the price for friendlys and the youth games are fine at the moment.

He has behind closed doors last season. This is his first in front of a crowd though

Carney was physically developed and stand out player for his age. Archer was 5 minute cameo in league cup and then was loaned out to non-league. I mean what screams he was going to make it when at the Moors? Barry has made huge strides this year in physical development and made huge strides in playing mens football after having unfortunate time at badly managed ipswich team. He still on very on track to becoming a pro and anything above that we will see. He has four year contract with us left to run, so we have time to see how it goes.

ZED FC they were voted the best youth setup in Africa recently. Hugely ambitious club in that area. Like above poster mentioned we able be share valuable knowledge and also we get link to the Africa region.

He was in the play offs so i think he is part of the players having a extra week off

It’s interesting that net worth of Wes Edens jumped from 1 plus to 4 billion plus in a year. The is no where telling me how that happened. The Net worth is obviously not liquid cash, but they have access to capital so I could see it being a loan. The is no relegation so loans have less risk compared to here. We are looking at other clubs and have already partnered with a club in Eygpt that is basically as good as owning consider it’s nassif brother. We seem very careful about our expansion into other clubs. Where other owners have rushed to grab clubs up for sake of it; City are a model that works. So they should be a blueprint we look to follow but in our own way.

I think you just paying for Villa Tv. No preseason games are included in that

Nope we played in our New kit.

The club has no control over the station or the trains. I always puzzled why people think this is a easy fix. It’s the train operator and the council. The club are lucky to be in situation that development is happening already in Birmingham and the Euro bid. The club has taken advantage of this to push the council. Hopefully we see end to problems

It’s not changed with him as we haven’t really produced him as he came from Fleetwood a year ago. So i am not sure that has changed much. We still not great at developing our own talents for awhile in defensive areas. Unfortunately i think our own players have suffered injurys in important moments of development. I think we create better attacking players and i fine with that as long as we can still fill the defensive players from other academy’s. It’s great we attracting this level of Talent, just like we did with Gareth barry. oh I think Bogarde is the Best Defender in youth setup currently as started to fill out more. He would been on the bench before Feeney if wasn’t injured

Good value for me. Youth games and pre recorded games for the Premier league make it worthwhile for my needs. The preseason games are not the most important part of package for me.