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16 hours ago, tomav84 said:

FM25 will have a chairman mode apparently. am i the only one that thinks that would be really fun? something totally different

DOF mode would be good, getting to buy the players, hire/fire managers etc. 

Get a cachorrinho.

3 hours ago, delboy54 said:

Any idea when tickets are going to be announced? 

Cannot believe the Semi final is coming round so quick its next Thursday, I am also overwhelmed by all the media attention of the Villa being the only English club flying the flag in Europe.......(not!)

Simply has to be today. The Palace away tickets went on sale last night so maybe they were waiting for that to clear first but really they could've been on sale on Saturday. 

All things considered, that's one of our best performances of the season. Other than the 10 seconds before the Bournemouth penalty, that was pretty much immaculate. To a man, excellent. 

Incredible. Can't recall a striker destroying a pair of centre halves in the way he did today. Unreal.

3 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

not sure if it was tielemans or we'd identified something with arsenal's defending but we seemed to aim near post for more or less every corner yesterday

probably the hardest and most frustrating delivery possible

Noticed it too, think we only went short from one corner. It does bother me when you're in the ground and you just hear "clear the first man!!!!" Well yes, but if you get it spot on at the near post it's a huge opportunity for a flick on. 

1 hour ago, tomav84 said:

the league is getting there. new tv deal so prize money slightly increased, i now go straight into the league phase of the CL, and i'm getting more money for players (plus some sell on clauses have come in too on other players i've previously sold).

i still don't play the league games...funny story though, because i holiday through all the league games, my assistant won the manager of the year

The Zealand skin is really good for simming games rather than skipping entire days btw!

Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven. 

Yeah, it's a banger. First half of the album is so strong. 

Finished Masters of the Air last night. It was very good, but it didn't blow me away at all.

CGI was a little naff (I do appreciate this would've been much harder to make look great), but the main disappointment was the character development. Apart from Buck, Bucky & Crosby (maybe Rosie too) there just wasn't much there at all. They nipped Crosby's story with the British spy in the bud with a phone call, the escape through France & Spain was just ended after they arrived to Paris too.

It was always going to get compared to Band of Brothers & The Pacific but doesn't hold a candle to either. We all knew that BoB was arguably the best miniseries ever but it also really does highlight how good The Pacific was.

1 hour ago, Wainy316 said:

I just assumed the entire Upper Holte stood all game like the Lower does. 

Probably the back 10 rows I'd say? I'm on row 20 and will very rarely stand up all game.

Shocked by the comments that it was quiet. Certainly by far and away the best atmosphere since City & Arsenal at home. Couldn't tell you the last time I stood all game in the upper Holte either (if ever & I've sat there for over 5 years now). The safe standing can't come soon enough tbh.

1 hour ago, delboy54 said:

I have just noticed that Wet Spam are playing tonight at home but 0-1 down from the first leg. Let's hope their game is a full blooded end to end match and goes to extra time. Don't care about the result as long as they are knackered and pick up some injuries.

And we win 9 - 0 in normal time

Agree with everything apart from the West Ham result. We need them to win to mean that 5th is more likely to go to the Champions League spot.

Think it's actually pretty decent. Line up for Woodsies is particularly strong.

Dua Lipa is definitely a headliner. Coldplay though 

Weird couple of days for the Panthers. Positive looking additions on the OL, but the defense has been gutted after 5 starters have left (Burns, YGM, Chinn, Luvu, Bell). I knew it was gonna be a long season anyway, but bloody hell...

20 Days In Mariupol (won an Oscar on Sunday) is on All4 should anyone want to watch it. Grim stuff. 

My Dad's in the same situation. They've now tweeted to contact the ticket office but of course you can't get through. Shambles.

Tony Green, 85.

2 hours ago, tomav84 said:

"oh what a night

watching villa on a thursday night

blues are watching cause they're **** shite

what a feeling what a night"

i think spurs had a similar one about arsenal when they were in the CL and arsenal were in europa with the difference being "watching tottenham on a wednesday night, you play thursday cause etc etc"

The second "are watching" really should be "at home". 

Watkins really needs a proper chant too.

1 hour ago, Talldarkandransome said:

That could be as high as 8 or 9k then

Yeah I think that is about right. For these finals, around half goes to fans, half go to sponsors. 

9 hours ago, Talldarkandransome said:

I would have thought anyone who has been to every away game in conference league will be guaranteed a ticket pretty much. We didn't get any big allocations so won't be more than the final.

I think there will only be about 2500 fans who have been to an away game in the Conference league. West Ham got 5700 in a 19000 seater stadium. The capacity of AEK's ground is 32500. 

For anyone who got a ticket today ... I can't see how it doesn't guarantee a ticket to the final should we get there. 

1 hour ago, tomav84 said:

Not normally one to complain about ticket allocations and fully accept you'll never please everyone.

But someone buying the cheap 3 game home package being above fans who travel up and down the country domestically is wrong IMO 

Going to be a total lottery for that category as must be 15k plus going for about 800 tickets 

There's absolutely no way 15,000 Villa fans are waiting on a ticket for tomorrow. Few thousand at most. 

Annoying collapse. Lead of 200 will be handy still, this pitch looks horrible to bat on. Foakes & Bashir just occupying the crease is the move here, longer we stay in the better. 

Betis out!

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