skywalker Posted May 18, 2004 Posted May 18, 2004 Forget ellis, ranson or any other would be chairman. Could we really be anything more than we are? No matter how much money is put into the club it will always be a struggle to be any better than we are, but i think we could.
LancsVillan Posted May 18, 2004 Moderator Posted May 18, 2004 of course we can and lets face it if the top five are 'set in stone' then we are by far the best placed of the other 87 clubs to break in
drat01 Posted May 18, 2004 Posted May 18, 2004 Thats what Malc, Pete and a whole load of others keep trying to say SW. We can be more than a narly club, but to do that will take a major re-think in the way that the club is run. This season has only clouded the issue in getting a whole load of people thinking that ellis and co/ must be doing isomething right and that any change would not be for the good. OK they have the right to that opinion but its flawed. The potential is there but to turn potential into reality takes bravery and sound judgement - neither of which will come from the current "rulers" of AVFC.
mattavfc Posted May 18, 2004 Posted May 18, 2004 Same here, of course we can! Couple of years, we'll be regulars in Europe and Shite'll be back in the Nationwide! Where both clubs belong.
mattavfc Posted May 18, 2004 Posted May 18, 2004 Who are the two that said no? Snarf & WMNG no doubt.
gregavfc Posted May 18, 2004 Posted May 18, 2004 Snarf... what a loser. Villa will have won a european competition with the next 8 years
David-Copenhagen Posted May 18, 2004 Posted May 18, 2004 I can't see us not being a top club - we needed a good manager and now we have it - just watch us GOOOOOOOO (AL).
deaceydeaceyaggro Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 What you digging up this pile of old sh#t for?
TRO Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 ....It takes a bit of money and a bucket load of Nous, backed up with a little bit of time. Have we got it?..... i'll leave it to you to judge.
TRO Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Are we still a 'nearly' club? ....At the moment yes..... but we don't need to be.
Boumasbabies Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 Course we can. There is an understandable amount of trepidation and lack of expectancy on these boards as of late. This is partly due to the Barry sale and Laursen retirement. Last season we were sticking it to the scousers by stating that we are not a selling club and that it's our terms or **** off. The Barry sale was very quick and took alot of people by surprise. 12 million didn't seem a lot after the numbers banded about last year. Apparently Liverpool were not going higher than 8 million this year, so it seems not bad business at all. In my opinion, I am glad it's over and done with early on and MON has plenty of time to find quality reinforcements Speculation that Young and Carew are going to follow Barry out of Villa Park are nonsense. And if this happens and our 4 top players are gone in the one season then YES we will be nearly men
nepal_villan Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 We can, but it will require some deep pockets. I don't think we can do it by sound business planning alone.
thejoker Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 No - quite simple in this day and age, we don't have enough cash to compete with the very best on a regular basis.
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