terrytini Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Are we an “ up and comer” or an “ also ran “ ? Good article thanks @villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 19 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Aston Villa's large fanbase but lowly position make it a less risky and less expensive entree for starters, Bloomberg need to spell check their articles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 They were meant to use the word "entree", the only thing missing is the accented letter to make it "entrée" which means "right to enter or join a group". When they say "less expensive entree to English football" they are using the correct word even if it does come off as being pretentious for no reason. PS. If that's not the mistake they made forgive me, I have had 2 hours sleep in the last 48 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Daweii said: They were meant to use the word "entree", the only thing missing is the accented letter to make it "entrée" which means "right to enter or join a group". When they say "less expensive entree to English football" they are using the correct word even if it does come off as being pretentious for no reason. PS. If that's not the mistake they made forgive me, I have had 2 hours sleep in the last 48 hours. that’s the mistake, the missing accent having chosen that word and the dubious choice of the word instead of ‘entry’ in the first place. Moreover, it was an excuse for a pun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Bought full kit for my little one a few weeks ago as click and collect and forgot all about it. Only rememberedbecause I got an email to review the experience. Ive never had an email to confirm it's ready to collect and been so busy forgot I bought it. A bit annoying I have to chase this up now. Should have just paid for delivery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srsmithusa Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 On 30/04/2018 at 08:13, Daweii said: They were meant to use the word "entree", the only thing missing is the accented letter to make it "entrée" which means "right to enter or join a group". When they say "less expensive entree to English football" they are using the correct word even if it does come off as being pretentious for no reason. PS. If that's not the mistake they made forgive me, I have had 2 hours sleep in the last 48 hours. How’s you’re moonlighting between surgeon and airline pilot going? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Someone behind the scenes at our club is colour blind. Black shorts with the claret and blue shirts today. So naff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Stephen_Evans said: Someone behind the scenes at our club is colour blind. Black shorts with the claret and blue shirts today. So naff. Think it’s because Millwall he white shorts but I agree we would have been better switching to blue or even claret shorts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 I thought it looked good. But then again, I am colourblind Seriously though, our kits look much better with darker shorts. Would love to see us play with claret shorts more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 11 hours ago, Eastie said: Think it’s because Millwall he white shorts but I agree we would have been better switching to blue or even claret shorts This. It wasn't a last minute fashion choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted May 7, 2018 Author Share Posted May 7, 2018 I assume there was a mix up with the shorts by the kit team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Yet in the Premier League WBA v Spurs was a kit clash and very difficult to watch - with WBA in white and dark blue striped shirt with white shorts and dark blue socks, playing against Spurs with a white top, dark blue shorts and white socks. There was a clip with the referee sending a signal to the bench tugging his shirt then pointing at the opposing players gesturing there was a kit clash but they just carried on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 On 06/05/2018 at 20:36, Keyblade said: I thought it looked good. But then again, I am colourblind Seriously though, our kits look much better with darker shorts. Would love to see us play with claret shorts more often. I've always liked black shorts with the claret and blue shirt. I am also colourblind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, sexbelowsound said: This. It wasn't a last minute fashion choice. But that’s the thing, the fixtures came out last June so quite a bit of time to plan for some blue shorts. We could have used last year’s. I also found it irritating that the U23s had to wear all black against Swansea in the Premier League Cup final. (Same at Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday away in the Championship, neither of whom wore their away kit at our home ground.) Stick some blue shorts with the rest of the home kit and then we look like Villa. Though personally I have never been unable to understand the problem with both teams wearing the same colour shorts. Edited May 7, 2018 by Stephen_Evans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted May 7, 2018 Author Share Posted May 7, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Stephen_Evans said: But that’s the thing, the fixtures came out last June so quite a bit of time to plan for some blue shorts. We could have used last year’s. I also found it irritating that the U23s had to wear all black against Swansea in the Premier League Cup final. (Same at Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday away in the Championship, neither of whom wore their away kit at our home ground.) Stick some blue shorts with the rest of the home kit and then we look like Villa. Though personally I have never been unable to understand the problem with both teams wearing the same colour shorts. It’s probably as simple as we took the full home kit with white shorts either thinking it would be fine as teams are sometimes allowed to play with the same colour shorts if the rest is different. It’s the referees discretion so he likely asked us to use different shorts and all we had brought was black - possibly we had the full away kit but it would have taken too long to do a full swap. Edited May 7, 2018 by a m ole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 8, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted May 8, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, Stephen_Evans said: But that’s the thing, the fixtures came out last June so quite a bit of time to plan for some blue shorts. We could have used last year’s. I also found it irritating that the U23s had to wear all black against Swansea in the Premier League Cup final. (Same at Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday away in the Championship, neither of whom wore their away kit at our home ground.) Stick some blue shorts with the rest of the home kit and then we look like Villa. Though personally I have never been unable to understand the problem with both teams wearing the same colour shorts. 8 hours ago, a m ole said: It’s probably as simple as we took the full home kit with white shorts either thinking it would be fine as teams are sometimes allowed to play with the same colour shorts if the rest is different. It’s the referees discretion so he likely asked us to use different shorts and all we had brought was black - possibly we had the full away kit but it would have taken too long to do a full swap. Yep, things like this are usually a last minute refereeing decision. It's likely we took our usual home kit and the ref saw the kits and said "Those shorts are a clash, you need to change them". We had the away kit but that would have clashed with Milwall's dark blue home strip. So we ended up with home top and away shorts. I'm positive it wasn't a fashion decision Edited May 8, 2018 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 (edited) At the game I found it difficult to see the difference between the shirts in some areas of the pitch so if both teams were also wearing white shorts it would have been even harder. Their home shirt is such a dark shade of blue that the away kit would have been worse. The best choice would have been for them to wear their white away shirt but obviously wasn't going to happen. Edited May 8, 2018 by sexbelowsound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 10 hours ago, a m ole said: It’s probably as simple as we took the full home kit with white shorts either thinking it would be fine as teams are sometimes allowed to play with the same colour shorts if the rest is different. It’s the referees discretion so he likely asked us to use different shorts and all we had brought was black - possibly we had the full away kit but it would have taken too long to do a full swap. I’m always happy to blame the referee! Will never forget that fiasco against West Ham at home in 2009! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 For those interested in the new shirt, the podcast alliv notsa interviews Luke Roper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiVillain Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 It's all gone quiet on the new kit....has nobody found that special pallet yet??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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