Mic09 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 11 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: This is pretty damning evidence, gutted I'm sure the minimum wage club shop assistant's are in the know about multi million £ dealings of our foreign ownership and heroically stop people from spending £20 quid to have a name printed. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadridVilla Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 14 minutes ago, jim said: Just been in the Villa store before we went to Aston Hall. No mention of his name anywhere. Tha names on the back of the shirts as you walk in was Mings, Buendia and Cash. They also would not do printing for two kids who wanted Grealish on their new shirt as they had no letter e’s. Could be nothing but even my wife mentioned it was odd there was no mention of the poster boy. Same thing happened a couple of seasons ago, I think it was the letter E that ran out that time as well. I got my shirt printed before the opening game at Spurs and had McGinn put on instead, who then promptly scored that day. Though like you say, if they didn't want to let on that he was going and they knew they were going to get some angry customers in a week or two, they may well just use that as an excuse. BUT my point is that it's happened before when he was literally captaining Villa the same day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Just now, Follyfoot said: naughty, naughty, very very naughty Funnily enough, he goes by the name Ebenezer Goode! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, chrisvilla4 said: Got a mate who can sort out a few E's if anyones interested. Won't go on the shirt but will certainly cheer us all up! (Please note, this is a joke, I'm a respectable 46 year old dad of 3) You are a whiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 18 minutes ago, jim said: Just been in the Villa store before we went to Aston Hall. No mention of his name anywhere. Tha names on the back of the shirts as you walk in was Mings, Buendia and Cash. They also would not do printing for two kids who wanted Grealish on their new shirt as they had no letter e’s. Could be nothing but even my wife mentioned it was odd there was no mention of the poster boy. Shame, wanted a Gresford shirt as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted July 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2021 Just now, Mic09 said: I'm sure the minimum wage club shop assistant's are in the know about multi million £ dealings of our foreign ownership and heroically stop people from spending £20 quid to have a name printed. Just reacting to Jim's post my fellow Lichfieldian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 18 minutes ago, jim said: Just been in the Villa store before we went to Aston Hall. No mention of his name anywhere. Tha names on the back of the shirts as you walk in was Mings, Buendia and Cash. They also would not do printing for two kids who wanted Grealish on their new shirt as they had no letter e’s. Could be nothing but even my wife mentioned it was odd there was no mention of the poster boy. Counterpoint: they’ve ran out of Es due to the popularity of printing Grealish and Buendia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 minute ago, sidcow said: You are a whiz Can get that as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted July 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, chrisvilla4 said: Funnily enough, he goes by the name Ebenezer Goode! has he got any salmon's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nick76 Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 minute ago, chrisvilla4 said: Shame, wanted a Gresford shirt as well. I wanted ‘Beekeeper’ on mine…damn it! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted July 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2021 Just now, chrisvilla4 said: Can get that as well... sorted for both then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted July 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Counterpoint: they’ve ran out of Es due to the popularity of printing Grealish and Buendia can they still do baconface? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadridVilla Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 I heard Sam Lee's source was his mate in Birmingham he sent to the club shop to see if they've taken down all the Grealish posters 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted July 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, Sam-AVFC said: Yay, the shop conspiracies again. Just been to the Villa chip shop down Witton to get my 'Greasy' special and now that's off the menu, no reason given by the disinterested 16 year old on the till Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post danceoftheshamen Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, The_Steve said: They are conditioning fans to think we are a selling club and should be honoured that City would be bidding. It’s embarrassing really. It sure is! Unfortunately the only way this will change is by us re-earning some long lost respect as a club. I remember walking back into Birmingham on my way back from Rotterdam knowing that AVFC was truly back where it should be. We had earned respect once again and were at the pinnacle of World football once more. I remember thinking "The cream has finally risen back to the top!" HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE THE CREAM TO RISE? Lets not forget that up until World War 1, which effectively changed the whole football landscape, AVFC was thought of as one of the true elite if not THE elite club. After the huge disruption of WW1 (1914-1918) we were just getting back to our place (Two FA cup wins & League title runners up twice between the two World Wars) before the second & much longer World War hit 1939 - 1945) and once again understandably this churned everything up massively in the Football World. Post WW2 It took us 35 years to rise to League Champions Once again. During that 35 year period we still managed to win 1 FA cup in 1957 & 3 League cups in 1960/61, 1974/75 & 1976/77 there were also several other achievments such as champions of the lower leagues during some darker times. It's worth noting that some of the more unsuccessful clubs, who the media now seem to group us with and see us amongst would be proud of this trophy haul even if it represented their entire history's achievements! I also think we need to understand that many of todays pundits & certainly fans of those glory hunter type clubs, simply do not have enough knowlegde of the history of the game nor any memory of these facts as they basically were not born or old enough to remember them. As we all know we finally got back to the pinnacle in 1980/81 winning the League title and even went a step further in 1982 with that European cup win in Rotterdam. Luckily i was there so i remember it. Then something hugely damaging to this club happened. A certain gentleman who one of our stands is named after, bought the club and ran us like a corner shop for 35 years. He destroyed the respect that this club had earned more than once over the previous hundred years or so. The evidence is as clear as day, he took over the European Champions and our very next achievement was in 1987/88 .....As second division runners up!! Need i say more? This 35 year stretch under one Doug Ellis was what broke AVFC and is why we are derided by todays pundits & fans as it was quite frankly the poorest ever 3 - 4 decade period in our history.. though even this saw us as title runners up in the early 90's and twice more League cup winners in 93/94 & 95/96. Then the Ellis effect had us just existing in midtable insignificant mediocrity for almost 2 decades! Lets remember that this is the only period most of these people have been alive through, so the rest they simply cannot comprehend. So we now have to re-earn that lost respect. We have historically done it before several times and we can do it again. NSWE are already 3 years into the process of doing this but it will take a while longer yet. Looking through our history it has taken around 12 years for this club to rise to big trophy wins after both World wars. Only when this happens will pundits/fans see us "worthy" of players with Jack's ability. Over to you NSWE! Edited July 28, 2021 by danceoftheshamen 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Wouldn't mind no Ds. Could still get Ewar Woowar 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okonokos Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 7 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: sorted for both then Great song! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 23 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Is the banner of him and Smith still on the North Stand Jim? Yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 13 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: naughty, naughty, very very naughty Ha ha ha ha ha..... Only oldies are gonna get that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, MachoFantastico said: This whole saga with Jack is almost identical to last summer with United. The thing that I question is why just Man City? Surely there would be other clubs interested if he had a viable clause in his contract. That's why part of me thinks it's all BS. If the clause is £100m no other club than PSG can afford it. Maybe Bayern could push the boat out and maybe Chelsea could swing it, but neither need to and you don't just spend £100m for a laugh. Barca Real and Atletico Madrid either can't afford or already exceed their non-EU player limit. Barca certainly can't afford it. I doubt Real can either but if they could they couldn't register him without moving on atleast 2 non-EU players It's City or PSG and Jack isn't leaving for Ligue 1 Edited July 28, 2021 by HalfTimePost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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