brummie Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Feel like we've not seen much from you this season, brummie[/member]. What do you make of your start/new signings? I'd rather be higher up the table, but it's all very tightly bunched so not worried yet. I am enjoying watching us, we try to play some good stuff, and have in spells looked very good. It's noticeable that we have a style of play. I saw a post on the Bruce thread here a few minutes ago about you getting results was about players rather than the manager, and I think that's spot on, that's what it was like for us under Bruce. I don't feel that way now. There's a kinship at the moment between fans and team / manager which I have not really seen in a very long time. I read a post somewhere by a Villa fan saying that we've always loved the club and now we love the team, too, and mushily sentimental though that sounds, there's a definite element of truth in it. Crowds are up - every match sold out so far - but the most noticeable thing is the support, even when they're losing, they get the support because we can see that there's at last a defined plan. We've had rich owners before and there were some good times under Lerner, but looking back, it was all a bit brainless - spend, spend, spend and then get bored and watch it die. This lot seem properly genuine. I am enjoying going to the match again after 6 or 7 years of it being like a second job or something. As for the signings - Engels, Heaton, Mings, Luiz, Nakamba - all quality. Trezeguet meh. Targett shit, Wesley weird (one week excellent, the next embarassing), Jota hard to tell. So many signings, though, it is bound to take a dozen games for them to gel. We were basically left to rot for 5 or 6 years. Bruce was testing at times, awful towards the end, but nothing like as bad as the Lambert Mcleish years. The most important thing was surviving Lerner - incredible that his final act of incompetence was to sell to a con man - and get back on our feet. The play off final this year was magnificent, as was the 10 game winning run, but what made it all better was the fact that a year previously we were actually facing a winding up order, we'd been so badly run. Frightening times, and I suspect that's got a lot to do with the positivity now - a feeling you can not take things for granted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 I’m in Wolverhampton on Monday night Hope you're up to date with all your vaccinations, HTT. Wolves fans are odd. No bad feeling or anything resembling rivalry between the clubs, until they finished above us for the first time in almost 40 years, and since then they can't stop singing about us. I don't get it. It's like they're apeing Coventry fans, who loathe us and sing songs about us all the time, yet I have barely met a single one of our fans who gives a shit about them. It's weird. I’m constantly in Wolves, they are an odd bunch indeed. I was there last Thursday for the first time since before August and I noticed a growing hostility towards Villa like! I’m actually tempted to go there and watch this as a neutral if I can. Villa was my first ever away game and my fave away ground. What’s the chances of getting tickets for this? For which match? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Monday’s mate. I could probably get tickets for the away end like, but can’t be arsed with coked up Bruce happy clappers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 What happens is when a game sells out, they let ST holders who can't come sell their ticket on, through the club. They give you 80 percent of 1/19th of the cost of your ST, so it's a pretty good deal. So if you go to the Villa OS at the moment you'll see there will be like a dozen tickets available - those are basically returned ST tickets, so, so long as the game is on general sale (and it will be now), you should be able to get one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Kinda jealous of all those who seem to be now supporting Ashley's club and Bruce's lads after a few wins. I still want the whole thing to burn, although I'm starting to care less about us in particular and football in general lately. I can't see Ashley selling in the next 5/10 years no matter what happens, so I won't begrudge others enjoying whatever they can find worth enjoying from this joke of a club. As a matter of principle I can't enjoy seeing Ashley's methods achieve great success (17th place), so I'm finding myself drifting away. I think this is the first game this season I won't be actively supporting the opposition...I just don't think I care anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Kinda jealous of all those who seem to be now supporting Ashley's club and Bruce's lads after a few wins. I still want the whole thing to burn, although I'm starting to care less about us in particular and football in general lately. I can't see Ashley selling in the next 5/10 years no matter what happens, so I won't begrudge others enjoying whatever they can find worth enjoying from this joke of a club. As a matter of principle I can't enjoy seeing Ashley's methods achieve great success (17th place), so I'm finding myself drifting away. I think this is the first game this season I won't be actively supporting the opposition...I just don't think I care anymore. Get this viewpoint all day long . This whole period of the club just feels completely fucking pointless iyam. Like the middle bit of the movie when you're ready for the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Nice to see brummie again - by far, my favourite Villa fan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Looking at the table we could go 5th on Monday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I’m guessing the combination of results needed for that would be slim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I’m guessing the combination of results needed for that would be slim. Would only require us to win by 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I'm interested to see how Villa react to Saint-Maximin. Again, you'd think they'd have more of the ball, and how we counter will be key to the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I said before Bournemouth that 4 points in these two games will make us the most desirable for any potential purchaser than we have been for several years so I hope we win Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I said before Bournemouth that 4 points in these two games will make us the most desirable for any potential purchaser than we have been for several years so I hope we win :lol: :lol: :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 8th place if we win, 1 place off 5th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 What happens is when a game sells out, they let ST holders who can't come sell their ticket on, through the club. They give you 80 percent of 1/19th of the cost of your ST, so it's a pretty good deal. So if you go to the Villa OS at the moment you'll see there will be like a dozen tickets available - those are basically returned ST tickets, so, so long as the game is on general sale (and it will be now), you should be able to get one. Cheers Brummie I’ll probably just watch it in a pub with the Wolves fans and root for Villa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest covmag Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Still hate them from the first relegation season. Smash em. Their fans were still bad in the 2nd relegation season, despite being already down themselves. Their fans come across as weird bellends, but I can totally see why fans of other clubs like to goad our fans. As a collective we're easy targets and really don't help ourselves. How come? Can you expand on that comment? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 I’m going round my sisters in laws to watch this in part just for a catch up. The last time I saw them they were shocked that I hadn’t been to any matches given I’ve finally moved back to Newcastle after 4 years. They were half giving it the “support the team not the regime” angle though neither of them goes that regularly. I just reeled off the list of things that have happened under Ashley and the complete lack of ambition finally encompassed by Rafas departure. I’ll have a beer and watch the match, cheer if they score but it’s all half-hearted stuff and I have absolutely no intention of going down St James. My Chelsea mate summed it up on the phone yesterday “there’s probably 3 teams worse than you which is way you’ll stay up”. That’s where we are Jesu. I actually think Saint-Maximan might score for some daft reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johneddy Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 0-2 Miggy and St Max Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 If he wins this he gives himself a 3-4 match losing run where he’d still likely be a few points clear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I said before Bournemouth that 4 points in these two games will make us the most desirable for any potential purchaser than we have been for several years so I hope we win :lol: :lol: :lol: What the hell is this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Didn't realise Neil Taylor still played for Villa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I said before Bournemouth that 4 points in these two games will make us the most desirable for any potential purchaser than we have been for several years so I hope we win Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I’m sure many sheiks are sitting by their phones waiting for the result of Villa v Newcastle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I reckon same team as Bournemouth but with Schar and Dummett coming in for Lascelles and Clark. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Don’t fancy us for this. Got a feeling Bruce’s luck will run out at this game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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