Four things, in no particular order, and not all necessarily things we don't have1. Players people will get excited about coming to watch2. Entertaining football3. Good results4. Winning things.5. Affordable tickets.Errm, soz, five things.
So to sum up, you need a bit of both. A chance of winning silverware AND winning with some style. There's no reason why Villa cant get big big crowds, in the 50k range, regularly if both of those criteria are met. But its a big ask and a big financial risk.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on November 24, 2010, 11:21:53 AMFour things, in no particular order, and not all necessarily things we don't have1. Players people will get excited about coming to watch2. Entertaining football3. Good results4. Winning things.5. Affordable tickets.Errm, soz, five things.Aren't 1 & 5 mutually exclusive?
Cheap tickets bring people in short-term. To keep them you need to win.
I find pass pass pass quite boring actually, I'd rather see us get down the other end quickly I find that more exciting and more likely to get me off my feet.
Quote from: pedro25 on November 24, 2010, 01:00:43 PMI find pass pass pass quite boring actually, I'd rather see us get down the other end quickly I find that more exciting and more likely to get me off my feet.The problem is if you build your teams to do that you risk falling into games of deadly boredom when the opposing teams come to "park the bus" and you don't have the guile to break them down, and you also risk getting a good spanking when your players run out of steam with 20 - 30 minutes left (see Chelsea, 7-1).
Quote from: Mazrim on November 24, 2010, 11:22:27 AMSo to sum up, you need a bit of both. A chance of winning silverware AND winning with some style. There's no reason why Villa cant get big big crowds, in the 50k range, regularly if both of those criteria are met. But its a big ask and a big financial risk.Why? We never have before, consistently. We'd need an unparalleled (last 100 years) 5 year period of success to approach that.