Quote from: ozzjim on July 12, 2011, 10:53:36 PMQuote from: Redman on July 12, 2011, 10:39:26 PMQuote from: Billy Walker on July 12, 2011, 09:48:47 PMI'm blushing! The thing is, though, it's the truth. We're far too modest about our club and we really need be proud of what we have achieved and use it as the basis for taking the club forward. There's no club out there that can match our history or influence - regardless of what cockney/north west media folk spoon feed us. I hope every young lad at Bodymoor learns all of this, appreciates all of this and realizes that this is THE club to build a career at and to win trophies at. This club's natural station is second to none and there should be no greater thing in football than winning trophies in the original claret and blue shirt.If any of these plastic, Johnny-come-lately clubs come sniffing around any of our youth players I hope they (the players) have been taught to reason, to think for themselves and to tell whoever it might be: why would I want to leave the greatest club in football?Sorry to shit in the punchbowl but this is still just an arbitrary claim to greatness, isn't it?It is, of course, a claim you're perfectly entitled to. As are supporters of other clubs with their equally arbitrary claims.Well quite clearly no Redman. You have what you have, we have this, which is the truth, and only we have it. Essentially, you would not have yours unless we did what we did, or a least it may look different to the way it does. So be grateful, and respectful of our rather large piece of the history of football.I am grateful and respectful but let's keep it in perspective. Nobody involved with Aston Villa built what they did so supporters could use it to score points by making arbitrary claims to greatness on their behalf a century later.
Quote from: Redman on July 12, 2011, 10:39:26 PMQuote from: Billy Walker on July 12, 2011, 09:48:47 PMI'm blushing! The thing is, though, it's the truth. We're far too modest about our club and we really need be proud of what we have achieved and use it as the basis for taking the club forward. There's no club out there that can match our history or influence - regardless of what cockney/north west media folk spoon feed us. I hope every young lad at Bodymoor learns all of this, appreciates all of this and realizes that this is THE club to build a career at and to win trophies at. This club's natural station is second to none and there should be no greater thing in football than winning trophies in the original claret and blue shirt.If any of these plastic, Johnny-come-lately clubs come sniffing around any of our youth players I hope they (the players) have been taught to reason, to think for themselves and to tell whoever it might be: why would I want to leave the greatest club in football?Sorry to shit in the punchbowl but this is still just an arbitrary claim to greatness, isn't it?It is, of course, a claim you're perfectly entitled to. As are supporters of other clubs with their equally arbitrary claims.Well quite clearly no Redman. You have what you have, we have this, which is the truth, and only we have it. Essentially, you would not have yours unless we did what we did, or a least it may look different to the way it does. So be grateful, and respectful of our rather large piece of the history of football.
Quote from: Billy Walker on July 12, 2011, 09:48:47 PMI'm blushing! The thing is, though, it's the truth. We're far too modest about our club and we really need be proud of what we have achieved and use it as the basis for taking the club forward. There's no club out there that can match our history or influence - regardless of what cockney/north west media folk spoon feed us. I hope every young lad at Bodymoor learns all of this, appreciates all of this and realizes that this is THE club to build a career at and to win trophies at. This club's natural station is second to none and there should be no greater thing in football than winning trophies in the original claret and blue shirt.If any of these plastic, Johnny-come-lately clubs come sniffing around any of our youth players I hope they (the players) have been taught to reason, to think for themselves and to tell whoever it might be: why would I want to leave the greatest club in football?Sorry to shit in the punchbowl but this is still just an arbitrary claim to greatness, isn't it?It is, of course, a claim you're perfectly entitled to. As are supporters of other clubs with their equally arbitrary claims.
I'm blushing! The thing is, though, it's the truth. We're far too modest about our club and we really need be proud of what we have achieved and use it as the basis for taking the club forward. There's no club out there that can match our history or influence - regardless of what cockney/north west media folk spoon feed us. I hope every young lad at Bodymoor learns all of this, appreciates all of this and realizes that this is THE club to build a career at and to win trophies at. This club's natural station is second to none and there should be no greater thing in football than winning trophies in the original claret and blue shirt.If any of these plastic, Johnny-come-lately clubs come sniffing around any of our youth players I hope they (the players) have been taught to reason, to think for themselves and to tell whoever it might be: why would I want to leave the greatest club in football?
Quote from: Redman on July 12, 2011, 11:05:59 PMQuote from: ozzjim on July 12, 2011, 10:53:36 PMQuote from: Redman on July 12, 2011, 10:39:26 PMQuote from: Billy Walker on July 12, 2011, 09:48:47 PMI'm blushing! The thing is, though, it's the truth. We're far too modest about our club and we really need be proud of what we have achieved and use it as the basis for taking the club forward. There's no club out there that can match our history or influence - regardless of what cockney/north west media folk spoon feed us. I hope every young lad at Bodymoor learns all of this, appreciates all of this and realizes that this is THE club to build a career at and to win trophies at. This club's natural station is second to none and there should be no greater thing in football than winning trophies in the original claret and blue shirt.If any of these plastic, Johnny-come-lately clubs come sniffing around any of our youth players I hope they (the players) have been taught to reason, to think for themselves and to tell whoever it might be: why would I want to leave the greatest club in football?Sorry to shit in the punchbowl but this is still just an arbitrary claim to greatness, isn't it?It is, of course, a claim you're perfectly entitled to. As are supporters of other clubs with their equally arbitrary claims.Well quite clearly no Redman. You have what you have, we have this, which is the truth, and only we have it. Essentially, you would not have yours unless we did what we did, or a least it may look different to the way it does. So be grateful, and respectful of our rather large piece of the history of football.I am grateful and respectful but let's keep it in perspective. Nobody involved with Aston Villa built what they did so supporters could use it to score points by making arbitrary claims to greatness on their behalf a century later.It is hardly scoring points, your mate came on and was ignorant to our history, belittled us essentially without doing so blatantly and thus people have rightly jumped to defend the history of the club. If anyone involved with Villa at the time could have imagined what football would become over a century later, I dare say they may not have bothered!