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Author Topic: Would it be more fun if we went down?  (Read 82696 times)

Online dave.woodhall

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2015, 03:47:52 PM »
There is not one single positive about getting relegated.  Not one.

Cheaper tickets.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #31 on: February 02, 2015, 03:48:55 PM »
It's like saying to someone who's being tortured with thumbscrews "well, at least when your thumbs come off they won't hurt anymore." I'd rather keep my thumbs, frankly.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #32 on: February 02, 2015, 03:55:09 PM »
There would be no guarantee of coming back up. We didn't walk it the last time around. It would be shit on every level.

Offline silhillvilla

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #33 on: February 02, 2015, 03:56:38 PM »
This team and manager stripped of it's few assetts would flounder in the championship

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2015, 03:59:23 PM »
Unthinkable!  Having escaped from the maws of perennial shitness in 1972, and having scaled the heights to become European Champions, to begin that slippery slope to shitness again is, as I said, unthinkable.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #35 on: February 02, 2015, 04:03:17 PM »
There is not one single positive about getting relegated.  Not one.

Cheaper tickets.

Would they be though?

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #36 on: February 02, 2015, 04:23:16 PM »
There is not one single positive about getting relegated.  Not one.

Cheaper tickets.

Would they be though?
Doubt it . We are already one of the cheapest PL clubs ticket wise

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #37 on: February 02, 2015, 04:25:41 PM »
There is not one single positive about getting relegated.  Not one.

Cheaper tickets.

Would they be though?
Doubt it . We are already one of the cheapest PL clubs ticket wise

Going away would definitely be.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #38 on: February 02, 2015, 04:29:20 PM »
What we're seeing in the original post is the last stage of the Kübler-Ross model of the five stages of grief: acceptance.

Before we start trying to convince ourselves that all is lost, and that somehow that's not so bad, and that life will actually be better after the seismic failure of relegation, we need to remind ourselves that we're not dead and buried yet. Not quite.

It's a very real danger, make no mistake about that, but the irresponsible idiots running the club can still pull this one around. If they don't then relegation will be an unmitigated disaster which doesn't bear thinking about.

Let's not insult the memory of the people who built this club - the likes of McGregor, Ramsay, Rinder, et al - by talking up second-tier football. It's shit and it isn't what this club is for. 

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2015, 04:30:14 PM »
It would take me a long time to get over relegation, in the 20-odd years I've supported the club I've only ever watched us play in the top flight. We would be playing in a half empty stadium at home and struggle to generate any sort of atmosphere whereas clubs like Brentford and Rotherham would be cheered on by packed out away ends with 3k noisy fans as it will be a big day out for them.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #40 on: February 02, 2015, 04:37:28 PM »
There is not one single positive about getting relegated.  Not one.

Cheaper tickets.

Would they be though?
Doubt it . We are already one of the cheapest PL clubs ticket wise

Going away would definitely be.

Do you not remember the category AA prices the Noses saved up for us and Man United. We'd get plenty of that category AA+ Gold baloney,because these clubs know they can charge £40 a ticket and Villa will still bring 3000 with them, as we're used to being fleeced.

Offline Billy Walker

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2015, 04:38:44 PM »
What we're seeing in the original post is the last stage of the Kübler-Ross model of the five stages of grief: acceptance.

Before we start trying to convince ourselves that all is lost, and that somehow that's not so bad, and that life will actually be better after the seismic failure of relegation, we need to remind ourselves that we're not dead and buried yet. Not quite.

It's a very real danger, make no mistake about that, but the irresponsible idiots running the club can still pull this one around. If they don't then relegation will be an unmitigated disaster which doesn't bear thinking about.

Let's not insult the memory of the people who built this club - the likes of McGregor, Ramsay, Rinder, et al - by talking up second-tier football. It's shit and it isn't what this club is for. 

The moment a club accepts it's down is the moment it is sunk.  This type of thinking - especially in regard to Villa - genuinely gets to me, to put it mildly.  The thought and act of relegation for Villa is simply unacceptable on every level.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #42 on: February 02, 2015, 04:44:18 PM »
 ".... we should never forget that we are not talking about a mere business. This is the Aston Villa football club, and it deserves nothing short of the best"

I doubt Fred Rinder and his collegues would have been championing relegation.

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #43 on: February 02, 2015, 04:45:46 PM »
What I wouldn't be able to stand is if we were behind, say, Brentford in the table and people said, "Yes but they're further into their project than we are."

One season in the Championship might be short term fun but two or more would be dreadful.

Offline MarkM

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Re: Would it be more fun if we went down?
« Reply #44 on: February 02, 2015, 04:52:50 PM »
If we went down we would be the next Leeds, Notts Forest, Sheffield Wednesday etc.. etc...

We would just be another former big club in the second tear of English Football, possibly bouncing up and down to and from the promised land of the 'EPL' and being talked about in terms like "Its a shame a big club like that..."

Thats our future if we go down, more fun? my arse!

 


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