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Author Topic: Do the Villa make you happy?  (Read 4118 times)

Offline frankmosswasmyuncle

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2015, 11:53:46 AM »
Enormously.
I've been skipping and hopping around, smiling inanely at perfect strangers for the last few weeks.

Before that I've been a miserable, grumpy sod, the sense of disappointment from yet another loss usually taking about 5 days to diminish. Until I glance at the league table, when depression sets in again.

Interesting point: I've been working on my house for the last 5 months but have got much more done in the last few weeks than at any other time.
Positive vibes man.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2015, 11:54:04 AM »
"The best way to be as a fan is to have the maximum emotional investment in a team but the least expectation of success, because that's what rules the dopamine release."

I've had this view with the Villa for the past four seasons and it's made me far from happy. 

The bit that's missing from that is the low expectations only work to provide happiness if the club over-achieves those expectations.  For the past four years my low expectations have at best been met, and at worst been regularly underachieved!

Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2015, 04:55:21 PM »
Right this moment, no. This hurts.

Offline Rudy65

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2015, 05:04:48 PM »
Always does when you have some hope before it then disappears again

Offline curiousorange

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2015, 05:12:50 PM »
The bad results ruin my evening. The good ones make my week. So yes, they do, but losing in the last five minutes like we did today is the unfortunate opposite to it.
« Last Edit: March 21, 2015, 05:35:12 PM by curiousorange »

Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2015, 05:16:11 PM »
Under Lambert the defeats stopped hurting, to me I was more astounded by how each week we seemed to surpass all the ineptness that had preceded it. A bit of optimism from the last three games and suddenly another defeat. It hurts. Even more that we were at home again, our home record is diabolical. Off to get bladdered.

Offline clash city rocker

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2015, 06:01:48 PM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2015, 06:14:08 PM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Our home record has almost always been pathetic.

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2015, 07:59:18 PM »
Hi FrankMossWMU.

I find it helps if you only study league tables after the lads have picked up a point or three.

Stops me getting too depressed, anyway.

'twitches'.

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2015, 09:50:56 PM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Our home record has almost always been pathetic.

Not if you were raised on a diet of Vic Crowe and Ron Saunders.

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2015, 12:41:40 AM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Our home record has almost always been pathetic.

Not if you were raised on a diet of Vic Crowe and Ron Saunders.

Fair point.

I hadn't realised until just that we're staring down the barrel of our lowest number of home league wins in a season ever at the moment.  We've won just 3 home league games this season, 1 less than TSM's record.

Hopefully we'll deal with that issue at the same time we deal with the spectre of relegation.

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2015, 12:44:13 AM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Our home record has almost always been pathetic.

Not if you were raised on a diet of Vic Crowe and Ron Saunders.

Or not, if you look at the stats. We had a decent home record under them but never a Fortress Villa Park.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2015, 12:49:29 AM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Our home record has almost always been pathetic.

Not if you were raised on a diet of Vic Crowe and Ron Saunders.

Or not, if you look at the stats. We had a decent home record under them but never a Fortress Villa Park.

To be fair, I'd argue it was in 71/72...

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2015, 12:59:10 AM »
One of the things I always feel sorry for Randy about is the fact that he poured all that money in (witlessly, but we'll leave that to one side for now) and MON spent it and built a team which was pathologically unable to be anything more than average at home.

Those four years, we were brilliant away from home and fucking awful at home.

2009-10 was a good example. Scored 29 goals at home (Man City a place above us scored 41, Liverpool below 43), but of those 29 goals, 10 came in 2 matches against Bolton and Burnley, meaning that in the remaining 17 home matches we managed 19 goals, a little over a goal a game, which is pathetic.

In 2008-9, it was similar, scored 27 goals at home, 8 of which were in games against Bolton and Man City, leaving 19 across the other 17 home matches.

If you consider we finished sixth both those seasons, that's a pretty unimpressive home record.

The other thing I feel sorry for Randy regarding in that time is that, rather than go out and buy a couple of £15-20m or so flair players, bums-on-seats players, Martin spunked all that cash on 5-10m functional plodders who were never going to help increase attendances.

Don't get me wrong, averaging 40k or so was impressive, but if I'd spent 200m or whatever it was on players in that sort of time period, only to see that the only real "flair" player amongst them was Ashley Young, I'd feel more than a little short changed.

Just think what we could have cobbled together with the combined fees for non-performing guff of the likes of Habib Beye, Curtis Davies, Nicky Shorey etc etc

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Re: Do the Villa make you happy?
« Reply #29 on: March 25, 2015, 01:00:42 AM »
For a club of our standing our home record is pathetic.

Our home record has almost always been pathetic.

Not if you were raised on a diet of Vic Crowe and Ron Saunders.

Or not, if you look at the stats. We had a decent home record under them but never a Fortress Villa Park.

To be fair, I'd argue it was in 71/72...

"Like Muhammed Ali winning the boys brigade championship".

 


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