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Author Topic: What does being back in the PL mean to you?  (Read 23716 times)

Offline Smirker

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2019, 08:37:50 PM »
Being relevant again.

Being able to get commentary or a stream easily.

Being excited by potential transfers.

The usual really.

I hope the club can start to fulfil its potential now.

It's also important for our city to have a club in the top division. The past three years have been damaging. Hopefully now the Villa can become great again!

Offline Hinckley Dave

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2019, 08:38:09 PM »
Match of the day. No more Quest! Woop woop

Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2019, 09:00:15 PM »
It means I'll see more games and have more of an interest in the top flight generally - I've hardly seen any over the last three seasons.  Just a feeling of being more involved again.

Offline ASHTONVILLA

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2019, 09:13:45 PM »
Lots

I am in Stockholm enjoying unseasonably good weather getting pissed and feeling good about the world.when we were in the championship it would Have felt hollow.

I quite enjoyed the Championship until this time last year when Villa nearly went. I am so relieved that we are back now, and I feel like a great weight has been lifted.
« Last Edit: June 08, 2019, 07:45:40 AM by ASHTONVILLA »

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2019, 09:16:28 PM »
Most of my friends are PL club fans (glory hunter or otherwise) so it means not having to explain to them how Villa are doing,which in turn helps me feel like we're less irrelevant.

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2019, 09:43:37 PM »
Match of the day. No more Quest! Woop woop

I’m also looking forward to seeing Villa on MOTD again.
Woop woop.
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Offline mike

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2019, 09:59:01 PM »
Because it felt wrong being the poor relation to Brighton and Huddersfield and clinging to the shirt tails of Cardiff, Fulham and Norwich.

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2019, 10:07:59 PM »
Everything.

Though I'll miss the Championship's competitiveness and the lack of blatant glory hunters amongst the opposition fans when they came to Villa Park.




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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2019, 10:15:30 PM »
Money end of!

Gives the club chance to reboot & the owners opportunity to spend.

It will be good to be on motd again...it will be annoying to be in the middle of the inevitable utter shambles that will be VAR....it will be good to get more Sat at 3 games as we won’t be the big boys of the division this season

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2019, 10:22:34 PM »
Delighted that we're back, pleased to be in the public eye again, but also angry about all the wasted years after 2010, the lack of direction, rank bad managers and bizarre signings. I think that we have stable leadership now, on and off the pitch, and just hope I'm right.

Offline Des Little

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #25 on: June 07, 2019, 10:23:06 PM »
For me, it’s almost like the rebirth of the club. I look back fondly at the second division season in 87-88, and how fantastic it felt to be part of it all then...I’m pleased for all the younger Villa fans to feel the same now. I’m absolutely certain it cements you as a Villa fan when you’ve experienced the club rising once again - I actually pity fans of clubs who don’t get the opportunity, however daft that may sound. To truly enjoy the highs, you have to suffer the lows.

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #26 on: June 07, 2019, 10:27:12 PM »
In the short term it means financial stability and FFP is put to bed.

Long term we are a PL club in every sense, whether that be in terms of support or stadium or training facilities.

We are Aston Villa the one and only and we deserve to be in the top flight

We need to make sure that we fight to remain here though now and not take it for granted

Offline West Derby Villan

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #27 on: June 07, 2019, 11:01:51 PM »
Simple, seeing the words "Aston Villa" in the English top division.
« Last Edit: June 08, 2019, 10:29:41 AM by West Derby Villan »

Offline four fornicholl

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #28 on: June 07, 2019, 11:13:00 PM »
Panini 19-20.

Offline purpletrousers

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Re: What does being back in the PL mean to you?
« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2019, 01:45:22 AM »
Was a bit meh at seeing this thread, I'm very much of the 'normal service is resumed' / nothing to see here, as it was the anomaly/news to be down, not back up.

But.... well it was massive wasn't it.
Losing the play off final would have been like another relegation in losing Jack and more.

Instead, well my in-laws, friends and colleagues in East Africa will find 'themselves' playing my team, we're back on the map.

I moved to Luton recently, went for a quick walk with a colleague who dropped me home on his way back to London after the first leg. A little kid at the other end of the street asked if I was wearing a West Ham shirt. I brushed it off and corrected him, but it was only then it dawned on me, that it was probably all he knew at his age, likely in his living memory Villa were not in the top flight.

I haven't been so positive in many years.
0-3months 18/19 home kit baby grow is washed & ironed and packed waiting in the hospital bag. May she never know us down.

 


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