Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine

Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on April 17, 2012, 08:31:05 PM

Title: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on April 17, 2012, 08:31:05 PM
I joined this site just over two years ago, and since then its seems to have been all downhill.
I have gone to the trouble of checking back and found at that time my initial contributions were about us being robbed in a league cup final, going to a  FA semi final, and the possibilities of making it to the Champions League.
I have also checked and found that I am increasingly using the memories section disproportionately in relation to other parts of the site. My doctor said this is beacuse I'm a grumpy 54 year old trying to relive my youth. Wrong! Its because all the stuff discussed in the main section is bad news.

Its time the moderators of this site got a grip on things and stop the rot. If they cant then get some ones in who can. Whose in charge of this anyway ? Surely the buck stops with them ?
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Legion on April 17, 2012, 08:36:06 PM
GM is where the positivity is at. OT also makes a pleasant alternative for non-paying members.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: brian green on April 17, 2012, 08:46:19 PM
It has also become full of acronyms which should stop ASAP IMO
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Villan For Life on April 17, 2012, 08:47:11 PM
It has also become full of acronyms which should stop ASAP IMO

FFS
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: olaftab on April 17, 2012, 08:48:43 PM
I wish we were discussing a Villa Champion's League match thread tonight because that is where a great club like our's belongs.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: midnite on April 17, 2012, 08:56:44 PM
FWIW Brian I agree. IIRC it's MON's fault.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: claret and blue blood on April 17, 2012, 09:04:46 PM
LMFAO
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Lizz on April 17, 2012, 10:01:26 PM
There's only one thing that can save us right now - another TLA [that's a three letter acronym for the uninitiated].
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Legion on April 17, 2012, 10:03:51 PM
Not quite. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, such as WAC from Women's Army Corps, OPEC  from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Chris Harte on April 17, 2012, 10:23:35 PM
GM is where the positivity is at. OT also makes a pleasant alternative for non-paying members.
OT is ace.

What's GM?
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: cdbearsfan on April 17, 2012, 10:25:32 PM
Genetically-Modified.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Legion on April 17, 2012, 10:25:32 PM
Golden Muppets (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?page=page1136)
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Chris Harte on April 17, 2012, 10:28:11 PM
Genetically-Modified.
Ah...! Okay. Now I know. :)
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Mister E on April 17, 2012, 10:54:25 PM
I joined this site just over two years ago, and since then its seems to have been all downhill.
So, it's your fault then?!
As another grumpy 54 yr-old who's just watched the i-player version of yestewrday's TV programme on the '70's can I just say: "it were great back then!".

TTFN.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Handsworth Wood Villa on April 17, 2012, 11:32:58 PM
I wish we were discussing a Villa Champion's League match thread tonight because that is where a great club like our's belongs.

Aston Villa have never played in the Champions League.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers have all played in the Champions League.

 :(
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: E I Adio on April 18, 2012, 12:33:09 AM
Not quite. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, such as WAC from Women's Army Corps, OPEC  from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.

I think perhaps it's actually Three Letter Abbreviation.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Fergal on April 18, 2012, 07:57:35 AM
Not quite. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, such as WAC from Women's Army Corps, OPEC  from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
Are you BE?
LOL ROFL PMP
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on April 18, 2012, 08:53:10 AM
All this acronym stuff is just a smoke screen for the moderators to hide behind.

Next they will be telling us we should be lucky with what we have got with limited resources, and be grateful that we can even go and read Fanzines of Dreams even if we cannot expect to get close to them. 
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: philthebar on April 18, 2012, 08:54:50 AM
I joined this site just over two years ago, and since then its seems to have been all downhill.

So it's your fault then, and here I was blaming the management and players.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: LeeS on April 18, 2012, 09:00:34 AM
I wish we were discussing a Villa Champion's League match thread tonight because that is where a great club like our's belongs.

Aston Villa have never played in the Champions League.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers have all played in the Champions League.

 :(

Oh dear. Were you born in the 90s by any chance?
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: nigel on April 18, 2012, 11:53:15 AM
I wish we were discussing a Villa Champion's League match thread tonight because that is where a great club like our's belongs.

Aston Villa have never played in the Champions League.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers have all played in the Champions League.

 :(
Don't you think that the Champions league is just a watered down version of the European Cup though?
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Percy McCarthy on April 18, 2012, 12:15:30 PM
He's a b-loser. 'Nuff said.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on April 18, 2012, 12:18:44 PM
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Aston Villa have never played in the Champions League.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers have all played in the Champions League

Can't argue with that

Although Newcastle, Spurs, Liverpool and Man City would never have qualified for the Champions League if the qualification criteria had been as tough as when we won thre European Cup .

And I'm pretty sure that the 2 times Man United won the Champs league, they didn't qualify as Champions.

Anyway, who gives a shit


Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: bill on April 18, 2012, 01:10:19 PM
I wish we were discussing a Villa Champion's League match thread tonight because that is where a great club like our's belongs.

Aston Villa have never played in the Champions League.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers have all played in the Champions League.

 :(
Same competition. Simply far easier to qualify for now.Our achievement was better.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: garyfouroaks on April 18, 2012, 02:55:03 PM
I joined this site just over two years ago, and since then its seems to have been all downhill.
Have you considered leaving?
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: preston28 on April 18, 2012, 08:16:38 PM
Not quite. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, such as WAC from Women's Army Corps, OPEC  from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.

OMG - I never knew that until now.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: cdbearsfan on April 18, 2012, 08:28:01 PM
We have played in it, it just wasn't called that then.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: danlanza on April 18, 2012, 08:32:45 PM
You had to be champions to play in the European Cup so it was much more exclusive and to beat Bayern in the final,who then were the best club side in Europe was brilliant.A far better and more satisfying cup to win.I hope that doesn't reek of jealously to much!
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Ad@m on April 18, 2012, 09:00:57 PM
You had to be champions to play in the European Cup so it was much more exclusive and to beat Bayern in the final,who then were the best club side in Europe was brilliant.A far better and more satisfying cup to win.I hope that doesn't reek of jealously to much!

Without wanting to belittle our achievement I'm not sure Bayern were the best team in Europe at that time. They hadn't won the European Cup for 6 years when we beat them and they didn't win it again for almost 20 years after.
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Louzie0 on April 20, 2012, 02:44:52 PM
You had to be champions to play in the European Cup so it was much more exclusive and to beat Bayern in the final,who then were the best club side in Europe was brilliant.A far better and more satisfying cup to win.I hope that doesn't reek of jealously to much!

Without wanting to belittle our achievement I'm not sure Bayern were the best team in Europe at that time. They hadn't won the European Cup for 6 years when we beat them and they didn't win it again for almost 20 years after.

Turns out that they weren't the best.  We were. 
They came second! 
Hurray!
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on April 20, 2012, 02:50:37 PM
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Turns out that they weren't the best.  We were

Exactly!

By the only measurement available at the time, we were the best team in Europe
Title: Re: The Future of Heroes & Villains ?
Post by: Holy Trinity on April 20, 2012, 03:21:00 PM
I wish we were discussing a Villa Champion's League match thread tonight because that is where a great club like our's belongs.

Aston Villa have never played in the Champions League.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers have all played in the Champions League.

 :(
Don't you think that the Champions league is just a watered down version of the European Cup though?

by that logic liverpool have never won the premier league so there 18 times are all written off as well as 2 or 3 european cups and so are 1 of man u's

its the same comp with a new name and easier format, how can you justify loosing 4 games on the way and still winning the comp.
the champions league is the footballing equivalent of ann robinsons face lift, looks shit but some how it keeps pulling in millions
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