Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: ajmant on March 11, 2016, 03:14:07 PM
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My sporting allegiances revolve around three teams. All local. The Villa of course, Moseley Rugby and Warwickshire Cricket. Two of those currently sit bottom of their respective leagues. Warwickshire better have a decent year! So 2016 looks like it’s going to be double relegation. Terrific.
I look for the results of some other teams but no more than a passing glance.
So has anyone else got the same ‘Double Trouble’ or remember similar situations in years gone by for their respective teams? I’m sure others might have a Triple Trouble etc etc! I hate 2016!!
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Yes same three with me, also add the Brummies speedway won the elite league then went bump the next season now back but in the third tier
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Villa, Bromsgrove
Rovers Sporting and Boston Red Sox are the only teams I care about. Red Sox were shit last season. Meanwhile Bromsgrove are battling for the title and i'm off over there tomorrow for the game against Coventry United, Bromsgrove are top and Batches Utd are second.
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My sporting allegiances revolve around three teams. All local. The Villa of course, Moseley Rugby and Warwickshire Cricket. Two of those currently sit bottom of their respective leagues. Warwickshire better have a decent year! So 2016 looks like it’s going to be double relegation. Terrific.
I look for the results of some other teams but no more than a passing glance.
So has anyone else got the same ‘Double Trouble’ or remember similar situations in years gone by for their respective teams? I’m sure others might have a Triple Trouble etc etc! I hate 2016!!
I can't follow Moseley, it feels too close, I've played with a lot of guys who are either on their books or who have been. On top of that I was in Northampton when I got heavily into rugby so they always felt like the 'right' choice.
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Villa bottom of the league and getting thrashed every week
My little lads team Newport Pagnell Jaguars under 8's are also bottom of the league and getting thrashed every week (he is the top goal scorer though)
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Same with me and Kiddy harriers.
Not a good season.
Happily Genoa Cricket & Football club seems safe this year so I am avoiding the triple.
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My double is Villa and Bedford Rugby. Same league as Moseley but having a blody decent season after a couple of dodgy ones. We've got a big cup Qtr final at home to Jersey tonight so off to that in a couple of mins. great to enjoy sporting occasions. Should we win and Mose win theirs tomorrow, we'll play in the semis.
The one thin I struggle with, and have for the fifteen years I've followed them, it their knickname is the Blues. I've never been able to shout "come on you Blues" Wonder why?
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For me as a Worcestershire man WCC for cricket. In fact we do tend to see warks as a bit of a nose team.
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Aston Villa
Kidderminster Harriers
Walsall
Crewe Alexandra
Queen of the South
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Warwickshire CCC
Dallas Cowboys
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Warwickshire CCC
Dallas Cowboys
My adopted team over here were FCVestsjælland, as close to a local team as I could get.
2012/13 Unexpectedly promoted to the Danish top division - Supaliga.
2013/14 Unexpectedly survive in Supaliga activating all manor of bonus clauses and prompting the signing of more experienced (expensive) players.
2014/15 relegated from Supaliga
Autumn 2015 wound up.
NFL I've always.been a Dolphins fan after being force fed stories of the 17-0 team when I started playing in the 80s.
Pretty much perennially shit.
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Villa, Cheltenham Town, Gloucester Rugby, Gloucestershire cricket. And any sport involving Stourbridge.
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Yooooouuuuuuuu Bears!
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Villa - 20 years since last trophy
Warwickshire CCC - 1 year since last trophy
Chicago Cubs - 108 years since last trophy
I sure can pick em!
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You forgot about the Peace Cup.
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Villa and Northampton Saints for moi.
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Villa and Northampton Saints for moi.
Good man!!
Add the bears for men and I try to keep an eye on Brann as well but they've fallen apart since I moved.
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The Villa
AFC Telford (Finally off bottom of Conference Northern)
Dundee United (Andy Gray)
Bad times.
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Villa and Pittsburgh Steelers. For solos Daniel Ricciardo. He's very smiley.
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Villa and Yorkshire. I can't wait for the football season to end these days and to start actually enjoying watching my team play!
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Villa
Derbyshire CC
Lichfield RUFC
Queens Park
St Pauli
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Villa and Warwickshire have never been relegated in the same year as relegation in cricket wasn't invented until relatively recently. Hopefully the Bears won't make that unwanted history this year.
Villa and Chicago Bears have never been relegated in the same season as Americans don't do relegation. Except for Randy.
Villa and Clyde have never been relegated in the same season and barring a complete disaster Clyde should be safe enough this year.
So, errr.... no. It hasn't happened to me.
Yet.
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Villa
Warwicks Bears
and since last relegation
PSV
Patriots
Oh and Brentford.
I lived in Leicester for a few years and Nottingham for a long time and went to a number of matches mainly football but also Cricket, Rugby and even Ice Hockey for social reasons - enjoyable but no lasting affiliation.
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Villa
Lincoln City - so I know a fair bit about relegations; and to think a few years ago the Imps played Bournemouth in the League 2 playoff final
Kent CCC (was my dad's team, plus I was also a massive fan of Carl Hooper)
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I support Aston Villa and my daughter supports Charlton Athletic. Yeah. We're having a great time.
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You forgot about the Peace Cup.
And the Youth Cup and the Intertoto Cup - credit where it's due!
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Villa bottom of the league and getting thrashed every week
My little lads team Newport Pagnell Jaguars under 8's are also bottom of the league and getting thrashed every week (he is the top goal scorer though)
Kids football do not have leagues??? Until 12
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For me villa and occasionally stockport county which I help out with commercially .
And my lads club cheadle and gatley who I am club treasurer off which do win lol
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I'm a villa fan - bottom
Dad is Colchester fan - bottom
Was born in Kidderminster - they're bottom.
Not good.
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Villa
Warwickshire CCC
Chicago Bears
Wigan Warriors
A real mixed bag success wise there !
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Warwickshire and the New England Patriots. It's been great to be a Pats fan the last 15 years (not so much the previous 15), but the Brady/Belichick era is nearing it's end and I suspect we'll go back to being mediocre again.
Have been watching Saracens the last two or three years but only because they're my local team, I think I'd switch teams if I moved area, which is obviously not the case with the others.
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Aston Villa
Kidderminster Harriers
Walsall
Crewe Alexandra
Queen of the South
Obviously, Villa are shite. But, since I moved house in 2013 Kiddy are my local team. They're also shite.
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Ross County won the League Cup on Sunday.
Tamworth will just miss the Conference North play-offs I think.
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Aston Villa
Stourbridge
Hereford - Great for reliving the best of the past where the fan means something. Midland Football League, Av Attendance 2.5k, 4.5k last Sat in 1st Leg of FA Vase. Good Community Club, great City Centre pubs.
Worcestershire CCC
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Villa, Bromsgrove Rovers Sporting and Boston Red Sox are the only teams I care about. Red Sox were shit last season.
Our Red Sox even have their own version of Gabby. Ladies and Gentlemen, please meet ...... Pablo "Kung Fu Panda" Sandoval
(http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Fat-Pablo-Sandoval.jpg) (https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_1920w/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/23/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/pablo2-6450.jpg)
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Villa
Heart of Midlothian [/b]- founded the same year as us - they were where we are now two years ago (or at least in the Scottish equivalent) and have bounced back.
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You forgot about the Peace Cup.
And the Youth Cup and the Intertoto Cup - credit where it's due!
Hong Kong Soccer 7s. It's an impressive list.
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Villa
Heart of Midlothian [/b]- founded the same year as us - they were where we are now two years ago (or at least in the Scottish equivalent) and have bounced back.
Same here....
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Crewe Alex is my local team, I "enjoy" going as its live football and they try to play the game well unlike this turds at Vale or Sturk. They look like they could emulate us and take bottom place in league 1 with worst goal difference making it a hell of a year
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The Villa
AFC Telford (Finally off bottom of Conference Northern)
Dundee United (Andy Gray)
Bad times.
Almost this...
Villa and Dundee United, pretty much every weekend is utter shit. I wonder the odds of both going down this year. :(
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Aston Villa have given me a reverse Midas Touch curse. I can't watch a match without wanting one side to win, I guess it makes it a bit more interesting. Virtually every time, the team I root for loses.
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Aston Villa - enough said
Essendon Bombers (AFL) - thanks to an ongoing drug supplement saga, around half of their 1st team squad are suspended for the entire, upcoming season all but securing them bottom place. No relegation thankfully, as there are only 18 professional clubs!
Miami Dolphins (NFL) - I genuinely can't remember the last time they managed to get out of their group and into the playoffs for the SuperBowl. They're not the Cleveland Browns, but fuck me...
What a time to be alive!
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Aston Villa - enough said
Essendon Bombers (AFL) - thanks to an ongoing drug supplement saga, around half of their 1st team squad are suspended for the entire, upcoming season all but securing them bottom place. No relegation thankfully, as there are only 18 professional clubs!
Miami Dolphins (NFL) - I genuinely can't remember the last time they managed to get out of their group and into the playoffs for the SuperBowl. They're not the Cleveland Browns, but fuck me...
What a time to be alive!
I share the pain.
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Aston Villa, Bangor City (Wales), Coleshill Town, Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)
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Villa - Crap - Bottom of the league
Vancouver Canucks - Crap - can't make the play offs
Vancouver Whitecaps - Lost first 2 games of the season
Barcelona it is then.
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Bristol city, current local team, flirting with relegation again even with the unstoppable Nathan baker in the team.
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My sporting allegiances revolve around three teams. All local. The Villa of course, Moseley Rugby and Warwickshire Cricket. Two of those currently sit bottom of their respective leagues. Warwickshire better have a decent year! So 2016 looks like it’s going to be double relegation. Terrific.
I look for the results of some other teams but no more than a passing glance.
So has anyone else got the same ‘Double Trouble’ or remember similar situations in years gone by for their respective teams? I’m sure others might have a Triple Trouble etc etc! I hate 2016!!
Same 3 for me so not much pleasure around.
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Been following Walsall a lot last 8 years.
Going to be very weird to see them maybe finally get promoted in the same year Villa go down and both likely to be in the same division next year.
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I don't get how you can invest in another team. There's the Villa and then there's 91 other league sides and never the twain shall meet.
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I don't get how you can invest in another team. There's the Villa and then there's 91 other league sides and never the twain shall meet.
I wouldn't call it investing, it's just having an interest and something to take your mind off the awfulness we are experiencing currently. Hearts was my Grandads club so there's a familial interest as well.
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Warwickshire CCC
Dallas Cowboys
My adopted team over here were FCVestsjælland, as close to a local team as I could get.
2012/13 Unexpectedly promoted to the Danish top division - Supaliga.
2013/14 Unexpectedly survive in Supaliga activating all manor of bonus clauses and prompting the signing of more experienced (expensive) players.
2014/15 relegated from Supaliga
Autumn 2015 wound up.
NFL I've always.been a Dolphins fan after being force fed stories of the 17-0 team when I started playing in the 80s.
Pretty much perennially shit.
The final insult to FCVestsjælland going bust.
4 or 5 of the players are rumoured to be under investigation for match fixing.
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Villa
Kiddy harriers
Hull KR rugby league
So it pisses me off when these manure and arse fans moan about their team. Get in the real world like us buggers.
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Aston Villa - enough said
Essendon Bombers (AFL) - thanks to an ongoing drug supplement saga, around half of their 1st team squad are suspended for the entire, upcoming season all but securing them bottom place. No relegation thankfully, as there are only 18 professional clubs!
I never thought I'd ever see this here. I'm a Don too and have followed the Bombers since 1983 (became Villa in 1986) and am extremely fortunate to have seen us win 3 premierships in the flesh out of 4 in my lifetime.
However if any Villa fans think it's bad being a Villa fan at present (and the past three seasons) I'd say it's been even worse following Essendon. The drug scandal (not a single test result came out positive) in which even WADA (the guys who busted Lance Armstrong) got involved has rocked us to the core. We've been shat on and pilloried by national media, but most of all local fans still give us fans endless shit as 'cheats' ourselves. If and an English club were in a similar situation, I'd say they would've plummeted to mid to lower League 1 with a massive fanbase, so in the AFL system, sans relegation I think we're lucky. I've signed up as a member again.
As a side note, I was surprised when I first discovered that Essendon has been in existence 3 years longer than our beloved and historically magestic Aston Villa. Two grand old sporting institutions, reaching a twinned historical nadir.
I also have a soft spot for Rochdale, used to watch them a bit and Saint Etienne. Both doing reasonably. Melbourne Victory.
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Villa Hartlepool hmmmm , Llandudno (having a great first season in the Welsh premier, Patrick Thistle, Sydney FC Warwickshire cc .