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Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #45 on: September 13, 2011, 02:30:35 PM »
Quote from: E I Adio on September 13, 2011, 02:24:54 PM
Quote from: TRS-T on September 13, 2011, 02:06:54 PM
What we need is for the English teams to do better in the Europa League.

i.e. Spurs, Stoke and Fulham all get to the Europa League semi-finals

And then an all-English final.

Interest in the Europa League in this country would then increase massively

Similar to the 2007-08 Champions League when we had Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U in the semi-finals and then of course the Man U-Chelsea final in Moscow.

It must be just me then that views the Europa League as a monstrously irritating irrelevance?

Personally, I see it as a Champions League for clubs who aren't good enough to get into the Champions League i.e. us.

Would Villas-Boas have got the Chelsea job without his Europa League exploits?

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Offline TheBarneyArmy

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #46 on: September 13, 2011, 02:54:50 PM »
FA Cup every time, the fact that the champions league losers get a place in the europa league makes it a joke of a tournament.
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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #47 on: September 13, 2011, 02:56:53 PM »
FA cup all day, I hope to see us win it in my lifetime!
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Offline PaulTheVillan

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #48 on: September 13, 2011, 02:58:37 PM »
Quote from: UsualSuspect on September 13, 2011, 10:12:37 AM
Europa/UEFA

Purely because we have never won it

This was my thinking.

But I'd love to see us win the FA Cup before I die.
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Offline Vanilla

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #49 on: September 13, 2011, 02:59:14 PM »
Mourinho and Villa-Boas obtained great experience from winning the UEFA/Europa League. It would have been interesting to see how our current manager would have fared if he had stayed with da blooos!!!
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Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #50 on: September 13, 2011, 03:00:13 PM »
The winners of the UEFA Cup used to qualify for the Champions League.

The winners of the Europa League qualify for the Europa League...

Can't understand that at all.
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Offline Stu

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #51 on: September 13, 2011, 03:01:45 PM »
I'm surprised this question has to be asked. The one that we haven't won since '57, the one my Dad has been waiting to see us win again since he was 14 and who is now in his 70th year. The one that most of us are obsessed with.
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Offline spk

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #52 on: September 13, 2011, 03:55:41 PM »
If they got rid of that stupid group stage,and had it as a straight knock out tournament,and the winners qualified for the CL next season,it would be popular again.Its the number of games that put clubs and fans off.The spurs shamrock clash has a bit of FA cup magic about it though.
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Offline Holtenderinthesky

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #53 on: September 13, 2011, 06:38:51 PM »
I think the main reason most Villa fans would vote for the FA cup is because we haven't won it since the dinosaurs were around (well it feels like it anyway).  I wonder what a Man City fan would say if they were to slip into the Europa League this season.  Winning the EL gives you a respect around Europe whereas the FA cup is now seen as a distraction to the bigger clubs as opposed to the holy grail it once was.  Still, as a Villa fan I would vote for the FA, but only because we haven't won it for 50 odd years, if we'd won it recently I'd be more inclined to see us win another European trophy.
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Offline TopDeck113

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #54 on: September 13, 2011, 06:43:02 PM »
No contest: The Cup. 

« Last Edit: September 14, 2011, 06:29:00 PM by TopDeck113 »
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Offline Villanation

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #55 on: September 13, 2011, 07:33:00 PM »
Always nice to win the FA Cup, no question, however the benefits of winning a European trophy and the players that can attract to a club are indisputable, of course that does depend on the clubs commitment to spend once you have achieved that milestone..

I'm going to go with Europa League, would be nice to kick back or even be there early next summer on a warm balmy night waiting for the lads to emerge out the tunnel to take on some European pretenders.
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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #56 on: September 14, 2011, 09:39:25 AM »
In this order for me...

European Cup
League Title
FA Cup
UEFA Cup
League Cup

Would be very happy with any of them.
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Offline Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #57 on: September 14, 2011, 12:42:47 PM »
Ideally, I'd like to see Johnny Dixon lifting the Europa League trophy.


P.S. There are a total of two options for the vote with a note saying can only pick up to two options ? Has anybody voted for both and cancelled themselves out ? 
« Last Edit: September 14, 2011, 12:47:49 PM by Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air »
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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #58 on: September 15, 2011, 10:00:26 PM »
In this order:
The FA cup
The FA cup
The FA cup
League Champions
Champion cup
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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: ?% Villa - Which trophy would you rather win? (Poll added)
« Reply #59 on: September 15, 2011, 10:05:05 PM »
Of the 2 listed its the FA Cup as i'm sick of how long it's been. If we'd won it in the last 20 years i'd go for the Europa.

In order my list is
Champions of England
Champions of Europe
FA Cup
Europa
League Cup
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