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Author Topic: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?  (Read 53718 times)

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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #45 on: December 16, 2011, 10:34:20 PM »
I'd still like to know who thinks this is a good idea and why apart from TRS-T!
The votes are there!

It's an open forum. Honestly, I would really like to know.


Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #46 on: December 16, 2011, 10:35:24 PM »
Last time I checked they were still called Leicester City.

I'm sure that they were called Leicester Foss until only a few years ago.

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Re: Should we rename the club to Birmingham Villa?
« Reply #47 on: December 16, 2011, 10:37:13 PM »
Has any club changed its name in recent years? Apart from MK Don's (spit)

Leicester?


?????????  ???

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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #48 on: December 16, 2011, 10:37:13 PM »
Last time I checked they were still called Leicester City.

I'm sure that they were called Leicester Foss until only a few years ago.

1919.

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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #49 on: December 16, 2011, 10:42:04 PM »
Last time I checked they were still called Leicester City.

I'm sure that they were called Leicester Foss until only a few years ago.

1919.

Okay I must have misheard that story on Sky Sports News  ???

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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #50 on: December 16, 2011, 10:45:47 PM »
Changing names - the master, Tom Paxton, after 'I am changing my name to Chrysler' came out with this about the roots of the current financial crisis:







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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #51 on: December 16, 2011, 10:46:11 PM »
Last time I checked they were still called Leicester City.

I'm sure that they were called Leicester Foss until only a few years ago.

1919.

Okay I must have misheard that story on Sky Sports News  ???

I think they were considering changing it back fairly recently (to my ageing brain, *anything* in the last 20 years counts as recent) but it wasn't a welcome proposal as I recall.

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #52 on: December 16, 2011, 10:46:54 PM »
Absolutely not, it wouldn't serve any beneficial purpose.

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #53 on: December 16, 2011, 11:33:35 PM »
Why name change ?

If anyone who know their football or live in Britain or educated. They would know Aston Villa is from Birmingham. Who care about some unknown in Thailand or Cairo if they doesn't know where Aston Villa come from ?

 

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #54 on: December 16, 2011, 11:39:14 PM »
lol, who voted 'yes'?


TRS-T?  Just a hunch.

Nah, the poll gathered 30 'no's before the one 'yes'.

Two yes now!

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #55 on: December 16, 2011, 11:43:31 PM »
I'd still like to know who thinks this is a good idea and why apart from TRS-T!
The votes are there!

It's an open forum. Honestly, I would really like to know.


lol, who voted 'yes'?


TRS-T?  Just a hunch.

Nope  :)


38 votes, 34 replies.  You have at least one friend!   :)
lol, who voted 'yes'?


TRS-T?  Just a hunch.

Nah, the poll gathered 30 'no's before the one 'yes'.

Two yes now!

Guess we will never know...

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Re: Should we rename the club include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #56 on: December 17, 2011, 12:04:04 AM »
I'd still like to know who thinks this is a good idea and why apart from TRS-T!
The votes are there!

It's an open forum. Honestly, I would really like to know.


Thats the trouble with the internet at times, when running a website and someone puts up a poll, you always get the clowns (usually with duplicate accounts or with their little clique) voting for something that is so totally out, just for devilment. To be honest, unless the voters are prepared to come forward and give legitimate reasoning for their vote, then the votes should be discounted as simply "wind up merchants" or "spoilers!" Unless, (or at least until when!) football clubs are "franchized" out to private companies, then why on earth would their team names need to be changed??? Bring on FC Dulux V Andrex Wanderers, etc. Load of bollocks in my opinion!   

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #57 on: December 17, 2011, 02:15:55 AM »
Not for me thanks

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #58 on: December 17, 2011, 02:26:49 AM »
NO NO NO

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Re: Should we rename the club to include Birmingham in our name?
« Reply #59 on: December 17, 2011, 02:27:27 AM »
F**k NO!! We are Aston Villa Football Club, the best named club in world football.
Made my stomach churn thinking about it!!!!!

Eck would probably vote yes, easier in interviews in case he forgot! Gross.

 


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