Villa trying to poach floating Cov fans

[eastie]

Some angry people here-

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/38005-Villa-advert-in-the-Telegraph?s=d098089494346a9a29e93b0bc0e3ffe8

[Dante Lavelli]

Great stuff by the Villa marketing department.  In a way I'm surprised they're not being a bit more aggressive, maybe offering to swap Coventry season tickets for a few villa matches.  In return they can have a few of our youngsters on loan.

[Bad English]

Shouldn't the thread title read "...poaching felching Coventry City fans"?

[pauliewalnuts]

I reckon we should hire a plane to tow a banner over their next home game at Kettering or wherever it is they play these days, offering them acceptance.

[dave.woodhall]

Some angry people here-

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/38005-Villa-advert-in-the-Telegraph?s=d098089494346a9a29e93b0bc0e3ffe8

Most of them seem to be either unbothered or saying they don 't blame us. This pisses me off though, "Clubs tend to have an ethical unwritten agreement not to step on each others' turf." Football League clubs moan when Premier League clubs try to muscle in but when they do they same to non-league towns it doesn't matter. 

[danlanza]

I reckon we should hire a plane to tow a banner over their next home game at Kettering or wherever it is they play these days, offering them acceptance.

I reckon they should go to Nuneaton and be done with it.

[Deano's Mullet]

I like their comments on the "Villa in the bottom three" thread a bit further down.

[OCD]

Having written "“To those complaining about #avfc advert in @covtelegraph, it is illegal to refuse to carry adverts because of footballing preferences!” they then write "But should The Coventry Telegraph have run the advert, or should they have found a way to refuse?".

So, should they have complied with the law or broken the law would be a better way of wording it.

[pauliewalnuts]

On that Cov forum, I found this post interesting, on the same thread:

AV also had a stand at freshers fair at Cov uni this year....im sure they see Coventry as a good opportunity to recruit some extra fans, as much as I dislike them I would do the same...

Good thinking, Villa.

And even better thinking revealed with this further down:

for those who say they will boycott the CET - are you going to do the same as far as the train station is concerned?? Big posters on the platforms advertising tickets for the same place and club, ( cant bring myself to type Villa ..........doh!!!)

[pauliewalnuts]

I also thought it interesting that almost all of them on that thread referred to us correctly, ie with the definite article, "THE Villa".

It's interesting that, though they may pretend to hate us, their natural cap-doffing respect to their betters comes through.

[dave.woodhall]

If their Freshers fair was the same time as the one in Birmingham Villa were selling tickets for Manchester City. We'll have made a few fans for life that day.

[Karl Bridges]

This one made me laugh on the Villa in the bottom three thread

This is my first time so be gentle with me, villa are shite, for your man who said he'd lose a leg to be in their position he must be pissed. If all you want to do in life is make up the numbers then off you pop.

Must have missed all their title & CL challenges over the years.

[cdbearsfan]

Now that they play in Northampton, surely it would be unfair of them to advertise in Coventry and try to steal supporters off the city's premier club, Coventry Sphinx?

[eastie]

If their Freshers fair was the same time as the one in Birmingham Villa were selling tickets for Manchester City. We'll have made a few fans for life that day.

It was , university of warwick had a pitch too with offers for students for the man city game - nice work .

[Clampy]

Bearing in mind how much they still seem to hate us, the majority of them didn't seem to have too much of a problem with it.