Quote from: Drummond on December 23, 2014, 10:20:07 PMNot a neutral section, no. A family stand though, where both sections of fans can go. To qualify you should either be under 12 (or with an under 12) or over 65.Which stand are you choosing for this and would long-term season ticket holders who don't meet the criteria be thrown out?
Not a neutral section, no. A family stand though, where both sections of fans can go. To qualify you should either be under 12 (or with an under 12) or over 65.
The whole idea just screams Mickey Mouse. If the club adopted this idea it would show that they'd given up on the possibility of Villa ever being good enough to attract 40,000 Villa fans to a game again.
So if we get a gate of 40,000... including, say, a few hundred Manure scum in the neutral end... we let all the Villa fans leave empty-handed but give every Brummie Red that jumps up when "their" team scores a bunch of free Villa kit that they probably don't want... that's going to encourage more Villa fans to attend?
Not if the team is, say, Swansea or Bolton.If it's those bunch of wankers, "scum" is mild.In any case attempting to bring "real World" logic into football is no fun. There's a load of us Socialists on here who follow a game which is, basically, more rampantly-capitalist than Keith Joseph, reading "The Wealth of Nations" while setting fire to an NHS hospital.I try not to mix football and things like politics and common decency as it makes my head spin.
I'm probably small-minded, but I'd still struggle to get past the "Man United fan from Birmingham" bit, to be honest.I'm sure there are nice UKIP voters and, maybe, even reasonable people who own a U2 album. I've no wish to associate with them or see Villa give them an extra stand though.
I'm probably small-minded, but I'd still struggle to get past the "Man United fan from Birmingham" bit, to be honest.
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on December 24, 2014, 12:38:59 AMI'm probably small-minded, but I'd still struggle to get past the "Man United fan from Birmingham" bit, to be honest.I'm sure there are nice UKIP voters and, maybe, even reasonable people who own a U2 album. I've no wish to associate with them or see Villa give them an extra stand though.Nobody's saying they should get an extra stand.