Aston Villa v West Ham - Post Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

You don't really get lockouts these days as games are all ticket. So everyone will know this is a sellout, like all the other sellouts we've had.

[Toronto Villa]

I fucking love the optimism around the club right now. How completely ridiculous it is to write that a few short months after Hull...

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

[silhillvilla]

You don't really get lockouts these days as games are all ticket. So everyone will know this is a sellout, like all the other sellouts we've had.

Yes was cash on gate back then, early 90's ?

[leylandalbion]

I fucking love the optimism around the club right now. How completely ridiculous it is to write that a few short months after Hull...

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

3 months ago!  feck me,  Now we have sold out to a team who are relegated and we will probably field a weakened team.  Amazing how things can change.  I took another 4 people from Leyland on Saturday.  They all loved it, and I suspect I have converted another little lad into loving the villa.  Its good taking a 'foreigner' they calm you down when your panicking cause Collins is playing centre forward.

[passport1]

About 25mins into the first half (when West Ham were getting dizzy chasing the ball) my son turned to me and said "its just as exciting as when O'Neill was first here".

We seem to get these glimpses every now and again of what this club could be and I think this is just such an opportunity.

Let's hope this time we grasp it very firmly.

[PeterWithe]

I think I'm right in saying Burnley are the best supported team in the UK as a proportion of town population to team attendance.

[Pat McMahon]

I think I'm right in saying Burnley are the best supported team in the UK as a proportion of town population to team attendance.

They must be PW. A few years back I remember hearing that gates of 16k represented 20% of the population - then the highest in all 4 divisions as a percentage - and I assume their current gates are around 20k

[paul_e]

I think I'm right in saying Burnley are the best supported team in the UK as a proportion of town population to team attendance.

They must be PW. A few years back I remember hearing that gates of 16k represented 20% of the population - then the highest in all 4 divisions as a percentage - and I assume their current gates are around 20k

Can't be, the bestest supporters in the world are the geordies, everyone knows that.

[silhillvilla]

I fucking love the optimism around the club right now. How completely ridiculous it is to write that a few short months after Hull...

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I was at the hull away game spent the night there, that was bad.
Re-reading that thread is even worse. I think I have post traumatic stress disorder

[olaftab]

I think I'm right in saying Burnley are the best supported team in the UK as a proportion of town population to team attendance.

No Small Heath are the best. Population of their town is 45000 all out of work and at least 25% have been at the matches.

[silhillvilla]

No way. It's West Smethwick Bromwich followed closely by Sports Direct Utd FC

[Toronto Villa]

I fucking love the optimism around the club right now. How completely ridiculous it is to write that a few short months after Hull...

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I was at the hull away game spent the night there, that was bad.
Re-reading that thread is even worse. I think I have post traumatic stress disorder

hideous night on so many levels. And the PM thread is as much resignation as anger. In fact there was a lot of that even leading up to that game. You didn't know whether to shout anymore as it didn't do any good, so a lot of people just shrugged their shoulders at the endless misery.

[silhillvilla]

I fucking love the optimism around the club right now. How completely ridiculous it is to write that a few short months after Hull...

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I was at the hull away game spent the night there, that was bad.
Re-reading that thread is even worse. I think I have post traumatic stress disorder

hideous night on so many levels. And the PM thread is as much resignation as anger. In fact there was a lot of that even leading up to that game. You didn't know whether to shout anymore as it didn't do any good, so a lot of people just shrugged their shoulders at the endless misery.

I remember walking out on about 84 mins, walking around the non description generic external circumference of the ground looking for my way back to the taxi rank, losing focus, popping back in , watching Ciaran Clark fir a few seconds launch a ball 80 feet skywards, walking out again getting disorientated and then exiting the complex in the wrong direction over the wrong bridge, a shit end to a god awful night, in many ways it epitomised Lamberts tenure. Lost, directionless , confused with no compass , direction or leadership .

[Percy McCarthy]

I think I'm right in saying Burnley are the best supported team in the UK as a proportion of town population to team attendance.

They must be PW. A few years back I remember hearing that gates of 16k represented 20% of the population - then the highest in all 4 divisions as a percentage - and I assume their current gates are around 20k

I vaguely recall reading something years ago about them averaging 37,000 when the town's population was about 80k.

[Mister E]

I fucking love the optimism around the club right now. How completely ridiculous it is to write that a few short months after Hull...

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53601.0

I was at the hull away game spent the night there, that was bad.
Re-reading that thread is even worse. I think I have post traumatic stress disorder

I too have reflected on my visit to Hull and the sheer hopelessness that permeated throughout the Villa faithful that night. We were inept and listless. Sinclair's first game (?) offered absolutely no sense of forward momentum.
The only positive was the complete ineptitude of Lambert's response and the vitriolic 'Lambert Out' movement amongst us.

It all seems so far back, thank goodness.