AGM - Protest

[peter w]

Serious question - short of one of them having a spare £150 million, how will 'we' get 'our' Villa back?

Oh come on. The fans crying out for their Villa back is exactly that. Its not a cry over the specifics of someone buying the club or players putting in a shift, or us having having better behind the scenes management, but we just want to be watching a half-decent Villa team. not the one gurgling around the plug hole that is now going to finally drop. The sentiment is one of pain, hurt, and desperation. It isn't a question that needs answering but more a heartfelt plea to be able to just go down and watch a Villa team again and enjoy supporting the Villa.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Serious question - short of one of them having a spare £150 million, how will 'we' get 'our' Villa back?

Oh come on. The fans crying out for their Villa back is exactly that. Its not a cry over the specifics of someone buying the club or players putting in a shift, or us having having better behind the scenes management, but we just want to be watching a half-decent Villa team. not the one gurgling around the plug hole that is now going to finally drop. The sentiment is one of pain, hurt, and desperation. It isn't a question that needs answering but more a heartfelt plea to be able to just go down and watch a Villa team again and enjoy supporting the Villa.

Good answer.

[Chris Harte]

Serious question - short of one of them having a spare £150 million, how will 'we' get 'our' Villa back?

Oh come on. The fans crying out for their Villa back is exactly that. Its not a cry over the specifics of someone buying the club or players putting in a shift, or us having having better behind the scenes management, but we just want to be watching a half-decent Villa team. not the one gurgling around the plug hole that is now going to finally drop. The sentiment is one of pain, hurt, and desperation. It isn't a question that needs answering but more a heartfelt plea to be able to just go down and watch a Villa team again and enjoy supporting the Villa.

Good answer.

Seconded. Very good answer.

[dave.woodhall]

So they're calling for some unspecified aim with an unknown way of getting it.

[brian green]

Seconded   Very good answer.

[levico]

So shut the feck up and put up with it then?

[brian green]

No Do what we have done in the past. Do the pain, like all proper football fans are called on to do from time to time. And respect the club even if we can't respect the individuals.

[Chris Harte]

So shut the feck up and put up with it then?

I wouldn't put it like that. If people want to protest then let them protest. From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful. What are supporters if they haven't got a voice?

[Witton Warrior]

The whole "we want our Villa back" is admittedly a metaphysic plea but a real one, an allusion to a an ideal. Should we never sing about "the greatest team the world has ever seen"?
Accepting any particular negative status quo while paying money to maintain it is perverse and calls for action on the part of those involved.
Otherwise we accept that we are helpless and have no impact on the situation (a parallel of today's political landscape) so I say everyone acts in their own way (as long as it is legal) and it is accepted as being in good faith even if we do not agree with it.
All these unwritten rules about how football fans are suppose to act are just bizarre.

[Dave Cooper please]

From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful.

They can intend it to be peaceful all they want, but I bet it won't be.

[saunders_heroes]

From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful.

They can intend it to be peaceful all they want, but I bet it won't be.

What do you mean, are you expecting some kind of riot?

[Chris Smith]

From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful.

They can intend it to be peaceful all they want, but I bet it won't be.

What do you mean, are you expecting some kind of riot?

There is clearly the potential for some people to take things too far and for the police to get involved. I hope not because if that does happen it becomes the story rather the original intentions.

[Witton Warrior]

From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful.

They can intend it to be peaceful all they want, but I bet it won't be.

What do you mean, are you expecting some kind of riot?

There is clearly the potential for some people to take things too far and for the police to get involved. I hope not because if that does happen it becomes the story rather the original intentions.

There is always the potential for people to take things too far whatever the circumstances - should the match be banned because there is a potential for disorder when 25,000 fans gather in one place? Of course not - not acting in case something negative might happen seems pretty extreme in itself - nobody would ever get out of bed...

[Chris Smith]

From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful.

They can intend it to be peaceful all they want, but I bet it won't be.

What do you mean, are you expecting some kind of riot?

There is clearly the potential for some people to take things too far and for the police to get involved. I hope not because if that does happen it becomes the story rather the original intentions.

There is always the potential for people to take things too far whatever the circumstances - should the match be banned because there is a potential for disorder when 25,000 fans gather in one place? Of course not - not acting in case something negative might happen seems pretty extreme in itself - nobody would ever get out of bed...

That's an obvious distortion of the point I made. I was answering the question about there being a riot not passing a view on whether people should do it or not. We all saw from the Baggies game last year, when a celebratory pitch invasion was reported as a return to the dark ages, that these things happen.

[conman]

From what I've seen the organisers have insisted that the protest is intended to be peaceful.

They can intend it to be peaceful all they want, but I bet it won't be.

What do you mean, are you expecting some kind of riot?

There is clearly the potential for some people to take things too far and for the police to get involved. I hope not because if that does happen it becomes the story rather the original intentions.

There is always the potential for people to take things too far whatever the circumstances - should the match be banned because there is a potential for disorder when 25,000 fans gather in one place? Of course not - not acting in case something negative might happen seems pretty extreme in itself - nobody would ever get out of bed...

That's an obvious distortion of the point I made. I was answering the question about there being a riot not passing a view on whether people should do it or not. We all saw from the Baggies game last year, when a celebratory pitch invasion was reported as a return to the dark ages, that these things happen.

You predict a riot