Quote from: Kingthing on October 09, 2017, 09:10:04 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on October 09, 2017, 08:52:31 PMQuote from: Kingthing on October 09, 2017, 04:39:18 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on October 09, 2017, 03:29:37 PMQuote from: Kingthing on October 08, 2017, 09:20:12 PMQuote from: wittonwarrior on October 08, 2017, 03:22:05 PMWithout knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.When we started the new London Lions we were told there were 10,000 exiled Villa fans down here for the taking, "build it and they will come" we were told. We've built it but despite, between, the four of us (North, East, South and West London) having over 500 members there's only enough interest to get 2/3 coaches a season. We have (almost) our own bar in Elephant and Castle and the London Lions Football Team doing the rounds. We're spreading the love but people have other priorities. Of those 10,000 exiled Villans, only 5 of us managed to get to Millwall on that Friday night. They'll all want Wembley tickets though........Kingthing does a great job of herding the London Villa cats, sorting tickets, sorting pubs out, getting oversized Lions flags knocked up.I wouldn't be going to half the games if it wasn't for him.Oh shut ya face.I'm not complimenting you, I'm accusing you of facilitating almost a decade of miseryThere's more coming your way . It'll be the Christmas outing soon.Brilliant - can we hold it in Millwall?
Quote from: Chico Hamilton III on October 09, 2017, 08:52:31 PMQuote from: Kingthing on October 09, 2017, 04:39:18 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on October 09, 2017, 03:29:37 PMQuote from: Kingthing on October 08, 2017, 09:20:12 PMQuote from: wittonwarrior on October 08, 2017, 03:22:05 PMWithout knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.When we started the new London Lions we were told there were 10,000 exiled Villa fans down here for the taking, "build it and they will come" we were told. We've built it but despite, between, the four of us (North, East, South and West London) having over 500 members there's only enough interest to get 2/3 coaches a season. We have (almost) our own bar in Elephant and Castle and the London Lions Football Team doing the rounds. We're spreading the love but people have other priorities. Of those 10,000 exiled Villans, only 5 of us managed to get to Millwall on that Friday night. They'll all want Wembley tickets though........Kingthing does a great job of herding the London Villa cats, sorting tickets, sorting pubs out, getting oversized Lions flags knocked up.I wouldn't be going to half the games if it wasn't for him.Oh shut ya face.I'm not complimenting you, I'm accusing you of facilitating almost a decade of miseryThere's more coming your way . It'll be the Christmas outing soon.
Quote from: Kingthing on October 09, 2017, 04:39:18 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on October 09, 2017, 03:29:37 PMQuote from: Kingthing on October 08, 2017, 09:20:12 PMQuote from: wittonwarrior on October 08, 2017, 03:22:05 PMWithout knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.When we started the new London Lions we were told there were 10,000 exiled Villa fans down here for the taking, "build it and they will come" we were told. We've built it but despite, between, the four of us (North, East, South and West London) having over 500 members there's only enough interest to get 2/3 coaches a season. We have (almost) our own bar in Elephant and Castle and the London Lions Football Team doing the rounds. We're spreading the love but people have other priorities. Of those 10,000 exiled Villans, only 5 of us managed to get to Millwall on that Friday night. They'll all want Wembley tickets though........Kingthing does a great job of herding the London Villa cats, sorting tickets, sorting pubs out, getting oversized Lions flags knocked up.I wouldn't be going to half the games if it wasn't for him.Oh shut ya face.I'm not complimenting you, I'm accusing you of facilitating almost a decade of misery
Quote from: Chico Hamilton III on October 09, 2017, 03:29:37 PMQuote from: Kingthing on October 08, 2017, 09:20:12 PMQuote from: wittonwarrior on October 08, 2017, 03:22:05 PMWithout knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.When we started the new London Lions we were told there were 10,000 exiled Villa fans down here for the taking, "build it and they will come" we were told. We've built it but despite, between, the four of us (North, East, South and West London) having over 500 members there's only enough interest to get 2/3 coaches a season. We have (almost) our own bar in Elephant and Castle and the London Lions Football Team doing the rounds. We're spreading the love but people have other priorities. Of those 10,000 exiled Villans, only 5 of us managed to get to Millwall on that Friday night. They'll all want Wembley tickets though........Kingthing does a great job of herding the London Villa cats, sorting tickets, sorting pubs out, getting oversized Lions flags knocked up.I wouldn't be going to half the games if it wasn't for him.Oh shut ya face.
Quote from: Kingthing on October 08, 2017, 09:20:12 PMQuote from: wittonwarrior on October 08, 2017, 03:22:05 PMWithout knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.When we started the new London Lions we were told there were 10,000 exiled Villa fans down here for the taking, "build it and they will come" we were told. We've built it but despite, between, the four of us (North, East, South and West London) having over 500 members there's only enough interest to get 2/3 coaches a season. We have (almost) our own bar in Elephant and Castle and the London Lions Football Team doing the rounds. We're spreading the love but people have other priorities. Of those 10,000 exiled Villans, only 5 of us managed to get to Millwall on that Friday night. They'll all want Wembley tickets though........Kingthing does a great job of herding the London Villa cats, sorting tickets, sorting pubs out, getting oversized Lions flags knocked up.I wouldn't be going to half the games if it wasn't for him.
Quote from: wittonwarrior on October 08, 2017, 03:22:05 PMWithout knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.When we started the new London Lions we were told there were 10,000 exiled Villa fans down here for the taking, "build it and they will come" we were told. We've built it but despite, between, the four of us (North, East, South and West London) having over 500 members there's only enough interest to get 2/3 coaches a season. We have (almost) our own bar in Elephant and Castle and the London Lions Football Team doing the rounds. We're spreading the love but people have other priorities.
Without knowing for sure, I would think that a lot of the UK distance Lions Clubs are suffering not only from the relegation directly but from the lack of 3pm kick offs.Shame that London being such a large city/area cannot organise travel on a weekly basis but I suppose people have much more choice as to time off activities as well as the expense of modern day football.
Quote from: shirley_villan on October 09, 2017, 06:30:40 PMWasn't gonna star a new thread but may as well put it in here.Anyone know if there's any Villans in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)? Am off to Vietnam and Cambodia soon for three weeks and will be in Saigon for the Blues game. Not far enough away from there for my liking.
Wasn't gonna star a new thread but may as well put it in here.Anyone know if there's any Villans in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)? Am off to Vietnam and Cambodia soon for three weeks and will be in Saigon for the Blues game.
I should relay the story of why I started a supporters club in the first place as it makes me chuckle. I grew up on the South Coast and one Friday night in the pub my dad asks if I fancied going to Man Utd away tomorrow. We never win there and the travel is horrendous, but a day out with my dad with a few drinks and seeing all his old friends seemed like a good idea so I say yes. Next morning I'm up and at it early but he is still sleeping. We miss a train and still no dad. So I wake him up and ask when he plans on getting up. 'Oh I'm not going'. 'Why not?' 'Because you bought my ticket'. It was JPA's first game for us (I believe, lost 3-0) and I had to leave early to get the train back to London to make the last train to the coast. I spent the journey on my own and thought that there must be other idiots out there like me sitting on their own drinking beer so I started up a supporters club.
Quote from: Canadian Villa on October 10, 2017, 06:11:55 PMI should relay the story of why I started a supporters club in the first place as it makes me chuckle. I grew up on the South Coast and one Friday night in the pub my dad asks if I fancied going to Man Utd away tomorrow. We never win there and the travel is horrendous, but a day out with my dad with a few drinks and seeing all his old friends seemed like a good idea so I say yes. Next morning I'm up and at it early but he is still sleeping. We miss a train and still no dad. So I wake him up and ask when he plans on getting up. 'Oh I'm not going'. 'Why not?' 'Because you bought my ticket'. It was JPA's first game for us (I believe, lost 3-0) and I had to leave early to get the train back to London to make the last train to the coast. I spent the journey on my own and thought that there must be other idiots out there like me sitting on their own drinking beer so I started up a supporters club. Great story. Did you ever trust your dad after that?!
To be fair, he always produced a ticket for me when it counted in the days before Mobiles and the Internet. And I now have a reason to trot out this old story. cheers! http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-tony-xia-most-12325881
Of those 10,000 exiled Villans, only 5 of us managed to get to Millwall on that Friday night. They'll all want Wembley tickets though........
Quote from: Pat McMahon on October 10, 2017, 09:22:11 PMQuote from: Canadian Villa on October 10, 2017, 06:11:55 PMI should relay the story of why I started a supporters club in the first place as it makes me chuckle. I grew up on the South Coast and one Friday night in the pub my dad asks if I fancied going to Man Utd away tomorrow. We never win there and the travel is horrendous, but a day out with my dad with a few drinks and seeing all his old friends seemed like a good idea so I say yes. Next morning I'm up and at it early but he is still sleeping. We miss a train and still no dad. So I wake him up and ask when he plans on getting up. 'Oh I'm not going'. 'Why not?' 'Because you bought my ticket'. It was JPA's first game for us (I believe, lost 3-0) and I had to leave early to get the train back to London to make the last train to the coast. I spent the journey on my own and thought that there must be other idiots out there like me sitting on their own drinking beer so I started up a supporters club. Great story. Did you ever trust your dad after that?!To be fair, he always produced a ticket for me when it counted in the days before Mobiles and the Internet. And I now have a reason to trot out this old story. cheers! http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-tony-xia-most-12325881
Quote from: Canadian Villa on October 10, 2017, 10:50:11 PMQuote from: Pat McMahon on October 10, 2017, 09:22:11 PMQuote from: Canadian Villa on October 10, 2017, 06:11:55 PMI should relay the story of why I started a supporters club in the first place as it makes me chuckle. I grew up on the South Coast and one Friday night in the pub my dad asks if I fancied going to Man Utd away tomorrow. We never win there and the travel is horrendous, but a day out with my dad with a few drinks and seeing all his old friends seemed like a good idea so I say yes. Next morning I'm up and at it early but he is still sleeping. We miss a train and still no dad. So I wake him up and ask when he plans on getting up. 'Oh I'm not going'. 'Why not?' 'Because you bought my ticket'. It was JPA's first game for us (I believe, lost 3-0) and I had to leave early to get the train back to London to make the last train to the coast. I spent the journey on my own and thought that there must be other idiots out there like me sitting on their own drinking beer so I started up a supporters club. Great story. Did you ever trust your dad after that?!To be fair, he always produced a ticket for me when it counted in the days before Mobiles and the Internet. And I now have a reason to trot out this old story. cheers! http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-tony-xia-most-12325881Just remind me not to fall out with you Canadian- your pops once had me in a head lock for fun - top fella he was