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Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3285 on: December 01, 2021, 10:29:09 PM »
what's the point anymore? Aston Villa, the original super club. Biggest club in the Midlands. Former European champions. Now, stuck in a game where what counts is that your billionaire owner has more billions than the next billionaire owner.

Everything that has happened today has been a real reminder of how crap the modern game is and why I just don't know why anybody should bother with it.

The obvious contradiction with that is that our particular billionaire owners have more money than all but three other billionaire owners in the English game.
Yeah but at the same time the investment we have made is more sustainable - investment throughout the whole club.  Pep has spent nearly a billion pounds on a team that had already won the league.  Buying players like joe have who they don’t need just cos they can - the likes of them and maybe Newcastle are playing a different game - one that’s about building the owners reputation for when oil isn’t the world currency

Yeah, i don't disagree with any of that really, but just saying, if we think the billionaire thing is bad, think about the tens and tens of clubs to whom we are a moneyed bunch of interlopers

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3286 on: December 01, 2021, 10:32:02 PM »
what's the point anymore? Aston Villa, the original super club. Biggest club in the Midlands. Former European champions. Now, stuck in a game where what counts is that your billionaire owner has more billions than the next billionaire owner.

Everything that has happened today has been a real reminder of how crap the modern game is and why I just don't know why anybody should bother with it.

The obvious contradiction with that is that our particular billionaire owners have more money than all but three other billionaire owners in the English game.
Yeah but at the same time the investment we have made is more sustainable - investment throughout the whole club.  Pep has spent nearly a billion pounds on a team that had already won the league.  Buying players like joe have who they don’t need just cos they can - the likes of them and maybe Newcastle are playing a different game - one that’s about building the owners reputation for when oil isn’t the world currency
Thing is  - at this level  -  the key is the right manager.  Pep ain’t all that. Just always had great  players. 

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3287 on: December 01, 2021, 10:34:56 PM »
From the moment that bloody tweet was sent it has been a sobering day.

What tweet was that?

The official club twitter put out a montage of Joe Grealish and said we all welcomed him back to Villa park tonight!

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3288 on: December 01, 2021, 10:35:36 PM »
How could they possibly think that tweet was a good idea?

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3289 on: December 01, 2021, 10:39:57 PM »
what's the point anymore? Aston Villa, the original super club. Biggest club in the Midlands. Former European champions. Now, stuck in a game where what counts is that your billionaire owner has more billions than the next billionaire owner.

Everything that has happened today has been a real reminder of how crap the modern game is and why I just don't know why anybody should bother with it.

The obvious contradiction with that is that our particular billionaire owners have more money than all but three other billionaire owners in the English game.
Yeah but at the same time the investment we have made is more sustainable - investment throughout the whole club.  Pep has spent nearly a billion pounds on a team that had already won the league.  Buying players like joe have who they don’t need just cos they can - the likes of them and maybe Newcastle are playing a different game - one that’s about building the owners reputation for when oil isn’t the world currency

Yeah, i don't disagree with any of that really, but just saying, if we think the billionaire thing is bad, think about the tens and tens of clubs to whom we are a moneyed bunch of interlopers
Yeah I agree - although as a club we seem to be a bit more grounded into our history.  That’s why I wanted dean and joe to lead us to success as it had some integrity about it. 

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3290 on: December 01, 2021, 11:32:15 PM »
From the moment that bloody tweet was sent it has been a sobering day.

What tweet was that?

The official club twitter put out a montage of Joe Grealish and said we all welcomed him back to Villa park tonight!

Ah, yes - not a great idea in my humble opinion.

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3291 on: December 01, 2021, 11:32:42 PM »
What has really fucking pissed me off all through today is this idea that we're some sort of feeder team and should be grateful that we had the opportunity to train up a player until one of the proper clubs wanted him. And what has really, REALLY fucking pissed me off is that the worst culprits have been some of our own supporters. 

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3292 on: December 02, 2021, 12:25:30 AM »
What has really fucking pissed me off all through today is this idea that we're some sort of feeder team and should be grateful that we had the opportunity to train up a player until one of the proper clubs wanted him. And what has really, REALLY fucking pissed me off is that the worst culprits have been some of our own supporters. 

Some truly sickening behaviour in the ground today.

Offline Smirker

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3293 on: December 02, 2021, 12:28:52 AM »
What has really fucking pissed me off all through today is this idea that we're some sort of feeder team and should be grateful that we had the opportunity to train up a player until one of the proper clubs wanted him. And what has really, REALLY fucking pissed me off is that the worst culprits have been some of our own supporters.

Yes 👍

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3294 on: December 02, 2021, 12:32:30 AM »
And what I don't understand is this:

Whe Andy Gray left for a British record fee we had a fatwah on him for years. When Platt left he was generally ignored. When Yorke left he was public enemy number one. There was none of this we should be grateful and thank him bollocks then. What's different now?

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3295 on: December 02, 2021, 12:41:44 AM »
And what I don't understand is this:

Whe Andy Gray left for a British record fee we had a fatwah on him for years. When Platt left he was generally ignored. When Yorke left he was public enemy number one. There was none of this we should be grateful and thank him bollocks then. What's different now?

Personally, I want a fatwa on him. But to consider your question, is part of the reason that he tried to play the nice guy and said nice things about us while and after leaving? Also, with the rest, we liked them for their footballing ability whereas Joe was all that + local boy and fan done good... bit more special?

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3296 on: December 02, 2021, 12:51:43 AM »
And what I don't understand is this:

Whe Andy Gray left for a British record fee we had a fatwah on him for years. When Platt left he was generally ignored. When Yorke left he was public enemy number one. There was none of this we should be grateful and thank him bollocks then. What's different now?

Personally, I want a fatwa on him. But to consider your question, is part of the reason that he tried to play the nice guy and said nice things about us while and after leaving? Also, with the rest, we liked them for their footballing ability whereas Joe was all that + local boy and fan done good... bit more special?

It wasn't even that. The narrative was he did really well for us and we got a lot of money for him so we should all poliltely applaud and not be horrible.

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3297 on: December 02, 2021, 01:04:15 AM »
And what I don't understand is this:

Whe Andy Gray left for a British record fee we had a fatwah on him for years. When Platt left he was generally ignored. When Yorke left he was public enemy number one. There was none of this we should be grateful and thank him bollocks then. What's different now?
It sort of confirms this notion of two types of fans, we belong in the legacy fans bucket.
The power of celebrity has taken over and sadly a significant part of our fan base has fallen for it.

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3298 on: December 02, 2021, 01:13:37 AM »
And what I don't understand is this:

Whe Andy Gray left for a British record fee we had a fatwah on him for years. When Platt left he was generally ignored. When Yorke left he was public enemy number one. There was none of this we should be grateful and thank him bollocks then. What's different now?
It sort of confirms this notion of two types of fans, we belong in the legacy fans bucket.
The power of celebrity has taken over and sadly a significant part of our fan base has fallen for it.


Sadly, that's probably the right answer.

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Re: NSWE Investment
« Reply #3299 on: December 02, 2021, 01:16:12 AM »
41,450 there tonight. Far too many forelock tugging bootlickers for my liking mind.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2021, 01:18:30 AM by Ads »

 


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