Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[Legion]

Bump! I'm worried that this thread is dying a death and slipping off the front page!

[JD]

Thank you Legion. Us foreign contingent must have been very busy over the weekend, as none of us posted. Still, Monday morning again.

I'm, worried that everyone at work will talk about the All Blacks all day.  ](*,)  :smt015  :smt015

[Stu]

Erm, yes. Actually it doesn't bother me how other people may or may not see my supporting the Villa. I know how it hurts when we lose, I know how it feels to be hate to think about football, and a defeat for about 3 days after we've lost. I know how my day/night/weekend/week feels after we've won. (So does the missus). So, I'm not bothered by others.

All I care about is when I get my one trip a year pencilled in for the UK I want see the Villa. The strange thing is as much as I yearn a victory. Its enough just being there. If we lose I'm peed off, but I'm just happy to have been to the Ruskin Hall with the old man for our pre-match drinks. To have walked past Aston Hall. To have seen the ground. To have climbed the steps into the Upper Holte. To take my seat and look at the 4 stands. To take in the atmosphere. To get right back into it. To hopefully celebrate a goal. Even the opposition scoring gets you right back into it. Then to have our pint or two back in the Ruskin Hall after the game. reliving every bit of the game and pulling apart every aspect of our performance. Chips on the way home. Then out on the evening. MOTD taped if we haven't lost. Great wind-up from A lbion and Nose mates. Then a ruby.

Its what its become to me. I miss it. I'm itching to get to Villa Park again. It has become an event rather than a day now due to the time away from the place. Rather than the real supporting of thousands of miles away where I can feel physically nauseous watching us hold on to a 1 nil lead from the first minute onwards.

Wouldn't swap it for the world.

Next game pencilled in is Watford at home in mid-late Jan.

Another Ruskin Hall man!  Bloody good place that, and they let you in at 9 in the morning for a 12 kick off.  If you're having chips on the way back peter w, go to the chippy round the corner from there - its fookin' lovely.

[peter w]

I know the chippy you are referring to. however, a creature of habit we'll lose if I go to the wrong chippy after the game. It has to be the usual one. its all about karma.

Anyway, good to see another Ruskin Hall person on here. All these Bartons namby-pambies with their, 'oooh, look at us in our own drinking room in a pub that serves ale from outer-mongolia which means it must be great because we're arty-farty camra types' haven't got a clue.

JD I sympathise with you. But this is where you can just give them the, 'Yeah, well, but rugby's bollocks. Football is the only game'. 'Soccer', 'No, REAL football, not your egg-chasing variety'. That'll wind them up. Always worked in Oz.

[Legion]

So....we only lose if you go to the wrong chippy AFTER the match.... :-k

[peter w]

Yep. I don't make the rules. Just follow them.

[tonyh]

I know the chippy you are referring to. however, a creature of habit we'll lose if I go to the wrong chippy after the game. It has to be the usual one. its all about karma.

Anyway, good to see another Ruskin Hall person on here. All these Bartons namby-pambies with their, 'oooh, look at us in our own drinking room in a pub that serves ale from outer-mongolia which means it must be great because we're arty-farty camra types' haven't got a clue.

JD I sympathise with you. But this is where you can just give them the, 'Yeah, well, but rugby's bollocks. Football is the only game'. 'Soccer', 'No, REAL football, not your egg-chasing variety'. That'll wind them up. Always worked in Oz.

I used ruskin hall many many years ago is it stll CIU?

It was a great club then, went to a Birthday party 3 years ago and it looked a bit run down with the bloke on the door wearing beer down his shirt. So whats it like now? what beers do they sell?

As it still got snooker tables in the back.

I also like the bartons as well (old newtown boy). the spicy nut snack they do is great bloody spicy chillies, and decent ale but i do go in there anonymously as i have only used this site for a few months.

[peter w]

Yeah it is still CIU, and yes the snooker tables are still there. Although, i haven't been for a year or so now. honestly cannot rememebr the beers. However, if lager's your ting the variety is a tad poor.

But you're now in the Ruskin Hall club. We now number 3. We'll get a crew together and go down and take those Barton's facker's.

[Stu]

Yeah it is still CIU, and yes the snooker tables are still there. Although, i haven't been for a year or so now. honestly cannot rememebr the beers. However, if lager's your ting the variety is a tad poor.

But you're now in the Ruskin Hall club. We now number 3. We'll get a crew together and go down and take those Barton's facker's.

Sorry guys the snooker tables have gone  There's no 'real ale' sold in there but it does sell mild, which pleases my dad no end.  With Mann's Brown Ale obviously.

[JD]

Mild? Isn't that the warm dregs from the trays poured into a barrel and then resold?

Sounds like a great place to go, no decent beer and no entertainment. With the bloke on the door with beer down his shirt it sounds like the Pub from Two Pints of Lager...  :-k  #-o

[peter w]

Sells lager. What's your problem?

[tonyh]

oh dear the ruskin seems to have seen better days.

But the walk from there to the ground is unsurpassed

If we plan to take the bartons we best do it when the generals not there.

[peter w]

Meh, its only snooker tables. Why play when you've Gillette Soccer saturday being shown? Anyway, something tells me General 'He's been shot twice, I've done my homework' crucklock has never heard of The Bartons...

[MysticRaven]

I bought a lovely handbag today!!!  \/  \/  \/

[villajk]

Did you.  What's it like?

I'm worried that it was terribly expensive. \/