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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7635 on: July 24, 2024, 07:32:06 AM »
Great post, amfy.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7636 on: July 24, 2024, 07:33:02 AM »
Isn’t that just the structure of the roof?
« Last Edit: July 24, 2024, 07:35:23 AM by FatSam »

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7637 on: July 24, 2024, 07:57:55 AM »
Well said Amfy, spot on. The atmosphere at women's games is lovely, lots of exited little girls - and boys singing for the VIlla.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7638 on: July 24, 2024, 09:07:23 AM »
Came across this on Twitter.

If you notice the roof of the Trinity, it has the stripes, both of adidas, but also the Villa shirt collar.

No idea if it's fake, though I suspect it may be, but nice nonetheless.




Is that not just a shadow from the steel work under the roof?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7639 on: July 24, 2024, 09:09:45 AM »
Anyone know anything about the LEDs going in the ground? Are they going to be new displays or did they just mean lights?

When I heard it I thought they might be putting the boards on all tiers so they can do bigger displays.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7640 on: July 24, 2024, 09:17:50 AM »
Spot on, Amfy.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7641 on: July 24, 2024, 09:19:43 AM »
Anyone know anything about the LEDs going in the ground? Are they going to be new displays or did they just mean lights?

When I heard it I thought they might be putting the boards on all tiers so they can do bigger displays.

From 2021, but it seemed all concourse lighting at Villa Park was due to be changed to LED. They might have also done the floods although not sure if they can be done or not.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7642 on: July 24, 2024, 09:31:49 AM »
Came across this on Twitter.

If you notice the roof of the Trinity, it has the stripes, both of adidas, but also the Villa shirt collar.

No idea if it's fake, though I suspect it may be, but nice nonetheless.





Fake. It still has Castore and BK8 branding

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7643 on: July 24, 2024, 09:32:18 AM »
Came across this on Twitter.

If you notice the roof of the Trinity, it has the stripes, both of adidas, but also the Villa shirt collar.

No idea if it's fake, though I suspect it may be, but nice nonetheless.




Is that not just a shadow from the steel work under the roof?

Probably, but it's quite a coincidence!

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7644 on: July 24, 2024, 10:19:19 AM »
Isn’t that just the structure of the roof?

Lulz, when things are going well, people will just look for the positivity in anything Villa-related  ;D

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7645 on: July 26, 2024, 06:52:34 PM »

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7646 on: July 26, 2024, 06:55:43 PM »
Nice.

I wonder what’s going on the top part.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7647 on: July 26, 2024, 06:58:49 PM »
Great post Amfy.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7648 on: July 26, 2024, 07:03:19 PM »
Nice.

I wonder what’s going on the top part.

My guess would be one big board with the Adidas logo on it.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #7649 on: July 26, 2024, 07:07:39 PM »
As a child who loved football, I really wanted to play, but girls pretty much just didn’t then.

I love that girls play now, and that they can see a way forward for their ambition. I used to dream of playing for Villa just like boys did, but it was some wild ‘out there’ convoluted thing with loads of barriers to get through.

My grandson’s teams have girls in. Even before the women won the Euros, it still seemed a bit odd seeing them there, but after the England women won the Euros, something changed and it just looked right.

I watch our Villa women when they are on TV, and have been to a few games in person and whilst it isn’t ’the same’ it’s enjoyable. Like Boozey & Risso, I don’t hurt about the Villa women’s team in the same way, but I follow the women’s fans Facebook page, and there are a massive group of fans that do. Obviously not as massive as the men’s team, but it’s all relative as crowds iro 5000 is still a big number. It is important to a lot of people.

For a lot of families now it’s a cheap and easy way to take in a Villa game when they couldn’t otherwise. The atmosphere is better for small children than the aggression in men’s football crowds. For those reasons it will grow.

We don’t do this with other sports. Female runners, tennis players, rowers, gymnasts etc aren’t called out for not being as good as the men. The women’s game has a long way to go in terms of the standard, but more and more girls are growing up with a ball at their feet now, and this will change. In my grandson’s team, one of the girls is one of the best players now, she’s the one who has the natural movement, the drop of the shoulder, the twists and turns that make everyone look.

There has clearly been a tradition of it being a ‘men's game’, but just like we now see parents taking their daughters in a way they only used to take their sons to games, it’s changing.

I don’t believe in a forced parity. I agree that the talking about teams without saying they are the women’s team is a major annoyance. I nearly had a heart attack when our women’s team announced their new Manager! They shouldn’t be paid as much as the men until they bring in the money that the men’s game does. It’s. The entertainment industry at the end of the day. I don’t think the women winning the Euros was like the men winning it, but it was fun.

It has its place & its supporters, and they walk past that wall too, and little girls who love Villa see someone they can aspire to be, alongside their male heroes. Being able to ‘see yourself’ there is something men have always taken for granted. Now we can too.

🙌

 


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