Villa Park Redevelopment

[Dave P]

Assuming they have genuine long term ambitions for the club, there's only one reason for canning the NS redevelopment, and that's the prospect of a whole new stadium.

There's literally nothing else I can think of that makes sense.

Yep, I also think that is the case and if it is based in the city centre or the NEC, it will be built as more of a 'venue' for big events than just a football ground.  NFL comes to Birmingham?

I hope not.

Each to their own when it comes to following sports, I've even watched a couple of Super Bowls when drunk and unemployed, but I'd rather not have a bunch of 7ft meatheads tearing the shit out of our pitch, personally.

Agreed. And the people. The people! I used to see them on the tube when they played at Wembley. Let's just say there will have been tens of thousands of empty single bedrooms, tens of thousands of mothers putting on their own slippers and tens of thousands of episodes of Doctor Who left unwatched on those evenings.

I've encountered similar in London on said days, thousands of them bedecked in hideous oversized NFL "merch", mispronouncing "defence", pretending they're from San Francisco rather than Stevenage, stinking of virginity.

Do we all still support Cleveland Browns or has that died out now?

[Brazilian Villain]

Stephen Fry has this nailed decades ago on some TV programmem or other, ridiculing the British people who have a great desire to be American, dressing as cowboys, calling people motherfucker or asking you "did you see the 49ers last night?". They are usually accountancy clerks from Lincolnshire Gloucestershire or some such.

FTFY...

That like jazz?

[Risso]

Maybe...

[Drummond]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

[Meanwood Villa]

In my humble opinion, American football is a superior sport to football, definitely in how it is organised. I sometimes think the only reason I'm still interested in football is Villa. On which topic, I've never been able to have an NFL team as my team because I just can't recreate a lifetime's worth of unhealthy obsession.

[LeeB]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

They could get the Albion in as well, have both of their games on a double bill as a kind of matinee. Could also use it as a akind of low level punishment for minor offenders.

[Sexual Ealing]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

Wouldn't bother me, but I don't live (or drink) in the city.

[Des Little]

None of us drink in town.  Not one.

[Chris Harte]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

Yeah, let's have our super dome.

In Aston.

We can send in the bulldozers at their place, then tell them to go kick a bag of wind around at the Ricoh.

[pablo_picasso]

In my humble opinion, American football is a superior sport to football, definitely in how it is organised. I sometimes think the only reason I'm still interested in football is Villa. On which topic, I've never been able to have an NFL team as my team because I just can't recreate a lifetime's worth of unhealthy obsession.

I am in this camp.

I enjoy NFL as a spectacle because I have no emotional stake in the teams.

Its the same reason I enjoy non league football & football from other nations.

[FatSam]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

Aren't Inter and Milan both planning their own stadia away from the San Siro to improve their financial competitiveness? Being tenants of municipal stadia is one of the main things that has held back Italian clubs. Inter and Milan are obviously pretty evenly matched in terms of their size. Bayern and 1860 originally had equal shares in the Allianz Arena, but 1860 sold their share to Bayern and now play in the third tier anyway. That is probably a more relevant comparison to Villa and Blues.

[tomd2103]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

Said on here before that the only way I'd even begin to consider a move away from Villa Park would be if it was to a spectacular stadium in the city centre that would enable us to really move on as a club.  Even then, I still would be uncertain. 

Absolutely no to sharing with those cretins from the other side of the city though. 

[Risso]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

It would never happen. Nobody is going to want to build a new stadium like that, as it would make any potential sale of the club in future next to impossible. If they're going to the bother of getting external investment, those investment partners aren't going to want to buddy up with somebody else. It'd be like the ill fated experiemnt of having joint managers in charge of football teams. And that's without the reaction of fans of both clubs who'd be 100% dead against it.

[Monty]

For those who'd entertain/really want a move, how would you feel if we were to go Milan style, with a super-mega dome that we were to share (and when I say share, I mean we'd fill it for our games and they'd maybe fill a bottom tier?)

It would never happen. Nobody is going to want to build a new stadium like that, as it would make any potential sale of the club in future next to impossible. If they're going to the bother of getting external investment, those investment partners aren't going to want to buddy up with somebody else. It'd be like the ill fated experiemnt of having joint managers in charge of football teams. And that's without the reaction of fans of both clubs who'd be 100% dead against it.

Oof, this is the only time I've ever been tempted though. Not by the ground sharing, but the idea of the Villa playing in a futurist revival football cathedral...that's kinda cool.

[eamonn]

Roy Evans and Gerrard Houllier, the co-managing dream-team.