Happy anniversary to us

[kippaxvilla2]

Something definitely happened to the platform in 2005 and we all had to re-register.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Yup. I remember finding on dial-up the Manila H&V  site and only posted on threads that were on the main page. I think it took me a few months to realise there was a forum behind the home page. Little did I know how bloody addictive it would become.

Apart some of the great people I've met through this place, the real truth is I probably (most certainly) would have given up on the Villa years ago if it hadn't existed. Thanks to broadband and you lot on here, I haven't missed a game in god knows how many years. There are plenty I wish I had but then it's all part of the journey.. I hope. An FA Cup Final win would do nicely to complete my set. Until then..

Congratulations and a BIG thank you to Dave, Mac, Martin and Eig, the Mods and everybody else that has made this place what it is.

[kippaxvilla2]

There can’t have been many other areas to go to in the early days as you had to put x % Villa etc in the subject title.

[cdward]

Total Time Spent Online:42 days, 8 hours and 20 minutes, that's a lot of reading about the Villa, more time than actually watching the games.
Great forum, which has kept me connected to reading and talking about the Villa since moving away from Birmingham nearly 30 years ago, which i am thankful for.

Keep up the good work.

[Bernie]

Well done all, I don't even want to think about how many hours I have spent basically 'listening ' to other people's conversations....and long may it continue.

[CT Villan]

The best Villa-related site around, though it can't be a coincidence that since it started Villa have never won a trophy of any real standing !

[Brazilian Villain]

Blimey, how the years slip by. Easily the best football forum in the world, and I've made some amazing and lifelong friends through this place.

Thanks to everybody involved in setting it up and keeping it going over the years, including Dave, Mac, Martin, Lee and all the other moderators.

H&V has given me hours of pleasure, anger, laughs, education and friends I have never met.  Thank you to all concerned.

I've been on here 20 years and echo all of those sentiments, really was a great outlet during lockdown. Well done to all involved!

However I have to point out that H&V has been online for 25 years and Villa haven't won a trophy for 26 years. Just saying!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

There can’t have been many other areas to go to in the early days as you had to put x % Villa etc in the subject title.

Only the Mailing List until H&V came along.

[PaulWinch again]

Well done and congratulations!

[Toronto Villa]

25 years and we've fuck all in that time other than a Peace Cup and promotion. Good grief we've been shit. H&V OUT

[Rudy Can't Fail]

2001 - Intertoto Cup Winners!

[brian green]

All of human life is here.   That was the motto of the now defunct News of the World but it is a good fit for H and V.

[Brazilian Villain]

All of human life is here.   That was the motto of the now defunct News of the World but it is a good fit for H and V.

Very true, only yesterday I read "It's the Son wot won it" in the post-match thread.

[Nelly]

I remember signing up to vent about David O'Leary - I thought the forum seemed like an honest bunch of lads.

It's strange and rather stalker-ish to say, but I feel like I know so many of you; having read, laughed, grimaced, empathised and inevitably despaired along with you for many years. H&V is a huge part of my Villa support. I'd be lost and uninformed without it.

Someone get out the orange dot for old time sake.

[Sexual Ealing]

I remember signing up to vent about David O'Leary - I thought the forum seemed like an honest bunch of lads.

Sugarbag.