Fans Advisory Board

[Des Little]

‘We’re not all anti American…we just don’t like you, Chris’

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Make it happen

[Villan82]

Did you hear the line from Heck that we're all "anti-American"?

The man talks through his arse. I'm just surprised he's not doing yoga so he can give himself a BJ. He's on borrowed time.

When did he say this? I must have missed it.

[jon collett]

He's made a few patronising comments recently.

The narrative of which is he is the financial expert doing the right thing and his critics are small minded obsessives with empty lives.

[Villan82]

He's made a few patronising comments recently.

The narrative of which is he is the financial expert doing the right thing and his critics are small minded obsessives with empty lives.

We might be small minded obsessives but we were here long before he came and will be here long after he leaves and if he wants us to part with our money buying up the 'product' and merch he needs to shift to hit his targets then he would do well to keep us onside and stop the high handed approach.

[jon collett]

He's made a few patronising comments recently.

The narrative of which is he is the financial expert doing the right thing and his critics are small minded obsessives with empty lives.

We might be small minded obsessives but we were here long before he came and will be here long after he leaves and if he wants us to part with our money buying up the 'product' and merch he needs to shift to hit his targets then he would do well to keep us onside and stop the high handed approach.

Agree but I think his audience is other practitioners in his industry and he wants to explain away the adverse publicity him and Villa have got recently. Unfortunately he’s never going to care what Villa supporters think.

[dekko]

He's made a few patronising comments recently.

The narrative of which is he is the financial expert doing the right thing and his critics are small minded obsessives with empty lives.

Original version of this post i was asking for a link to the anti-american comment but I've found this, which I assume the poster was referring to:

https://www.crossingbroad.com/2024/07/this-isnt-wrexham-a-q-a-with-former-sixers-president-chris-heck-now-running-business-operations-for-the-premier-leagues-aston-villa.html

There’s only one thing that matters. It’s European football, and that’s it. That’s what matters. It really is part of their life, their lifestyle, it’s family, it’s generational. Everyone takes it really personally, and I respect that, and you have to be very careful with that. But I also want to win. If your compass is the right compass of ‘win” by also being respectful and doing things (the right way). I was reading something (recently), and I’ve been pretty good about getting off of social media. But I was getting destroyed for something that was wildly successful, just getting destroyed. But it’s 20 or 30 people killing you. So that’s kind of the game, the deal. The anti-American thing, it’s real. It’s real. And in many ways I get it. If you look at the way the (United States national team) has played this summer, you’re kind of like, ‘really? you’re the expert?‘ (laughing) But what I’ve been saying to everybody is that I’m not claiming to be the expert on the sporting side. I’m an expert on the business side. And I’m not apologizing for that. I do believe I surround myself with really good people. And I do believe that I will deliver results, and I do believe that they’ll be happy in the end. Change is tough. Change is hard.

I don't think its fair to say that he's calling fans 'small minded obsessives with no lives' hes just making the point that football is EXTREMELY important to people here.  And I think the anti-american comment is fair too - quite a lot of people in english football have a natural aversion to americans getting involved in the sport - sometimes with good reason!

The far more concerning thing with the quote for me is that I actually think he understands us and supporter culture better than we might think, its just that where it comes into conflict with his objectives he doesnt care.

[dalians umbrella]

He's made a few patronising comments recently.

The narrative of which is he is the financial expert doing the right thing and his critics are small minded obsessives with empty lives.

Got a link?

I'm starting to see a number of 'quotes' from the guy (like the anti-american one earlier) and often they turn out to be either things he's never said, or someone taking what hes actually said, then reading between the lines (and reading between those lines as well).

He definitely said the anti-american thing -  I saw him say it here

https://www.youtube.com/live/2Ox5fSxGfpg?si=lF2qjRdCfLKSQl44&t=4258

[jon collett]

Yep as I said what he says literally is designed to create a narrative around the business expert and the unfair critics.

[Sexual Ealing]

I think he's confusing us being anti-Chris Heck with being anti-American. Some of the worst people I've ever known have been American and we got on fine.

[Gareth]

https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fan-groups-stage-stopexploitingloyalty-protests/

Don’t know if it will achieve anything but seems like a lot of recurring messages from lots of fanbases.  Needs unity though…and definitely needs some more of the FAB to follow Dave’s principles and show it up for what it is

[dalians umbrella]

https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fan-groups-stage-stopexploitingloyalty-protests/

I find Sing Fong's prices to be very reasonable. I think this is out of order.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

How do our prices compare with Liverpool, Man U and Newcastle.

These are probably the closest to us in terms of geography and performance even if the first two are much bigger brands.