As a villa fan i find the Blues situation rather hilarious. I hope you all enjoy travelling to the likes of Oldham next season. haha.
Wetherby - we can't be that bad, we took four points of you.
Hmmm, for a team as "big" as Villa, along with your billionaire owner, and a manager who has spent 10s of millions on fairly average players over the years (Benteke excepted), you haven't exactly been setting the Premiership alight just later either!
In fact had you sold Benteke at the close of last season, it would have been difficult to know where your next goal was going to come from, culminating in almost certain relegation this season.
But as it is, Benteke got you out of the mire, and you've only just about avoided playing the likes of Bolton, Huddersfield & Brentford next season.
So you may well be the BIG club of the W. Midlands, and that you've splashed all that cash; but you're not exactly winning any trophies for the W. Midlands are you? In fact, finishing in the bottom half of the Premiership is pretty poor VFM in anyone's book!
Must try harder next time, or down you go!
But you've finished almost bottom of the championship. I know which place I'd rather be in haha
dr, yes by kicking lumps out of us on your manager's say so! He did the same whilst at Oldham. . Hopefully you can enjoy playing Sheff U and Barnsley next season.
Felt a bit bad for Elsie when he got the boot, given his w/l/d record and the great unbeaten league run we had, but the time was right for a change. Hope he stays up with Brum, but like having lots of derby games in the league, so would rather donny stayed up than got relegated too haha. As for the Villa fan, we're proud of our club this season, just a bit frustrated. But we've made improvements and will finish slightly higher than last season, so there's progress. Where's your progress exactly?
Villa could still go down yet, really hope they can get something at Man City though.....c'mon Liverpool!
Liverpool
Everton
Villa
Birmingham
Donny
Wetherby and Josh.
No offence intended in my earlier comment.
It is all about expectation isn't it though.
At Donny we know that we will only ever be busting a gut just to stay in the division.
Leeds fans called us a pub team a few years back and we adopted the name and it kind of suits us, a little fish in a big pond.
To be fair at our home game we didn't kick lumps out of Hudds, we won fair and square and were the better team on the day.
I didn't go to the game at your place so i can't comment.
I can see Blouse getting a point and Donny losing. Who knows though. Will the Foxes really be that bothered?
Nah, most bluenoses realize the writing is on the wall and are getting ready for life in Lge One
As chuffed as you lot may be, it has a knock on effect with other W'Mids teams as the area becomes perceived as a football dead-end/non-entity and ultimately this impacts on the quality of perspective buyers and the prices clubs go for and the players who are willing to come in [for the right reasons rather than just for the right wage].
Accordingly, indirectly you are affected, in a negative way, by our fall from grace.
But I'm sure you'll enjoy it nonetheless!
I really couldn't disagree more.
There's an old saying that 'in order for you to succeed, others need to fail".
If Vile, Vulvahamptom and Blouse are all out of the top flight then it will only benefit the Albion.
Imagine if you're a young local player choosing which Academy to go to. There'll only be one option. And if you're a potential sponsor, which club will give you global exposure?
Here comes the wizard!
Imagine a street with line of houses in varying states of disrepair.
However one is a 'stand out' amongst them.
Do you really think that this house will command a decent price despite the ones around it being 'shoddy'?
And do you think that this price would only be similar or equal to what it would fetch if all the houses were in good repair?
Simple economics would say that the worth of that house is considerably less than it could be because of the surrounding ones.
Even worse for that particular house, ones adjacent [even those in a poor state of repair] could even be viewed as a better option/with more potential to buy/invest in.
The next lecture will be on hummingbirds wing oscillations and the impact this has on tree farming...
Bloody estate agents eh.
What about a lecture on the difference between the African or European Swallow.
Killpage what you have said would be true IF football clubs were houses but they aren't, they're businesses and in business do you invest in the failing company? Not really, do you invest in the one with a mountain of debt or the self efficient one?
In a football business sense there is nothing that could brought morrow beneficial than your local rivals failing. You become more likely to grab the younger generations fans and turn them towards your club. You get the local talent turning there attention towards your clubs academy simply because you have finished in a stronger position. You get more exposure in the press for being number 1 in your area.
Did woolworths manage to tempt investors? Of course not because they were an outdated failing company and the smart money for they field of retail was to invest in say WH Smith or say Home Bargains.
Non the less the football fan in me wants every midlands club to succeed because quite frankly no match beats a local derby.
I hear what you are saying Woys but we are talking about a closed shop here with a captive audience.
Being the best of a bad bunch cant be better than being the worst of a good one.
comment by KillPage!...Slowly! (U7093)
posted 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
Imagine a street with line of houses in varying states of disrepair.
However one is a 'stand out' amongst them.
Do you really think that this house will command a decent price despite the ones around it being 'shoddy'?
And do you think that this price would only be similar or equal to what it would fetch if all the houses were in good repair?
Simple economics would say that the worth of that house is considerably less than it could be because of the surrounding ones.
Even worse for that particular house, ones adjacent [even those in a poor state of repair] could even be viewed as a better option/with more potential to buy/invest in.
The next lecture will be on hummingbirds wing oscillations and the impact this has on tree farming...
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But we live in the Premiership street where all the multi millionaires live!
comment by KillPage!...Slowly! (U7093)
posted 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
I hear what you are saying Woys but we are talking about a closed shop here with a captive audience.
Being the best of a bad bunch cant be better than being the worst of a good one.
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I guarantee that if there were more Premiership clubs in Newcastle then Newcastle Utd would get less revenue. However, because teams like Heaton Stannington FC are failing, all the attention, all the fans, all the sponsorship and all the potential is focussed on NUFC!
By the way. If Vile and Blouse lose on Saturday then then the wizard may be making a few more appearances!
Is the FL & FA a closed shop for managers or what?
Leek Lark whose team lie 2nd last in the league, takes the reigns at Blackpool; bottom of the league.
Although he cannot be blamed for our recent 0-8 defeat by B'mouth, he had seemingly lost his way after a fairly 'bright' start [at least by our recent standards].
I know the H'field lot were up and down about him, and at B'ham we will be mostly down about him, but in some respects I pity the B'pool fans at the moment because it is seemingly an uninspired appointment.
I do wish LC the best of luck at his new job, but am not sorry to see him go, even if things possibly get worse at Stans.
For any aspiring managers who have, or want to have a new take on things though, it is a bit disappointing for them and hardly inspires new, radical thinkers to come through the game into management.
Jobs for the boys?
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posted on 29/4/14
As a villa fan i find the Blues situation rather hilarious. I hope you all enjoy travelling to the likes of Oldham next season. haha.
posted on 29/4/14
Wetherby - we can't be that bad, we took four points of you.
posted on 29/4/14
Hmmm, for a team as "big" as Villa, along with your billionaire owner, and a manager who has spent 10s of millions on fairly average players over the years (Benteke excepted), you haven't exactly been setting the Premiership alight just later either!
In fact had you sold Benteke at the close of last season, it would have been difficult to know where your next goal was going to come from, culminating in almost certain relegation this season.
But as it is, Benteke got you out of the mire, and you've only just about avoided playing the likes of Bolton, Huddersfield & Brentford next season.
So you may well be the BIG club of the W. Midlands, and that you've splashed all that cash; but you're not exactly winning any trophies for the W. Midlands are you? In fact, finishing in the bottom half of the Premiership is pretty poor VFM in anyone's book!
Must try harder next time, or down you go!
posted on 29/4/14
But you've finished almost bottom of the championship. I know which place I'd rather be in haha
posted on 29/4/14
dr, yes by kicking lumps out of us on your manager's say so! He did the same whilst at Oldham. . Hopefully you can enjoy playing Sheff U and Barnsley next season.
posted on 29/4/14
Felt a bit bad for Elsie when he got the boot, given his w/l/d record and the great unbeaten league run we had, but the time was right for a change. Hope he stays up with Brum, but like having lots of derby games in the league, so would rather donny stayed up than got relegated too haha. As for the Villa fan, we're proud of our club this season, just a bit frustrated. But we've made improvements and will finish slightly higher than last season, so there's progress. Where's your progress exactly?
posted on 29/4/14
Villa could still go down yet, really hope they can get something at Man City though.....c'mon Liverpool!
posted on 30/4/14
Liverpool
Everton
Villa
Birmingham
Donny
posted on 30/4/14
Wetherby and Josh.
No offence intended in my earlier comment.
It is all about expectation isn't it though.
At Donny we know that we will only ever be busting a gut just to stay in the division.
Leeds fans called us a pub team a few years back and we adopted the name and it kind of suits us, a little fish in a big pond.
To be fair at our home game we didn't kick lumps out of Hudds, we won fair and square and were the better team on the day.
I didn't go to the game at your place so i can't comment.
posted on 30/4/14
I can see Blouse getting a point and Donny losing. Who knows though. Will the Foxes really be that bothered?
posted on 30/4/14
Nah, most bluenoses realize the writing is on the wall and are getting ready for life in Lge One
As chuffed as you lot may be, it has a knock on effect with other W'Mids teams as the area becomes perceived as a football dead-end/non-entity and ultimately this impacts on the quality of perspective buyers and the prices clubs go for and the players who are willing to come in [for the right reasons rather than just for the right wage].
Accordingly, indirectly you are affected, in a negative way, by our fall from grace.
But I'm sure you'll enjoy it nonetheless!
posted on 30/4/14
I really couldn't disagree more.
There's an old saying that 'in order for you to succeed, others need to fail".
If Vile, Vulvahamptom and Blouse are all out of the top flight then it will only benefit the Albion.
Imagine if you're a young local player choosing which Academy to go to. There'll only be one option. And if you're a potential sponsor, which club will give you global exposure?
Here comes the wizard!
posted on 30/4/14
Imagine a street with line of houses in varying states of disrepair.
However one is a 'stand out' amongst them.
Do you really think that this house will command a decent price despite the ones around it being 'shoddy'?
And do you think that this price would only be similar or equal to what it would fetch if all the houses were in good repair?
Simple economics would say that the worth of that house is considerably less than it could be because of the surrounding ones.
Even worse for that particular house, ones adjacent [even those in a poor state of repair] could even be viewed as a better option/with more potential to buy/invest in.
The next lecture will be on hummingbirds wing oscillations and the impact this has on tree farming...
posted on 30/4/14
Bloody estate agents eh.
What about a lecture on the difference between the African or European Swallow.
posted on 30/4/14
Killpage what you have said would be true IF football clubs were houses but they aren't, they're businesses and in business do you invest in the failing company? Not really, do you invest in the one with a mountain of debt or the self efficient one?
In a football business sense there is nothing that could brought morrow beneficial than your local rivals failing. You become more likely to grab the younger generations fans and turn them towards your club. You get the local talent turning there attention towards your clubs academy simply because you have finished in a stronger position. You get more exposure in the press for being number 1 in your area.
Did woolworths manage to tempt investors? Of course not because they were an outdated failing company and the smart money for they field of retail was to invest in say WH Smith or say Home Bargains.
Non the less the football fan in me wants every midlands club to succeed because quite frankly no match beats a local derby.
posted on 30/4/14
I hear what you are saying Woys but we are talking about a closed shop here with a captive audience.
Being the best of a bad bunch cant be better than being the worst of a good one.
posted on 30/4/14
comment by KillPage!...Slowly! (U7093)
posted 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
Imagine a street with line of houses in varying states of disrepair.
However one is a 'stand out' amongst them.
Do you really think that this house will command a decent price despite the ones around it being 'shoddy'?
And do you think that this price would only be similar or equal to what it would fetch if all the houses were in good repair?
Simple economics would say that the worth of that house is considerably less than it could be because of the surrounding ones.
Even worse for that particular house, ones adjacent [even those in a poor state of repair] could even be viewed as a better option/with more potential to buy/invest in.
The next lecture will be on hummingbirds wing oscillations and the impact this has on tree farming...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But we live in the Premiership street where all the multi millionaires live!
posted on 30/4/14
comment by KillPage!...Slowly! (U7093)
posted 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
I hear what you are saying Woys but we are talking about a closed shop here with a captive audience.
Being the best of a bad bunch cant be better than being the worst of a good one.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I guarantee that if there were more Premiership clubs in Newcastle then Newcastle Utd would get less revenue. However, because teams like Heaton Stannington FC are failing, all the attention, all the fans, all the sponsorship and all the potential is focussed on NUFC!
posted on 30/4/14
By the way. If Vile and Blouse lose on Saturday then then the wizard may be making a few more appearances!
posted on 31/10/14
Is the FL & FA a closed shop for managers or what?
Leek Lark whose team lie 2nd last in the league, takes the reigns at Blackpool; bottom of the league.
Although he cannot be blamed for our recent 0-8 defeat by B'mouth, he had seemingly lost his way after a fairly 'bright' start [at least by our recent standards].
I know the H'field lot were up and down about him, and at B'ham we will be mostly down about him, but in some respects I pity the B'pool fans at the moment because it is seemingly an uninspired appointment.
I do wish LC the best of luck at his new job, but am not sorry to see him go, even if things possibly get worse at Stans.
For any aspiring managers who have, or want to have a new take on things though, it is a bit disappointing for them and hardly inspires new, radical thinkers to come through the game into management.
Jobs for the boys?
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