[quote=“therock67”]The lack of prestige is surely an indictment of Aston Villa - hardly an argument to support their supposed superiority over Celtic. You’re supposed to be arguing for the merits of Villa, not protesting about how hard they have it.
The difference between the domestic tv reveune earned by the bottom club in the EPL versus the top club is about 20m - Derby earned 36m in tv revenue last year. The Premier League have paid the clubs outside the top 4 higher increments than those in the top 4 in order to level out the earnings - the increases went from 55% for the 20th club to 25% for the top earning club. Not sure how this supports the notion that the gap is widening.
One of the reasons you’ve fallen away is a lack of ambition to spend your money on ambitious signings - it’s not a shortfall of cash that Villa fans should complain about.
Again, the money is there - so why complain about how hard it is to break into the Top 4. If that is Villa’s aim then it’s defeatist to be talking about how the gap cannot be bridged. Arsenal aren’t outspending Aston Villa - they’re just a better run club.
Whatever about the mistakes made by DOL off the field, you’re overstating the progress made under MON to date. He’s brought about stability and progress from where ye finished in DOL’s last season but he’s achieved nothing yet.
Ah God here we go. Richie Foran was reasonable in the SPL. Noel Hunt was good after a slow start - cracking attitude that lad. Didn’t Roy Keane do ok in the EPL? Not sure what this obsession is about the Eircom League. Paul McGrath came from there did he not? Of course players are going to leave the Eircom League and do well, it’s just no more guaranteed in the SPL than it is anywhere else - look at the disaster under Stephen Kenny at Dunfermline as an example.
You didn’t see enough of him. A great Celtic player.
Clutching at straws there - Sutton must be a shit forward because the following dissimilar players are shit too. Rooney, Totti, Kaka, Ronaldo are all cracking forwards and all cracking midfielders. They prove nothing though.
No, you said he had SPL medals. I asked you how many he had. I know he has a league cup medal but his most amount of appearances in a season was 12 so not sure whether that got him a medal or not.
Yeah it was a good sign under Jansen. And they won the League Cup under Barnes/Dalglish - not the Cup.
You seemed excited enough about it the other week.
That’s my point exactly about John O’Shea. Does he make Manchester United crap because he’s won medals. It’s simple to pick on the odd individual but it doesn’t support the larger point.
You’ve seen Hearts once this year - bit of a rash judgement. They’ve gone seriously backwards in recent years though.
I have time for Strachan, just think he can be tactically naive sometimes, but more importantly there’s been a lack of fight in some big games like Barcelona away, Huns (away last season; home this season), United away that worries me.[/quote]
I will respond to this tomorrow rock. i spent bout ten mins typing a response but it logged me out when i clicked send.
