Supporters Consultation Group meeting at Villa Park
Thursday, 07 December 06, 05:23 PM · Comments (3)
There is another meeting coming up on December 16th at Villa Park and the fifteen representatives attending are going to bring their top three ideas or suggestions with them.
From what I can gather these are going to be canvassed from the groups that these people represent. For example if you pop over to Villa Talk or Heroes and Villains they've both got threads open and you can leave a suggestion.
Also, from what I can gather, once the representative has read out and listened to all ideas and suggestions he or she then has to mark each idea or suggestion as a five, three or one and the ones with the top scores get put forward.
Like I said, this is only from what I can gather but what follows is an extract from the initial post on Heroes and Villains.
As discussed on Wednesday night, at each meeting, each representative will be asked to bring with them their top three questions, ideas or suggestions. We hope you have already begun canvassing your members for opinion. Each representative will be given the opportunity to air their top three to the group. After everyone has had their turn, each individual will be asked to submit their top three questions “rated” in order of priority (5 points to the most important question, 3 points to the second and 1 point to the third).
I'm probably misunderstanding the suggestion, which I'm guessing came from Aston Villa, but why bring three along if you can only submit one?
What I mean is, if each person at the meeting is representing a group, that has already predetermined which one is most important, i.e. scores a five, why not cut to the chase and send an email?
Or does the representative have carte blanche to change their group decision on what is the most important idea or suggestion without consulting his or her group, when at the meeting?
I'm easily baffled but it seems to me like a waste of time. Not the canvassing for ideas or suggestions but the meeting. It also looks like the club don't know what they're doing. I feel sorry for the people at the club that have to go through this charade and act all surprised at the suggestions. God forbid one of them say 'great idea'.
I'm guessing now but I wouldn't be surprised if every employee at the club could give atleast ten suggestions on how to make the 'experience' better and they should probably be asked first, in my humble opinion.
The good news is that the club are going to change the song that the players run out to. I know, it's not really exciting news but it appears that it's wanted. I know from personal experience that the song makes my day on the rare occasions I go to Villa Park and I can't wait for the new one.
There is an irony however in how they are going to pick the song. Rather than using the voting facility available on the official web site the club have decided to use another web site, Voice in a Crowd.
What about the fans that don't have internet access or are Voice in a Crowd going to canvass the 30,000 or so that are at the Bolton game?
Like I've said in the past, this is too much like pandering to certain supporters groups and websites. The fact of the matter is Aston Villa could serve cold pies and warm beer on a match day. If the team was winning nobody would really complain or care that much.
Mr Lerner has only had control of the club for a short time and he doesn't need to be doing all of this. We all know that Martin O'Neill is going to need a couple of seasons and I think I speak for most Aston Villa fans when I say that we'd probably give him more as long as we saw the team heading in the right direction. Can we not give football a chance first?
Anyway, if you feel like it head over to one of the forums and suggest something. Alternatively if you're a member of a supporter club contact your chairman and make a suggestion; if you think it makes a difference or is of any real consequence.
I won't be as I just want to see Aston Villa playing attractive football and winning matches. If they put three past Manchester United they can come running out to Delilah for all I care and I didn't need to take a vote to know that!
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what happens if each group comes up with the suggestion to get woodward off villa world? are the club going to sack him or move on to something else? i doubt it .. so what is the point?
Unfortunately, my life is far too busy to make suggestions to Randy how he should run our club in regards to getting rid of the 'Thunderbirds countdown'. All I care about is making sure he supports the best manager ANY team in England and ENGLAND could have.
Randy, if O'Neill wants the wonderful Shaun Wright Phillips or the much maligned Adi Akinbiyi, regardless, buy em. The most important thing about Villa right now is the manager and how he WILL get us back to where we belong.
If anyone gets a Carte Blanche, it should be The Messiah. Yes, I'd like the old badge back, no, I don't want our shirts to be Nike, yes, I actually like the 'Thunderbirds countdown', no, we don't need a digital scoreboard (for Christ's sake, we are not American goldfish with only a 2 second memory capacity).
But forget all that, give Martin O'Neill the players he wants, I guarantee he won't want too much. Football, that's all now, football. Under recent managers I have been too concerned about our image, how we accomadate away fans, what our sponsors are...but that was because I had to grasp to certain points of pride cos we weren't doing it on the pitch.
Although I'd love us to be sponsored by Davenports again, it's not gonna happen. Arsenal have been very successful of late, but now they have to play at the Al Queeda stadium. ManUre have been so bereft of pride for so long it is untrue. Chavski have bought their success and I know plenty fans of theirs that are bored senseless.
So, what do we want? I want a club that can regain it's status, which let's face it won't take that much. I'm talking about Aston Villa. The fans are there, the stadia and the history. We now have THE MANAGER. O'Neill, with proper backing, will put us back on top, oh yes.
We don't need to change anything about what we know and love about our Saturday afternoon's experience except what happens on the pitch. I don't want kids in Warrington or Wellington, New Zealand buying Villa strips, that doesn't interest me at all. We could be Newcastle - a big team, in Newcastle, with plenty of money to throw at Wonderflops. We could be liverpool, so desperate to grab on to the mere sniff of their previous success that they end up flogging a dead horse.
We are Villa, reborn yes, but we don't have our head in the clouds. There is no point PRETENDING to be a big team, like the way Spurs do. Let's prove it. The ONLY way to do that is on the pitch. Back O'Neill Randy, everything else is just wallpaper.
The only thing that does irk me off the pitch would be the shirt sponsorship, 32RED.com. Villa is a family club, owned by an American (a nation which famously has a problem with gambling of all description), so I'd like and expect that to be gone...but at the same time, you can forget KFC or McDonalds!
I'll give you 3 suggestions Randy/Martin - SWP, Alan Smith and Wes Brown (at right back), as regards anything else, you can do pancakes & waffles instead of pies if you want, I really do not give a toss.
Up the Villa!
when did the f**king (edited) song become so important? i vote with you - tom jones and delilah - my my my villa!
it dont matter what song is played but if a few want to think they were involved let em. its a bit of a joke the whole thing