ou812
The link didn't work for me either

AH. No worries Poppycock. Thanks for replying.

I cant see Lerner pitching up at Villla Park ever again unless our fortunes are turned round by some miracle, this proves to me that money is his only interest and motivation, where we go from here is seriously concerning, who the hell would want to buy us? Millions need investing in the team to make us competitive again, and for me I fear that once the playing assets have gone the next thing will be Bodymoor Heath, I can also see naming rights for Villa Park being sold. We are a shambles and have been conned by our American owner who teased us into thinking he was for real, we now know he is just another money grabbing tw*t.

Could be worse though...We could be Small Heath or Forest fans...

ou812
I think GWS was reffering to VP becoming Carbon Neural

ou812
Villa Park has remained a very special sporting arena from the day the club moved here nearly 116 years ago.

And from Sunday, this famous venue assumes even greater significance as it officially becomes a carbon-neutral stadium.

The plan is to cut energy use, reduce waste and minimise greenhouse gas emissions in the stadium.

The positive steps being taken towards ever-greater sustainability will not only pay for themselves but will release additional funds to power our ambitions.

Working in partnership with Clearway Sustainability Resources, the club has identified its carbon emissions and offset them completely with carbon credits purchased from renewable energy projects around the world.

As a result, we have now achieved full carbon neutrality, an achievement recognised by the award of Clearway's Carbon Neutral Certification.

"We take issues around environmental sustainability and our responsibilities very seriously," says Villa's chief executive Paul Faulkner.

"Over the years we have engaged in a number of activities to ensure that we are doing everything we can to protect the environment around us.

"We are delighted to partner with Clearway and for our iconic home, Villa Park, to become a carbon neutral stadium."

"It's a privilege to be working with Aston Villa and to help them achieve their low carbon objectives" said Matthew Sullivan, Clearway's chief executive.

"Our unique systems delivered the sourcing, management, settlement and retirement infrastructure that enabled Villa Park to use global carbon funding mechanisms to demonstrate their clear commitment to the environment."

Here's an outline of some of the club initiatives that have made a major impact on our environmental performance:

- We operate a comprehensive waste management programme, and are currently recycling 70 per cent of waste.

- We engage in responsible printing, with 98 per cent of our printed materials produced by a member of the Forest Stewardship Council.

- Our electricity consumption has been decreasing for the past nine years, with heating, lighting and electrical equipment remotely controlled.

- Up to 85 per cent of our food is sourced from the five counties surrounding the West Midlands, helping us to win the Green Restaurant Award (Purchasing) last year.

- We have a structured travel plan, aimed at significantly reducing the number of cars visiting Villa Park.

- Water-saving taps have meant our water consumption has fallen over the past three years.

We are proud of what we have achieved so far, but the work goes on.

Together with Clearway we plan to enhance our sustainability and improve our efficiency still further.

With the support of fans, staff, sponsors and the wider community, those plans can be put into effective action.

About Clearway

Commercial pressures, customer preferences and corporate ethics all point in the same direction: towards attaining carbon neutrality and reporting sustainability initiatives.

Clearway cuts through the complexities and confusions of carbon management, enabling companies, institutions and individuals to take prompt and effective action towards carbon neutrality and sustainable operations.

Whatever the size and sector of your business, wherever you are on your journey towards full sustainability, we have the services you need to add value to your environmental initiatives, improve your profitability and build your brand.

Mmm...Soon to be Premiership Neutral!

ou812

lol ha ha good one

"We take issues around environmental sustainability and our responsibilities very seriously," says Villa's chief executive Paul Faulkner.

"Over the years we have engaged in a number of activities to ensure that we are doing everything we can to protect the environment around us.

Shame you didnt think about doing the same for the team

"We take issues around wage sustainability and our responsibilities very seriously," says Villa's chief executive Paul Faulkner.

"Over the years we have engaged in a number of activities to ensure that we are doing everything we can to protect the owners investment around us.


Change a couple of words and much nearer the truth

Aint that the truth !!!

poppycock I am standing as the local Green Party Candidate so I am sure I can rely on your vote

Keith

Change a couple of words and much nearer the truth

Because Villa Park is in a smokeless Zone would it would be wrong of me to say that the Fat Controller is trying to put up a ‘smoke screen’ to stop us seeing the truth with all this environmental nonsense?

expat

Only changed 2 words

expat/keithj

you def lift the doom and gloom. I read that GG is training again after his op I wonder if he'll get fit enough to make an appearance this season.

expat007 you're bang on there mate. It's the oldest trick in the PR book.

Cypriotvilla
What time do you finish work, just wondered what time the info would be coming thru.

The positive steps being taken towards ever-greater sustainability will not only pay for themselves but will release additional funds to power our ambitions.

Oh....& what ambitions is he talking about?

Anyone read the corner set piece stats so far this season in the Mail ?

Aston Villa: Corners Conceded 168..
Goals Conceded from Corners 8..
Average amount of corner faced before we concede a goal 21..

We have successfully defended 160 out of the 168 corners this season.

We are the 4th best team in the league for defending corners because we have conceded so many.
We're all right then, we won't concede another goal from a corner until another 21 attempts.

Sorted!

Jonnah that's actually a really interesting stat and something I was thinking about whilst watching the Everton game. We concede so many corners (and set pieces for that matter) that it's no surprise that most of the goals we concede are from them!

It didn't by any chance have attacking corner stats as well did it?

Desert - It's just talking about the amount of goals that are conceded from corners.

Interestingly
QPR 1st with conceding the most corners 191 and conceding the same amount of goals as us 8.
WBA 2nd conceding 170 corners only conceding 4.
Sunderland 3rd conceding 162 corners conceding 0.
Aston Villa 4th... conceding 168 corners conceding 8.

Fulham in 8th conceding 157 corners conceding 8.

There are no other teams on 8 or more goals conceded in the league.

Here's the link:
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/special-feature-aston-villa-writer-1295323

That Sunderland stat is impressive. Say what you like about MON but he certainly knows how to manage set pieces.

The sooner our crap defenders learn not to concede stupid free-kicks in and around our penalty area the lease amount of goals we will let in!!Simply logic why cant the players see it!!

Agreed, Sunderland 0 goals conceded from 162 corners how good is that, is Cuellar playing every game, wouldn't surprise me...

poppy

is it holding faulkner's mobile phone for him during the transfer window ?

bit of an easy job that, wouldn't have to do much

The strikers I do not have a problem with at all, what a great strike-force we have. As it proved against Everton, three superb goals away from home. If we can just play with some industry every week going forward as we have just seen and against West Brom away it will give us a fighting chance and hopefully it eradicates our short falls in defence.

We have to keep getting in the box and scoring goals. One of these games we will score goals and the defence will just about manage to hold out, and we can go on and obtain 3 points. Surely by the law of averages we have to hold out once or twice in the up and coming games?

Just one win could make all the difference, which gives the whole team some confidence but we have to find that win, the strikers are pulling their weight for the rest. We just need that defence to hold out once, and we may start to see a change and take some momentum into the following game.

England tonight - brings back memories of when we supplied half the squad.

Belgium v Slovakia tonight.
Saying Benteke is the starting XI. Could do with him been pulled off after 45 minutes.

He's doing it, the man in form but we need to keep him fresh.

Saying Benteke is the starting XI. Could do with him been pulled off after 45 minutes

Yanked off and we're in a misdemeanor.

Wind

England v Brazil. Going for a Welbeck goal and 2-1 England.

England to edge it 1 - 0 Rooney !

Premier League apart, love the England games especially v Brazil.

Followed Villa and England around for many a year home and away.

Nothing better than going away with England, with the 5m x 3m woven stitched St.Georges Cross Flag with Aston Villa's Name and Crest Proudly Flying High.

Good half.. 1-0 England

Benteke playing in a 4-3-3 with Dembele and Mirallas.

Belgium 1 - 0 up (Hazard) HT

More of the same boys for the 2nd half. Friendly who care's.

Lampard and Baines coming on.

YYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get in 2-1 England

Bads
Has Cypriot sent the email then?

Bads

From Cypriot's previous post's not sure if he is in Cyprus or not... We would assume the emails would arrive after he finished work UK time around midnight ??

just came on to see if there was any news from,cypriot villa.
nothing yet.christ it better be a headliner story.
and whats all this crap about villa going green.have to agree with VILLAMON75,
we are a football club.what next,turn villa park into a bloody wind farm.
what total garbage.

no email yet!! Anyone else?

SJH,
hi mate,this cypriot story has gone on all week.its wearing a bit thin now.
why didnt he just say,he heard a roumer.
like i did about lerner going into motor sport.

hi jcv,i bet its the motor sport thing and hes just dug himself into a hole.Dont forget none of us knew about that when he first mentioned his news.

Sjh
He came on and said it wasn't the news about the Motorsport

POPPYCOCK,
mate,it better be good after us all waiting.

oh did he? Thanks poppycock,im excited again now He better not be doing overtime!!!

I would like to think we give Cypriot a cut off period till around midnight or so..

I've not gone back through the posts but as he explained he was off to work during this afternoon, and as he explained he would send all findings to everyone who submitted their emails after he finished work..

Lambert called a team meeting to tell them "we need to start winning ugly" couldn't make it up.

ive got a gut feeling.that cypriot is going to give us old news,regarding players leaving.and why they left.
whereas we are all hoping that he is selling up,and has found a buyer.
any bets.?

He's had his chips if he's a WUM.

Take that.. England 2-1 Brazil

Even though a friendly!! I did say 2-1 before the game

It's a magical scoreline... !

WIND,
i take it that lamberts new tactics are suddenly becoming mcleishes ones.
he has lost it mate.

Now back to the Villa !

Belgium 1 -1 Slovakia

Not sure if Benteke played the full game

jcv I just think it smacks of desperation, but why would that even need saying? very worrying about the teams mental capacity in this situation.

Ireland beat Poland 2-0 Clarke scored

Tearsonmyscarf
You're being negative and everything will be alright

lads,
this is starting to remind me,of the villa in the late sixties.whereas we had a board,lost of any ideas and bankrupt.we now have an owner lost of any ideas,but not skint.
but acting as though he is bankrupt.
it really is time for the new generation of fans,to do the same as we did.and let him know how we feel.
otherwise,this man will take us lower,than we have been before.
it really is that bad.
forget results or upsetting players etc,the time to act is now.the players aint producing anyway.
so what difference does it make.they are probably as pissed off as us.

Tearsonmyscarf

Everything will be ok because fatty Faulkner said so, and he does not lie does he?

MUZ1,
hi mate,
what the hell is happening to our club.
dark days.

I want to say something constructive but just find myself totally uninterested by all of it. I am so angry with RL, Fat Faulkner, Lambert and the players that part of me wants us to get relegated to prove them as the idiots they are. The problem is that when we go down and the all important £ drops then they will all jump ship as quick as they can. Then it will be us fans left with a ruined club.

Remember all you manager and player loving fans, they are just custodians and are always transient, it is the club and US fans that are perpetual and the most important part of Villa as without us there is no club.

Evening jcv,

It must be obvious even to the most positive of supporters that Lerner has lost all interest in the club.
A total spend of less than 2 mill in the transfer window should convince even the most loyal of supporters where his intentions lie.
Anyone who thinks the club will sell Bent and get rid of the high earners and, Lerner will give the manager all the money from transfers need to think again. Any money coming in will go towards paying off his loans to the club, before fcuking off and leaving the club in the ****e.
So jcv hang on in there and this twat will be gone from our club long before we are.
The crowds are slowly going down and i think supporters are starting to turn.

TAGLOR,
the fans dont count anymore,its just lerner trying to save face and money,before he pisses off.

MUZ1,

mate the trouble is.that some fans still believe in what the villa are doing.
and thats frightening.

Yep agree with that jcv

The club banked on certain player leaving at the start of the season and certain players playing for the club during the season. It didn't work out for whatever reason.

JONNAH,

mate,bad management from top to bottom.thats whats to blame.

jcv,

The problem is that many fans have never seen a successful Villa side, but, are use to seeing a premier side.
When, with 3 games left and we are staring relegation in the face they will realise it may be a long time before they see a premiership Villa again.
Sadly that will be to late, so for the older ones like you and me all we can do is hope and pray that we can somehow get out of this mess.

anyway lads,
i wish you all a goodnight.
and weve got cypriots news to look forward to.it better be worth it.

jcv

yes mate,
from top down...
we can only speculate...

Been looking all over if I can find how long benteke was on the pitch this evening against slovakia can't find anything on BBC or Sky..? Belgium won 2-1. Benteke not on the score sheet but how long was he on the pitch ?

B6

Cheers mate. Thanks for finding the info.

Great news! Was thinking he may have played the full 90 minutes. We all must be happy with that.

B6

Exactly as you say. One game and two weeks off.
We need to throw the kitchen sink at west ham, and why not, with the team attacking they can do it, they have proved that they can do it against the likes of west brom and everton, and go and defend like dogs!
It's achievable.

Anyone receive Cypriot's email last night as promised? I didn't....

Desertvillan

No I didn't either.if he,s worried about us knowing his email address he could just get an alias then delete it afterwards.

It's a must win game

no email yet!!! Anyone else?

My nearbour told me bentike picked up a knock last night!! I hope to god he is wrong otherwise our slim chance of staying up is doomed.Is there Anybody out there who can confirm this true.

Clarke cant defend but he can score or at least he did for Eire.

bobvillian: he certainly did not play 90mins, he was not on the pitch when Belgium scored their winner.