Unless you want to talk about the Peace Cup or the merits of Ashley Young committing to the club, there is little else to discuss today other than the new shirt coming out soon and the secret plans of the club to change the badge.
It is just one of those days. It has actually been one of those weeks with not much going on and I was thinking about it last night; have we been linked to everyone we are going to get?
What I mean is, there is usually smoke these days as nobody can keep a lid on speculation and if a player is linked or there is some interest the cat usually gets out of the bag, if only to alert other clubs to attract interest and hopefully push the price up.
But there is nothing. We could talk about the under 21 tournament and if we beat Sweden tomorrow night there is a good chance we will see three Aston Villa players playing in the final. Gabby is fit, so it could be interesting, but not really Aston Villa.
But, as there is nothing, we have a competition and the thanks to the guys over at Soccerprint we have five t-shirts to give away and while I've put a picture of one up for you, you get to pick the design based on your favourite match or result.
You pick the match and the result gets printed and the t-shirt gets posted off to you, but to stand a chance of winning one of these you need to answer a quick question which will run on here for the rest of the day. Tonight we will lock the comment box so if you haven't got your answer in by about 10pm, you're not going to be in with a chance.
So, the question is; how many visitors did this site get on Tuesday? Not so easy I know and a bit random, but we have the statistics and whichever five get it right or are the closest will get a t-shirt of their choice. Just to clarify, it isn't hits or impressions (some of you hit the page more than once), it is actual unique visitors and when we announce the winner we will do a screen print of the stats page to show the correct answer.
Thanks again to Soccerprint because they really are the best football t-shirt provider on the net and they didn't ask me to write that, it's just a fact and I do make the odd purchase every now and then.

Matthew Smith
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... 1st!!! 275 Visitors on Tuesday. UTV |
Hadders
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... Am I first??? I will have aguess at 728! |
Nick
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... I'm guessing the amount of visitors is going to be more than those that posted on the two tuesday articles (I know I looked but couldn't be arsed to post)... So i'll go for 524 visitors on Tuesday. |
Nick
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... ive been catching a bit of the u21s over here, milner has looked pretty good from general play, but he still cant consistently deliver quality. I want to see gabby and theo play together against sweden As for Villa, MON does like to keep quiet on his transfers (opposed to say redface) so maybe mon is secretly lining up a bunch of transfers, there might be some hope for us after all. and 2237 visitors |
Prash
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... Good morning I'll say 624 bit quiet this morning. |
gazza01
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... i Know from a mate who knows someone that its 475 Thanks for the t shirt |
Araujo
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... Morning all Villans............. I'll have a punt with 825 (assuming it counts re-offenders....LOL) |
Mark Johnson
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... 436 visitors next Wednesday is the day it will all be announced 1st July !! I hope LOL |
Villa@Herts
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... I am going for 1550 I see we have been linked to Sweden's striker Marcus Berg who has looked good. |
Tim Hillman
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... AAARRRGGHHHHH!!!! I officially hate the off season! Ok I will go 368 visits. |
Keith
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... 666 visitors Looks like other clubs are struggling to keep their players, Cesc wants out at Arsenal, & Mascherano and Alonso at Liverpool. The Mancs also lost Ronaldo & Tevez. Seems that the 50% tax on players wages driving some away. The signings are near I can feel it. |
Prash
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... villa@herts Also the royston Drethe link is back again on tiblefootball. so what the swed like |
Nicky Villa
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... A Signing by this time next week I'm sure........... Visitors on tuesday: 493 |
Nik Skilton
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... Im going for 323 visitors. Anyone seen another mystery premiership club is in for Tevez.....could it be?!?! |
Prash
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... nik986 unfortunatly no chance, but would suit us well. |
rob h
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... well i visited 23 times so times that by the number of people at my the VBA meeting (villa blog anonymous) and assuming that 50 % of addictees don't admit they have a problem...... i am going to say 750. and my name is rob and I am a villa blogaholic. Now I have come out I feel like a weight has been lifted. |
alexb
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... ill hazard a guess at 900 Won your competition on transfer deadline day back in 07 so would be happy to win twice! |
Altan Kargaci
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... Morning ...! Bored senseless today ..! I'll go for 901 visitirs |
Nick Humphries
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... Am I missing something? You mentioned about ash commiting himself to the club. has he said this then? ( hope so!!) oh and 694 !! |
Prash
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... Altan same here all my staff are out busy so i'm sitting here eating toast. |
Alan Gee
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... My very first post! And my very first guess - 985 visitors. |
Keith
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... "Midfielder Craig Gardner has been assured he has a future at Aston Villa. Villa fan Gardner is understood to have emerged as a potential target for newly-promoted local rivals Wolves and Birmingham, plus relegated Middlesbrough. But manager Martin O'Neill recognises Gardner has a role to play at Villa." PHEW! |
woodinho
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... Damien - "secret plans of the club to change the badge" ...did I miss something??? Sorry it's just that graphic design is what I do for a living (well, it's almost a passion as much as AVFC is) so that is pretty big news to me, anything you could divulge? Cheers |
Damian
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... woodinho it was just a wish of mine to move away from the cartoon badge but if it was a secret .. you never know |
Christian
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... Er, I'll guess 1150 visitors. Another day of skysports.com for me... |
Christian
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... Anyone know any good jokes, cos I'm F*CKING bored! It's more exciting to be a Stoke/Hull fan at the moment! |
Tim Hillman
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... Ok Christian here's a funny joke! Girls night out Two women friends had gone out for a Girls Night Out, and had been decidedly over-enthusiastic on the cocktails. Incredibly drunk and walking home they suddenly realized they both needed to pee. They were very near a graveyard and one of them suggested they do their business behind a headstone or something. The first woman had nothing to wipe with so she took off her knickers, used them and threw them away. Her friend however was wearing an expensive underwear set and didn't want to ruin hers, but was lucky enough to salvage a large ribbon from a wreath that was on a grave and proceeded to wipe herself with it. After finishing, they made their way home. The next day the first woman's husband phones the other husband and said, "These damn girls nights out have got to stop. My wife came home last night without her panties." "That's nothing," said the other. "Mine came back with a sympathy card stuck between the cheeks of her butt that said, 'From all of us at the Fire Station, We will never forget you!' Man I'm bored!!! |
neil mattey
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... 2,300 visitors to site and 232,300 'nothing else to print', newspaper transfer rumours !! |
attawayjl
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... I have to say 1704. In your analytics report I am the guy in Burkina Faso. Now I have to be the only one from there right? Well maybe two because of work and home. |
gazza01
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... What do you tell a woman with 2 black eyes? ......Nothing, shes been told twice already. Sorry |
Lee
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... I'm gonna take a stab at 2134 visitors! I wish the badge thing was true, the design of it could be a million times better! |
Dubai Dave
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... The only news I have found is Villa have had a bid for Royston Drenthe, the Holland left winger from Real Madrid turned down. We all wanted MON to seriously look at the out of favour dutch contingent at Real, and he has, this looks promising - maybe the offer is being revised........ True to form redface has now piped up and expreesed his interest now too..... The method to the MON transer secrecy madness is coming to the fore? [1685] |
Christian
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... Very good CSM! Damian will banish us to the forum if we continue to post jokes, but I just want to post one (Ak_27 might appreciate it ) Sorry Damian. A guy decides to have a party where his guests are asked to come as different emotions e.g. fear etc. On the night of the party, the first guest arrives and the host opens the door to see a guy covered in green paint with the letters N and V painted on his chest. He says to this guy, "Wow, great outfit, what emotion have you come as?" And the guy says, "I'm green with NV". The host replies, "Brilliant, come on in and have a drink". A few minutes later the next guest arrives and the host opens the door to see a woman covered in a pink body stocking with a feather boa wrapped around her most intimate parts. He says to this woman "Wow, great outfit, what emotion have you come as?" She replies, "I'm tickled pink". The host says, "I love it, come on in and join the party". A couple of minutes later the doorbell goes for the third time, and the host opens the door to see two Irish blokes, Paddy and Mick, standing stark naked one with his nob in a bowl of custard, and the other with his nob stuck in a pear. The host is really shocked and says, "Well, what the hell are you both doing? You could get arrested standing like that out there in the street. Anyhow what emotion is this supposed to be?!?!” Paddy replies, "Well, Oim fokn discustard, and Mick here has just come in despair". |
Damian
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... attawayjl if you mean Ouagadougou, then we've got 9 different locations hitting the site ... |
Damian
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... Billy7 no .. it would be nice though if he did |
Mark Johnson
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... Intresting stat!! Villa conceded, on average, roughly a goal every 90 minutes when Martin Laursen played last season, and one per hour when he was absent http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=657043&sec=england&root=england&&&cc=5739 a good article even if it is a yank!! UTV |
Ed Villa
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... I'll say 344. When I win i'll have my favourite game on there which is last season Villa 2-2 Stoke....... ahhhhhh ffffuuuurrrrrdddddd |
Christian
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... We never once looked a threat from set-pieces the whole time Laursen was absent. I've no idea how many points he was worth each season for us, but its rare to find a top-draw centreback who scores too. |
Christian
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... If I win, it will have to be Villa 3-2 Everton! It was agony and ecstasy from the first 30 seconds to the last! |
Adey Stuttard
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... As I sit here in my Soccerprint t-shirt from the last competition.....I would have to say 1874. |
rob h
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... christian i agree scoring cb are worth their weight in gold. just a few i can think of vidic, terry, ruddock, that bald dude that oneil had at leicester, |
Christian
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... Matt Elliot, let's not tempt it, MON might make an audacious swoop for him... |
VillaDude
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... Christian makes a good point, with Laursen in the opposing box we looked a lot more dangerous and he gave us goals at very important times. As soon as Knight and Davies were going up there we never looked as confident and Davies actually missed a few sitters. Laursen was a force upfront and at the back - we need to buy big to replace him. We can't rely on Davies. |
Adey Stuttard
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... Christian, Barry scored the same amount of league goals in open play in 3 seasons (7) as Laursen did in 2 seasons (and he was injured for half of last season!!)...he wil be missed |
attawayjl
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... Awesome, Man if Ouag is getting nine then my guess must be a low shot. That is awesome though. With the unique visitor report tomorrow if it is not too much of a bother will you add the different locations also? Will show how big the Villa Blog community is and where we are. |
attawayjl
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... Great guess 1874AVFC. Well played sir. |
Daniel Wilson
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... 1137 Unique Visitors. Is it really true that 19% of the sites visitors are from Sweden??? |
Christian
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... That's an interesting stat 1874AVFC. In a way, I think that's perhaps more a criticism of MON for playing Barry in an 'attacking' role that he clearly wasn't comfortable with (look at your stat for instance!). I wonder how many Laursen would have scored if we'd played him in 'the hole behind the front 2'?? |
Damian
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... DanWilson82 No it isn't. Sweden is 5th on the list of visitors but the vast majority, over 80% are from the UK. Followed then by Ireland, USA and Australia and last month we had visitors from 145 countries. |
Billy7
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... yes it would be nice if Ashley Young commited himself to Villa, even just for 1 season, i could relax a little more as if he was to leave i would lose faith. Anyway, regarding the 'other' club interested in Tevez. Straight to the point.... Its not Aston Villa! |
Daniel Wilson
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... Didnt think so! which probably means my answer is stupidly wrong too oh well... |
B6_bob
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... I can see MON unveiling all these signings on the 1st of July. I reckon hes building them all up for a big announcement...I think Naughton signed but MON's keeping it in the bag until he announces 5 in 1 go. And I guess 2500 |
Adey Stuttard
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......last month we had visitors from 145 countries. Jees, Damiam, you must be making it up - I am reasonably good at Geography, but would struggle to name 145, and you reckon there are that many Villa fans located in that many countries around the world? Blimey! |
Keith
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... Stoke in talks with Dean Ashton......got to be worth a punt, rather him than Emile Ivanhoe Heskey! |
Nick Humphries
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... I really hope a few new signings will appear but cant see it to be honest. Why wait ? Why not just tell us? On a positive I think everything is really quiet no new links. I think ( I hope ) this is because things are getting close to being finalised. Think about it... we were being linked with Bentley , he said he was in talks with us... then nothing! |
VillaDude
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... How come news seem to leak out of every club (stoke in talks with ashton) except Villa? Is it because nothing is going on? or MON is seriously secretive? |
Steve Badger
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... 464 unique visits. Let's hope no news is good news. It's bloody boring though. As for Tevez, you would think that would be Spurs or L,pool. But I'm sure we were supposed to have asked about him a while back so you never know! Then again |
Keith
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... VillaDude thats because Pulis talked openly about it, and about being interested in Owen. MON doesnt talk til contract signed. We will have to accept it and in fairness we should be used to it by now. |
Keith
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... Tevez already said he wouldn't play for Liverpool. |
VillaDude
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... Interesting comments from Deadly Doug. Apparently there were 4 other parties interested in buying Villa as well as Lerner... |
Warwick Kirk
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... 345 visits! BTW, Ashton in talks with Stoke. Know he didnt play much but would gladly let Stoke have EMule and replace him with Ashton?? |
kbean
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... my guess is you had 2500 visitors on tuesday |
Adey Stuttard
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...Pure guess.. 932 visitors Like it! The rest of us have used scientific calculations....! |
Adey Stuttard
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...1874 avfc. rob h, You name 135 counties then!! |
Steve Badger
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... Oh, re the badge. I can't see them changing it as it was done as the result of a survey of the fans. It's remarkably close to the answers I put in, but I see where you're coming from when you say it's a bit cartoony. Tevez already said he wouldn't play for Liverpool. Ah yes, I forgot that Keef. I was trying to think of clubs who have the finances. Spurs it is then. Probably why Mr Twitchy is having a firesale. |
bfastvilla
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... Hey everyone, first time commenting here. A few people have mentioned ash young committing to the club ( even though he still has a lengthy contract with the club to honour), has this been said or is it all based on faith/hope. Ashton to stoke good buy I think, didnt we look at him last summer? UTV |
bfastvilla
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... www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A53659803 Hitzsilperger? Whats he like now have not heard much of him in a while now |
Gabbyismylovechid
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... My guess is 728. Hitzy has been playing very well at CM in the bundesliga and I'd love to see him back @ the Villa |
Merse Magic
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... Im going to say 467! Now what result to get on my t-shirt???? |
Villa@Herts
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... Sorry Prash but I had to do some work its a bummer or should that be brummer!! He is a natural goal scorer. He is in the Sweden under 21 team or you can see him on the youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCA3GCLels |
testie
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... I would guess 5101, i wonder Damien do you have more or less visitors now than last year on the old site? Just curious that's all. Lets hope the ball will start rolling soon chaps. |
john carew's lap dancer
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... i'm going to go for 1942 unique visitors. |
bass
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... does anyone know if we are getting a new home shirt this year? if so when and i thought acorns was a one year deal????? |
Smithers
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... If we were having thousands of visitors, wouldn't we have more than 124 people guessing for a t shirt? Based on that I think 124! Who wouldn't have a go? But I'm thick so my guess is 504 |
kieron
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... Im going for a last minute punt on 857!! |
Damian
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... Locked now, although there is a chance one or two might get left after this post but they wont count. The answer is 5201 and I'll put up a screen shot and a list of five winners tomorrow. |
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