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And now I was just notified that there won’t be any more goalkeeper shorts a available for the year. Ridiculous. At least I get my refund.

I’m having the same experience with the black goalie shorts. Ordered in mid August with “available for preorder from Sept. 2” on the website. Well on Sept. 2nd the website simply said the shorts were “out of stock.” I haven’t received any confirmation on my shipment or any sort of update. So now they have $50 of mine and i have no idea when my shorts will show up. I love Villa and buy a new pair of shorts every year but I’m close to asking for a refund.

Not doing the lads any favors with the shirt sizes they’ve been given for the photoshoot. That has to be the elite fit shirt, right?

I thought our passing was shockingly bad today. Poor decisions and wrong weight far too often. Makes it too hard to break down defenses and create quality opportunities. It’s hard for me to call Wesley shite, I think he suffers from a lack of creativity from many of our other players. He links up well with Jota, but Jota either doesn’t want to run or can’t. Overall our attack is very concerning. If we can’t start creating more for Wesley and capitalizing on our (few) opportunities we are in big trouble. Overall it’s a point, which gets us out of the bottom 3, but this one felt like a loss. We were thoroughly outworked after the red card, and there is simply no excuse for that. Every post match thread I say I’m not concerned yet (and I’m still not), but we need to start seeing results soon.

Not tonight we aren’t

We have been getting seriously outworked ever since the red card

Please, please take advantage of that decision.

Villa teasing a kit launch 15 minutes before a match where they aren’t debuting it. Interesting marketing strategy

for anyone wondering about the 3rd kit, it hasn’t been cancelled.

Wow I really hope that’s not the case. Club definitely said August, but I figured there were some behind the scenes production issues that have caused the delay. I would hope the club would announce a cancellation of the 3rd shirt considering they already announced one was coming

Potentially dumb question from a relatively new football fan... is there any actual change that could come from Villa filing a complaint? Besides an “apology” from the PL or FA

I agree with pretty much all of this, especially that we are capable of staying up. My worry is that we can see all the encouraging signs we want, but soon they’re going to need to turn into points or it means nothing. I am slightly concerned right now. You’re right, it’s a long season, but out of 4 games this year we have only come away with something in 1 of them. Until we start tallying points on a more consistent basis I won’t be comfortable.

This was my thought too. Outside of the inexcusable decision at the end, the consistent decisions against us and constant yellow cards were unfair. It truly seemed like the ref was set on ensuring Villa loss from the start.

Wonder why the 3rd kit is getting pushed back so late. It must be a September release at the earliest, as I can’t imagine they’re going to release it tomorrow if they’re not wearing it for the match. How far in advance are kit choices for a match determined?

Whoops, wrong thread.

With, unfortunately, 0 championships. The 1998 and 2009 Vikings seasons still give me nightmares.

I guess I don’t see it that way. Dean will start an XI that is capable of winning the match, and I am sure he will have the boys in a winning mindset. I think there is a difference between starting a rotated squad that is still expected to win against lesser opposition and “throwing in the towel” by starting a rotated squad against strong opposition that will likely lose. I want a strong cup run as well, but the goal in cups is to win and advance. There isn’t a difference between winning 2-1 with Davis, Hause, Konsa, Steer, etc. playing vs. winning 8-1 with our strongest XI. As long as you are playing to win the match, which I’m sure Dean will, I don’t think starting a rotated XI is disrespectful.

Mildly surprised that some people are calling for Deano to start anything other than a heavily rotated squad. I do see merit to the idea that our new starting XI need more time to gel, although I think for me the risk of injury outweighs the 90 extra minutes of game time. I would vote to sit the vast majority of our starters. If the hope is that our backup XI are capable of satisfactorily stepping in and playing a role in a Premier League match for any starter who has picked up an injury, we should be capable of beating a League 2 side with a rotated squad in.

The club said it was was going to be released in August, so it must be this week. I was actually expecting it to be today because I thought it would make its debut tomorrow against Crewe. Nothing so far. Last year they teased the kit launches, and so far this year they really haven’t. So maybe the club will just drop it on social media out of the blue sometime this week.

I’ve only been following football since 2013 and stopped paying much attention to the Prem once we went down, but Man U seems to be one disappointment after another. I respect their pedigree and history, as opposed to new-school big money clubs like City, but in my eyes they are 6th out of 6 for “big clubs” in England.

This didn’t age well.

Well that helps. Man U doesn’t win and Palace stays below us.

I’m not sure whether I should take delight in Man U completely messing this up, or be annoyed that a Top 6 team can’t help us out by beating a team below us in the table

I think Villa debuted their 3rd shirt in a cup match last season. Maybe they do the same thing this year and wear it on Tuesday? Doubt the club would release it on a weekend, so that would leave a Monday or Tuesday morning release. We’re starting to run out of days in August.

What a player. I don’t know England’s depth, so based on competition at their respective positions this comment may be off, but I think he may get a call up to England before Jack. I certainly think he’s been our best player so far this season.