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Villa about to lose again, this time at home, leaving them mid table. With their large and very expensive squad of ‘names’, I thought that highly rated Dean Smith would’ve got them on track for promotion. Nice to see that unlike the PL, money doesn’t always buy titles. Good for football...

Brighton has great away support that day, as usual. Despite the club being owned by deviants, with a modest squad.

In the rich tapestry of following the Albion.

I loved Minton and McDugald. I saw us win away at Bournemouth, in torrential rain with the pitch a ball-halting lake, where Minton and McDugald played the conditions brilliantly.

I can't even remember him! But I can recall the Rod Thomas who starred for Derby and Cardiff in the 70's.

Interesting article about Villa: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/06/aston-villa-tony-xia-bleak-future In season 2016/17 alone they ignored FFP and spent £88m on players. Contrast that to us, by no means low spenders ourselves, paying a mere £2m to £5m each on the likes of Duffy...

Very true about playing styles. Grealish is the exception to the Bruce rule. The rest of the Villa tactics comprise power, height and directness.

Villa were also a cash cow for N’Zogbia, who recenly spent literally years not playing games for them, whilst on massive wages in a long contract and refusing to be sold on. Lessons there for sensible clubs like the Albion.

Laughable. Owners are best staying in the background.

To make matters worse, in effect they’ve already spent their 2018/19 parachute income, as it’s been committed to creditors, so cannot he used to aid 2018/19 club operations.

Quality post, full of the facts. They weren’t prepared to go up fairly, buying circa 15 very expensive/highly paid players to cheat their way to the PL.

Villa overspent in their PL years. O’Neill pushed for a more and more expensive squad in the dash for top 4, Lerner initially agreed and subsidised £120m on fees/wages their income didn’t warrant. Until he had enough.

That list I would guess is a year out of date, as it also omits Samba, Whelan and Elmohamady.

A Championship club paying these weekly wages. To benchmark, Brighton with PL income and PL players, pay £40,000/£45,000 tops.

Paying PL level wages by all accounts to players who've never even played there such as Scott Hogan. Have done this over and over again in the last 24 months to cheat their way back to the PL. Only one problem, it failed.

The longest post in NSC history?

A load of bought talent there, as they threw money at it, now giving rise to FFP problems.

He wanted to stay.

This. Spent huge sums on transfer fees and PL level individual wages in the last 2 years, way above income. Thought they'd flat-track-bully their way back to the PL and it failed.