Championship life ?

[Ad@m]

I also dont think we will get relegated i think after Christmas we will turn our season around.

I'm still bemused that some posters on here seem to think that Christmas is our turning point.

Starting Boxing Day we have Spurs (home), Man City (home and away), Chelsea (away), Blues (away) and Man Utd (away).  The only game during the spell from Boxing Day to February which appears obviously winnable would be Sunderland at home and we never get anything from that fixture.

The next two games against the Baggies and Wigan are massive.  If we don't pick up at least four points from those two then I can see us adrift of safety in the bottom three by the middle of February.

So relegation is a real possibility - believe it.  And it won't be pleasant if it happens!

[The Man With A Stick]

Let's leave the "putting a silver lining on relegation" to the experts, who we're playing at the weekend coincidentally.

[SoccerHQ]

I also dont think we will get relegated i think after Christmas we will turn our season around.

I'm still bemused that some posters on here seem to think that Christmas is our turning point.

Starting Boxing Day we have Spurs (home), Man City (home and away), Chelsea (away), Blues (away) and Man Utd (away).  The only game during the spell from Boxing Day to February which appears obviously winnable would be Sunderland at home and we never get anything from that fixture.

The next two games against the Baggies and Wigan are massive.  If we don't pick up at least four points from those two then I can see us adrift of safety in the bottom three by the middle of February.

So relegation is a real possibility - believe it.  And it won't be pleasant if it happens!

Second half of the season we play Sunderland, Fulham, Blackburn, Wolves, Wigan, Newcastle and Stoke at VP so I demand a big improvement and some wins from those games.

[Ad@m]

Second half of the season we play Sunderland, Fulham, Blackburn, Wolves, Wigan, Newcastle and Stoke at VP so I demand a big improvement and some wins from those games.

I totally agree but my fear is that we'll be playing catch up by then...

[Holtenderinthesky]

The game has changed beyond recognition since 1987 and so comparisons to that season are way off.  There was no Sky 4, no real TV money, no Champions League and no Europe of any kind due to the ban on English clubs.  They say that the biggest game in 'World' football is the Championship play off, worth a reputed 70 million pounds!  Was our game at Swindon worth even one tenth of that?  Going down would be dreadful with absolutely no redeeming features and as football has evolved as much as it has would be very, very difficult to fully recover from.

[TopDeck113]

87-88 season was certainly more memorable and entertaining than many mediocre premiership seasons

It was only memorable because of the end result.  Our home form was mediocre, played out for the most part in front of crowds significantly less than 20,000; and whilst the away form was great and I'm glad of the experience, visiting the likes of Home Park and Oakwell is not something I want to do again outside of a Cup competition.

[Shrek]

I'm getting annoyed with blues fans saying we are "in trouble" if anyone is in trouble it's them. We have an excuse injuries, what do they have?

[UK Redsox]

wouldnt be the end of the world for me to be honest,

I think you're daft.

I've seen many championship games, many in the flesh at Wolves.
The football is uniformly awful and getting relegated could be the start of a slippery slide.
We'd lose our best players and be in serious financial trouble, there's no romance to it.

Does that mean you'd stop going to games if Villa go down ?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

wouldnt be the end of the world for me to be honest,

I think you're daft.

I've seen many championship games, many in the flesh at Wolves.
The football is uniformly awful and getting relegated could be the start of a slippery slide.
We'd lose our best players and be in serious financial trouble, there's no romance to it.

Does that mean you'd stop going to games if Villa go down ?

Obviously not, but it would be painful to watch.
Especially as every team would come to Villa Park and put 11 men behind the ball.

[john e]

wouldnt be the end of the world for me to be honest,

I think you're daft.

I've seen many championship games, many in the flesh at Wolves.
The football is uniformly awful and getting relegated could be the start of a slippery slide.
We'd lose our best players and be in serious financial trouble, there's no romance to it.

Does that mean you'd stop going to games if Villa go down ?

Obviously not, but it would be painful to watch.
Especially as every team would come to Villa Park and put 11 men behind the ball.

any chance you would stop posting on here if we went down ?

that would soften the blow a bit

[Rip Van We Go Again]

wouldnt be the end of the world for me to be honest,

I think you're daft.

I've seen many championship games, many in the flesh at Wolves.
The football is uniformly awful and getting relegated could be the start of a slippery slide.
We'd lose our best players and be in serious financial trouble, there's no romance to it.

Does that mean you'd stop going to games if Villa go down ?

Obviously not, but it would be painful to watch.
Especially as every team would come to Villa Park and put 11 men behind the ball.

any chance you would stop posting on here if we went down ?

that would soften the blow a bit

Is that the best you can come up with, you daft OAP.
Go and have a booze up on your winter fuel allownace and leave me in peace.

[john e]

wouldnt be the end of the world for me to be honest,

I think you're daft.

I've seen many championship games, many in the flesh at Wolves.
The football is uniformly awful and getting relegated could be the start of a slippery slide.
We'd lose our best players and be in serious financial trouble, there's no romance to it.

Does that mean you'd stop going to games if Villa go down ?

Obviously not, but it would be painful to watch.
Especially as every team would come to Villa Park and put 11 men behind the ball.

any chance you would stop posting on here if we went down ?

that would soften the blow a bit

Is that the best you can come up with, you daft OAP.
Go and have a booze up on your winter fuel allownace and leave me in peace.

i just cant help myself, it must be my age

[Rip Van We Go Again]

i just cant help myself, it must be my age

Possibly lack of employment since 'Last of the summer wine' went off the air and you've lost your job as an extra.

That or you've pissed yourself again.

[NeilH]

I certainly don’t look back at ’87-88 with rose tinted glasses in fact I remember being relegated very vividly indeed as it was without doubt my low point as a Villa fan. Looking at the faces of utter desolation on the Holte End that day is something I would not want to see repeated. There was no joy at all during that season, from the opening home match defeat and violence fest against The Blues to the inability to win at home (A 0-0 draw against Barnsley I recall as a particular low point). Even the joy of getting promoted again was tainted by the amount of clearly forged tickets floating about and the dangerous crush at Swindon.
We go down, we drop straight off the radar and we would really struggle to bounce back from it. For every Newcastle (who are still not safe) there’s a Leeds, Forest, Weds, Sheff United.

[john e]

i just cant help myself, it must be my age

Possibly lack of employment since 'Last of the summer wine' went off the air and you've lost your job as an extra.

That or you've pissed yourself again.

you on Facebook ?  i'm thinking of asking you to be my friend