If/when we stay up?

[cheltenhamlion]

If we have a new manager they will hold up OK. Keep Le Gaffeur and they will tumble.

[pauliewalnuts]

Didn't the Geordies attendances drop from several hundred thousand every game to a much lower figure?

They dropped but they were still high

43,000

Whilst our support is poor compared to theirs, to suggest we'd lose "tens of thousands" sounds a bit hysterical.

[JUAN PABLO]

blimey ,

the manager the same   with hopefully a new defense coch in there eg Laursen.

players out

Young both
Dunne
Warnock
Beye
Carew
Ireland
Heskey


players in , leave it to Houlier , GK , CB ,RB,  LB , DM , striker /att midf

[Dave Cooper please]

Manager unchanged ??!!

FFS get real

This thread is to predict what the manager and line-up will be next season if we stay up. Chris thinks that if we stay up we won't change the manager, and I agree with him
This isn't to say I don't want a new manager, but that's not what this thread is about.

[SheffieldVillain]

Prediction rather than wishlist

Manager: Houllier

Starting 11: Given, Walker, Taiwo, Spahic, Clark, Makoun, Delph, Bradley, Albrighton, Downing, Bent
Subs: Siegrist, Lichaj, Baker, Bannan, Fofana, Heskey, Agbonlahor
Squad: Parish, Herd, Lowry, Hogg, Pires, Delfouneso, Weimann

Out: Friedel, L Young, Warnock, Dunne, A Young, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Cuellar, Salifou, Collins, Ireland, Guzan, Osbourne

[Dave]

Apparently Taiwo has already signed for Benfica.

[Dante Lavelli]

I know a fair few people don't like the director of football idea but I think this strategy could be the easiest way out of this mess and also provide a long term philosophy for the future.

Unfortunately I don't think we could afford moyes AND Houllier though even with Houllier taking a pay cut.

[Greg N'Ash]

its going to be the summer of the long knives if GH survives and we stay up. At the moment his hands are tied but i reckon 6/7 senior players will be gone. They know it as well.....

[levico]

I suspect that this is an extremely pointless thread. More realistic would be predict the changes when we do go down. Even the BBC now agree that we not too big to go down after all.

[Ads]

Well if the BBC say we're going down, then that's it.

We might as well concede the points now eh?

[Greg N'Ash]

bottom line is wolves is about as bad as it can get. Utterly gutless and clueless performance against a team who weren't much cop themselves. IF we play like that again then i'll probably side with the GH out lot and start coming out with various non-entities in the management world in the hope they can do something, anything, to save us.  but at the moment i'm going to cling on to the faint hope GH has some motiviational skills under that early onset senile dementia facade, and that a few players have an ounce of pride and professionalism left.

*clutches straws in death grip*

[PeterWithesShin]

Didn't the Geordies attendances drop from several hundred thousand every game to a much lower figure?

They dropped but they were still high

Looks like they had an average of 43,388 last season, just over 5K down on the previous year.

[PeterWithesShin]

That mass clearout will include tens of thousands of villa fans deserting B6 if houllier and his muppet stay

So you think we will see mid 80s type attendances?

Not that low, mid 20's

Regardless of what division we're in we might see a few sub 30K gates, especially if we aren't setting the world on fire but I doubt they'd drop to mid 20's.

As for getting back on topic of the thread, I have no idea what we'll do whether we drop or stay up regarding manager, never mind playing squad.

[Chipsticks]

That mass clearout will include tens of thousands of villa fans deserting B6 if houllier and his muppet stay

Nah aslong as we stay in the Premier League I doubt any of the attendances would drop below 30K.

They're gonna have to reduce season ticket and match prices mind.
So you think we will see mid 80s type attendances?

Not that low, mid 20's

Regardless of what division we're in we might see a few sub 30K gates, especially if we aren't setting the world on fire but I doubt they'd drop to mid 20's.

As for getting back on topic of the thread, I have no idea what we'll do whether we drop or stay up regarding manager, never mind playing squad.

[Legion]

I suspect that this is an extremely pointless thread. More realistic would be predict the changes when we do go down. Even the BBC now agree that we not too big to go down after all.

I'd rather post and/or read something positive than all the hyperbolic negative crap currently doing the rounds. Why shouldn't we stay up? Believe.