could we get relegated?

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I think Chris Hughton has got his work cut out. The squad left if average at best compared to the rest of the Championship teams and now the Chinese are poised to asset strip (if there's anything left!).
Thinking about it, relegation might be the least of your worries....

[darren woolley]

I reckon we will be ok once we find our rhythm things will come together.

[UsualSuspect]

I don't think so

From what i've seen this season Wigan look terrible add to that Blackburn, Swansea, Norwich, Bolton, Wolves, WBA

[UK Redsox]

anybody think this may happen? imo theres norwich and swansea to go then in all seriousness id say its out of us blackburn and wigan?

what does everybody else think?

We were a minute away from going 5th last night, so why the relegation worries ?

[VillaAlways]

I think/hope we'll improve as the season progresses.We've remained unbeaten playing mainly atrociously.Imagine what we could achieve our key players hit some form.We seem really low in confidence, hopefully that second half performance will instill some belief .As Ray Wilkins said if things click we could be the surprise package I'd love him to be right

[Greg N'Ash]

i'm reserving judgement till we play some of the better teams. If we get hammered in them which seems likely and still can't pick up wins against the weaker sides then we could be dragged in to the mire

[bertlambshank]

10th to 14th this season.The board will think that will be job done.

[PNB Army]

theres too much money in the league now to be able to really push for top 6 so anything around 10th will do me fine

[brontebilly]

the longer steve kean stays the bigger certainty blackburn are to go down. We are in a group of about 10 teams that could join them. Cant see us winning many games this season. Might not lose too many either.

[Greg N'Ash]

the longer steve kean stays the bigger certainty blackburn are to go down. We are in a group of about 10 teams that could join them. Cant see us winning many games this season. Might not lose too many either.

yep, thats my worry. if you're say a swansea who loses three games but wins the 4th then you're not any worse off than us who draw 3 and lose 1

[Villanation]

cant even talk about my club now then forget it

Calm down matey, you know how fickle Villa fans are.

In answer to your question, a reasonable one, IMO every possibility, we carry on our form as we stand, 1 win in 6 and you can bet your roof on the fact we will be fighting relegation, once you get into that kind of dog fight anything can happen.

Determine factors, how we build on the 2nd half we looked at yesterday, some might say grasping at straws but that's the reality, so how we improve and how well we beat Wigan at the weekend which is a must win because IMO Wigan will be one of the sides fighting to stay up.

Then the next obstacle is when we play teams capable of taking the chances in front of goal that we haven't yet come up against, the type of teams that will take advantage of the way we played in the first 45mins yesterday and we go in at half time heads down and 2 goals down.

So, reality is we could go down, anybody outside of the top 7 maybe 8 can, and anybody that couldn't look at the way Villa performed in the first 45mins yesterday (worst team performance of any i have seen this season) and not recognize the possibility of us getting relegated is deluded IMO.

 

[Fergal]

I don't think we will get relegated but I fear we may get dragged into another relegation battle, like last year.

[Villanation]

I don't think we will get relegated but I fear we may get dragged into another relegation battle, like last year.

I think we would be unlucky to get relegated as there is worse than us, that's for sure.

Problem is I have never seen Villa has the kind of side up for a scrap if it came to it, couple of seasons ago when MON made the decision to take us out of the Europa League we where near the top and heads went down then with all kind of rumblings from the club, so it don't take a lot.

My concern would be if the league point system panned out in its usual format whereby the bottom 6-8 teams was adrift by some distance and it became a full on struggle for survival to stay up, the kind of thing where you go into Easter and every game is a cup final, then we have a problem.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Maybe we will go the entire season unbeaten.

.....and get relegated with 40 points.

[Chris Smith]

Our season will not be decided by results against the top 4 so it's a bit of a red herring to talk about them. It will be how we do against the rest, so far we've played 3 teams who I reckon will be in the mid table group (Fulham, Everton and Newcastle) and have drawn them all - 2 away from home. It hasn't been pretty but we've shown enough bottle and resilience to suggest we're not going to be a soft touch.