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Offline robbo1874

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #120 on: October 30, 2014, 10:04:02 AM »
Take your point risso, but acceptable to who? Supporters? No definitely not, given who we are. Lerner and lambert? Probably yes. An owner looking to sell with minimal further losses and a manager now all but guaranteed a decent payout should a buyer be found in the short to medium term who has a new broom.

The whole takeover situation is hugely impacting on us at the moment and anything that happens has to be viewed in the context of that. There'll be no no new manager and minimal transfer turnover until the club is sold. Whatever happens this season, stay up, go down, win the cup. That's the situation.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #121 on: October 30, 2014, 12:16:51 PM »
We probably won't, but we might, and for the 5th season running that's not acceptable.

That's essentially the point.

Offline Reuben

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #122 on: October 30, 2014, 12:35:05 PM »
To those saying if you have loads of relegation scraps you end up going down.....true for Charlton, Luton and Wigan etc, but I'm sure Everton were in a similar predicament in the 90s and look at them now! 

Offline Ivo Stas

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #123 on: October 30, 2014, 07:49:11 PM »
After the last couple of seasons, I now think that Villa are un-relegatable. It appears that we can be unbelievably awful (remember losing 8-0 at Chelsea then to Wigan and Spurs in the next two home games, etc) and survive.

This season I think we will ultimately be slightly better than last because Senderos, Hutton and Cissokho are better defenders than Baker, Bacuna and Luna.

Hopefully we can go on a run of games for the next couple of months with the Vlaar and Senderos central defence pairing that was keeping clean sheets at the start of the season.

Also, I expect Benteke to hit form around late November once he has played a few more games (and got a few more weeks of training under his belt). In his first season with us, he assisted over 50% of our goals (I think) as well as scoring 19 in the league, so I'm hopeful that he will (ridiculously) turn out to be our missing creative spark.

Offline Gregorys Boy

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #124 on: October 30, 2014, 10:00:10 PM »
No, but I can see us scraping by again, it wouldn't surprise me if this was the season though.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #125 on: October 30, 2014, 10:09:05 PM »
Break enough eggs you makes omelette .
Confucius would have been proud of that line.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #126 on: October 30, 2014, 10:21:23 PM »
Break enough eggs you makes omelette .
Confucius would have been proud of that line.
So would Cantona for that matter.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #127 on: November 01, 2014, 07:56:26 AM »
Maybe this is the wrong thread, but I don't think the QPR game was that bad. Yes, we conceded soft goals, and I would have liked to see us create more clear-cut chances against a team as poor as QPR. But no way did I see a match where QPR were better than us.

With our best players either injured (Delph) or just back from injury (Benteke, Vlaar) and an confidence-sapping run of games prior to the match, there was always a chance that things wouldn't go our way.

If one of QPR and Villa will be relegated this season, I'm 90 per cent sure it will be QPR.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #128 on: November 01, 2014, 08:47:13 AM »
Im asking myself can I be arsed to go tomorrow night

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #129 on: November 01, 2014, 09:18:17 AM »
It won't be the season we go down, but it bloody should be. We're wank.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #130 on: November 01, 2014, 09:28:57 AM »
We probably won't, but we might, and for the 5th season running that's not acceptable.


Yep agree with that,
It's torture watching Villa most weeks, I haven't a clue what the manager is trying to do, I thought I did in his first season, but it's impossible to know where he's trying to go now

The reason I don't think we will go down is our squad is actually stronger now than it was in previous seasons, unbelievable as that is, I think we will have enough over a few other teams to keep us safe.....again

It's still utterly crap though, and as Risso says unacceptable

But what you gona do (T Soprano)


Offline mr underhill

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #131 on: November 01, 2014, 11:52:25 AM »
the problem is I think there might be three better 'teams' than us this season - our individual component parts are probably better than the likes of OPR, Leicester, Sunderland, Burnley, Palace etc., but we don't ever look like playing as a cohesive whole. Plus we can't score or defend very well.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #132 on: November 01, 2014, 12:06:12 PM »
QPR weren't better than us, in fact they were atrocious, but it was very easy for them, as we were absolutely clueless as to how to break them down.

Chelsea will as much possession and bum them four or five. We couldn't muster anything more than two chances for Clark.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #133 on: November 01, 2014, 12:19:34 PM »
I refuse to believe we'll go down. We'll struggle all season and it'll absolutely horrible but we'll find something from somewhere to stay up. Going down is unthinkable for a club like Villa.

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Re: Is this the season...
« Reply #134 on: November 02, 2014, 10:32:14 AM »
Maybe this is the wrong thread, but I don't think the QPR game was that bad. Yes, we conceded soft goals, and I would have liked to see us create more clear-cut chances against a team as poor as QPR. But no way did I see a match where QPR were better than us.

QPR were woeful but they still put two goals past us. That's the problem.

 


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