What on earth is going on?

[mr underhill]

higher than Watford

[preston28]

Well we certainly shouldn't be in the bottom 3!  I guess I have always considered Villa to be a 'top 8' team so I guess that is where we should be.
Where we are headed is the stuff of nightmares - a horror shown overseen by Mr.Lerner.

[eamonn]

I think I saw in one of the Sunday papers ''money league table'' recently that our wage bill is 9th, I think Sunderland are 8th and Newcastle 7th. And they are the positions us three "perennial sleeping giants" should really be targeting instead of ten places below as we currently are while clubs with far less resources kick us in the nuts, race on past and leave us for dust.

[ez]

The difference between the club in Lerner's first 5 years and now is astounding. Ambitions of the champions league, free coach travel, free scarves, the General chatting to the fans on here. All that's gone now, and Lerner and the General distance themselves as far from the club as possible.

[Salsa Party Animal]

I wonder what the General is now doing as he is in new job for a while, maybe he need to come back and sort them out. Perhaps a recommend drill sergeant from US Marines to improve fitness
 

[aj2k77]

The last I head from General K was when he intimated that Lerner and himself are spies and have to answer their countries call and save the world or something.

[silhillvilla]

In response to the OP.

We have reached the end game, end of days after a 5 year programme of asset stripping, austerity, neglect, lack of leadership from the owner and a series of catastrophic  senior managerial appointments both in the dug out and boardroom.

This will be a long brutal season and we will all have to find our own ways of coping. Some will stay away, some will attend in silence , there will be a winter of protests, banners and knife sharpening.

January will probably come too late for the new manager and a couple of over priced panic signings.

Ladies and Gentlemen , hold onto your seats.

[Jimbo]

Where we are headed is the stuff of nightmares - a horror shown overseen by Mr.Lerner.

Or rather, in recent times, overlooked by Mr Lerner.

[four fornicholl]

ive watched(courtesy of sky) at least 10 games this weekend and everyone of them
ive enjoyed immensely!
and what have we got to look forward to in the weeks ahead?
I really cant take turning up week after week much longer!

[adrenachrome]

ive watched(courtesy of sky) at least 10 games this weekend and everyone of them
ive enjoyed immensely!
and what have we got to look forward to in the weeks ahead?
I really cant take turning up week after week much longer!

Bollix.

The Autumn mists swirling around Vila Park are worth the entrance price.

I would recommend a serious spliff and a walk through Aston Park as a pre-game preparation for the horrors to come. Mists and mellow fruitfulness innit.

[robbo1874]

Or, several spliffs and a drive down the M1/M6 in a metro and a tyre blow out at 90mph in the fast lane near Corley to focus the mind, as happened to myself and another poster on here once on our way to VP. Good times.

I know it sounds like bullshit, but the metro really did do 90!

[robbo1874]

Think it was towards the end of Gregory's tenure, so death might actually have been preferable to watching the match.

[LTA]

100% agree with this.

Take a look at @Matt_Law_DT's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Matt_Law_DT/status/652961332350832640?s=09

Take a look at @Matt_Law_DT's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Matt_Law_DT/status/652961723884941312?s=09

[rougegorge]

Where we are headed is the stuff of nightmares - a horror shown overseen by Mr.Lerner.

Or rather, in recent times, overlooked by Mr Lerner.

He gave Lambert far too long; he let him ruin the team, and played Nero until he realised we were going down. There were probably few other options than a gamble on TS who just kept us up. 

People will say it's too 'short termist' to keep changing manager, but we need a change now or we are doomed; we may be anyway.
There was ever any planning from the board and we are now having to reap what they have sown. We have managed to fall so quickly well behind such notable and wealthy clubs as Swansea, Southampton, Palace, Leicester and Stoke, and the blame can be laid squarely at their door.