The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review

[kieron]

The Aston Villa annual season review by main focal topics of discussion throughout the 2015/16 season. What were the top 3 issues that significantly contributed to our downfall?

In no particular order:

Sherwood
Garde
Lerner
Bernstein
Black
Grealish
Lescott
Adama
Fox
King
Amavi
Gabby
Richards
Guzan
Bacuna

I’m sure there are many, many other anecdotes / chapters for inclusion that we can attribute to our relegation this year, but these are the main ones off the top of my head at time of writing.

Feel free to add / remove accordingly.

[Legion]

Leicester City away.

[Jimbo]

You can't pin it on one thing, despite the obvious overseer of doom at the top.

It's been the biggest clusterfuck since Sodom and Gomorrah, with extra fire and brimstone at the end. A debauched self-annihilation.

[Mister E]

Leicester City away.

It was certainly a pivot-point.
Dim Tim takes the can for this; although the rot clearly started before the FACF his rant against the players at Leicester was a big mistake.

[oldham_villa]

1) No idea from those at the very top
2) Player discipline
3) Starting the season no where near match fit

[West Derby Villan]

Leicester City away.

I truly believe if we had won this, we wouldn't have been relegated and Leicester wouldn't have won the league

[Steve67]

How the fuck did Micah Richards ever play for England and win a championship?  He's absolutely terrible. Guzan, Bacuna, Agbonlahor, Lescott, Clark, Westwood, Sissokho all play most weeks when we can all see that they are super shit players. Without a takeover, the best we can hope for is a Manager like Grayson, with a 20mill spend.  TBF, Grayson might do ok, but we need to be serious about who we appoint if we want to get back quickly.  If Lerner is still the owner come July/August, we'll become another Championship also ran.  What a complete and utter shitfest Lerner has created. Sell up, or we face years of mediocrity.

[Jimbo]

Leicester City away.

I truly believe if we had won this, we wouldn't have been relegated and Leicester wouldn't have won the league

I don't. Our downward spiral started five years ago. Leicester's ascent began in the final third of last season. The die was already cast by that game.

[sickbeggar]

double post

[sickbeggar]

The answer is simple. If you keep selling your best players and replacing them with worse ones then sooner or later you get relegated. Getting rid of delph/Benteke/cleverly, although not in the same class as the likes of Young Barry and Milner, was the final tipping point that turned us from mediocre to terrible. Add in the bobbins bought from here and abroad to replace them and there's your answer.

[PeterWithesShin]

I wish someone would tell us the answer is simple!

[eamonn]

It's not just about not buying players as good as the ones you've sold. On paper our squad had more talent than at the very least the three promoted teams. The biggest failing was the inability of management staff to have them organised, fit and fighting for each other week in week out from the get-go

[PaulWinch again]

It's been an utter disgrace in every possible way and it needs a monumental turn around at all levels of the club to sort us out for next year.

[ChicagoLion]

The problems started before the season, if you don't have the Management pulling together you get the mess we were in.
Lack of direction, organisation, fitness, tactics, motivation, pride and leadership on and off the pitch.
Lerner left Fox to run the show and he clearly was not up to it.
A clusterfuckup.

[sickbeggar]

It's not just about not buying players as good as the ones you've sold. On paper our squad had more talent than at the very least the three promoted teams. The biggest failing was the inability of management staff to have them organised, fit and fighting for each other week in week out from the get-go

not sure i agree. They COST more but more talented? As the angry Geordie blokes points out on that video, we and them threw a fortune at players while the likes West ham and Leicester got the likes of mahrez and payet. Anyway in my opinion we entered the season without a prolific goalscorer or ANYONE who could do the Delph/Cleverley roles competantly. Any team will struggle if they don't buy a goalscorer or dominant midfielders