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Offline luke95

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2016, 11:51:57 AM »
Signing McLeish as manager , he'd just relegated Birmingham City Ffs .

I do believe that was Randys 'fuck you , this is my club' statment to the fans & it was only a matter time before the inevitability of relegation.
« Last Edit: December 28, 2016, 12:19:02 PM by luke95 »

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2016, 12:04:48 PM »
The Valentine's Day massacre at home to Liverpool. A display so wretched it ceased any green shoots of the previous few weeks with a gleaming guillotine-bladed precision and instead marked the pinnacle of half a decade of sliding into the abyss and confirmation that there would be no way back without a revolution at the club.

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2016, 12:16:43 PM »
Agree with the Liverpool hammering. We were always likely to go down, in humiliating fashion. That was the game that extinguished any hope of, even, vague respectability. And it was on telly, as most of our truly abysmal performances seem to be.

Offline The Man With A Stick

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2016, 12:29:11 PM »
Liverpool 0-6 for me too.  Any minor chance of us staying up well and truly shat upon.

Didn't help that I was on holiday in mid-Wales at the time and they're like rats up there, you're never more than about 10 feet from a plastic Scouser.

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2016, 12:46:52 PM »
Liverpool for me too. Even Klopp felt sorry for us.

Offline Fin Feds Dad

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2016, 12:59:52 PM »
Liverpool at home for me too .
Have never left a match so early ....was just completely disgusted by the 'players' on the pitch and what we had become . Bastards .

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2016, 01:13:41 PM »
At the time, the defeat to Bradford was as low as I'd felt following the Villa.  We were having a terrible season at that point and a trip to Wembley would have been a real lift.  To deservedly lose over two legs to a League Two side was awful though and it was compounded by Lambert's complete meltdown towards the end of the second leg. 

Looking back, I still think we would have beaten Swansea in the final, as we had found some decent form by then.     

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2016, 01:21:23 PM »
Signing McLeish as manager , he'd just relegated Birmingham City Ffs .

I do believe that was Randys 'fuck you , this is my club' statment to the fans & it was only a matter time before the inevitability of relegation.

And in our thousands; we stood for it.

Ellis would never have got away with that appointment.


Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2016, 01:28:36 PM »
Losing at home to Leyton Orient. Can't think of many other games I've been so bored watching. Almost a relief when they scored late just so as we could go home and not be subjected to another half an hour of utter dross.

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2016, 01:39:05 PM »
Losing 3-0 at home to Wigan. A glance at the calendar suggests that it happened four years ago today.

Maybe the sudden realisation that the results weren't a fluke; that suddenly, Aston Villa were genuinely as bad as everyone said.

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2016, 01:45:01 PM »
Steve Bruce for me

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2016, 01:46:11 PM »
Aye, aye BrexitVilla is back on the troll.

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2016, 02:01:55 PM »
Signing McLeish as manager , he'd just relegated Birmingham City Ffs .

I do believe that was Randys 'fuck you , this is my club' statment to the fans & it was only a matter time before the inevitability of relegation.

And in our thousands; we stood for it.

Ellis would never have got away with that appointment.



McLeish appointment for me too.  How the purveyor of some of the dourest football you will ever see, a man happy to get nil,  a relegation specialist and one of the few managers who had managed to come third in a two horse race in Scotland, was ever deemed an appropriate choice to manage Aston Villa is utterly beyond me.  I laughed out loud when I heard it suggested, convinced that even Lerner could not be that incompetent.  When it came out to be true it was confirmation that our owner was not only incompetent, but also terminally thick and possibly lacking full mental faculties.  At that point I think I knew it was downhill until he was gone.

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2016, 02:08:23 PM »
All of the above plus Luton this season. Just when you finally start to regain a tiny bit of hope along they came to kick us in the nads.

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Rock Bottoms
« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2016, 02:12:51 PM »
Losing 3-0 at home to Wigan. A glance at the calendar suggests that it happened four years ago today.

Maybe the sudden realisation that the results weren't a fluke; that suddenly, Aston Villa were genuinely as bad as everyone said.

Amidst many candidates in the past few years that is my low point too. At the time I said it was our worst performance since Charlton away on Easter Monday 1987-88. We have suffered heavier defeats but to lose so convincingly at home to such weak opposition was utterly depressing.

 


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