The Championship

[Chico Hamilton III]

Proper fans - ours and whoever we were playing against. No Premier League soccer tourists or half and half scarves. Us scoring at least half a dozen genuine goal of the season contenders. Going to away games and looking forward to the football, rather than having an all day session ruined by 90 minutes of football. A team of players pulling together rather than the disparate bunch of greedy misfits that have been bleeding us dry for years. A Villa fan as manager, a Villa fan as captain - that's all I've ever wanted. This season's kits being the best we've had for many a year. Lots of Midland derbies.

I reckon we'll look back on last season as one of our finest.   

[dcdavecollett]

Dean Smith -the man who took us from mid-table mediocrity to the Prem, despite not being a 'promotion specialist'.

[villan from luton]

Seeing players looking like they actually want to play for our great club which hasn't been the case at times. Getting a proper Villa fan as manager has been brilliant

[Damo70]

Dean Smith -the man who took us from mid-table mediocrity to the Prem, despite not being a 'promotion specialist'.

Bruce and McLeish were promotion specialists. Provided you didn't mind them getting your club relegated first.

[wittonwarrior]

Highs - the wins against blues, ten in a row, Rotherham/Barnsley/Brentford aways, the best home  kit in years, destroying derby gone and away last season. The coming of Jack Grealish into a major player, Mings/Abraham/snodgrass/Johnstone loanies of quality, Wembley at 4:45pm last month, sell outs everywhere

The things to forget - small heath, the defeats away at wolves, onomah/bolasie, £42 first away game at Sheff wed and the packed trams all three seasons there, the Friday night aways Bristol, Leeds and qpr oh and Ian Holloway/ Colin Murray

[Dave P]

Highs - the wins against blues, ten in a row, Rotherham/Barnsley/Brentford aways, the best home  kit in years, destroying derby gone and away last season. The coming of Jack Grealish into a major player, Mings/Abraham/snodgrass/Johnstone loanies of quality, Wembley at 4:45pm last month, sell outs everywhere

The things to forget - small heath, the defeats away at wolves, onomah/bolasie, £42 first away game at Sheff wed and the packed trams all three seasons there, the Friday night aways Bristol, Leeds and qpr oh and Ian Holloway/ Colin Murray

Which Brentford away game are you classing as a ‘high’?  The 3-0 defeat, the 2-1 defeat or the 1-0 defeat?

[Scratchins]

Highs
Wembley on my birthday this year with team, board, staff, head coach and fans as one.
2 Villa fans holding the trophy up at Wembley
Jack scoring after the assault at Blues
The much friendlier attitude at most grounds
The most stylish kit that I can remember
Having lunch with friends before setting off on more midweek games
Being there for all 10 in a row
John McGinn’s backside and his corner v Blackburn
More worldy goals than I can remember
All corners of VP getting behind the team and singing together

Lows
Losing at Bolton with the snow blowing horizontally across the ground and being colder than in Moscow
Losing at Brentford on Boxing Day in the snow and cold
Opening the Sunday paper and wading through loads of Premier League news before reaching anything on us.
Pundits who didn’t bother to find out the facts about why Bruce had to go (Liam Rosenior the exception)
Being in France last June and hiding my phone under the bedclothes so that my Baggies partner didn’t see that we were about to go bust.

[wittonwarrior]

Not the result but the day out best ground in the country griffin park for a drink

[Damo70]

Here is how the bookies think our old friends in the Championship will do in the coming season.

1 Leeds
2 Fulham
3 Cardiff
4 Albion
5 Stoke
6 Boro
7 Derby
8 Brentford
9 Huddersfiled
10 Sheff Wed
11 Bristol C
12 Forest
13 Swansea
14 Preston
15 Small Heath
16 Blackburn
17 Hull
18 QPR
19 Luton
20 Reading
21 Wigan
22 Millwall
23 Charlton
24 Barnsley

[wittonwarrior]

Albion 4th?  More like 4th from bottom - they are in freefall.  On paper Leeds should walk it but they wont.  Expect Cardiff, Bristol City and Forest to be challenging.

[Monty]

So torn, because I really like Bielsa and I want nothing but doom and frustration for the Leedsers. Very confusing.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What I really enjoyed especially last season was the number of games. Even if we lost on a Saturday we had an opportunity to put it right a few days later. When we were winning it was even better.

[OzVilla]

I'm actually really looking forward to watching the Championship this season.  I've far more knowledge of this league than the PL these days and I can watch the Championship safe in the knowledge that A) We're not there anymore and B) Support teams against the Blose, Stripey etc.  It'd be hilarious to see Leeds fail again too along with Brizzle and Salty Wednesday.  Its such a shit fight, I reckon it'll be fun.

[wittonwarrior]

Before we get too nostalgic over the championship remember:

1. Shit away days such as Leeds on a Sunday lunch.
2. Poor referees who gave us nothing
3. Third world  grounds  such as St Andrews
4. Sky with the two changes to our fixture at Norwich
5. Hiked up away prices
6. Ian Holloway
7. The play off loss  to Fulham
8. Villa inventing the world ever away scheme ever 2018/2019
9. The two away games at Brentford and Wolves - performance wise
10 The trams  at Sheffield

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Before we get too nostalgic over the championship remember:

2. Poor referees who gave us nothing

It wasn't just us. They were so out of their depth it does make you wonder, with so much money in English football, how much is spent on training referees? They're an insult to Sunday League.