Realistic Expectations

[avfc_1874]

The last 9/10 months has been a complete clean up & uprooting of poor structure/mismanagement/leadership that has been stinking out the club since the turn of the century (arguably). It’s going to be a bumpy ride this season, but I’ve seen enough to believe we will be fine this season.

The knee jerk reactions will be frequent this season. But it’s just frustration, which is understandable given what has happened to this club in the past.  For once though, I’m quietly confident in the direction that this club is taking.

[Villa75]

The last 9/10 months has been a complete clean up & uprooting of poor structure/mismanagement/leadership that has been stinking out the club since the turn of the century (arguably). It’s going to be a bumpy ride this season, but I’ve seen enough to believe we will be fine this season.

The knee jerk reactions will be frequent this season. But it’s just frustration, which is understandable given what has happened to this club in the past.  For once though, I’m quietly confident in the direction that this club is taking.

This post has given me a serious sense of deja vu!

Mind you, it's got to come true one time. Surely?

[Damo70]

It’s a bit much to say ‘should’ beat. Even arrogance. Bournemouth are a well established PL team, we were never going to just roll them over.

That said all our home games (with exceptions of man city and l-pool) are ‘could’ wins and but for a mad first 10 mins we could have got something out of the game.

More lessons learned. I’d even be happy with a draw against everton on Friday, just to show some progress.

A draw would be a good result on Friday

Not for me. That is negative thinking. I think we need to be winning our home games if we aren't going to struggle this season. You may think we should write off winning home games against the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool but once we start writing off winning home games against the likes of Everton who finished eighth last year then we have to write off home games against Wolves and Leicester who finished either side of Everton last year and then we have to ask ourselves who we would actually back ourselves to beat at home.

[Toronto Villa]

My position hasn’t changed one bit. We will finish mid table, somewhere around 11th or 12th is my guess. Which would be absolutely fine. We are a team coming together. There are sides who are much more established who have started off the same as us. We have loads of room to improve.

[eamonn]

It’s a bit much to say ‘should’ beat. Even arrogance. Bournemouth are a well established PL team, we were never going to just roll them over.

That said all our home games (with exceptions of man city and l-pool) are ‘could’ wins and but for a mad first 10 mins we could have got something out of the game.

More lessons learned. I’d even be happy with a draw against everton on Friday, just to show some progress.

A draw would be a good result on Friday

Not for me. That is negative thinking. I think we need to be winning our home games if we aren't going to struggle this season. You may think we should write off winning home games against the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool but once we start writing off winning home games against the likes of Everton who finished eighth last year then we have to write off home games against Wolves and Leicester who finished either side of Everton last year and then we have to ask ourselves who we would actually back ourselves to beat at home.

The bottom half of the division of course (apart from Bournemouth) 

[London Villan]

I didn’t write off beating everton?

[Three Spires Villa]

I haven’t written off the Everton game but I think a draw would be a good result. I do think a few people got carried away over the summer. I think we will finish about 15th

[chrisw1]

Hopefully Newcastle are nailed for 20th.  I have always thought we'd finish between 15th-19th and with our current striking options I still think this is the case.

[Richard]

11th or 12th no chance and I'd put money on it. I'm thinking 15th to 17th sorry for the pessimism.

[itbrvilla]

15-17th

[Ads]

I think anything up to 11th is possible, but would be happy with 15th.

A point would be a good result and platform on Friday, a win against Crewe and then some confidence ahead of Palace to aim for our first win.

Palace have Man United the weekend away, so I'm hopeful they'll get drubbed.

But we need to cut the naivety and get better delivery onto the park against Everton if we're to avoid defeat.

[Pat McMahon]

Hopefully Newcastle are nailed for 20th.  I have always thought we'd finish between 15th-19th and with our current striking options I still think this is the case.

I'm pretty much in agreement.

My thoughts re Newcastle depend on when they decide to replace Bruce and who comes in to steady the ship for them.

[Dave]

Ten goals in four matches so far, and nine different goalscorers.

Feels very reassuring to have it so spread out.

[paul_e]

Ten goals in four matches so far, and nine different goalscorers.

Feels very reassuring to have it so spread out.

I was expecting nothing else. The way we're setup means we'll see goals from all over the place, it's why I don't really understand the people who are worried about the risk of a lack of goals from Wesley and no one to replace him, I honestly don't think his 'job' in this team will be to score 20+ so that's not what we should be demanding, if he gets 10-12 then I'll be very happy.

[Risso]

Ten goals in four matches so far, and nine different goalscorers.

Feels very reassuring to have it so spread out.

I was expecting nothing else. The way we're setup means we'll see goals from all over the place, it's why I don't really understand the people who are worried about the risk of a lack of goals from Wesley and no one to replace him, I honestly don't think his 'job' in this team will be to score 20+ so that's not what we should be demanding, if he gets 10-12 then I'll be very happy.

You've answered your own question.  If he's out, who gets the 10-12 he'd have got?