Quote from: Dante Lavelli on August 09, 2013, 09:31:32 AMQuote from: Matt Collins on August 08, 2013, 05:52:47 AMBut oh for the days when at this stage, you knew that if everything clicked villa would challenge for the title or even the top four. I wonder if we'll ever see that again? I suspect not. Unless we get bought out by a sheikhWhen would you say this was a realistic period? Late 70s/early 80s.
Quote from: Matt Collins on August 08, 2013, 05:52:47 AMBut oh for the days when at this stage, you knew that if everything clicked villa would challenge for the title or even the top four. I wonder if we'll ever see that again? I suspect not. Unless we get bought out by a sheikhWhen would you say this was a realistic period?
But oh for the days when at this stage, you knew that if everything clicked villa would challenge for the title or even the top four. I wonder if we'll ever see that again? I suspect not. Unless we get bought out by a sheikh
Quote from: Irish villain on August 19, 2013, 01:59:12 PMLooking at the fixtures, I would be expecting us to get some fourteen points from our last eight games. They are a decent set of fixtures to finish on.In the Houllier year we picked up 15 points from a harder run in of eight games to finish ninth on 48 points. In the McLeish year, we picked up five points from our last eight games to finish sixteenth on 38 points. If we can be on 40 points minimum by the time we play Stoke on 22 March you'd think we would be good for a late charge for top eight. Equally, if things don't quite pan out as we hope, if we end up in or around the same 33 points with eight games to go as in '11 and '12 you'd even still back us to get up to around 47 points and a possible ninth or tenth. If we are on 33points by the Stoke game then this season will have been another miserable struggle. I hope we can do better than that.
Looking at the fixtures, I would be expecting us to get some fourteen points from our last eight games. They are a decent set of fixtures to finish on.In the Houllier year we picked up 15 points from a harder run in of eight games to finish ninth on 48 points. In the McLeish year, we picked up five points from our last eight games to finish sixteenth on 38 points. If we can be on 40 points minimum by the time we play Stoke on 22 March you'd think we would be good for a late charge for top eight. Equally, if things don't quite pan out as we hope, if we end up in or around the same 33 points with eight games to go as in '11 and '12 you'd even still back us to get up to around 47 points and a possible ninth or tenth.
