Why cant I feel any excitement about the forthcoming season?

[Concrete John]

This will probably get taken to pieces, but these are my reasons to be cheerful:-
1.  We still have excellent players like Young, Gabby and Carew who can win us games.
2.  Last year's excellent defence is still in place, so we will be competitive.
3.  Aston Villa will be playing football - it still always gets me excited going to watch us.  
4.  I'm very hopeful of the development of our youth players, particularly Albrighton.
5.  I DO think there will be new signings before 01/09/10.

For all the doom and gloom around here, it will be lifted if we beat West Ham!!

[not3bad]

Hopefully when the season kicks off there will be one or two unpredictable results.  And Villa will play well.  If we get away with a couple of wins under our belt then things will all change.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

This season, I am mostly not looking forward to:

1 - Not being able to finish higher than the last few seasons season due to other teams financial backing
2 - The constant moaning of Villa fans who want MON out as they believe another manager will do better (though how having someone like Hodgson/Hughes etc. would all of a sudden mean we'd finish top 4 and win cups is beyond me)
3 - James Milner going to Man City. What's the point if a team can just buy whoever they want, whenever they want when all others can't. I think it's cheating.
4 - The moans and groans after 10 minutes of the West Ham game because we're not winning by 4 goals
5 - Heskey
6 - The abuse Heskey will get when he comes on for Carew after 70 minutes (ok, he's shit, but if he's on the pitch, support him)

I'm sure there's more if I thought about it a bit more...

[Phil from the upper holte]

In this league you have to spend well to stand still, we haven't spent at all, Im not saying we wont but i get the feeling if we do it will be someone really uninspiring.

Im tempted to go next week against West ham but Im thinking hmm £38 and last year after Wigan I was suicidal. I want something to help me get my inspiration back

[Greg N'Ash]

Personally i've written off this season so i'm finding it hard to rise above apathy really.. I can't see us doing any better than last and i'm not exactly sure i want a manager who probably won't be here next summer spending the Milner money on his players who the new guy may not fancy. Four years in, i'm not convnced we're any nearer to having a team to crack the top 4 and the subtle concentration on the cups last season convinces me the manager shares that view. If he makes it to next summer, if will be one of the longest reigns of a Villa manager and i'm not convnced we've benifited from it or that it hasn't been largely a waste of time and money.

[darren woolley]

I think we will be ok positive thinking can't wait for the season to start.

[Arsey]

I have just realised I will completely miss the Spam opener as I will be driving through Germany.  I can not say I was bothered at all.

[Comrade Blitz]

Bought our Wet Spam tickets this morning.

Holte End Lower  L7 Row G

Call me crazy.

[Bigmelonface]

Is it the world cup farce ?
Is it the thought of over hyped over paid footballers taking the piss?
I just cant work up any enthusiasm for next season, I am usually getting excited and studying the fixture list and and and.......
Has the modern money driven, Sky driven, Andy Gray growling punditry promising 'mouth watering' football finally done me?

You have just got old, as you get older you care less about football and when you look back to the good old days its because your looking back to when you are younger and it always seems better, add to that hope and the optimism of youth and then the gradual evaporation of that hope and you have your answer.

Love Plato.

It was only a couple of years ago that I spent my redundancy payment on season tickets, I must have got old quick....

By old I mean metaphorically it happens to most at some point your values change happened to me about 6 years ago.

I'm at the point now where I get bored no matter what game I'm watching.

[TheSandman]

I have never felt so totally and utterly apathetic ahead of a new season. The Sun has an advert on the TV now that is something like 'Look at it like a kid again' I think that is the reason. I am not a kid any more.

However, I think and hope all will be better come the start of the football.

[The Situation]

I'm not feeling any excitement either towards our new season probably because we haven't signed anyone, the whole Milner drama hasn't been sorted out and I feel next season is just going to provide more of the same which is not good enough where I see us maybe slipping behind our so called rivals if we don't sign the players we need to and have a better game plan and stratergies.

Anything better than a 6th place finish will be really good I think as I'm not too sure what the new season will bring.

[RogerS]

It's not just apathy about Villa it's all football.

Must admit I'm feeling pretty much the same way, Ferg.

For me I think it's a combination of things: a crap/mediocre/disappointing World Cup; a general feeling of disillusionment with football in general; and the fact that I seem to have been totally preocuppied since December of last year with trying to keep my business afloat.

That said, I have had a horrible gut feeling for the last month that this coming season is likely to end in tears for us Villa fans.

Please let me be wrong.

[Bigmelonface]

Is it the world cup farce ?

That's another thing I did not even get exited during the world cup I watched the games and got annoyed, the fact England had nothing absolutely nothing to offer played a major part.

My 7 year old son on the other hand loved every second of every game he watched, even the Greece v Argentinian game :-)

He did not even care who won just liked the games, he picked Brazil and Spain as his favorites from the start having read the stats in his sticker book and because he thinks Torres and Fabregas are amazing.

That was the only thing that kept my interest in the tournament.

God I wish I was 7.

[flybo]

Just got back from the game did not fell like going before but now i want the season to start tomorrow

[ChrissyPrice]

It's still the cricket season. I have always hated football in August, it feels like curtailing the summer. Maybe I will get more enthusiastic about it as the nights draw in.

With Worcester City selfishly moving to Conference North I honestly think the number of games I will watch live this season will be a new low.

And if it wasn't for the Ashes I'd get rid of Sky and the Andy Gray hype.Not sure how he is going to sell Stevie G et al this year.