Would relegation be that bad?

[Merv]

Plenty of time to go, sure. But the worry is that Wolves know how to dig in and win games - beaten Liverpool and Chelsea in the last week or so without conceding a goal. West Ham were battered last night at Newcastle (sounds familiar) but had a good Christmas, winning two and drawing two. Fulham know what it's like down there.

On the other hand, we're in freefall. Last night is the first time I've felt properly worried about relegation.

[john e]

All this talk as if we're down already. With a half a season to go.
Get a fucking grip will you.

Have you seen the league table recently?

its Jan not May,
 bottom 10 clubs, all within 5 points of each other, we are hardly cut adrift

[Mazrim]

All this talk as if we're down already. With a half a season to go.
Get a fucking grip will you.

Have you seen the league table recently?

No, why? Is there a problem?

[john e]

All this talk as if we're down already. With a half a season to go.
Get a fucking grip will you.

Have you seen the league table recently?

No, why? Is there a problem?

not if you turn it upside down

[Mazrim]

If we dont do some meaningful business this window to arrest the slide, I'll be concerned. But in early January with a few points in it all the way down from the European places, I'm not.

Well, maybe concerned but not worried.
Sacking Houllier right now will possibly do more harm than good. Let's just see what happens over the next month or so. When he's had a chance to get some of his own choices in rather than continue the cat herding mission getting MON's old boys to pull their socks up seems to be.

[Olneythelonely]

All this talk as if we're down already. With a half a season to go.
Get a fucking grip will you.

Have you seen the league table recently?

But that doesn't mean we're already down.

[peter w]

All this talk as if we're down already. With a half a season to go.
Get a fucking grip will you.

Have you seen the league table recently?

But that doesn't mean we're already down.

But its a good starting point for people to start thinking that the worst could happen. We are the worst team around at the moment and have been bottom of the current form tables for quite a while. No, it doesn't mean we're down but it does mean we look as if we're heading that way.

[Witton Warrior]

When DoL was here I thought it might shake us up, now I think it would shake us to the core and we would take a long time to recover...

The military saying "I shall withdraw as a ram to butt harder on my return*" does not, unfortunately, apply to football methinks

*Philip of Macedon (I think) - Would he do a better job than Houllier?

[Simba]

The financial game has changed largely because of television. Relegation would be a disaster. We all know that. And don't be fooled by people like me who look back on the third division days with affection. It was largely terrible. We lived on the "underdog" thing. Gentle Giant. I remember 12000 odd in Villa Park on a cold wet week day night. Rochdale. Who knows who cares. Losing against Doncaster after hitching up there, and losing.  Can't remember.
I only remember ( after hitching from Wales for every home game and most away) the Spurs Cup Final. The Manu semis and Bournmouth at VP. Brilliant atmosphere. So....

Give me Inter Milan every time.

Don't even talk about relegation as positive.

Financially it would destroy us and could take ten years to return.

[sfx412]

Financially it would destroy us and could take ten years to return.

In a mess of a statements I find that one just incredible, especially from a  Villa fan.

[Blackcountry Villa]

Our squad is very very average for all the money spent, but my biggest fear is the lack of fighting spirit in the manager and the players. You need it down there to scrap your way out of it and we haven't got it, don't be fooled by a last minute equaliser against Chelsea who are in disarray.

[Risso]

Financially it would destroy us and could take ten years to return.

In a mess of a statements I find that one just incredible, especially from a  Villa fan.

He's right though, unless we bounced straight back up, financially we'd be very close to ruin.  We've got a whole heap of debt we have to pay back to the Lerner trust in a few years.  To do that he's either going to have to make some pretty big profits, borrow externally against the club, or sell the club to a new owner.  All very hard to do in terms of getting enough money if we're getting 25,000 crowds in the Championship.

[sheldon nose]

Feck sake think you lot need to take a chill pill....i know blues and villa love to take the piss out of each other but the villa wont go down, your squad is far too strong.....its only jan as well.......

[PaulTheVillan]

Feck sake think you lot need to take a chill pill....i know blues and villa love to take the piss out of each other but the villa wont go down, your squad is far too strong.....its only jan as well.......

Thanks. I think.

[WikiVilla]

Is it true Lerner is charging us an interset rate of approx 17% ?

Isn't the base rate 0.5% ??

Yeah, he's Villa through and through