FA Cup draw

[Chris Smith]

If we were relegated it would be as much down to mr o neill as anything else and a complete set of extreme bad fortune , ie , manager walking out in the week of a new season, failure to get a replacement before the window ended, and a huge injury crisis rather than being shit as you put it, chris, although I'm sure you rather that than accept o neill would carry a lot of the blame.

I also do not think we will go down but I'm confident if we did that we would bounce straight back .

That's up there with the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read on here, strikes me as an attempt to get your excuses in early.

We won't go down but if we did it would be because we weren't good enough over 38 games not because of something that happened before the season started. That would be down to the current manager, coaches and players.

[eastie]

If we were relegated it would be as much down to mr o neill as anything else and a complete set of extreme bad fortune , ie , manager walking out in the week of a new season, failure to get a replacement before the window ended, and a huge injury crisis rather than being shit as you put it, chris, although I'm sure you rather that than accept o neill would carry a lot of the blame.

I also do not think we will go down but I'm confident if we did that we would bounce straight back .

That's up there with the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read on here, strikes me as an attempt to get your excuses in early.

We won't go down but if we did it would be because we weren't good enough over 38 games not because of something that happened before the season started. That would be down to the current manager, coaches and players.

 i dont think we will go down but if you think its all down to to the current staff if we did then thats rubbish , o neill has a huge amount of blame for the position we have  found ourselves in , and houllier is trying to sort out the mess he left behind!
yes , houllier would also take some blame but to lie no blame at all on o' neill is ridiculous after he walked out 5 days before the season started!

[Risso]

Indeed Chris.  I also don't think we'll get relegated, and nor should we.  I can accept that O'Neill leaving as he did caused problems, but there's no way that we should be relegated, especially after the January transfer window we had.

[eastie]

Dont worry risso, we will NOT  be relegated !

[Risso]

Dont worry risso, we will NOT  be relegated !

I'm not worried, as I said.  I just don't get this "I'd accept relegation if won the FA Cup" bollocks.

[eastie]

there is nothing better than winning trophies , winning the fa cup would be possibly the greatest day ever for me supporting villa and would be forever remembered , we are not going to win the premiership in the immediate future and id rather win a major trophy than finish mid table personally .

nobody wants to get relegated but if we did i am very confident we would get straight back , but each to their own opinions.

[Chris Smith]

there is nothing better than winning trophies , winning the fa cup would be possibly the greatest day ever for me supporting villa and would be forever remembered , we are not going to win the premiership in the immediate future and id rather win a major trophy than finish mid table personally .

nobody wants to get relegated but if we did i am very confident we would get straight back , but each to their own opinions.

So you're basically saying "bollocks to the long term health of the club as long as Eastie gets his day out at Wembley".

[eastie]

there is nothing better than winning trophies , winning the fa cup would be possibly the greatest day ever for me supporting villa and would be forever remembered , we are not going to win the premiership in the immediate future and id rather win a major trophy than finish mid table personally .

nobody wants to get relegated but if we did i am very confident we would get straight back , but each to their own opinions.

So you're basically saying "bollocks to the long term health of the club as long as Eastie gets his day out at Wembley".

winning the fa cup puts us in europe , do you really think we would not get promoted ? i want to see aston villa win the fa cup more than i want anything else to happen in football, winning a major trophy and qualifying for europe , and playing a season winning the championship would not damage the long term health of the club, but we will have to agree to differ in our views chris.

[Chris Smith]

We'd have to sell players, any we bought would be championship quality, crowds would drop, TV revenue would drop and sponsorship deals would be hit - of couse it would damage the club.

[Risso]

and playing a season winning the championship would not damage the long term health of the club, but we will have to agree to differ in our views chris.

I don't think you've thouht that through have you?

Firstly, who says it wouldn't damage our long term health?  If we go down, most of our saleable young players would want to be moving elsewhere.  We'd have a big drop in income, and if we didn't bounce straight back, which is by no means a foregone conclusion, we'd find it even harder in years to come.    It would be a disaster.  I'm also not sure how being relegated would help us to win the FA Cup in any case.

[Blackcountry Villa]

We'd have to sell players, any we bought would be championship quality, crowds would drop, TV revenue would drop and sponsorship deals would be hit - of couse it would damage the club.

Our home crowds would drop but our away numbers would increase massively imo. We take piss poor numbers away these days for a club our size (1800 to Everton for a saturday 3pm? Rubbish), the fact is we've all done the same cities and grounds to death and theres zero chance of us doing anything noteworthy in this league, in the Championship there would be new cities and grounds (look at the tickets for Blackpool, like hotcakes because it was new) and we'd be challenging for the league.

[Clampy]

If we were relegated it would be as much down to mr o neill as anything else and a complete set of extreme bad fortune , ie , manager walking out in the week of a new season, failure to get a replacement before the window ended, and a huge injury crisis rather than being shit as you put it, chris, although I'm sure you rather that than accept o neill would carry a lot of the blame.

I also do not think we will go down but I'm confident if we did that we would bounce straight back .

That's up there with the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read on here, strikes me as an attempt to get your excuses in early.

Seconded. Absolute tripe.

[Chris Smith]

We'd have to sell players, any we bought would be championship quality, crowds would drop, TV revenue would drop and sponsorship deals would be hit - of couse it would damage the club.

Our home crowds would drop but our away numbers would increase massively imo. We take piss poor numbers away these days for a club our size (1800 to Everton for a saturday 3pm? Rubbish), the fact is we've all done the same cities and grounds to death and theres zero chance of us doing anything noteworthy in this league, in the Championship there would be new cities and grounds (look at the tickets for Blackpool, like hotcakes because it was new) and we'd be challenging for the league.

So what, we don't make anything from away games.

[eastie]

If we were relegated it would be as much down to mr o neill as anything else and a complete set of extreme bad fortune , ie , manager walking out in the week of a new season, failure to get a replacement before the window ended, and a huge injury crisis rather than being shit as you put it, chris, although I'm sure you rather that than accept o neill would carry a lot of the blame.

I also do not think we will go down but I'm confident if we did that we would bounce straight back .

That's up there with the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read on here, strikes me as an attempt to get your excuses in early.

Seconded. Absolute tripe.

i see mons fan club are out in force today then, if it did happen relegation would be the fault of many causes and anyone who think o neill totally blameless for it is talking tripe.

[Chris Smith]

If we were relegated it would be as much down to mr o neill as anything else and a complete set of extreme bad fortune , ie , manager walking out in the week of a new season, failure to get a replacement before the window ended, and a huge injury crisis rather than being shit as you put it, chris, although I'm sure you rather that than accept o neill would carry a lot of the blame.

I also do not think we will go down but I'm confident if we did that we would bounce straight back .

That's up there with the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read on here, strikes me as an attempt to get your excuses in early.

Seconded. Absolute tripe.

i see mons fan club are out in force today then.

Childish as ever.