The run-in for the "looking" doomed

[Villa'Zawg]

Kev Mac is one of very, very few people to come out of this season with any credit. His enormous dignity and selflessness at the start of the season is a shining beacon in an otherwise dark and murky episode in our history.

If the board has been caught with their pants down again, I think he'd step up to the plate and that he would be better for the run-in than Gerard.

[WikiVilla]

KMac/Sid/TMc to night-watchmen to the summer keep us up then either Van Gaal, Jol or Sparky to come in

[lordmcgrath5]

KMac/Sid/TMc to night-watchmen to the summer keep us up then either Van Gaal, Jol or Sparky to come in

Why would Van Gaal want to join Villa having just left the biggest club in Germany? Not going to happen.

Jol - my choice as well.

Sparky - mantra-like reciter of excuses for mid-table mediocrity. Granted, that's better than our current situation, but not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of.

[NeilH]

KMac/Sid/TMc to night-watchmen to the summer keep us up then either Van Gaal, Jol or Sparky to come in

Why would Van Gaal want to join Villa having just left the biggest club in Germany? Not going to happen.

Van Gaal is a funny one. Bear in mind that he went from the pinnacle of European football to manage AZ Alkmaar. If there's one thing that Van Gaal relishes, it is an opportunity to have full control of the management of a club coupled with a strong youth system. He has on a number of occasions stated that he'd like to manage in the Prem and as long as Randy was prepared to back totally off, then he could be a success.
Having said that, I suspect he'll take over at Vitesse Arnhem next season.

[Merv]

So, we finish with Arsenal and Liverpool, then? Great.

Liverpool to beat and relegate us on the last day of the season, with Houllier, a wry smile and glint in his eye, proclaiming: 'Well, if we had to be relegated by anyone....'

[Jim™]

Liverpool to beat and relegate us on the last day of the season, with Houllier, a wry smile and glint in his eye, proclaiming: 'Well, if we had to be relegated by anyone....'

I just laughed heartilly, loving the gallows humour!

[pauliewalnuts]

I know, I know, I know x 3 x 5 x 8 and more. 1970 and later..all the desperate status and same again. AV ought to be, and deserve to be at the pinnacle of success; and manage to be where? Exactly here, where  we are...WHY?  30/40 years of the same old same old same old and same old...
Two weeks of no attenance will tell them why, and quick!.
Why endure the misery?

30/40 years of the same old same old? A period in which we've won the league, been champions of Europe, and picked up plenty of league cups?

If we think we've had it bad over that period, we're kidding ourselves.

Look at the rest of the top flight for starters and think how bad they've had it. Look at Newcastle who have won NOTHING for nigh on half a century. Look at the millions of football supporters in this country who support clubs who have never won anything.

Let's not get carried away and pretend we're some poster boy for non achievement or mediocrity - we are, even in recent years, one of the most successful football clubs in this country. There are plenty of fans who have it far, far tougher than we do.

[jonzy85]

I think Newcastle and Fulham sould be in this list as well, perhaps even Stoke. Newcastle in particular are on a horrible run and it wont take much for the fans to turn on Pardew, who they didnt want in the first place (sound familiar).

I'm looking at Newcastle at home as being the key game. It's very winnable, they are not good away from home, have no striker we should be afraid of and their defence looked as bad as anything we have produced this season on Saturday. 3 points against them, would certainly boost confidence and I think we could kick on from then. It would also see them dragged right into it. It's a Sunday tv game as well, so Ashley will look at it as one where he will most definitely be in the shop window.

All in all, since Saturday, relegation is a genuine concern. It has been nagging at me all season but I didnt really think we could drop that low.

What gives me heart is that there are so many teams in the shit with us and I dont expect them all to be able to get the necessary points.

I think we  just need to get 1 win and we could kick on. If we find ourselves in the bottom 3 before the Arsenal game, I do think we are most likely down.

[hawkeye]

Kev Mac is one of very, very few people to come out of this season with any credit. His enormous dignity and selflessness at the start of the season is a shining beacon in an otherwise dark and murky episode in our history.

If the board has been caught with their pants down again, I think he'd step up to the plate and that he would be better for the run-in than Gerard.

With you all the way, i said before a massive factor is the atmosphere at VP, at least with Le Stink gone the fans would get behind the team

[WikiVilla]

Spot on houllier and his muppet have poisoned the atmosphere down B6

Overall the fans have been patient/well behaved, but enough is enough now

[LeeS]

I'm looking at Newcastle at home as being the key game. It's very winnable, they are not good away from home, have no striker we should be afraid of and their defence looked as bad as anything we have produced this season on Saturday.

You could have said exactly the same about Wolves...

[Concrete John]

Normally you'd say a point away to Everton and then a win at home to Newcastle. 

That's what you'd normally say.

At the moment I'd bite your arm off if offered a point from each.

[jonzy85]

I just did the BBC predictor thing and, surprisingly had us finishing fairly safe! I thought I was being fairly pessismistic too (losing to Everton, Liverpool and Arsenal).

I did have us beating Newcastle at home. If we can do that, we couldnt really cherry pick better fixtures in Stoke and Wigan (Home), West Ham and West Brom (Away).

If we get the win against Newcastle, the confidence should return and with that some spirit. We then should have enough to get the required points from the above 4 fixtures.

[WikiVilla]

How on earth can west ham or west brom away be games we'd cherry pick ?? Both sides playing and battling for their lives much better than we are
Wigan at home will be very tough, not sure about Stoke

[Ads]

You'd rather play the poorer sides because they're crap. The Wolves on Saturday were absolute toilet. Any half decent team would have smashed them into next week.

The fact is we were unbelievably poor. Not a patch on how we played at Bolton. Very few sides can get away with being as poor as we were an expect to get anything.