Reasons to be cheerful.

[godzvilla]

Oh how  ' Misery loves company ' .....we will survive , I have no doubts at all , by the end of May this preposterous Season will be buried in the Graveyard of al our other painful memories . The summer will see a number of "  Goodbyes" including a few  " good riddances " , there will be some  new faces to give hope and sustainance to our dreams .  August will see us , as ever , champing at the bit to get down for the first home game with a spring in our steps and hope in our hearts , twas ever thus .......................Godzvilla!

[Pat McMahon]

I'm off to Beijing for 4 days and the weather there is freezing cold but glorious sunshine. Great combination.

And we have 2 weeks to prepare for our next game. And maybe the internationals will break up our awful streak of form.

[VillaZogmariner]

Dave Cooper had a good weekend.

[supertom]

Much like Dave, I had a spiffing weekend. Good enough that I'd forgotten about the match entirely, and good enough still that after checking on the score I only felt a wave of seething rage for a couple of minutes before returning to enjoying the weekend with my lovely.

I dread to think how painful this season would be on me, if not for the welcome distraction of my lovely girlfriend. I would have very little reason to be cheerful.

Oh well, I look forward to local Derbies with Coventry and Leicester next year. Welcome back Darius Vassell!

[Phil from the upper holte]

I've just brought a house, I'm uncertain if that's a good thing or not at the moment but its a start, I'll have a door to lock and cry behind if it comes to it

[Surrey Villain]

I've just brought a house, I'm uncertain if that's a good thing or not at the moment but its a start, I'll have a door to lock and cry behind if it comes to it

and you can kick it down when you get home after watching Villa lose to Newcastle, and Stoke, and............

[Chico Hamilton III]

This is Villa's 100th season in the top flight!!!

[damon loves JT]

I have dug the whole allotment and it looks ace. I even replaced the leaky tap on the communal water-butt. My neighbour gave me two large parsnips as a token of gratitude.

[FatSam]

The single most important thing Graham Taylor ever said at Villa Park was "forget what you used to be like, this is what you are like now."

This is a humbling piece of GT profundity; I have an image of him saying this deep in the bowels of the Trinity Road stand, whilst a shaft of bright sunlight refracts through a stained glass window high above and onto Chris Price's head. "You have eight Champions League games" doesn't quite have the same effect.

[cheltenhamlion]

You got us into this mess, you get us out of it.

[Fuse]

Chris Herd a good game at centre-half, despite playing out of position. And looks a great prospect for the future.

He blocked one cross that looked like a certain goal in the making.

OK, at times he and NRC may have looked like they'd never met before when it came to passing but overall I was very impressed with Herd

I thought he had a great game considering he had never played there before. Looks a really good prospect and has a bit of aggression in him. Maybe he and Clarke could be a future pairing at CH

[Clampy]

You got us into this mess, you get us out of it.

That was when we were 2-0 down at half time in the F.A Cup at Crewe i believe. I think he walked straight back out of the dressing room after he said it. We won 3-2. The man is a legend.

[Phil from the upper holte]

SGT also said I don't care what your bad at just what your good at!

We should adopt that policy also, and were good at long ball *winky*

[Stu]

On the plus side, I managed to get to work this morning without shitting myself. And given the state of my bowels today, that is a real bonus.

Hey, I didn't see a thread about this in off-topic. Whats going on?

[mozza]

Having said final farewell to a friend and neighbour of 30+ years this morning
the trials and tribulations of AVFC are put in prospective -