Club Statement - What Do You Think?

[midnite]

Holtepaul. That post just doesn't make sense but your rants are comedy gold!!

[holtepaul]

Villasubmarina - are3 you two or something - or just got the IQ of a grain of rice.

We were 2nd !!!! - SECOND - that is one from top.

Now, put the V-tech my first computer down before I ask this question.

Do you honestly think Aston Villa will be challenging for the league , and at the very least, be in the top 3 - either in the 2010-2011 or 2011-2012 season ?

That week - we were 2nd (for a few hours) or 3rd (realistically)  - Arsenal were 5th.

We bought Heskey , they bought Arshavin

The rest was history.

You really do just argue for the sake of it - don't you

[VillaZogmariner]

No, I'm just trying to work out how you think it has set us back longer than 5 years when it's only been 2 1/2 years since we signed him.

And it's spelt VillaSubmariner not Submarina.

[holtepaul]

Because we were one player away from cracking it - the same as when JG wanted Juninho - one player, that was all we needed.

We never got it, and thats it. I said it will cost 5 - history and now money shows it will be longer.

Villa peak every 10 yrs

1981 - league , next good year 1990 - then a chink 1994 , then 2000 , then 1999

Clubs of our stature (Spurs, Everton etc..) get one crack every now and again, and you have to take that crack.

We never, and it will be a bloody long time before we get another crack.

Who was to blame - who knows, fans blame O'Neill , media blame Faulkner - but the fact is, who-ever it was, cost this club years of progress with that decision.

[Irish villain]

I think I really dislike Paul Faulkner

Why? Because our Club isn't deemed big enough or geographically located well enough to attract the bigger names?

What Irish villain said above

Go back to 2007-2009 we were on a real roll. We were real movers in the PL. You could smell the burning ambition at Villa Park and we weren't just knocking on the door of the CL places, we were in amongst those places. Somethign went very badly wrong from early 2009. You could even sense it at the time.

I doubt you were saying that in April last year when we were challenging for the CL and about to play Chelsea in the semi-final of the FA Cup.

Sure, Moscow and the subsequent 2-2 at home to Stoke fucked-up 2009 for us but the following year, only last year in fact, we were on the brink of even greater success.

You're right about the cups, but the previous year the top four was really there for the taking. Arsenal were struggling for form and Spurs weren't as strong as they became. We should have made fourth in 2008/2009.

Granted we were on the verge of success in 2009/2010, but the top four was that bit further out of reach. I remember being at Villa Park for the final home game against Blackburn and there was this all pervasive sense that things had turned at Villa.

[VillaZogmariner]

The next good year after 1981 was 1982. Then after 1994 was 1996.

[Ian.]

get one crack every now and again, and you have to take that crack.

Just

Say

No!!!

[adrenachrome]

get one crack every now and again, and you have to take that crack.

Just

Say

No!!!

Yeah.

Stay off the pipe, man.

[dave.woodhall]

Because we were one player away from cracking it - the same as when JG wanted Juninho - one player, that was all we needed.

We never got it, and thats it. I said it will cost 5 - history and now money shows it will be longer.

Villa peak every 10 yrs

1981 - league , next good year 1990 - then a chink 1994 , then 2000 , then 1999

Clubs of our stature (Spurs, Everton etc..) get one crack every now and again, and you have to take that crack.

We never, and it will be a bloody long time before we get another crack.

Who was to blame - who knows, fans blame O'Neill , media blame Faulkner - but the fact is, who-ever it was, cost this club years of progress with that decision.

We finished higher in 1993, 1996 and 1997 than we did in 2000, and as high too often to remember.

[PeterWithesShin]

Do you honestly think Aston Villa will be challenging for the league , and at the very least, be in the top 3 - either in the 2010-2011 or 2011-2012 season ?

Hasn't the 2010-2011 season just finished? Don't we already know the answer? At least I know we got 48 points. Or was it 42? Maybe we were relegated. Or won the league.

Find out in the next episode of Soap.

[holtepaul]

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[holtepaul]

The next good year after 1981 was 1982. Then after 1994 was 1996.

Not in the league it wasn't. In fact, I think we finished 10th on both occasions if I remember correctly !, or was it 94 we finisshed 10th, think it was unde BFR not little.


Sorry, cups are nice, but they don't show the whole story.

If they show success - then go try telling Blues fans that !!!

[Dave]

Not in the league it wasn't. In fact, I think we finished 10th on both occasions if I remember correctly !

Fifth in 1996 but nice try.

You'll get there in the end.

Fact. 100%. Et cetera.

[dave.woodhall]

Not in the league it wasn't. In fact, I think we finished 10th on both occasions if I remember correctly !

Fifth in 1996 but nice try.

You'll get there in the end.

Fact. 100%. Et cetera.

Fourth.

[holtepaul]

try reading and copying the whole post rather than cutting and pasting to show something that is wrong.

Do you work for the Sun ?