Where will we finish?

[Lambert and Payne]

Quite scary how it turned out. Did we really think 8th or was we clutching at straws?

[Greg N'Ash]

Pretty hard to judge really. If we have a bad start i reckon come january re-inforcements will be brought in either under AM or someone else so we could end up higher than this squad looks capable of.  Without injuries and some players improving on last season i'd say 12th. To me it looks a very average side

God, i'm good....

[Merv]

I could have sworn I'd originally gone for 12-16th when McLeish arrived, but then I officially changed it on the thread to 11th by the time the season kicked off. I do recall feeling reasonably happy about the squad when we started, though less happy by the time we'd swapped Luke Young and Jean Makoun for Hutton and Jenas.

Mind you, having listened to Ray Houghton on the radio yesterday, insisting Villa fans needed to temper their expectations of the team... you can see the popular choice among here was 10-12th position, so our expectations were pretty modest. And AM couldn't deliver that.

[Jimbo]

Can somebody resurrect last year's manager thread, where the Scottish manager arrives - I want to relive that 9/11 moment of disbelief and despair in preparation for this year's bombshell.   

[Steve R]

hehehehe

I just happened along, not realising this was a resurrected thread from last year.

I saw the 'Assuming no new arrivals' but not the date and thought 'what a weird poll', but voted anyway.

What other idiot put us down to win the league?

[QBVILLA]

Quite scary how it turned out. Did we really think 8th or was we clutching at straws?

Apart from Newcastle who did a load better than I and many others expected I maintain that we really should be looking at 8th as what we should achieve.Have WBA,Fulham,Sunderland,Norwich,Swansea,Wigan and Stoke really got better squads than us? I don't think so.How many of those clubs can offer the sort of wages we pay? Bottom half of the table is an embarrassment for a club like Villa.

[Merv]

Never mind that, I'm still intrigued by the supposedly stronger squads who finished below us in the table (Ferguson/McLeish).

[QBVILLA]

Never mind that, I'm still intrigued by the supposedly stronger squads who finished below us in the table (Ferguson/McLeish).

Yes that was a pearler

[Risso]

Voted 16th.

The defence is rank bad, and minus the best performer last season (Walker), and possibly minus our best central defender (Cuellar). I have no faith in Eck performing miracles and getting them to play well, indeed Dunne is another year older and will possibly decline still further.

The midfield is far and away weaker than last year, having been shorn of its two best players. We have a good signing in N'Zogbia, but that is a very poor trade for Young AND Downing. Petrov is not going to miraculously become a 90 minute player, and beyond him we have no one that can tackle in he squad. EWe will miss Coker this year. Delph seems very injury prone. Makoun may do better, but needs to as he was not great last season. I fully expect Ireland to comtinue to be poor, based on his pre season form being no better than last season. Albrighton looks jaded, though I would hope he will improve.

Up front we have Bent, best hope he does not get injured as without him we could be in the relegation mix again.


Can't see past a bloody awful season tbh.

And the Nostradamus Award for 2011-2012 goes to...

I voted 12th for the record.

So did I.  Chris Smith was his usual optimistic and spectacularly wrong self! 

[cdbearsfan]

I voted 9th and predicted Newcastle to go down. So close!

[rooboy316]

Did you vote?

Nope, but I see it now.  Thanks leeg.

[ozzjim]

Quite pleased with my 13th, not that far off.

[KRS]

Our saving grace this season is that there are so many other shite teams that will be worse than us.

Going for a miserable 14th.

you say so many, yet by suggesting 14th you're also there's only 6 teams worse. Doesn't make sense.

Only 2 places off my prediction...AM managed to get the team playing even lower than my expectations and 7pts off 14th place! What a muppet!

[not3bad]

I think I voted 7th, so if you add a 1 on the font of that I was only 1 place off!

[mazrimsbruv]

In a previous poll I voted on June 15th for "Bottom 3"

In a subsequent poll I voted on July 20th for "Bottom 5"

I didn't bother voting on this particular poll, such was my disillusionment, both with Villa and with having to justify my gloomy predictions with the many over-optimistic / delusional posters on here.

Can you only achieve 'Nostradamus' status if you posted on this poll?