Relegation Possibility

[gabbyisgod]

....At least we will have cheap tickets

[eastie]

Anyone who thinks we are too good to go down needs a rethink- teams below us are scoring goals and picking up points , we lack fight and tactically are poor and negative- if a team is sucked into the relegation zone as often happens at this time it could well be villa- we look an extremely poor team and without dunne and clark long term will struggle even more for results.

The games at wigan and blackburn are massive.

[paulcomben]

I expect QPR, Bolton and Wolves to get a spurt on. Two with new managers and one because Bolton cannot be that bad. Villa will be scraping points together rather than impressing us. Pray for something like those unexpected wins vs Arsenal and Liverpool at the end of last season.

[Vanilla]

Don't think we will go down. It's not that we are good enough, it's just you can identify at least three teams worse than us.

In weekend round-up of the PL The Guardian notes that the manager has identified 'winnable' games, and is taking that approach to the season. As such they think our poor performance against Citeh was because it was deemed not a winnable game.

What a sad state of affairs to see Villa reduced to this mentality. We'll be resting players against the big clubs next.

Do you think we could request the club publish the list of winnable games and the unwinnable games, so that we can then decide on which tickets to spend our hard easrned cash.

That's not a bad idea. A sort of reverse of the old charge more for the big games policy. Put a few extra quid on the tickets for games where Villa players will actually break sweat.

We should recommend that to the marketing team.

[rutski]

Like I said in the other thread, I don't think relegation would be that bad. There are some positives (if people give McLeish some positives, then anything is possible). We need a major revamp and I think dropping down would be a massive wakeup call to the smug board at least.

I don't want us to get relegated, but I'm at the stage where I'm not even enjoying our football and I'm actually ashamed to be a Villa fan, so I'm not going to feel any different if we drop down at this stage.

If he can't win any of the next 4, expect us to drop and we deserve to be relegated because we've been a disgrace to the game and its all down to the manager.

you can tell we have lost a game, compass is back on, is he dazzy g in disguise???
Another thing, never, ever be ashamed to be a villa fan!!!!

[Compass]

I'm not ashamed of our history, the fans, the stadium...anything Villa related other than I'm ashamed (currently) we're now one of the most hated in the league because of the manager.

Keep getting texts from Baggies taking the piss. What can I say? It's absoutely shameful what's going on at this club at the moment.

[Concrete John]

Keep getting texts from Baggies taking the piss. What can I say? It's absoutely shameful what's going on at this club at the moment.

No it isn't.

Shameful is what Liverpool are right now due to the actions of their manager and striker.

What Villa are is not a very good team at the moment.  We've been worse in the past and probably will be worse again in the future, but there's nothing 'shameful' about that.

[Compass]

There's already been bust ups behind the scenes, last week N'Zogbia made it clear he hates playing football for the first time, Ireland (who's been in good form lately) has been dropped for fucking Heskey, we've got the manager at the end coming out he thought it was a excellent gameplan, so we'll probably see more of his anti football.

It's shameful (for me) because this isn't what Villa is about. Yeah, we may have been shit over the years, but we've always been known of giving it a go. We've always been a respectful club that treasures the game. Now we're just a poor version of Stoke who I hated with a passion because they don't even try to football and we're going the same way. We have an attacking lineup, but our manager would rather neglect them and stick with his circus park the bus routine where it rarely ever works. He even tried it against Newcastle in the second half. Why not just attack all the way? Why has he got to mess it up with negative subs and it's not like we're even winning.

[UK Redsox]

I'm not ashamed of our history, the fans, the stadium...anything Villa related other than I'm ashamed (currently) we're now one of the most hated in the league because of the manager.

Hated ? By who** ?

I can see Liverpool being "hated" at the moment due to their stance during the Suarez/Evra affair.

I can see Chelsea and Man City being "hated" because of all the money they've spent.

I can see Man Utd being "hated" because............ well,............ they're Man Utd.

But Villa ? Why would any outsider (non Small Heath / Baggie / Wolves category) hate Villa just because of who the manager is?


(** unless its "whom", I never know which to use)

[Rick_avfc]

I dont think its right to say shameful but maybe embarrassing.  I mean, a lot of fans from other teams have come on the radio after they have beaten us and said how boring we are and how negative the manager is.

Its embarrassing how lng it took us to appoint a manager for it to be Mcleish, the man who relegated our neighbours twice and has the honour of winning the carling cup by a flukiest goal ever. 

Its embarrassing that fans would deface the gates of BMH in protest of his appointment. 

Its embarrassing that we cant fill our stadium against the big boys i.e. Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal.  Yes times are hard but I have a feeling that if it was any other manager in charge then we would be getting slightly better attendences. 

Its also embarrassing that despite a circa of 1k fans protesting outside the Holte end, when news broke that RL would be speaking to AM, they stil went ahead and appointed him and payed the Sty compensation!

[Pat McMahon]

I'm not ashamed of our history, the fans, the stadium...anything Villa related other than I'm ashamed (currently) we're now one of the most hated in the league because of the manager.

Hated ? By who** ?

I can see Liverpool being "hated" at the moment due to their stance during the Suarez/Evra affair.

I can see Chelsea and Man City being "hated" because of all the money they've spent.

I can see Man Utd being "hated" because............ well,............ they're Man Utd.

But Villa ? Why would any outsider (non Small Heath / Baggie / Wolves category) hate Villa just because of who the manager is?


(** unless its "whom", I never know which to use)

No neutrals I know of hate us but we are perceived to be the most boring team in the division here - even more than Bolton, Wolves or Blackburn, because they each have the comedy-is-coming-very-soon effect.

A couple of years ago I had neutrals watching our games alongside me; now they look over my shoulder and just ask if we are playing as shit as usual

[Merv]

We're not hated, but we are fast becoming the most pitied team in the league.

[Simba]

And that is far worse.

[Vanilla]

We're not hated, but we are fast becoming the most pitied team in the league.

Felt that some time back with the comments from pundits and commentators. It was never hatred, just the sort of pity you would feel for an old dog shuffling along because it's back legs have gone.

[villajk]

I'm not ashamed of our history, the fans, the stadium...anything Villa related other than I'm ashamed (currently) we're now one of the most hated in the league because of the manager.

Keep getting texts from Baggies taking the piss. What can I say? It's absoutely shameful what's going on at this club at the moment.

Hated?  What an absolute load of bunkum.

Pitied for various reasons, not least having 'fans' like your good self who will use every opportunity to criticise the club.