Relegation Possibility

[Legion]

We have also have failed to score from our last 346 corners in the Premier League in the past 17 months.
 

[VillaAlways]

We have also have failed to score from our last 346 corners in the Premier League in the past 17 months.
 

Blackpool (h)Collins ,was the last corner we scored. Shocking

[SashasGrandad]

We have also have failed to score from our last 346 corners in the Premier League in the past 17 months.
 

Blackpool (h)Collins ,was the last corner we scored. Shocking

Stanley Matthews was not tall enough to stop him.

[ez]

We have also have failed to score from our last 346 corners in the Premier League in the past 17 months.
 

Blackpool (h)Collins ,was the last corner we scored. Shocking

and he's been heading them over ever since. "Villa corner... Collins... Goal kick".

[hawkeye]

We need 3 more points,

[villadelph]

We need 3 more points,

We need whatever we can get.

[tomd2103]

I don't think my nerves will stand it if it goes to the last day.

If McLeish keeps us up on the last day he'll look like a hero....

We may have a chuckle about the bit in bold, but if it does come to that I can definitely see him acting like he has achieved something by keeping us up.  He's already spent this week telling us all that we haven't got much chance on Sunday and I'm sure it's got to the stage now where the players believe they are beaten before they even set foot on the coach to go to games against the so called "big boys".  It all rests on the following two home games for me.  Four or maybe even three points from those two games should be enough, but two defeats and I think that could be us done for.   

[ozzjim]

Without a doubt, he will act all I am if we stay up on the final day. The reality is he should be given his marching orders within 20 minutes of the final whistle at carrow road. Paul Faulkner should be doing his homework now on the next man in.

[OzVilla]

I just read that the fewest home wins we've ever had in a season is 5 way back in 1880-81. We played 11 home games that season. We are on 4 at the moment.

Wow.

That is a genuinely shocking statistic, and when you consider what you're expected to pay to watch it should be reason enough on it's own to wield the axe.

Typo by me, it was 1890-91 and not 1880-81.
More detail here...
http://astonvilla-views.com/2012/04/11/mcleish-and-the-worse-home-record-in-138-years-avfc/

Regardless of whether we stay up or not, this damning stat is grounds for dismissal pure and simple.

The writing is on the wall, we might get away with it this season (and with stats like this we will be getting away with it) but next season we won't unless things change.

I've so little faith left in Randy though - to manage to make a worse appointment than GH was quite an achievement.  McGrath only knows what we would get next.

[tomd2103]

Without a doubt, he will act all I am if we stay up on the final day. The reality is he should be given his marching orders within 20 minutes of the final whistle at carrow road. Paul Faulkner should be doing his homework now on the next man in.

Judging by how satisfied he looked after we scraped past Fulham the other week, then I am certain he will extremely pleased with himself if such events happen on the final day.  I hope he is sacked at Carrow Road, as Faulkner will then only have to make the short journey to the home dressing room there for the next manager!!

[Terry Jones]

Compass not a bad thing to go down.Let me tell you now if we do go down and by the look of things there is no way we are going to pick up more than maybe another one or two points.Then look to being a very old man before you ever see Villa playing top flight football again.Need a revamp alright and i mean ownership as well as management.

[tomd2103]

Compass not a bad thing to go down.Let me tell you now if we do go down and by the look of things there is no way we are going to pick up more than maybe another one or two points.Then look to being a very old man before you ever see Villa playing top flight football again.Need a revamp alright and i mean ownership as well as management.

If we do go down, we would have to wave goodbye to any remaining quality players we do have at the club.  We would be in a position where we would have to totally rebuild and I personally think we would struggle to make it back up first time.  We haven't got the right type of players for that division and I genuinely think the side we have now would struggle against a number of the Championship teams as it is.  Teams relegated from the Premiership have a very short window to get back up before the parachute payments run out and once those payments are gone, you are talking about major reductions in the amount of money coming in.  Relegation would be a disaster for us and I can't believe it has got to the point where we are even discussing the possibility of us going down.   

[OzVilla]

The glimmer of light if we did get relegated would be that we have so much home grown talent you'd hope they'd want to stay and try and get us back up at the first attempt.  They're probably not on mega money either reletively speaking.

This current squad cost bugger all reletively speaking - even taking into account injuries our squad is still packed full of home grown youth.  I apprecaite that MON wasted an awful lot but we've also recouped alot in Young, Milner, Downing.  We've also had value for money in Given freebie and Petrov whose fee has now been spread across 6 seasons in the first team.

For an established premiership side our current squad must be amongst the cheapest assembled.

[Percy McCarthy]

Given wasn't free was he?

[Ad@m]

Given wasn't free was he?

No - £3m. Still a bargain mind.

That home results stat is offensive. I knew it had been shit sitting through the home games this season but I hadn't realised quite how bad it had been. AML is genuinely going to reside over the worst home season we've ever had - if thats not enough for him to get the boot then I'll be speechless.