Where will we be in a decade's time?

[kippaxvilla2]

In answer to the original post, here is my summing up.

'It's 5 O'Clock, time for Sports Report.' Der der der der der der deedeedede etc.

'And we start as always with the classfied football results, read to you by James Alexander-Gordon.' 

Four minutes in.

'Uniform Dating Vauxhall Conference, Aston Villa 1 Altrincham 1'.

[Dave Cooper please]

Four minutes in.

'Uniform Dating Vauxhall Conference, Aston Villa 1 Altrincham 1'.

No chance.

Altrincham are cack, they'll not be in The Conference.

[cdbearsfan]

I like them. Can anybody guess why?

[Dave Cooper please]

I like them. Can anybody guess why?

Beating that lot is not a sign of greatness.

[PaulWinch again]

I think it's impossible to tell, but I suspect we'll be in top division.

[Meanwood Villa]

I like them. Can anybody guess why?

I like Kidderminster too.

[placeforparks]

there is a probably a thread on a leeds united message board from 2004 asking the exact same question.

and i bet none of them were right.

[Ads]

We've spent most of our history in the top division and we will continue to stay there.

[ktvillan]

I've no idea, but [pedant alert] it does grate with me when people use "begs the question"  when they mean "raises the question"  or "invites the question".

KT - does it annoy you when so many football writers and commentators use 'ironically' when they mean 'coincidentally'?

It does me

A little but, for no apparent reason, not so much as some other misuses. An awful lot of people, not all of them American,  don't seem to know what irony or ironically really means.

Back on topic, I think there is now such a lack of genuine competition in the Spanish league, where it's a two horse race plus cannon fodder,  and the English league where it's at best a 3 horse race plus cannon fodder,  that unless the mega rich branch off into their own euro league, interest will seriously start to wane.   Personally I'd love to see Manyew, citeh and oligarch fc feck orff into the sunset with Franco FC and Barca, and then we can have a proper competitive league again where any of a reasonable number of clubs could, if well run and managed, realistically challenge for the title.   I think that's where it's heading, and I'll be happy when it does, as long as what's left is run in such a way as to keep the playing field fairly level.

[dave.woodhall]

Back on topic, I think there is now such a lack of genuine competition in the Spanish league, where it's a two horse race plus cannon fodder,  and the English league where it's at best a 3 horse race plus cannon fodder,  that unless the mega rich branch off into their own euro league, interest will seriously start to wane.   Personally I'd love to see Manyew, citeh and oligarch fc feck orff into the sunset with Franco FC and Barca, and then we can have a proper competitive league again where any of a reasonable number of clubs could, if well run and managed, realistically challenge for the title.   I think that's where it's heading, and I'll be happy when it does, as long as what's left is run in such a way as to keep the playing field fairly level.

I think you've highlighted the reason why there won't be a Euro-League. Apart from Real Madrid, Catalan Albion & one, maybe two italian clubs, the rest of Europe doesn't offer anything to our top three in the way of increased revenue that the Premier League doesn't already give them.

[supertom]

We'll be MK Villa, playing in in the lower reaches of non-league Football.

[PeterWithesShin]

There's about to be a Euro league for 40 years now. Didn't Shankly say there'd be one within 10 years and we'd be in it when we were in the 3rd division? The Champions Cheats Cup is the closest it will ever go to happening. 

[TopDeck113]

We will probably have been relegated and won our first piece of silverware (the Championship title or Play-Off Final), we'll have a season where we dare to dream and then fall off and finish 9th. Then a season where we thought we'd be relegated and finish, 9th. Then a season where we think we'll finish 9th and finish 9th. And we'll all be arguing the same old shit on here for days, weeks and months on end.

Probably about the most depressing - and accurate - prediction on here. 

Some days I just wish the answer to "Dad, dad, dad... When will you take us to a Villa game?" had been, "Listen, boys, you know I'm not that fussed about football and can't really be bothered to take you, stand on an open terrace and waste my Saturday afternoon. "

[darren woolley]

We will be a mid table team in the Premier League with a few good cup runs thrown in.

[N'ZMAV]

We will be a mid table team in the Premier League with a few good cup runs thrown in.

That's progress from where we are now.