Clubs that have been relegated

[pauliewalnuts]

I was thinking the other day, are we actually a bit like Middlesbrough?

Enthusiastic owner, invests decent sums of money, then decides to stop, resulting in a prolonged stay in the Championship?

[eastie]

Maybe this thread should be re-opened in may (hopefully not).

[peter w]

No, we're nothing like Middlesbrough. i'd say he was more an owner who had a go at it and cut his cloth accordingly. Middlesbrough's history is not one of nearly every season spent in the top flight. Our example is a badly designed business plan of throwing everything at the top 4 and finding out that the manager you trusted to do it was largely wasteful, thus leading to the inexplicable sudden decline. Instaed of doing it gradually we have decided to do it over a couple of seasons and we are suffering because of it.

had he been the chancellor we would have strung him up by the balls. as it is we'll blame Houllier and Lambert instead. he's sold his interest in Cleveland so there is no excuse not to spend a little bit more to make sure we are safe this season ahead of the next cash injection from TV rights.

[Drummond]

Eastie, he's the General's son.

Thanks pauline 

Tsk.  You knew all along.

Everyone know's who Pelty is. 

I prefer to call him todd, pelty is just a username, although respectfully i prefer to call clampy by his username rather than call him rupert.

 From now on I think I'd like to call you Gladys.


Is that ok Gladys?

[Drummond]

Newcastle are the only club on that list who could even closely be considered to be of our size and stature.

We won't lose many from this squad, other than the ones we'd want to go anyway, I reckon there is fight and determination in the squad and they will have bonded better than any in recent memory.

But then I'm an optimist.

[Reuben]

Of those listed who came straight back up, with the exception of SHA, they should all be Prem teams anyway as we should be.  Although you could argue that the 3 who went down last season should also be yet they are all struggling.

It won't be easy - last time we were down there our home form was poor as teams came to Villa Park and almost relished the occasion.  Whether that would still be the case I don't know.  The teams listed as promotion rivals and local derbies would make it tough

Getting a winning mentality is the key and it is not in the mindset of our players.  We don't look up for it even against the underdog.

[Ads]

Benteke and Weimann would definitely be off if we go down, and without those two we'd be lucky not to face another relegation battle into League 1.  Other than maybe Guzan they're the only dependable Premier League quality players we have, and most of the rest aren't even good Championship level.

Benteke would go, Addi wouldn't. Gabby I am not too sure about, the rest? Not bothered.

[eastie]

Benteke and Weimann would definitely be off if we go down, and without those two we'd be lucky not to face another relegation battle into League 1.  Other than maybe Guzan they're the only dependable Premier League quality players we have, and most of the rest aren't even good Championship level.

Benteke would go, Addi wouldn't. Gabby I am not too sure about, the rest? Not bothered.

In your opinion !

[eastie]

Eastie, he's the General's son.

Thanks pauline 

Tsk.  You knew all along.

Everyone know's who Pelty is. 

I prefer to call him todd, pelty is just a username, although respectfully i prefer to call clampy by his username rather than call him rupert.

 From now on I think I'd like to call you Gladys.


Is that ok Gladys?

Watever floats your boat  gertrude.

[Concrete John]

Benteke and Weimann would definitely be off if we go down, and without those two we'd be lucky not to face another relegation battle into League 1.  Other than maybe Guzan they're the only dependable Premier League quality players we have, and most of the rest aren't even good Championship level.

Benteke would go, Addi wouldn't. Gabby I am not too sure about, the rest? Not bothered.

In your opinion !

Surely his opinion about whether he's bothered or not could be taken as fact? 

[eastie]

Benteke and Weimann would definitely be off if we go down, and without those two we'd be lucky not to face another relegation battle into League 1.  Other than maybe Guzan they're the only dependable Premier League quality players we have, and most of the rest aren't even good Championship level.

Benteke would go, Addi wouldn't. Gabby I am not too sure about, the rest? Not bothered.

In your opinion !

Surely his opinion about whether he's bothered or not could be taken as fact? 

I mean the benteke would go , andi wouldnt comment - if another club came in for weimann offering him far more money and a chance of staying in the premier then he would be a fool not to consider it , if we stay up i think he will stay .

[PaulWinch again]

I think there's a good chance Weimann would go if we went down. As Risso says other than Benteke, Weimann and Guzan the squad is not particularly special and would struggle and that's before Bent, Vlaar and N'Zog leave.

[Risso]

Of course Weimann would leave if another club came in for him.  For a start, we couldn't afford to pay him a decent new contract amount if we get relegated, and he'll want to stay in the Premier League to enhance his reputation and international chances.  Lerner would virtually shove him out the door anyway just get to some funds back in.

[NeilH]

I really don't think Weimann would go and I reckon we'd hang onto at least (if not both) N'Zog and Vlaar.
There is no doubt in my mind that, should be happen to go down, we will easily bounce back and return in far better shape than we are now.

The only sad thing for me about relegation would be the loss of Benteke so soon after he joined. He is frankly the most exciting player I've seen at Villa, since Doug personally introduced a young Trinidadian lad into the team, after spotting him doing keepy-uppies on a mud-baked Port of Spain pitch.

[PaulWinch again]

It's very depressing that our club is now being run like a high profile car boot sale. There's a distinct sense we're just selling for the sake of it with no actual sensible plan on how to grow and improve.