Relegation?

[ADVILLAFAN]

They've never won at Villa Park in the Premier League and have the worst defensive record in the league. They probably feel more apprehensive about this than us.

[Ads]

They have let in over 70 goals. That is quite impressive. Here is to them letting four more.

[ozzjim]

They've never won at Villa Park in the Premier League and have the worst defensive record in the league. They probably feel more apprehensive about this than us.

But we are the worst team, with the worst manager who no one even wanted and should never have been appointed by that clown Lerner who never puts any money into the club.... gnashing of teeth, and repeat several times a day until blue in the face.

[Ads]

They've never won at Villa Park in the Premier League and have the worst defensive record in the league. They probably feel more apprehensive about this than us.

But we are the worst team, with the worst manager who no one even wanted and should never have been appointed by that clown Lerner who never puts any money into the club.... gnashing of teeth, and repeat several times a day until blue in the face.

#howlowcanweget?

[Jon Crofts]

Last season and this in some crunch games we have actually turned up and played well. I can understand pessimism but to pretend that we never win, never have, and never will again is just self indulgent negativity with little evidence. We had a shit day against Stoke defensively and lost to United who played quite well but in truth were allowed in by poor defending and woeful finishing from us. No reason to think we won't create chances and get a couple of goals against Fulham.

Little evidence?  We have gone 8 without a win under Lambert, there's not far to stoop to turn that into 8 without a point, anything is possible with this bloke right now, right through to winning every game from now until May.

Fair point re turning up for a few of the crunch games though, good job they're not against better sides than the Baggies & Norwich though or we'd be deep in the shit.

[Concrete John]

Fair point re turning up for a few of the crunch games though, good job they're not against better sides than the Baggies & Norwich though or we'd be deep in the shit.

Given our record against the top 4, I'd probably rather be playing one of them than a Stoke or West Ham!

[PeterWithesShin]

Last season and this in some crunch games we have actually turned up and played well. I can understand pessimism but to pretend that we never win, never have, and never will again is just self indulgent negativity with little evidence. We had a shit day against Stoke defensively and lost to United who played quite well but in truth were allowed in by poor defending and woeful finishing from us. No reason to think we won't create chances and get a couple of goals against Fulham.

Little evidence?  We have gone 8 without a win under Lambert, there's not far to stoop to turn that into 8 without a point, anything is possible with this bloke right now, right through to winning every game from now until May.

Fair point re turning up for a few of the crunch games though, good job they're not against better sides than the Baggies & Norwich though or we'd be deep in the shit.

The 8 game run was over a year ago. Our worst winless run this season is 5. It is a bit of a stretch to suddenly think we'll lose 8 on the spin.

[aj2k77]

We've had a

Houllier/Mcdonald/Mcallister season
1 win in 10 2/10 - 10/12
1 win in 7 1/2 - 9/4

Mcleish
1 win in 8 27/8 - 4/11
1 win in 7 21/11 - 30/12
1 win in 16 1/2 - 13/5

Lambert 1st season
1 win in 9  18/8 - 2/11
0 wins in 8 23/12 - 9/2

Lambert 2nd season
1 win in 7 5/10 - 3/12
1 win in 8 8/12 -  29/1


9 horrible runs in 4 season covering 80 games, is it any wonder some are so fucked off. It would probably take a near record breaking collapse for us to go, and we're not that bad.

[Jon Crofts]

Last season and this in some crunch games we have actually turned up and played well. I can understand pessimism but to pretend that we never win, never have, and never will again is just self indulgent negativity with little evidence. We had a shit day against Stoke defensively and lost to United who played quite well but in truth were allowed in by poor defending and woeful finishing from us. No reason to think we won't create chances and get a couple of goals against Fulham.

Little evidence?  We have gone 8 without a win under Lambert, there's not far to stoop to turn that into 8 without a point, anything is possible with this bloke right now, right through to winning every game from now until May.

Fair point re turning up for a few of the crunch games though, good job they're not against better sides than the Baggies & Norwich though or we'd be deep in the shit.

The 8 game run was over a year ago. Our worst winless run this season is 5. It is a bit of a stretch to suddenly think we'll lose 8 on the spin.

We won't of course, but it's not as if we have a track record of turning in a decent result off the back of two 4-1 defeats is it?

[PeterWithesShin]

No. Mainly because we've never lost two games in a row 4-1 under Lambert before *winky*

[Jon Crofts]

Yes of course, unfamiliar territory, he's more used to 8-0 4-0 3-0 on the bounce

[PeterWithesShin]

No. Because that's only happened once as well. So ner ner

[Jon Crofts]

And my wife calls me immature?

[Legion]

I'm called far worse.

[PeterWithesShin]

She calls me far worse.

/baddumtish