Relegation?

[danlanza]

The alarm bells will be ringing if we get beaten by Fulham.
Premiership survival is just not good enough for Villa but we do seem to have settled for complete crapness over the last few years.
Pisses me off no end to be honest.
If we were as good on the bloody pitch as we are off it then we would be fantastic.

[Chris Harte]

Over the last three seasons (those with McCleish and Lambert in charge) we have won 14 of our 54 home PL games. Of those 54 we've lost 26, or 48%. I'd say Villa have the most tolerant support ever.

Meanwhile, we haven't won on the road since new years day. This is relegation form, there is no doubt about it in my mind.

[rob_bridge]

The reason we are here is because the majority of the key decisions made in the last 4 years have been atttrocious.

The Board, Manager(s) and Players could barely have made a bigger fuck up than if we had been infested by Noses and Bitters secret agents.

I had much hope at the start of the season though that evaporated by the end of November.

[Damo70]

I think points totals are the best way of directly comparing the team from last season. I think there will be very little in it. We have kept our head above the relegation battle this season but still go into the final lap looking for the points to take us up to forty. I don't think you have to have been in a relegation battle to be classed as having struggled for points and so far this season I would say we have struggled.

[Irish villain]

I think points totals are the best way of directly comparing the team from last season. I think there will be very little in it. We have kept our head above the relegation battle this season but still go into the final lap looking for the points to take us up to forty. I don't think you have to have been in a relegation battle to be classed as having struggled for points and so far this season I would say we have struggled.

Definitely. We are lucky the bottom three are so poor. We got to 41 points last season, and with seven games left will be doing well to get the seven points needed to equal that.

I was glad West Ham beat Sunderland tonight. Just like I used to be glad when Wigan lost in the previous two years.

We are so much better than this crap.

[pauliewalnuts]

Over the last three seasons (those with McCleish and Lambert in charge) we have won 14 of our 54 home PL games. Of those 54 we've lost 26, or 48%. I'd say Villa have the most tolerant support ever.

Meanwhile, we haven't won on the road since new years day. This is relegation form, there is no doubt about it in my mind.

When you put it like that, that is truly atrocious.

[Irish villain]

In our last 17 games it's won 4, drawn 3, lost 10.

[ROBBO]

In our last 17 games it's won 4, drawn 3, lost 10.

Thats a manager sacking stat if there was one, it really is depressing that i wanted Sunderland to lose just because it makes it safer for us. i still think Lamberts tenure depends on how season ticket sales go.

[tomd2103]

A win on Saturday should see us have a comfortable run-in.  I just can't see the bottom three winning enough of their remaining games to trouble us.   

[PeterWithesShin]

Over the last three seasons (those with McCleish and Lambert in charge) we have won 14 of our 54 home PL games. Of those 54 we've lost 26, or 48%. I'd say Villa have the most tolerant support ever.

Meanwhile, we haven't won on the road since new years day. This is relegation form, there is no doubt about it in my mind.

We're 12th on current form.

[bertlambshank]

Over the last three seasons (those with McCleish and Lambert in charge) we have won 14 of our 54 home PL games. Of those 54 we've lost 26, or 48%. I'd say Villa have the most tolerant support ever.

Meanwhile, we haven't won on the road since new years day. This is relegation form, there is no doubt about it in my mind.

We're 12th on current form.

And that is where we will finish.Expect an interview with Faulkner sometime in November telling us we have made an improvement again.

[ciggiesnbeer]

The reason we are here is because the majority of the key decisions made in the last 4 years have been atttrocious.

The Board, Manager(s) and Players could barely have made a bigger fuck up than if we had been infested by Noses and Bitters secret agents.

I had much hope at the start of the season though that evaporated by the end of November.

By jove, I think you may have cracked this case wide open.

[Dave Clark Five]

A win on Saturday should see us have a comfortable run-in.  I just can't see the bottom three winning enough of their remaining games to trouble us.   

We have relied on the rest being crap for too long. I said it weeks ago. It must be a poor league if we are 12th.

[Damo70]

A win on Saturday should see us have a comfortable run-in.  I just can't see the bottom three winning enough of their remaining games to trouble us.   

We have relied on the rest being crap for too long. I said it weeks ago. It must be a poor league if we are 12th.

It is a poor league. Spurs still have a chance of qualifying for the CL and Newcastle have comfortably stayed top half despite losing their best player in January. They have now been joined in the top half by Stoke. You have to be very, very bad to go down. Someone like Albion or Norwich could well stay up by getting 35 points.

[richard moore]

Yes, it's a poor league, no doubt about that. Liverpool could even win it with what is, at best, a very average team with a couple of game winning superstars in it. How many people would remember the names of their players five years down the road if they won the league? And Man Utd won it with a pretty dire team last year comparatively speaking. Which just makes it even more of a crying shame that we can't take advantage as we could easily push up to about 6th or 7th with almost no effort at all, just a few quality players and a decent manager. Good to see some realism about just how bad we are on this thread too