Relegation?

[London Villan]

We've played around with the predictor here this morning and even with the most pessimistic view of events (us getting 0 points) still sees us safe. The bookies have halved our odds though to 25/1 to go down.

[UK Redsox]

There's enough games between the teams below Villa that they should be safe. However, I wouldn't want to go into the last three games of the season needing more than a point.

Even if Norwich get the normal post-managerial change boost, their run in after the Fulham game looks horrible. Lose to Fulham and Norwich are as good as gone.

Sunderland have games in hand but its a lot to ask of the bottom club to string together the kind of run needed to escape.

Therefore, I'll predict a bottom three of Norwich, Cardiff and Sunderland.

[l_mckay]

Need spurs to win tonight I'm afraid just to give us a bit more of a gap over sunderland in case they get a few good results

[levico]

Did the predictor which ended with Fulham, Norwich and Cardiff going down. We stayed up on goal diff. Wouldn't bet against that outcome.

[Des Little]

Need spurs to win tonight I'm afraid just to give us a bit more of a gap over sunderland in case they get a few good results

Sunderland will win.  Spurs are a busted flush, the manager knows he's on his bike and so will half of the squad.

[PaulWinch again]

Sunderland winning, not good.

[Legion]

Very bad indeed.

[PaulWinch again]

Especially as we don't look picking up another point at the moment.

[myf]

Has anyone seen the facebook post which suggests that the squad last Sat averaged £700k per player?  About £12.6m in total.

[Clampy]

Has anyone seen the facebook post which suggests that the squad last Sat averaged £700k per player?  About £12.6m in total.

I saw that although it was an easy thing to put up when we had 7 players missing.

[PaulWinch again]

One more win would definitely make us safe I imagine, but I'd like Aston Villa to have loftier aspirations than scraping survival every year. The last 4 years have gone that way and it's not good enough. I appreciate we finished 9th under Houllier, but we were right in it up until the last couple of games.

[Steve kirk]

Apart from us helping ourselves by picking up some points the best scenario is for Norwich to beat Fulham keeping the latter still 7 points behind us with only 4 games left

[ciggiesnbeer]

I am getting really tired of wanting top half teams like Spurs to beat our relegation rivals every season.

Christ, we used to BE one of those top half teams for gods sake.


There used to be a time when we would be cheering for Sunderland as we would be hoping to leapfrog Spurs in the table.

Dammit, I hate this small time relegation battle shite.

[ez]

Remember last summer when we were all looking forward to a season without fear of relegation? Oh well.

[VILLA MOLE]

next season it may be more appropriate to follow 3 shit teams all season from the start .  there is more hope than following Villa