Relegation?

[Big Dick Edwards]

This is the worst Villa team since the one that was relegated 28 years ago. If we go down we will deserve to.

[SoccerHQ]

If Lambert wants to try and keep his job, whether that is possible is another point, but surely he must looking at 5 points from the next three minimum.

Do you honestly think that's going to happen hand on heart given the goals have completely dried up with Benteke's injury (and even before as we've only scored more than once in our last 10 league games) and the defence has been poor lately.

That's not a mix to win many premier league games is it?

Also Lambert's been talking recently about not needing 40 points to stay up which was very unwise imo as that tells to the squad just get to 36-37 and finish for the season.

[SoccerHQ]

Even since times under Gérard Houllier and Alex McLeish came to the forefront I was convinced that we were not going to get relegated. Even last season under Paul Lambert I just knew we were going to be safe. This season, though, I am no longer quite so sure. Please prove me wrong.

I still stand by my opening post but just recently am getting even more worried as each match goes by. I will also add that IF we stop up this year I really fear for us next season if nothing changes on either the playing side or at managerial/boardroom level.

The ridiculous thing is Lee is we won our next two league games after that post looking at that date.

Honestly it would sort of sum up how ridiculous Lambert's reign has been if we got relegated without picking up a single point after beating Chelsea and the high everyone was on after that game.

We had 34 points on the board by mid March ffs, it should be impossible to be relegated from that position but we're having a good go at it.

[PaulWinch again]

We've been fucking diabolical for far too long now.

[Jimbo]

Just as we appear determined to throw away games with gifts for the opposition, it seems like we have our hearts set on throwing away our Premier League status. We're asking for it, and asking for it. One day it'll come.

[olaftab]

Yesterday I received an NHS text from my Doctors practice. I think they are trying to help.

"A temporary Walk-in Centre will be open at:
Chelmsley Wood Primary Care Centre, Crabtree Drive, Chelmsley Wood B37 5BU.
9am to 6pm (No appointment needed) Saturday 19th April / Sunday 20th April / Monday 21st April.
m89027.admin@nhs.net"

[adrenachrome]

Yesterday I received an NHS text from my Doctors practice. I think they are trying to help.

"A temporary Walk-in Centre will be open at:
Chelmsley Wood Primary Care Centre, Crabtree Drive, Chelmsley Wood B37 5BU.
9am to 6pm (No appointment needed) Saturday 19th April / Sunday 20th April / Monday 21st April.
m89027.admin@nhs.net"

Are they dispensing morphine?

[olaftab]

Yes probably but I cant wait till next week.

[Drummond]

Yesterday I received an NHS text from my Doctors practice. I think they are trying to help.

"A temporary Walk-in Centre will be open at:
Chelmsley Wood Primary Care Centre, Crabtree Drive, Chelmsley Wood B37 5BU.
9am to 6pm (No appointment needed) Saturday 19th April / Sunday 20th April / Monday 21st April.
m89027.admin@nhs.net"

Are they dispensing morphine?

You don't need it, just head to Villa Park.

[adrenachrome]

Daily Mirror

Aston Villa's Ron Vlaar sounds relegation warning after fourth loss in a row

"This isn’t the sort of excitement we wanted at the end of a season" admits skipper as Benteke-less Villans face nervy run-in

Apr 13, 2014 22:30 By Mike Walters

Once upon a time in the Midlands, there was a club everyone considered too big to go down.

When fans moaned after a record 10th home defeat in one campaign, the manager advised them to take a “reality check”.

But it did not solve the basic problem: Aston Villa are not very good.

And after the Villans’ dabble with relegation lurched towards full-blown crisis with a 1-0 loss at Crystal Palace, skipper Ron Vlaar admitted: “This isn’t the sort of excitement we wanted at the end of a season.”

After four defeats in a row, and with talisman Christian Benteke crocked, the fans are turning on boss Paul Lambert and unfurling banners about Villa’s dearth of ambition.

We assumed they were safe as houses after they beat Chelsea and wiped the pout from Jose Mourinho’s face last month.

But at the corrugated fortress of Selhurst Park, Villa were so poor their escape tunnel from the stalag would have surfaced in the exercise yard under the ­commandant’s nose.

Honest Vlaar’s rallying call was not just a timely reminder to wake up and smell the coffee - it was a double shot of espresso.

He said: “We need to realise the situation we’re in and stick together. Results haven’t gone our way in the last three weeks and we need the fans behind us.

“We’ve lost four in a row since we beat Chelsea. We have to stop the sequence and change it around as soon as possible.

“The gap is down to four points, the bottom three’re not far behind us and we realise we’re going to need more points.

“I know, and I believe, we’re capable of getting the results we need. Everyone says one more win will do it, but a lot of teams below us won today – suddenly it’s all squeezed together down there and we have to realise where we are.

“I can understand the fans’ ­frustration. They feel it the same as us, but we need to stick together now. This isn’t the sort of excitement you want at the end of a season, and we would have preferred to make life easier for ourselves, but the reality is different.

“We have the quality to turn it around, but have to earn the right to change our fortune in the games. We worked hard here and know everything good starts with hard work.

“Of course the injury to Christian Benteke does not help, and it is worst of all for the player himself, but we have to deal with that, take responsibility and not use it as an excuse.

“As a team, we’ve come through a tough situation last season and I’ve every confidence we can get through it again, but everyone must fight for it – starting next week against Southampton.”

If Villa can’t scramble a win in their next three games, the last two are against Manchester City and Tottenham. Surely Lambert is not going to escort his former club Norwich below stairs... is he?

Palace are just about safe now after Jason Puncheon’s 76th-minute winner, celebrated by Damien Delaney, and goalkeeper Julian Speroni’s terrific late save to deny Villa sub Andi Weimann an undeserved equaliser.

[andyh]

All I can say is 'fuck me, it's depressing to be in this situation....AGAIN!'

[JUAN PABLO]

9 points clear of the bottom 3  about 4 games ago

now 4 points clear with 5 games to go

Going to be tight .  I think we will be ok but this is not good enough for ASTON VILLA  . 

[itbrvilla]

All I can say is 'fuck me, it's depressing to be in this situation....AGAIN!'

At least we have a progressive manager...

[Legion]

[sirlordbaltimore]

I would say there's every chance we'll go. If only because I can't see our lot picking themselves up and getting some much needed points on board.

It'd be a disaster if we did i'm sure, not only financially. But it's not like we haven't been given ample warnings.