This is the season...

[Legion]

...we do what we have remarkably failed to achieve for a few years now and get relegated? I had so much optimism for the start of this season and it is quickly evaporating. I think I might have posted something similar last year (and most probably the year before)...

[MarkM]

Yep, this is 1986/87 repeated

[SoccerHQ]

Yes.

Last couple of seasons it's been all about Benteke, I was reasonably confident we'd stay up once he got firing and so it proved.

No such luck this year. We still look poor defensively and have lost a world class striker.

We may have a better squad on paper but so have other teams improved, the promoted trio have been excellent so far, much better than likes of Burnley and QPR.

We just don't defend or attack coherently as a unit so struggling to see many wins.

Christmas will make or break us whoever is manager, we play Newcastle, West Ham, Sunderland, Norwich, Palace and Leicester all in a row.

[CJ]

The worst start since you know when, and this year we had what looked on paper to be a relatively easy start, with Bournemouth, Palace, Sunderland, Leicester and the Bitters in our first 6 games. We've become the new Wigan - we've been circling round the plughole for the last 4 seasons and sooner or later we'll disappear into the sewer. Unless things change pronto I think this will be the year

[Villa in Denmark]

If we keep the useless twat currently pretending to be manager in charge after the end of October yes.

If we can find someone with half an idea of how to do the job properly, no worries.

[silhillvilla]

Yes. Put money on it and it will be a slight cushion.

[garyshawsknee]

I've been pretty impressed with the new signings, but it makes me wonder how better they would be with a superior coach. I hope I'm wrong, but he doesn't seem up for the job.

[Jimbo]

This one has got the stink of death about it.

[Des Little]

It's still too early. I'll reserve judgement until after the next three games. We need to drastically improve I do know that much!

[silhillvilla]

This one has got the stink of death about it.

The one thing going for us we are battle hardened campaigners now. A bit like Wigan used to be until the inevitable happened.

[Goldie.7]

Too early to decide but I think we'll survive by the skin of our teeth, just like the last few seasons. Although when teams like Watford and Norwich have 9 points, serious questions need asking.

[CT]

I've said yes at various points over the last four seasons and thankfully been wrong.

I honestly thought this time around would be different, at least in the sense that we wouldn't struggle and the style of football would be better.

We can't keep doing this, at some point we'll drop and then fuck knows what happens after that.

[villampls]

A bookmakers points projections -
Sunderland 29 - Villa 35 - Newcastle 38
Stoke 41 - Norwich 42 - West Brom & Bournemouth 43 - Watford 44

I cannot believe we are already projected to finish 9 points behind Watford. As several pundits have said the teams that survive at the end are normally those with the best strikers. Up until this year it has always been us. I'm struggling to keep the faith.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Yes, can't argue either

[Toronto Villa]

Maybe part of it is being far away but the last fives years, trying to remain optimistic that it's going to improve and turn around has worn me out. My Villa anger is fleeting relatively speaking, I allow myself to forget it quite quickly, and I really don't watch mutch football especially when we lose. I hate everything about this because I love football and watching us muddle through season after season for the most part playing shit football has done me in.

Sherwood is just another in a line of guys who has proved unable to change things and the bullshit, as with Lambert makes things so much worse. Because when they come out with it they think we are all thick fucks who will drink it up. Well we're not. Treat us with some respect and don't tell a fan base to wait another year because we've been waiting and waiting and we don't trust it will change any time soon.