This is the season...

[silhillvilla]

Bob Bradley

[martin o`who??]

A lot of these posts could just have been copied from the previous 3 seasons with just the managers name changed - very depressing!!..

[mallo]

We are down if we keep sherwood, of that I am certain, he's running scared already. I don't know if the club is rotten but we need an old head who can play some decent football as we have the players. Lerner can't afford to lose 30million or however much it is to sell a championship side so I think he'll press the button before class and we go again. One things for sure, if we don't get it right this time it's Blackburn away.

[ChicagoLion]

Before yesterday I was of the view that a decent manager could comfortably get our group of players into mid table.

I'm not as confident anymore - Gueye, Veretout, Ayew, Grealish, Sinclair,Gestede and Gil were all given decent game time yesterday against a limited Stoke side. Aside from Traore that's all our attacking options really and we aren't going to score too many goals this season I fear with that lot even with the introduction of a competent manager.

Completely agree, but getting the most out of what we have is the first priority.
We will still need a couple of players in January, no doubt.

[silhillvilla]

We all knew we needed a proven top level goal scorer this summer , not a hopeful punt on a couple of strikers who may replace Benteke.
The apt term blindingly obvious .

[LukeJames]

No, 16/17th asking the same question this time next year, what a time to be alive!

[VicMackey]

I think we're doomed unfortunately.  Too weak mentally and physically.  Ironically, Sherwood has brought in players who are more capable of playing football but we need scrappers who are willing to die for the cause.  Which of the senior players is going to inspire the others, take some responsibility, lead by example?  Maybe Micah Richards but that's at a push.  Sherwood commented that he was looking for men to come out of the woodwork - his transfer policy of recruiting young foreign prospects is now looking brave but foolhardy.

[b23]

It's beginning to look like it might be this season.

Wigan played with fire for years and got burnt.

Fulham played with fire and got burnt.

Villa cannot hang around the relegation area any more without getting burned.

Newcastle, Sunderland and Villa to drop. Shame.

[Vegas]

it certainly has started pretty badly but there's a hell of a long way to go yet.  We were worried with 3 games left last year when we had a 4 point cushion, and we have 30 games left this year.  We need to improve obviously, but there's a lot of points still to play for.  No-one's relegated in October.

[KRS]

I think we're doomed unfortunately.  Too weak mentally and physically.  Ironically, Sherwood has brought in players who are more capable of playing football but we need scrappers who are willing to die for the cause.  Which of the senior players is going to inspire the others, take some responsibility, lead by example?  Maybe Micah Richards but that's at a push.  Sherwood commented that he was looking for men to come out of the woodwork - his transfer policy of recruiting young foreign prospects is now looking brave but foolhardy.

That's bolx to be fair. We just need a manager who knows what he's doing so the players can play football the way they know they can. Under the right leadership and with the right management, this team can put in performances and get results...its just at the moment they dont have any direction or a manager who knows which way to point them.

The complete lack of confidence and misguided football we see on the pitch is a direct consequence of the confused messages and lack of conviction from the manager. How are the players meant to know what they are supposed to be doing when the manager shows complete lack of confidence in any of his decisions and changes it every 45 minutes?! Its no wonder its such a confused mess on the pitch.

Sherwood has said numerous times previously that this team isn't capable of defending...so why has he set us up defensively in the last 2 games if he knows they aren't capable of playing that way? Its far too early in the season to be calling for battlers to get us out of a relegation dog fight...we just need a manager who can get the team to play football for 90 minutes, get results and play themselves out of this fuckin mess.

[footyskillz]

Get Allardyce in on Monday. Sherwood is a cock taking us down.

I'm no fan of Big Sam but he will get the Sundeland job next week and then that's one of our rivals removed from the relegation mix.

Yes to Rodgers though he show gestede and kozak the door


Whos left ?

Pearson or Lambert

Rodgers?

[curiousorange]

I think the only way we'll be giving Sherwood his cards is if we get completely eviscerated by Chelsea. It's obvious he's not up to the job but maybe this time a seven or eight goal loss might be treated with the anger it deserves by a different CEO.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If we stay up it will be how we always stay up, find three teams.
If Newcastle and Sunderland remain crap all season we only need to find one more. Maybe Bournemouth.

[curiousorange]

Yes, I think our chief survival tactic is to start winning when the early season glitz fades for at least two of the promoted sides.

[adrenachrome]

If we stay up it will be how we always stay up, find three teams.
If Newcastle and Sunderland remain crap all season we only need to find one more. Maybe Bournemouth.

The only team that we or Sterk had beaten in the PL before last Saturday was Bournemouth.

I just had a look on Oddschecker and every bookmaker has us odds on to drop along with only Sunderland.
 
It would be interesting to see how the bottom three at this stage of previous seasons compares to the final placings.