This is the season...

[fbriai]

If we lose against Chelsea and Swansea he is going to be under all kinds of pressure.

[Villa in Denmark]

If we lose against Chelsea and Swansea he is going to be under all kinds of pressure.

If we lose against Chelsea and Swansea I hope the only pressure he's going to be under is finding out if Pickfords can pick up all of his junk from Bodymore inside 24 hrs.

[walsall villain]

If we lose against Chelsea and Swansea he is going to be under all kinds of pressure.

I think it's when not if.

[levico]

If we lose against Chelsea and Swansea he is going to be under all kinds of pressure.

I think it's when not if.

Absolutely.

[Clampy]

I think the important thing against Chelsea is to quieten the crowd for 20 minutes and more importantly not concede early, which was the mistake we made up at Liverpool. A win or a morale boosting draw might give us the kickstart we need.

[curiousorange]

Weren't Palace about ten points adrift a couple of seasons ago? And Leicester were well behind last season as well, I think. Survival is probable if we start picking up points when we should, but as time wears on it goes from probable, to possible, to doubtful to impossible. When we try something different in the management department will be crucial.

[Des Little]

Before long we are going to be needing snookers. 

Is Cliff Thorburn available?

[curiousorange]

Before long we are going to be needing snookers. 

Is Cliff Thorburn available?

Cliff Thorbun is primarily a snook...ex snooker player, and as such is an unknown quantity.

[Clampy]

Before long we are going to be needing snookers. 

Is Cliff Thorburn available?

Cliff Thorbun is primarily a snook...ex snooker player, and as such is an unknown quantity.

Yeah, but he's not under a cow.

[curiousorange]

Before long we are going to be needing snookers. 

Is Cliff Thorburn available?

Cliff Thorbun is primarily a snook...ex snooker player, and as such is an unknown quantity.

Yeah, but he's not under a cow.

Plus if he goes AWOL, we're up Slack Alley.

[HertsVilla]

Before long we are going to be needing snookers. 

Is Cliff Thorburn available?

Cliff Thorbun is primarily a snook...ex snooker player, and as such is an unknown quantity.

Yeah, but he's not under a cow.

Plus if he goes AWOL, we're up Slack Alley.

Now who’s it to be, me or Cliff Thorburn?

[mr underhill]

for those of you watching in black and white Cliff is the one in blue

[martin o`who??]

Increasingly beginning to feel like it, sorry but I don't do blind faith or mindless optimism.

I don't do pessimism.

Actually, neither do I, I tend to go for realism - and the current reality is we're certs for it if this carries on.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I think I am being pretty optimistic if I predict that in March any optimists left here will still be able to predict that if we do a Leicester we may just stay up.

[villa for life]

Is this the season we go down? Probably, possibly, but it just doesn't have to be if we make a change - NOW

The state we are in! Utter Rubbish watched by the villa faithful week in week out. Depressing, gutless, spineless, embarrassing all appropriate adjectives to describe the current state of affairs. Hopeless,  “un -turn around-able” “end to our premiership status” are however NOT apt, though, and are not helpful lest they become self fulfilling prophecies. Let us, the fans, not lie down so easily as our players and manager. There are several mediocre teams in the premiership at the moment. Mediocre is being kind. Bournemouth… Sunderland… Newcastle… Stoke, Norwich….Watford… West Brom to name a few. Most of that crap are playing better than us at the moment, but it doesn’t mean it has to stay that way. We are only 9 games into a season. Remember, how cut adrift Leicester were last season. They had fewer than 9 games to save their season and lo and behold, they did it. We have almost 30 games to save our premiership status. It is totally “doable”. However…, it is completely impossible with the present people in charge. Let’s not blame Randy! In some ways, he got it right! Timmy actually saved us! We survived last season thanks to Randy and thanks to Timmy. The “gaffer’s” chirpy optimism lifted us from the dull dross that Lambert had been serving up. We did in fact save our premiership status and in so doing saved millions of pounds of lost revenue. No matter how many millions we might now have to pay Sherwood, it was indeed the right decision. Sherwood saved us last season and I find it hard to hate him no matter how incompetent a manager he is proving to be. In the last few weeks of Lambert’s reign we were gone, well and truly down, but somehow Sherwood worked his particular brand of magic to do just enough for us to scrape by.

Now, we are in a brand new season. Yes, I remind you, it is a brand new season even though it seems like the repeat of every season from the past few years. It is still relatively new. There is still plenty of time for other teams to fail and Villa heroes/stars to shine, but we need a strategy, someone with a bit of know how. Charisma can get you so far in the short term, and it did for us with Timmy. Now we need experience. 4/7 points adrift, whatever, at this stage of the season is nothing. I ask you- had we been four points in front of the relegation pack with ten games to go last season, how many of you would have felt safe? All we need is change. So, up to you, Randy.
You were right last time!