This is the season...

[CT]

I'm just totally fed up of the whole shower this once great club has become.  I said after the Stoke game that I'll always love Aston Villa, but that after 27 years, it may be time to think about finding something else to do on a Saturday.

I have a lot of things going on in my life at the moment.  Do I really want to continue throwing money at a club that is content to do the bare minimum needed to stay in the league?  Many other I know have done the same thing and drifted away, never to be tempted back.  Its not just a case of "string some wins together and they'll all come rushing back".  People get out of the habit of going, and given what's happened since August 2010, why should people get back into the habit.  I'm talking about fans who were far more hard-core than I am.  Fans who travelled all over the country an Europe to watch us yet now don't even bother with home games.  A lot of people simply don't have the spare cash anymore to pay for tickets, travel and food at grounds (most of which are a rip-off anyway).

I have a job where things are tough and circumstances dictate that so many of us there are not happy, but know that not being employed won't pay the bills.  I go to football (and other sports I watch) to be entertained and to be happy, I go to work to be miserable, why should I have to feel the same watching the current players and staff going through the motions?

Just feeling very sad that it has all come to this.

Nail hit firmly on the head there Sir.

[Stirchley Villain]

I'm hoping I'll be able to improve my seat if you all don't renew next season.

[SoccerHQ]

Even a new manager coming in, I just don't see enough goal threat in this team.

We will have to panic spend on a new striker in January.

[CT]

I'm hoping I'll be able to improve my seat if you all don't renew next season.

You may well be on the Subs bench mate.

[Stirchley Villain]

Even a new manager coming in, I just don't see enough goal threat in this team.

We will have to panic spend on a new striker in January.

If we'd have bought Vardy or Austin this off season things might be a bit different.

[silhillvilla]

Absolute disgrace that Benteke wasn't properly replaced in the summer.

[Stirchley Villain]

I'm hoping I'll be able to improve my seat if you all don't renew next season.

You may well be on the Subs bench mate.

50 years old with MS and dodgy knees... I'll get my boots 😉

[Legion]

Absolute disgrace that Benteke wasn't properly replaced in the summer.

By whom?

[silhillvilla]

Absolute disgrace that Benteke wasn't properly replaced in the summer.

By whom?

Whoever made the decision .

[Stirchley Villain]

Absolute disgrace that Benteke wasn't properly replaced in the summer.

By whom?

Libor Kozak? He'd fit like a glove into our front 2 at the expense of Gestede. I feel like I'm in one of those movies where the main character knows something and tells people but they refuse to believe him...

[russon]

We're nailed on for relegation. 4 pts after 9 games with our next handful of games unlikely to yield much more than further embarrassment. We'll be marooned by the time Christmas parties get started and unable to attract decent players in the next transfer window. Once we're down no-one will fancy joining us either. I blame a combination of Lerner, Lambert and now Sherwood. To describe our last five years as an omnishambles wouldn't do it justice. Precedents have been set (Leeds, Forest, Sheff Wed) and we're next on the conveyor belt. I could weep. 

[Stirchley Villain]

We're nailed on for relegation. 4 pts after 9 games with our next handful of games unlikely to yield much more than further embarrassment. We'll be marooned by the time Christmas parties get started and unable to attract decent players in the next transfer window. Once we're down no-one will fancy joining us either. I blame a combination of Lerner, Lambert and now Sherwood. To describe our last five years as an omnishambles wouldn't do it justice. Precedents have been set (Leeds, Forest, Sheff Wed) and we're next on the conveyor belt. I could weep.

And yet there is no reason on earth we should be in this position... just desperately poor management. Everton are a shining example of how an owner who doesn't really want to be one keeps the ship going forward despite his difficult situation.

[Rudy65]

I'm just totally fed up of the whole shower this once great club has become.  I said after the Stoke game that I'll always love Aston Villa, but that after 27 years, it may be time to think about finding something else to do on a Saturday.

I have a lot of things going on in my life at the moment.  Do I really want to continue throwing money at a club that is content to do the bare minimum needed to stay in the league?  Many other I know have done the same thing and drifted away, never to be tempted back.  Its not just a case of "string some wins together and they'll all come rushing back".  People get out of the habit of going, and given what's happened since August 2010, why should people get back into the habit.  I'm talking about fans who were far more hard-core than I am.  Fans who travelled all over the country an Europe to watch us yet now don't even bother with home games.  A lot of people simply don't have the spare cash anymore to pay for tickets, travel and food at grounds (most of which are a rip-off anyway).

I have a job where things are tough and circumstances dictate that so many of us there are not happy, but know that not being employed won't pay the bills.  I go to football (and other sports I watch) to be entertained and to be happy, I go to work to be miserable, why should I have to feel the same watching the current players and staff going through the motions?

Just feeling very sad that it has all come to this.

I feel your pain. I feel the same

However, I do think people would come back at rhe sign of a decent side. I gave up my ST 3 years ago but would renew at the first sign of some stability and of having people at the club who were going to make us successful.

We may stay up this season, with a new manager, but without a change if ownership we will continue to be mediocre

[silhillvilla]

When we went down last time , we got such a lucky break that Sir Graham came along arrested the slide , refreshed the club and got us back immediately.

We won't be so lucky again I fear.

[aj2k77]

We're nailed on for relegation. 4 pts after 9 games with our next handful of games unlikely to yield much more than further embarrassment. We'll be marooned by the time Christmas parties get started and unable to attract decent players in the next transfer window. Once we're down no-one will fancy joining us either. I blame a combination of Lerner, Lambert and now Sherwood. To describe our last five years as an omnishambles wouldn't do it justice. Precedents have been set (Leeds, Forest, Sheff Wed) and we're next on the conveyor belt. I could weep.

And yet there is no reason on earth we should be in this position... just desperately poor management. Everton are a shining example of how an owner who doesn't really want to be one keeps the ship going forward despite his difficult situation.

He's a football fan though isn't he. It's his club. No one with any affinity for Villa would afflict the shit managers on us that that prick Lerner has. Now he's got his equally clueless, money man, lackey Fox to bare the brunt of it and he's so far pulled Sherwood out of his arse without interviewing anyone else. These are not football people, they have no nous whatsoever.