This is the season...

[Villa in Denmark]

You genuinely don't believe another manager can get this squad getting just over a point a game? You seem to be basing your reply on Sherwood, which isn't what I said.

didnt tim average 1+ last season? Whilst his win record is shite its surprising how few games he draws

Its not because he's like Ardiles, all or nothing

Unfortunately with added nothing.

[Rudy65]

You genuinely don't believe another manager can get this squad getting just over a point a game? You seem to be basing your reply on Sherwood, which isn't what I said.

didnt tim average 1+ last season? Whilst his win record is shite its surprising how few games he draws

Its not because he's like Ardiles, all or nothing

Unfortunately with added nothing.

And sometimes a draw will do

[NeilH]

You know there is a horrible air of inevitability about things at the moment. Our club is the footballing equivalent of the characters in Final Destination, you feel that we have been avoiding the sticky fate of relegation for too long now and have watched fellow clubs slide away; whilst we took one step back from the edge of the abyss. I honestly thought that with the new signings in place that we would struggle a little at the start, but that they would find their feet quickly and then we’d kick on to a comfortable mid-table position, but that fickle finger of fate is just not letting this happen and I just get the feeling that stick or twist it’s our time to drop through the trap door.
Honestly speaking, I am so damn sick of the relentless drudgery of another defeat that if am even warming to the notion of Championship football in the hope that I will have a better percentage chance of seeing us win once more. This thought is the polar opposite of every notion I had always had of relegation, but the last five years, a desire to just see my team win once more and a rose-tinted view of our last time in Div2 is swaying me.

[Jimbo]

Acceptance, the fifth and final stage of grief.

[ktvillan]

Looking at our results this season and I was surprised to see that Saturday was our heaviest defeat - the first time we have lost by more than one goal.  That would seem to indicate we are not absolutely terrible, that the players have something about them, and that with the right leadership and a bit of discipline we could be capable of turning some of those narrow defeats into draws and wins.   Cut out the individual errors (or drop the main culprits like Guzan and Lescott) and put out a reasonably settled side with some realistic tactics and those fine margins could start to go in our favour.  All we need is a manager who isn't utterly out of his depth.

[olaftab]

Whilst we have made a dreadful start we have had mid season runs like this in the last two /three seasons so situation is recoverable but we need to get rid of Tim and engage a competent manager now.

[mattjpa]

Has anyone else noticed that whilst we are second bottom of the premierleague, the Blose are second in the championship?!!! For all those thinking relegation might not be that bad and we will start seeing a few wins, think about that for a minute.....

[Tony Erdington]

Alls good my mate with his flying Delorean has just shown up and i asked him the all important question.

Will we stay up?

Marty said, not only will Villa stop up, but qualify for Europa cup, Tim will be selling second hand cars, Randy will go into an institute, and Tom marketinf programs outside VP

[Legion]

Four points from ten games.

[CT]

100%. That team will finish bottom.

[andyh]

I worry that we are too far gone to survive this time.

[PeterWithesShin]

It will only take 2 games to get out of the bottom 3. We are nowhere near gone. As long as we get rid of Sherwood and bring in someone that actually has the slightest clue what they are doing.

[kieron]

8 losses from 10 games, and with the fixture list that we have coming up, the situation is simply unrecoverable.

We are already gone.

[pauliewalnuts]

It will only take 2 games to get out of the bottom 3. We are nowhere near gone. As long as we get rid of Sherwood and bring in someone that actually has the slightest clue what they are doing.

I agree.

It is fucking grim but there are so many points to play for, we are nothing like done for.

Unless we leave this clueless fuck in charge, in which case that's it.

[ChicagoLion]

I really do not know what it would take to get this team and club turned around, you are looking at something like Graham Taylors impact all those years ago.
Even if we get rid of Sherwood we have all these other Middle Managers that have built some sort of platform at the club.
That is before you get to the deficiencies in the playing staff of which there are several.
I really can not believe that Lerner has the wherewithall to even understand the problem let alone solve it. I think we are on the slippery slope.