This is the season...

[VillaAlways]

I absolutely despise the club at the moment Why the hell has he not got his marching orders They are fucking pathetic

[Meanwood Villa]

Quote from the official history re 19/20 "Villa needed steel and Barson provided it". So we just need to find the next Frank Barson

[OzVilla]

As an aside, I've heard that the Club counts all ST holders as automatically attending league games when counting the attendance but I wonder what our attendances really are?

I wouldn't be surprised if the % of ST holders not attending is at record levels. I'd also not be surprised if away followings to VP are well up too. Afterall, if you were going to book an away game there wouldn't be too many better to go to than Aston Villa away, decent pubs, good view, not too expensive, not too far and an almost certain guarantee of points.

[PeterWithesShin]

All clubs count tickets sold for a game, not people through the turnstiles, and have done for yonks. The cost of football I doubt there's many missing many games. There will always be the odd game missed by some ST holders. And I reckon the away followings are down this season.

[OzVilla]

In that case I think our attendances have stood up remarkably well considering our home record over the last few years. It's not cheap and you're getting very little back from the team.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's looked like Stoke, Swansea and Sunderland all bought less than they usually do this season, I reckon in part due to it's £40+ for away fans at VP this season. Loads of empty seats in the upper tier of the away end today.

[adrenachrome]

It's looked like Stoke, Swansea and Sunderland all bought less than they usually do this season, I reckon in part due to it's £40+ for away fans at VP this season. Loads of empty seats in the upper tier of the away end today.

True dat.

That season they we were singing "We're Swansea City, We're shit on The Rrrrrrroad", their sections were well rammed, and I could clearly hear their mellifluous tones in P6, isn't it. Less so today.

[PeterWithesShin]

I was in the Upper Trinity today, too high up to see all the upper away end, but it looked a good third empty. Which is strange as away clubs usually sell the upper tier first so it's the lower that has empty seats when they don't sell out.

[PaulWinch again]

The average points a game is starting to creep up to 1.5 a game, if you set 40 points as a guaranteed safety marker. If we don't do something very soon it's going to be beyond us.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

if we pick up 3 points or less from our next three games we are fucked.

9 teams have had 4 points or less after 10 games and 5 have been relegated

in our last 44 games we have picked up 32 points. 

we have circled the plug hole for 5 seasons and this is the season we will go and barring us everyone will be glad to see the back of us.

[Meanwood Villa]

You never need 40 points these days as we well know from these last few seasons. In terms of who we might finish above, I'll go with Bournemouth, Norwich and one of the North East teams.

[levico]

I think the full title to this thread perhaps should be is this the season we beat Derby's lowest points record.

I think a new manager (if and when) will improve our results but perhaps not enough for us to survive.

[Richard]

Funnily enough a Blues fan at work reckons we will survive at the expense of Norwich Sunderland and Bournemouth

[SoccerHQ]

The momentum for Norwich is starting to run out, they are starting to lose home games. Bournemouth will miss Calum Wilson badly. We're still relying on both North case clubs not picking up though, Newcastle are finally scoring goals and Sunderland will start picking up points soon.

[Ads]

It will be interesting to see how Sunderland get on after today, as I think they have easily the poorest group of players in the league.