This is the season...

[VillaAlways]

Just read that only 3 teams have been in our position points wise at this stage of the season-All were relegated. I worry by the time January arrives it will be too late.

[SoccerHQ]

The next six games are all winnable. Shape, structure, heart and luck.

Which games are winnable out of interest?

Arsenal at home who we haven't beaten since 1998.
We last won at Newcastle in 2005.
Southampton, 6-1 in the league last season and they beat us comfortably in the cup with half their regular team missing.

Going to be massive pressure next week. We don't win many games at Villa Park though. One of the reasons I think we'll go down is our away form has gone completely to pot. At least under Lambert we were reasonably capable of grinding out away wins from time to time.

[Steve67]

soccerHq, Watford, Barcodes, Norwich. All tough games but we CAN pick up points against all of them. Arsenal have two more players out injured today. This might be a good time to play them. Who knows.

[enigma]

The worst Premier League teams I can remember are Derby in 07/08 and Sunderland a couple of years before that. We're looking every bit as bad. We're utterly shit and I just can't see a way out of this with these players. We're one of just seven clubs to have played every Premier League season.I really can't see that lasting.

[SoccerHQ]

soccerHq, Watford, Barcodes, Norwich. All tough games but we CAN pick up points against all of them. Arsenal have two more players out injured today. This might be a good time to play them. Who knows.

Yes the are. Trouble is even 5 points from that lot and we'd still be a bit adrift.

It's not about picking up the odd win here and there, at some stage of this season we'll have to win 3 games out of 4 and have that sort of points ratio for a month or two.

[SoccerHQ]

I suppose looking at it a bit more positively....Norwich got Arsenal next week so hopefully Arsenal will wake up and beat them.

Newcastle's next three before they play us are Palace and Spurs away and Liverpool at home.

You'd probably have to include Swansea now. Their next three are Liverpool and Man. City away and Leicester at home.

If we're still 5-6 points adrift after Newcastle away I just can't see how you could spin it that we'd stay up.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Hmm. I think we maybe down. Trying to see some change in trajectory but we are actually getting worse.

[Dan England]

Think we are down. In a way it might be a blessing.  We need a complete rebuild and if we got relegated our reduced value would make us a very attractive option for new owners.

[charleeco7]

Five years of miss management. We are way overdue.

[tomd2103]

It is looking more and more likely.  I just hope that the hierarchy are already thinking about the possibility and starting to make some plans otherwise I fear we could go into free fall.

[Deano's Mullet]

Cant see a way out of this one. To win football matches you need to score goals (we don't do that), stop goals going in (we don't do that) and have a bit of luck (which we probably had vs Man City). Honestly think we are down. As for Match of the Day, I don't think I've watched it since the Sunderland home game, the only non Villa football I've seen this year are 3-4 matches on the telly in the pub. I don't know why I bother paying for Sky Sports.

[TopDeck113]

I can picture the scene.  Sometime in April they'll be a bloke on the Holte holding up a handwritten sign saying "We'll Be Back".  Just like Coventry.

And Leeds.

And Forest.

And Sheffield Wednesday.

And all the other clubs who regard themselves as being "top division" and have been out of it for years and years.

[SteveN]

I just hope with Garde in charge that if we we go down we go down with some style.

[Steve67]

Why on earth do people think we can plan effectively for the Championship when we haven't done it for the Premiership? The club is being run by amateurs. In fact, some of our players play like amateurs. Going down is absolutely not the answer.

[Toronto Villa]

I refuse to believe we will be relegated until there is simply not enough points. There is a long way to go. We will get better and we will spend in January to change things. I am trying very hard to maintain whatever faith I have left.