This is the season...

[mr underhill]

the thing that amazes me is that the only thing we've been  good at under a succession of managers is being  consistently shit.

[Ads]

Sherood has cultivated a losing mentality.

We need a win; a deflected own goal off Troy Deeny's Blue Nosed face, whatever, we jut need to put a win on the board.

The Watford, Newcastle, Norwich and Sunderland games are all massive for us heading into the window. Given how crap everybody else seems, if we can alter the mentality and breathe confidence into the players, then we will give ourselves a chance of getting the 33 more points we may need.

I disagree that the squad isn't good enough. The issue is we lack a forward and only Januray can rectify that.

I feel a bit for Ayew as we clearly didn't try and have a go in the last two games so he looked very isolated, but Kozak has apparently been very poor in the reserves and Gestede doesn't look good enough, so we are limited up top because Sherwood placed all his faith in a 33 year old mentalist.

[Toronto Villa]

The losing mentality started before Sherwood Ads. It started as soon as MON walked out the door. It looked like it was being addressed by Houllier. It was well and truly reinforced by TSM. It had glimpses of changing under TSM2 early on, but he found a way of adding strength in depth to ensure we stayed losers. Sherwood looked like he might change things and then he bought into it in spectacular fashion. And now Garde is left with the residue and the mission to fix it.

It's the foul stench of acceptance and subservience that is choking the club. I hope Garde has the fortitude to correct it and it would start with eliminating a number of players and staff that wear it well. It's nothing that will happen quickly.

[Rudy65]

We need a turn round in form of Leicester proportions. This time last season they were bottom of the table and even with a dozen games left they looked doomed, but Pearson for all his faults found away for them to dig themselves out of the shit and they haven't looked back since. As has been said in the post match thread you look at the Leicester side and on paper they look like a bunch of misfits and cast-offs who shouldn't be doing as well as they are. But the one thing they seem to possess that we don't is spirit, they refuse to lie down and roll over the way we do.
Where we'll find that spirit or whatever it is they've got I'm buggered if I know.

Watched Leicester on goals on Sunday. Their passing and moving was superb. The only bright spark of fhe weekend is how utterly shite Newcastle look. It between them, us, Sunderland and Norwich for the drop

[Legion]

Perhaps Bournemouth and Watford aswell.

[pauliewalnuts]

I wonder how bad Kozak must look in the reserves to not get near the pitch in a team as woefully underpowered up front as we are?

What the fuck is he doing? Sitting around smoking? Has he had a limb amputated or something?

[pauliewalnuts]

Talking to a relative who supports a recently relegated team the other day, and he was telling me how when you're down, you suddenly start winning more matches than you lose, which is a bit of a headfuck after an extended spell of hardly ever winning games - or, in our case, achieving draws.

I'm not playing down the implications of missing out on all that money, not for a second, but there would be at least some positives.

[ChicagoLion]

I wonder how bad Kozak must look in the reserves to not get near the pitch in a team as woefully underpowered up front as we are?

What the fuck is he doing? Sitting around smoking? Has he had a limb amputated or something?

4 managers have decided not to play him, he must look terrible.

[Proposition Joe]

I probably use analogies way too much but I can't help it here.

You hear stories of elephants' graveyards, and to me we appear like a weary old elephant trudging off to that cave behind the waterfall to lay down for the long sleep alongside the bones of Forest, Leeds, Sheff Wed and the dust that was once PNE.

[Lsvilla]

I know we're pissing in the wind cos we look f#@ked but I'd throw Swansea in as well

[Proposition Joe]

Oh, and after the Leicester game I was as angry about a Villa game as I had been in a long time. And I'm still fuming. If we'd held on to win that, I'm convinced we'd be mid table or thereabouts.

[Legion]

Oh, and after the Leicester game I was as angry about a Villa game as I had been in a long time. And I'm still fuming. If we'd held on to win that, I'm convinced we'd be mid table or thereabouts.

Totally agree.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

We should all write to Scudamore suggesting the Premier League is expanded to 22 teams next season by having three up and just one down.
Just stop the League Cup to make room for the extra games and think of all the extra revenue created.
Just don't mention we are Villa fans or he may see through our desperate ruse.

[QuintonVilla]

We're lucky we're only 5 points adrift at this stage. We haven't won since the opening day, realistically we should be well adrift by now.

[old man villa fan]

We should all write to Scudamore suggesting the Premier League is expanded to 22 teams next season by having three up and just one down.
Just stop the League Cup to make room for the extra games and think of all the extra revenue created.
Just don't mention we are Villa fans or he may see through our desperate ruse.

I would rest easier if it was just two up.