This is the season...

[Dave Cooper please]

Its already bad enough but we'd lose lots if fans with a few years in the chumps

Fuck 'em. I'll still be supporting us, won't you?

of course I would Dave its in my DNA. however, im not pushing it onto my kids as much as I would like to.  The past 5 years have been horrific. Im constantly miserable

Keep the faith, class is permanent.

[exigo]

You can get streams for Championship games.

Will the pain never bloody end?

[Dave Cooper please]

Home to Rotherham on a Tuesday night in January is going to be a hard sell even for our inventive, imaginative management team.

Actually that's the sort of game I'd go to rather than Man Utd, but I'm a bit strange.

[auntiesledd]

Should the seemingly inevitable happen, do any of these players have clauses in their deals where they take pay cuts?

If not, it's another problem.  Fox, Reilly and Almstadt have injected poison into this club, while our bored owner cowers in America having discarded his play thing.  He might not admit it publicly, but Doug Ellis must ruefully the day he handed the keys over to the club to these vultures.

I recall reading that all the new deals in the summer have pay cuts for relegation. I actually think we have a squad well equipped for the championship. My concern is the massive loss in income and lerner/fox still at the helm which inevitably would be a continued disaster.

it would be interesting going to a few new grounds and 2 games a week would be great

I'm pleased to see that you think this squad is good enough for The Championship, but I definitely don't share your optimism. I've seen plenty of 2nd tier football in recent years and our shower would struggle to achieve mid-table obscurity. In fact, I'll go as far as saying that if Lerner doesn't do the decent thing & bugger off, we'll be fighting relegation again next season. We desperately need leadership & professional organisation regardless of what division we are in - or the catastrophic slide will just continue unabated. Stadium Mmmmm Kay on a wet Tuesday night could easily become something to aspire to rather than endure. Happy days.

[Flamingo Lane]

What's not to like? More games - 46 league games rather than 38.  More games within a short travelling distance - eg Birmingham, Wolves, Derby, Notts Forest, Coventry and Walsall. More of our games are likely to be shown live on TV,  even if we continue to be crap.  And there's that Sky midweek programme where they show every goal from the Championship games just a few seconds after being scored.

[Marlon's Hairy Wood]

It's mad to look back at previous results we've had with supposedly worse teams

1   Brad Guzan
4 Ron Vlaar
6 Ciaran Clark
2 Nathan Baker
14 Antonio Luna
8 Karim El Ahmadi51'
18 Fabian Delph
7 Leandro Bacuna73'
18 Yacouba Sylla60'
27 Libor Kozak
10 Andreas Weimann79'75'
Substitutes
21 Jordan Bowery79'
3 Joe Bennett
9 Nicklas Helenius
12 Marc Albrighton
13 Jed Steer
34 Matthew Lowton
24 Aleksandar Tonev

That team beat Man City at home 3-2 in the prem

7 of the first 11 are deemed not good enough for us, as well as the whole bench. Now we can't buy a win to save our lives

[Proposition Joe]

Home to Rotherham on a Tuesday night in January is going to be a hard sell even for our inventive, imaginative management team.

"Come and see Villa actually win a game!"

Easy.

[ez]

Its already bad enough but we'd lose lots if fans with a few years in the chumps

Fuck 'em. I'll still be supporting us, won't you?

of course I would Dave its in my DNA. however, im not pushing it onto my kids as much as I would like to.  The past 5 years have been horrific. Im constantly miserable

Keep the faith, class is permanent.

I might get to a few games if the prices come down. It would be nice to be priced back in.

[in exile]

But would they reduce the price or just freeze it?

[Ads]

What's not to like? More games - 46 league games rather than 38.  More games within a short travelling distance - eg Birmingham, Wolves, Derby, Notts Forest, Coventry and Walsall. More of our games are likely to be shown live on TV,  even if we continue to be crap.  And there's that Sky midweek programme where they show every goal from the Championship games just a few seconds after being scored.

I would guess the humiliation of being in a league with a load of Micky Mouse deadbeats would be the main negative.

[andyh]

But would they reduce the price or just freeze it?

There is no way on gods green earth that ticket prices will drop.

[Pete3206]

Home to Rotherham on a Tuesday night in January is going to be a hard sell even for our inventive, imaginative management team.

"Come and see Villa actually win a game!"

Easy.

"This mouthwatering clash against The Millers is a Category Z fixture. As are the other 22 home games this season"

[Toronto Villa]

There have been teams like Norwich, Hull and West Ham that have managed to go down and come right back up. Look at Hull now with the magician Steve Bruce in charge. You've to be really shit in so many ways as a relegated club not to have a chance of coming straight back up.

[ez]

But would they reduce the price or just freeze it?

There is no way on gods green earth that ticket prices will drop.

Thinking back i think Doug actually put the prices up when we went down.

[Legion]

More games to play.