This is the season...

[eamonn]

The damning indictment is that we're not on  a Championship budget no matter how many times SaunderHeroes wails and gnashes about it.

[Toronto Villa]

Hasn't been a great weekend has it? Not many would have had Bournemouth winning at Chelsea or Newcastle beating a very in form Liverpool.

*sad face*

I suppose the only thing it proves is that no result is locked in and we can win games we might on paper lose. Onwards and upwards.

[cdward]

Head says we will lose against Arsenal, heart says look at Bournemouth beating Chelsea, Newcastle beating Liverpool, Leicester top of the league. We will have a surprise result at some time this season, just don't know where or when.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Head says we will lose against Arsenal, heart says look at Bournemouth beating Chelsea, Newcastle beating Liverpool, Leicester top of the league. We will have a surprise result at some time this season, just don't know where or when.

when did we last beat arse at home? 1998 or 99?

we will have a surpise result, i like to think of it as 'winning a home game'

[andyh]

It does look like the stars and planets are aligning.

[eamonn]

Mid December '98. 2-0 down at half time, Santa falls from the sky, Collymores last good game for us(?), Dion and Judge Jules Joachim get us the points. Come to think of it, Remi may have been in the Arsenal squad.

[aj2k77]

It does look like the stars and planets are aligning.

Shit management, shit players and shit backroom all aligning.

[QuintonVilla]

Mid December '98. 2-0 down at half time, Santa falls from the sky, Collymores last good game for us(?), Dion and Judge Jules Joachim get us the points. Come to think of it, Remi may have been in the Arsenal squad.

What a game that was, but how embarrassing that we haven't beat them at home since. Especially as they're known for being a bit flakey and slipping up.

It won't change this weekend either, they'll beat us comfortably.

[ChicagoLion]

The performances of Bournemouth and Newcastle contrast any game we have played this season.
They had better shape were more organised and tellingly made less individual errors.
I dont see those performances comming from this Villa squad because we do not have the players.
That is why we are down.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Head says we will lose against Arsenal, heart says look at Bournemouth beating Chelsea, Newcastle beating Liverpool, Leicester top of the league. We will have a surprise result at some time this season, just don't know where or when.

Problem is we need more than one of them

[Clampy]

Hasn't been a great weekend has it? Not many would have had Bournemouth winning at Chelsea or Newcastle beating a very in form Liverpool.

*sad face*

I suppose the only thing it proves is that no result is locked in and we can win games we might on paper lose. Onwards and upwards.

It's been a strange season all round really, which is why we shouldn't write it off just yet.

[itbrvilla]

Hasn't been a great weekend has it? Not many would have had Bournemouth winning at Chelsea or Newcastle beating a very in form Liverpool.

*sad face*

I suppose the only thing it proves is that no result is locked in and we can win games we might on paper lose. Onwards and upwards.

It's been a strange season all round really, which is why we shouldn't write it off just yet.

We'll be the only constant.

[Phil from the upper holte]

It's not looking good is it really, Bournemouth winning and Newcastle, next 3 games are massive. Bottom of the table is beginning to look like a lonely place

[CJ]

From February 2014:

I don't think it is a certainty, yet, but I do fear for next season unless something changes drastically. Championship players on a Championship budget will eventually end up where it belongs.

The real worry is we've recruited Championship level players but we're not on a Championship budget. The Sunday Independent prints a list of PL clubs' annual wage bills, and ours (at August 2015) was £69m a year - smack bang in the middle at tenth in the list. This compares, for example, to the Manchesters on (£216m or £205m), and the likes of Watford (£11.9m), Bournemouth (£17.3m), or even Southampton (£55m). The parachute payments are designed to soften the blow of taking PL wages into the Championship, but the whole situation reeks of a financial omnishambles - we've recruited Championship level players and haven't effectively reduced the wage bill

[villabear]

It's not looking good is it really, Bournemouth winning and Newcastle, next 3 games are massive. Bottom of the table is beginning to look like a lonely place

I've been try to think positive and I hate to say it but I think we've gone.

Previous years you've always thought "at least there's three teams worse then us", well not this season. We need wins and lots of them.

I hate to be so negative but I can't see anything is going to change. Those in charge should hang thier heads in shame for the way they've run our club in the past few years.

I've been putting off saying this and some on here may say it's defeatist and we need to get behind the team, etc, etc. I'll still go to matches support the team but it bloody gets you down after a while.