This is the season...

[footyskillz]

Teams have to play each other , some twice including villa v Norwich.
There's plenty of drama and unfortunately tension before season rolls out.
As teams take points off each other there can be a chance for villa form to come good and move to a positive position.

Arsenal away and man city away are two tough ones but anything can happen in all the other matches.

I would have to concede losing to both Norwich and Sunderland in next two then its very tough but I give it some hope, with odds against staying up.
Call it wishful thinking, irrational thought or general bias but think that villa can stay up.
Luck is needed to some extent and I want villa feeling lucky. Utv come on😃

[Risso]

We are down already. Trying to believe anything else is just delusional.

[pauliewalnuts]

Garde has improved us, I think.

The problem is, we were so utterly wretched to start with, it was always going to be an awfully long way back.

Watching is yesterday we were very good in spells and drawing is better than losing but still, we are perilously low in time and just never seem  to manage to win

The cabal of halfwits running us really has the long term future of the club in its hands this summer. What they do will determine whether we do a Newcastle and bounce straight back or a Sheffield Wednesday and disappear for years

They have got to fight to keep the players who will do a job for us. The alternative will be to move them on and start buying players whose natural station is down there

That woukd be a disaster.

Unfortunately I have zero confidence in their ability to identify the correct path, let alone take it.

[Clampy]

We are down already. Trying to believe anything else is just delusional.

Just because you think we're down doesn't make people who still think we can get out of it delusional.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Add it to the list. Home games against Sunderland, Stoke, Albion, Swansea, Watford and now West Ham all on very poor runs when we played them = 2 points. Says it all.

as much as it pains me to say it if u dont win a single game at home in half a season you deserve to go down

cant fault the effort the last two games but draws are not enough, after we got the penalty we should have gone 3 at the back and had grealish and adama on

[Clampy]

We're in of those situations where we need to win games but at the same time can't afford to lose any either. I can understand Garde being cautious.

[pauliewalnuts]

We're in of those situations where we need to win games but at the same time can't afford to lose any either. I can understand Garde being cautious.

So can I.

I certainly get the caution of the last few games. However that is going to be increasingly less useful as we are going to start running out of games

[Rigadon]

I could definitely see the point of keeping it tight, if we were able to do it!! It was better yesterday though, so let's hope it's something to build on.  Drawers aren't any cop from a staying up point of view, but if it creates some belief in the team then it can only be a good thing.

[myf]

So o take it you were not at the in match today? Or watched the second half against Newcastle last week?

no I wasn't but ive seen enough of us this season to know we're soft as shit. I know we can play some tidy stuff but we lack fighters, passion and belief. Battling for 45 minutes of a match isnt enough

[itbrvilla]

I could definitely see the point of keeping it tight, if we were able to do it!! It was better yesterday though, so let's hope it's something to build on.  Drawers aren't any cop from a staying up point of view, but if it creates some belief in the team then it can only be a good thing.

We are pants

[Risso]

We are down already. Trying to believe anything else is just delusional.

Just because you think we're down doesn't make people who still think we can get out of it delusional.

Well, that's your opinion, and mine is that thinking we'll escape relegation is delusional.

[frank black]

It will take a miracle to stay up.

Come on God, Santa, Christmas fairy, Uri Geller, Paul Daniels, Dynamo, Rabbit foot, Jesus and all the Saints. Please

[Clampy]

We are down already. Trying to believe anything else is just delusional.

Just because you think we're down doesn't make people who still think we can get out of it delusional.

Well, that's your opinion, and mine is that thinking we'll escape relegation is delusional.

Am i'm entitled to think that we can do it. It doesn't make me delusional.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

the stone cold fact is that we need a minimum of 30 points to stay up as the average over the past ten seasons is 37.3

i just find it hard to understand how given our current form (the worst in all four divisions) that some think that we are going to achieve top 8 form

each to their own

[Clampy]

the stone cold fact is that we need a minimum of 30 points to stay up as the average over the past ten seasons is 37.3

i just find it hard to understand how given our current form (the worst in all four divisions) that some think that we are going to achieve top 8 form

each to their own

I'm not saying we will, but it's still possible we can get out of it. It's all about believing. There's nothing wrong with having belief.