This is the season...

[amfy]

blues may be 1 off the playoffs but are miles off the top 2

I've just watched Middlesboro playing Sheffield Wednesday and they didn't look as good as we looked today, and I thought we were shite today.

Edit: it's also worth mentioning that Barry Bannan played and looked like he belonged there. That's the standard we are talking about.

[PeterWithesShin]

Reason they are miles off the top 2 is because they are utter gash. And they are still one of the better sides in that league. So as  I said, the standard down there is woeful, we'll piss it even if we lose a few of our better players.

[russon]

Thread title needs changing to This Is The Season

[LTA]

Ian Taylor's tweet really sums it up.  One of our own has thrown in the towel.

The end....... 😢 I can't believe what I'm seeing. 💔

[QuintonVilla]

Well we've already got Championship players so we're ready made for the league. Sinclair and Gestede will be at their correct level, they're not Premier League footballers. Neither are Bacuna, Clark, Richardson, Westwood to name a few, I could go on. Worst Villa team I've ever seen with a manager who is as inspiring as a trip to the dentist. Deserve to go down.

[Ads]

The 2nd division is shite. Thats why its so hard to get out of, because its full of shit teams with shit players.

I just looked at the Boro and Derby match day squads. Christ almighty but they make ours look like Real Madrid's on paper.

[SoccerHQ]

Derby have quite a good squad I think....but yeah it does have Scott Carson, Warnock and Weimann as regular starters which might give you a clue to the standard.

[ez]

It's happening isn't it. It's astonishing to think Lerner ignored the previous few seasons warning signs. We'll be another example of what poor ownership can bring. If it's happening to us then any premier league club that goes up for sale will have villa/Lerner in the back of their minds.

[Ads]

Their best defender is Keogh. Go through any of the top six and they all are chock full of players of sub-Westwood quality and given my opinion of him, that is saying something.

There are only three of the back five I would keep; Amavi, Lescott (he has looked alright with Okore) and Jores. But its the Grealish, Traore, Sinclair and Ayew of our squad that sets it apart from anything in the second division. There has got to be the right blend, but when you consider Gestede and Sinclair have smashed the league up before, the total absence of quality in any numbers is what makes it hard.

We go down, we come back up. Whether we win the show depends on how much quality the Geordies keep.

[QuintonVilla]

Traore and Ayew would be off. Lescott is gash but would probably be alright in that league.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not sure anyone would buy Traore, not for the money required. What's he done that is going to get someone paying £15m or whatever? And up to now he's played for Barcelona reserves, a year in Division 2 is hardly going to be a step down.

[Ads]

Off where?

I don't see them being poached by anybody outside England. We paid a lot for both and we pay both a lot, with good length contracts.

The domestic market is about to inflate to more ridiculous proportions, so even with parachutte payments, we won't be stuck for cash and with little need or interest in selling, so if they go, then somebody will have to make it rain.

Lescott is likely beyond being a first team centre half in the top flight, but with a mobile centre half, like Okore, he has something to offer in the second division.

[Meanwood Villa]

38 league games in 2015. W6 D7 L25 Pts25.

It'll be a surprise if we end up even with that abysmal record by the end of the season. Five wins? Can't see it.

[QuintonVilla]

I predict we won't win more than two games from now until the end of the season. Sunderland will beat us aswell.

[rob_bridge]

You know you're fucked when the likes of Joe Bennett get recalled to the squad...

And likely improve it