What if - the miracle happens?

[Ian.]

If anyones looking for a further positive... Clark's suspended for the next game, so we have to change the defence

I'd rather I play Sanchez back there than having to see Lescott recalled. I hope Okore is fit to play.

[Richard E]

In a similar vein to this thread we should have one 'What Will You Enjoy Most About Your Threesome With Scarlett Johannsen and Jennifer Lawrence?'', which has a similar likelihood of coming to pass.

[footyskillz]

Alexis Sanchez likely out for a while. Plus koschelny and carzola injured. This is good news for villa fixture in a few weeks . Luck could be. Turning. Certainly with those three and coquelin missing Remy garde first home win v arsenal live on sky sports too

[ROBBO]

As always we need so little to make it possible, if at the start of the season we had Crouch leading the line  and a half decent centre half then we would't be in this mess. As many have said we needed to buy quality and reliability not quantity.

[Goldie.7]

If anyone's looking for a further positive... Clark's suspended for the next game, so we have to change the defence.

That is incorrect, he's only totted up four after Saturday.

[Villafirst]

Ain't going to happen. This lot have the 'losing mentality' and lack the desire. Look at Grealish.....a disgrace given the club's current position.

[Dave Cooper please]

I see the "no negativity on this thread" plea in the OP didn't even last a page!
You bunch of miserable feckers.

[asgpaul]

One win will change a lot of attitudes both within and outside the club - it ain't over yet!

[Chico Hamilton III]

One win will change a lot of attitudes both within and outside the club - it ain't over yet!

I was on my summer holiday when we won our first league match of the season. I reckon I'll be on my Christmas holiday when we win our second.

Apologies for the misery

[levico]

One win will change a lot of attitudes both within and outside the club - it ain't over yet!

I was on my summer holiday when we won our first league match of the season. I reckon I'll be on my Christmas holiday when we win our second.

Apologies for the misery

I think you are being wildly optimistic.

Very much doubt if our next win is before February.

[Risso]

I see the "no negativity on this thread" plea in the OP didn't even last a page!
You bunch of miserable feckers.

I really dislike posts like that, to be honest.  The nature if a board is that it's there for discussion. "I don't think Bono is a gigantic thundercunt, please only post if you agree" would rightly be given short shrift.

[Risso]

One win will change a lot of attitudes both within and outside the club - it ain't over yet!

I was on my summer holiday when we won our first league match of the season. I reckon I'll be on my Christmas holiday when we win our second.

Apologies for the misery

I think you are being wildly optimistic.

Very much doubt if our next win is before February.

He didn't specify which Christmas!

[Ads]

I can only waste bandwidth and echo what has been said previously, if we do stop up, then we will likely find ourselves here again next season, amongst the bottom six and worse, as the club lacks any sort of ambition.

Lerner is of course chiefly responsible for the predicament. There has been little investment in either transfer fees or wages for the past five seasons and the quality of the squad has diminished drastically as a consequence.

Other, significantly smaller sides, have outspent us or thought smarter than us. We’ve lurched from one type of manager to another, wasting the scant resources we have in the process. If a Garde type  had followed Houllier,  then that would have shown consistency and made sense. We’ve instead lurched from one bad manager to another.

If your aim is to act like a big club to finish in a position where a big club should be finishing, then you’ve got to fund that ambition to at least stand a chance. On the reverse side, we’ve aimed for 17th the past 5 seasons and failed to fund that pathetic ambition, which this season looks like it may cost us.

Lerner must go. He wants to go but he must accept that he’s set fire to his kitchen, flooded his bathroom, built an extension out back that didn’t meet building specs and need tearing down and has done nothing to avert the subsidence of his house. As a result, £150 million is a fanciful price for his level of neglect, no matter how noble his initial intentions were to restore the property and that no buyer will ever be forthcoming as a result.

If he wants out, then he must swallow the loss and walk away. His clinging on in this cycle of repeated neglect and lowly ambition has lead us down the road to top flight oblivion, where his losses will only haemorrhage further.

[LeeB]

If anyone's looking for a further positive... Clark's suspended for the next game, so we have to change the defence.

That is incorrect, he's only totted up four after Saturday.

Just when you get your fucking hopes up somebody comes and pisses on your chips.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

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