What if - the miracle happens?

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

We need 10 wins or the equivalent thereof, to even stand a chance.

We have won 1 league game all season.

We are not going to be able to attract anyone decent in the position we are.

We have just had our easiest run of games (on paper) and got only 2 points out of them.

All we can do is try to build for the future, perhaps some good lower division players for our Championship campaign, play attacking football because we have nothing much to lose, and try to fluke our way to an FA Cup.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

I plan to buy a brown suit and cream loafers then invade the pitch with a memorable jig. shame the last game is away. I predict a 2-0 defeat but we still stay up que scenes of jubilation.

[footyskillz]

Just yes !! Finally the hard work, luck, combo pays off
Now for the next game ! Payback for the 3-2 defeat Leicester !

[Sexual Ealing]

Just yes !! Finally the hard work, luck, combo pays off
Now for the next game ! Payback for the 3-2 defeat Leicester !

Footyskillz, you have a disciple in me.

I wrote on the post-match thread, and stand by (now corrected for spelling):

I shall henceforth refer to the space between Wayne Hennessey's legs as The Miracle of Villa Park. And it shall be written that that The Miracle of Villa Park was when the greatest fightback of any fightback ever began.

[tomd2103]

I'll be taking it "one game at a time", but a win on Saturday and if the results go for us, things might begin to look a lot better.  Then of course there is the trip to Sandwell.

[LukeJames]

Don't do it to yourselves!

[Sexual Ealing]

Don't do it to yourselves!

I'd be doing it to myself anyway at this time of night so I may as well throw one in for the Villa.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Good lord.

[LeeS]

I think our chances of staying up are pretty slim. If I thought differently I'd be laying us on Betfair at 33-1. But maybe, just maybe the absolute hopelessness of our situation is what could save us.

A win last night gave us no more than a tiny glimmer of hope. A win against Leicester (not totally out of the question) would still leave us rooted to the bottom and cast adrift. But a third win, against the baggies, and all of a sudden it starts to look like a miracle could happen. And it would still be a miracle at that stage - and that is the key. Galvanised by 3 wins, the players suddenly realise that they can actually achieve something incredible. Staying up from where we are now would be an achievement comparable with winning a cup or getting into the top 4. The prospect of writing their names into Villa folklore may just be the thing that sparks a revolution. Result after result, the dream continues until we suddenly find ourselves propelled up the league and into safety.

All it needs is another couple of performances like last night and this bunch of chancers and journeymen could just become legends.

[Toronto Villa]

I'll believe in a miracle happening if we can reduce the gap to 5 points by early February. We need momentum of 2 to 3 wins. It's not going to be easy at all.

[JUAN PABLO]

beat Leicester

My faith will be restored

[Lobsterboy]

We are 8 points from safety but there are still 51 points to play for - it could, note could, still happen...

[JUAN PABLO]

We are 8 points from safety but there are still 51 points to play for - it could, note could, still happen...

beat leicester , could be 5

It is possible then

Garde convinces a few players to come in saying with the teams confidence and the way they are playing better and all belief they can do it , we could get a couple of better players.

If we beat Leicester , its not over.
 

[Ad@m]

Don't do it to yourselves!

It's the hope that kills you!

[ozzjim]

You have to think we need to take last night into Leicester. Get a win in that and anything is then possible. Need a draw in the Swansea game tonight though, as I think Bournemouth will score enough to get out and also think they will buy more yet this month.

I was thinking last night too, how unlucky in some ways we have been. Deflected shots have gone in against us almost weekly, yet our always go wide (must have been 8 or 9 last night deflected wide). Until last night very little luck with mistakes, bad injuries at times, little decisions in games going the wrong way, and then of course simply poor finishing. Thinking West Ham where we should have won, Ayew missing early on against Watford, the Richards miss on the line against Sunderland, throwing away the points at Leicester. We should be where we are, but there are enough what if moments for us to believe if we can make our own luck through hard work and good play, we can at least restore some pride this season.