Next Season: Anyone positive

[levico]

The thing is that the current disastrous board are not just out of their depth in the PL they are out of their depth in football per se.

How can we be positive about next season? If they remain in control we can expect a similar season next year.

[PaulWinch again]

That's my concern. I don't see us dropping to Championship as some sort of cleansing experience with the current board in control. We'll just operate in the same way only with even less money and after today quite possibly without Garde as manager.

[Mostinho II]

I can't really fault Garde. I wish we had appointed him sooner. He's said all the right things and has dealt with every situation he's faced in a calm and collected manner, I think he's a good manager and was exactly what we've needed at Villa since O'Neil left. Things had started to feel a little more positive. And then, in my opinion the board has done their best (as they always seem to do) of shitting all over that.

I wish the board would take a leaf out of Remi's book to be f**king honest.

[Walmley_Villa]

I'm still waiting for somebody on the board, preferably would have been Lerner (until he abdicated responsibility to Hollis) to come out and say:

"Sorry, we fucked up, but we will put it right".

No chance.

[Villa in Denmark]

They are stopping expense claims at the Academy. 10p a mile petrol allowance will soon be gone.

If that's not a classic sign of an accountant taking the reigns with an obvious agenda, I really don't know what is.

That's a classic sign of an organisation in desperate cash management actions.  As one of my former bosses put it, "the time to worry is when they ask you to keep tabs on the stationary cupboard.  If you're down to counting how many Bic biros we go through in a month the game's already up."

Are we down to Ellis like not being able to claim £1.50 for a coffee and a sandwich yet?

[clash city rocker]

I fear for us next season I really do. With the people who are clearly out of their depth on the board I fear things could get even worse.

[Jon Crofts]

I'm positive Garde won't be here.

[Legion]

I'm positively bricking it.

[Locko]

That's my concern. I don't see us dropping to Championship as some sort of cleansing experience with the current board in control. We'll just operate in the same way only with even less money and after today quite possibly without Garde as manager.

The concern is that with the total fucknuts we have running the show the championship is just the first floor the the out of control lift will flash through as it careers downwards out of control

[Des Little]

Why all the negativity? Uncle Tom has got us a lovely new kit dal...

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Why all the negativity? Uncle Tom has got us a lovely new kit dal...

wonder if they will tell us what the 'substantial reduction if relegated' is

[PaulWinch again]

It annoys me that I care, i get no pleasure out of supporting Villa now except coming on here. We are a fucking embarrassment and it's down to the shower of bellends in charge.

[brian green]

When I believed that the board would not be so stupid as to stitch up Remi Garde in the transfer window, I expected him to stay for next season and we would come back immediately.  Those bets are off.  If Remi stays he will only do so if they honour the commitments made to him about money available.  The January debacle now makes me suspect nowhere near adequate money will be provided and Remi will walk.  Enter somebody like Pearson and the best we can hope for will be a play off place next year

[pbavfckuwait]

Brian they will not honour their commitment to him, I think he will be gone in May, only staying now because he has some dignity and decency that the board can not recognise after some of the shysters they have employed.
This is the scary prospect of the cycle starting again in May, but with reduced funds especially for wages, whilst we are left with the likes of Gabby and Westwood bleeding the club dry, whilst making no significant contribution, just as CNZ has been for the last 3 years.
If he went I would look at the guy at Glasgow Rangers Warburton I think he is called, but you are probably right it will be Pearson or Bruce.

[CT Villan]

I am struggling to believe that we will come straight back up...the same financial restrictions that are strangling Remi now will be evident in the Championship, possibly more so...lower tv revenue, lower gates, lower sponsorship, lower merchandise sales, etc..ad nauseum. The hope seems to be pinned on a 'we are Aston Villa, the big fish in the small pond' sentiment - but the Championship is full of ex-PL big fish and that is no guarantee of success. The other potential hope would be that even though we got relegated, we have better quality of players and maybe that is true for one or two (who we could easily lose in the Summer), but we have many more that will likely be inadequate or ineffective (as they get kicked to pieces). Not forgetting that many of the squad will have just had their salaries reduced - not sure if that will motivate the squad or kill the desire. I genuinely wonder if the salaries of the Board will be similarly reduced ? Probably not, which means that the business still has to cover the costs of management and the infrastructure at the same level as a PL club which puts more pressure on the financials.

These are dark times indeed and I have no confidence in our Boards ability to 're-engineer' the club and quickly return us to the Premier League.