Next Season: Anyone positive

[supertom]

It would be nice to just enjoy football again. Financially we're pretty secure. There's no reason we'd implode like Leeds or Portsmouth. We haven't been as daft as they were when they went down. Some players will want to leave but we won't have to have firesale and we'll be able to purchase a few solid players to hopefully give us a backbone. If we win games with some regularity it's going to put a smile back on our miserable mugs.

[Louzie0]

We're not down yet.
We could have Big Ben!

[gpbarr]

Very positive. Once you accept that we are down (have been for a while now) the mind starts to let go of all the disappointment and frustration, and see that it might be a blessing in disguise.

Temporary pain, let's take our medicine, stick with Remi, and the prognosis is bright.

[Louzie0]

Remi has a week+ of the transfer window and I am not going to entertain the idea of Championship football before it is certain and I'm not persuaded that it is. Necessarily.

So, bollocks to that.

[AVH87]

Well he will be right as our average will almost certainly drop, nowhere near 10K though. Using such a wide margin guarantees he's right. I could say they'll drop by up to 30K and say I was right even if it's only 500 lower.

Does anyone really think our average attendance will be around 23K next season?

I think it will be around 25-28k, so a drop of 7-10k from where we are now.

[JJ-AV]

I may be wrong but I don't think it'll drop too much, I reckon we'll sell a similar number of season tickets.

[Bad English]

My dad (one of those blokes who used to go and see whoever was at home that week, be they Villa or inbred, although at some point he was infected with an unfortunate attraction towards the darkness of the Heathen Alliance) is gutted for the region because "once the Villa go down the mutation of the West Midlands into a footballing backwater will be complete".

I hope he is wrong and expect to see good crowds down the match, home and away as we power back into the Premier League, showing the Rags, West Brazil and the Dingles that form is temporary and class is permanent.

[gsbrn68]

I have been a season ticket holder for the best part of 40 years but I wont be getting one next year only for the reason that there will be too many midweek games that I don't think I will be able to motivate myself to make the effort for
will still be attending all weekend games but pick and choose midweek

[spartacuss]

Just heard Nigel Kennedy on t'wireless ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ycr4s ) from 24.20 he does a mini 'Mastermind' on AV.  He's of the opinion that the Championship will make us more buyable and 'save us from this American mediocrity'. He sounds as though he might be willing to be part of a buy-out option, if others matched his input.

[dave.woodhall]

Just heard Nigel Kennedy on t'wireless ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ycr4s ) from 24.20 he does a mini 'Mastermind' on AV.  He's of the opinion that the Championship will make us more buyable and 'save us from this American mediocrity'. He sounds as though he might be willing to be part of a buy-out option, if others matched his input.

And where is he going to get that sort of money from? He's a great bloke but he can be naive at times.

[Dave]

Has anybody pointed out that we'll start the season top of the league rather than second?

That's got to be a sign of some sort.

[cdbearsfan]

Not if AFC Bournemouth come down with us.

[olaftab]

Has anybody pointed out that we'll start the season top of the league rather than second?

That's got to be a sign of some sort.

My nephew will love that. Before the start of the season he always says ye we are second...followed by why are Arsenal always first! He 8 or 9 I think by the way.

[Steve67]

Not if AFC Bournemouth come down with us.

Or the barcodes. Sunderland and Norwich we can put up with but I reckon the barcodes might provide stiffer competition if we both go down.

[Dave]

Not if AFC Bournemouth come down with us.

*shrugs*

Every table at the start of this season was concentrating on the B rather than the A.

Bet you it will be the same next season.