The Plot To Escape Relegation Thread - 2016

[QuintonVilla]

The highest we can now finish is 9th. Call off the European tour.

[Des Little]

The highest we can now finish is 9th. Call off the European tour.

Only 9th? Sack the board

[Chris Jameson]

I looked at our remaining fixtures today and without knowing who Newcastle, Sunderland and Norwich have got was trying to work out when we 'd be relegated. Man United away was my guess.

[cdbearsfan]

I hope we get relegated on a day when we aren't actually playing so our neighbours can't have the enjoyment of seeing Villa fans crying on the telly.

[Chris Harte]

If I had to predict it, we'll be relegated on the day we play Southampton at home on St George's Day, April 23rd.

[Jimbo]

Any Villa fan above the age of 8 caught crying should be given a proper reason to cry. We were gone the moment the transfer window closed and the board betrayed Remi Garde.

[Chris Harte]

Any Villa fan above the age of 8 caught crying should be given a proper reason to cry. We were gone the moment the transfer window closed and the board betrayed Remi Garde.

Yeah, can't disagree.

By the above I meant mathematically.

[Chris Jameson]

The cameras are bound to find an adult in a jesters hat wearing a half and half scarf bawling their eyes out.

[walsall villain]

Really hope we won't be having a Plot to escape relegation thread - 2017. This is one annual debate we can all do without.

[Chris Smith]

The cameras are bound to find an adult in a jesters hat wearing a half and half scarf bawling their eyes out.

If they do I will try to make it look ironic.


In all seriousness everyone has had so long to get used to it I think it will be more of a shrug of the shoulders and then talk about the cricket.

[cdbearsfan]

Really hope we won't be having a Plot to escape relegation thread - 2017. This is one annual debate we can all do without.

The Plot a Route out of Administration Thread 2017.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not too proud to admit that leaving VP after the Sheff Weds game I had some dust in my eyes.

[QuintonVilla]

Most of us have thought we've been down since the Norwich and Sunderland games in December/January so when it is finally confirmed it will be a 'meh' feeling. We all know we're going down, it's just a case of when. It's not like we're going to be relegated in final day heartbreak and despair, we'll be down by the middle of April. Even now I get people saying to me 'you're going down', my response is simply 'I know yeah'. They don't know what to say then.

[pauliewalnuts]

The cameras are bound to find an adult in a jesters hat wearing a half and half scarf bawling their eyes out.

If they do I will try to make it look ironic.


In all seriousness everyone has had so long to get used to it I think it will be more of a shrug of the shoulders and then talk about the cricket.

That's exactly my take on it.

The last four years fighting relegation and escaping with a game or two left, had we actually got relegated in those circumstances, I would have been absolutely gutted.

This, though, is totally different. We have been mentally gone for months already. The total failure to bring in a single player in January was the clearest indication the club had given up. Yep, I know we tried to sign that goalkeeper, but even that wouldn't have been enough.

It's like having a loved pet who is really ill for a long time, and in the end you stick it in a bag with some rocks and chuck it into the canal take it to the vets to be put to sleep - you've become used to the fact it is going to happen for so long, it feels like a relief.

[Jimbo]

Agree about the relief, Paulie. It will be like splitting up with someone when the relationship's been on the rocks for some time. It comes as a relief, but the damage has been done and sooner or later you have to deal with it.