The Plot To Escape Relegation Thread - 2016

[Des Little]

 I've long since accepted it.  What I'm worried about now is our ability to put an infrastructure in place to get us back up, or at least not plummet down further.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

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.

I agree, except in our case we've just found out we've picked up an STD.

[mr underhill]

you mean Herpes, the new guy from South America?

[D.boy]

you mean Herpes, the new guy from South America?

Who turned up for training on his first day and surveyed the dysfunctional fuckwits trying to pass to each other and thought "I'm a gonna here!"

[saunders_heroes]

I noticed Harry Redknapp is the latest to stick his oar in regarding the state of Villa. Scary thing is I agree with most of it.

[Duncan Shaw]

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.

Yes that's the one for me too, alot of them look really quite bemused. 

I was offered a lifeline by my boss last week though, we'd had a tenner on us staying up and he offered me double or quits on us being down by Easter Monday.  Now I don't know if he realised how early Easter was, he knows we're really shite, but I think he gives those above us too much credit to open up enough of a gap by then, so hopefully we'll squeak passed that and I'll save myself a tenner!

[kippaxvilla2]

I noticed Harry Redknapp is the latest to stick his oar in regarding the state of Villa. Scary thing is I agree with most of it.

To be fair he did call us a great club with great tradition.

[Caribbeanvillan]

Even today I look at the league table and think "two wins and we are in the mix again"......

[clash city rocker]

When it officially happens I think it will be a strange feeling even though we know it is coming. A sort of emptiness with regrets about what could of been. A bit like a pools winner who has blown the lot and is now on their uppers. It will be sad and I will probably drink an obscene amount of rioja on the day it finally happens.

[Villafirst]

Even today I look at the league table and think "two wins and we are in the mix again"......

Yes, I know what you mean. So frustrating that Lerner didn't invest in January - even with expensive loan signings, which could've yielded 2 extra wins to put us within touching distance of the teams immediately above us. I don't think Lerner has a single brain cell in that thick head of his!!

[class-of-82]

Caribbeanvilla
I been thinking like that since the 6th game of the season

[VancouverLion]

Even today I look at the league table and think "two wins and we are in the mix again"......

Or 3 wins and we could possibly be out of the bottom 3 with the others losing each week.

Then my heart sinks and my stomach turns when I realize our current squad of complete arse h***s would struggle to win 3 in 9 months let alone 9 games.

Sad days my friends.

[exigo]

Even today I look at the league table and think "two wins and we are in the mix again"......

Or 3 wins and we could possibly be out of the bottom 3 with the others losing each week.

Then my heart sinks and my stomach turns when I realize our current squad of complete arse h***s would struggle to win 3 in 9 months let alone 9 games.

Sad days my friends.

We could just be four games away from relegation. Don't let the hope get to you.

[cdward]

At least we know we are down.
In a fans forum somewhere right now there is a thread identical to this, where the fans of Newcastle/Sunderland/Norwich are convinced they will escape.
It is going to hit them harder.

[Villa in Denmark]

At least we know we are down.
In a fans forum somewhere right now there is a thread identical to this, where the fans of Newcastle/Sunderland/Norwich are convinced they will escape.
It is going to hit them harder.

It would be just like this bunch to suddenly find a spurt from somewhere and pick up enough points to prolong the agony into late April before quietly failing with a whimper.