Quote from: sickbeggar on February 14, 2016, 10:44:38 PMDaft. There is the basis of a decent squad. The majority of these players have spent their time in the PL staying up. Even as piss-poor PL players, they should manage Championship standards with ease. Other's like Gestede have done it in the Championship level. Most of them aren't over the hill, so given the right manager we should be able to form a team out of the debris that will challenge at least the play-offs and with the right additions, and fucking off the likes of Bacuna, we should at least be competitiveOn the evidence I've seen. This team will be lucky to hit mid table at best. How many of this squad are battle hardened for the Championship? Not many. I don't see anything in that team. Like the ground now its an empty shell.
Daft. There is the basis of a decent squad. The majority of these players have spent their time in the PL staying up. Even as piss-poor PL players, they should manage Championship standards with ease. Other's like Gestede have done it in the Championship level. Most of them aren't over the hill, so given the right manager we should be able to form a team out of the debris that will challenge at least the play-offs and with the right additions, and fucking off the likes of Bacuna, we should at least be competitive
I've been watching the Championship on Sky since Octoberish to see what the [cliché on] "most competitive league in the world" [cliché off] looks like.It looks shite. Admittedly Leeds are on every other week, but even the good sides are shite.
The defeat today is not just a humiliation, its confirmation of something Paul McGrath said a couple of months ago. This club could go straight through the championship into Division 3. League one my foot. Its where we were in 1970. While today is the first 0-6 defeat at home since 1983 (the year after we won the European cup - achievement wrecked by the chair. And how things have changed....) its more than that.Clearly the squad was poor under Sherwood and got worse under Garde, but it is at the top that we need to look for the problems. Not backing Garde in the January window was a vote of no confidence. So why? Perhaps a way to force him to resign so the pay off doesn't happen? As all the managers under LErner have been paid off, the fault is of course with him. He appoints donkeys. And with the manager donkey, they then have to work under people who don't understand football.Last post I did, I was backing Garde but now think he may have to resign to save his reputation. No one can blame him. Any football club that has no football nous and appoints bankers to the board when they need football experts is showing that money is more valuable than skill. But they are donkeys too, as the big money is about to come in and they are throwing it away. Then Lescott seems to have gone public on his new Mercedes. Folly, but Lescott knows how good football clubs are run and can see the rot at this one. Division 3 is not inevitable, though the Championship does seem inevitable, but the big questions are not about what happens on the pitch. Its sad that fans don't get more involved in the boardroom politics. Villa is a classic example of being run by a man with more money than sense. If McGrath can see what is happening, however, how come the fans generally don't get the messge?Trevor Fisher.
In reply to Ron Manager, I always sign everything, and with my real name. I don't think its a sign of being important, since AVISA I have not represented any fan group - if it irritates you I will stop it. I read the rules when I came onto the site and as far as I can see there is no rule against doing so.but if it annoys you, I will not sign this one.
We will brass the second division up no worries. Whether we can stay up in 2017/18 though, who knows.