Relegated

[brian green]

Darren Bent is a thoroughly nice guy.

[Deano's Mullet]

Its 1987 all over again.Villa are down and flicking through the tv first film i see on is Dirty Dancing!

[Taylor]

The true problem is that nothing has changed.

We have new board members and we have been lulled into thinking that means things will change for the better.  In real terms nothing has changed.  We continue to lose games and we continue to outrage the supporters.  Improvement may come but there has been nothing  different for the last three months than for the last five years.

Houllier came and we said great, things will get better.  Houllier left and we said we will get a healthy replacement and things will get better.  His replacement was sacked and we said great, things will get better.  Lambert got sacked and we said great, things will get better.  Sherwood was sacked and we said great, things will get better.  Garde was sacked, Fox was sacked, Almstadt was sacked and we all said great, things will get better.  Bernstein, King, Bevington and Brian Little came in andcwe said great, things will get better.

But things have not got better.  They have got worse.

Now we are saying the games will be much easier next season, great things will get better.

Nothing other than a slap on the wrist for Gabby has happened to correct our decline.  We have just been relegated and the only words directed towards the bedrock of the club, the fans, are insults from Lescott and banal rent-a-caretaker platitudes from Eric Black.

I see no positive sign whatsoever that anything has changed or is in the process if being changed with any degree of urgency.

We all know what has to change, but until someone decides that buying a championship football club is financially viable we're f***ed.

[Matt C]

The Guardian: http://gu.com/p/4tcqe/stw

[Toronto Villa]

It will be easy to find articles that depict the worst case scenario. I'd go along with all of it if Tom Fox/Almstadt were still overseeing things with Randy a million miles away. We have started the process to clean up the mess over the past 5 years so the hope is we will approach next season more prepared than many other sides. Not less.

[Malandro]

The Guardian: http://gu.com/p/4tcqe/stw

"One long-serving employee was asked recently to undertake a quiz on Villa’s history to convince the people above her that she should keep her job"

I hope she was part of the tour team, otherwise what the hell does it matter.

[PaulWinch again]

The Guardian: http://gu.com/p/4tcqe/stw

"One long-serving employee was asked recently to undertake a quiz on Villa’s history to convince the people above her that she should keep her job"

I hope she was part of the tour team, otherwise what the hell does it matter.

I don't know it's a pity that test can't be extended to our playing staff.

[TonyD]

Step up. Sir Nigel Pearson.   "This club is an utter shambles and I am going throttle every last and single one of them.."

[Richard E]

The Guardian: http://gu.com/p/4tcqe/stw

"One long-serving employee was asked recently to undertake a quiz on Villa’s history to convince the people above her that she should keep her job"

I hope she was part of the tour team, otherwise what the hell does it matter.

This wouldn't work anyway, since Blues and Albion fans seem to have a more encyclopaedic knowledge of our history than the average Villa supporter.

[Big Dick Edwards]

This needs to be treated as an opportunity.  I really don't understand what everybody is getting in a hooley about.  We now have an opportunity to compete in a league with a realistic possibility of actually winning something be that the championship or promotion back to the Premier League.  The only downside is if we do go back up next season it will be to just join the gravy train without ever really being able to win it.  The Premier League is shit, uncompetitive and boring, I find it astonishing that so many supporters on here want to carry on playing in that league. Keep your nerve we will have far more excitement next season in The Championship.

A club like Villa simply has to aspire to at least be in the Premier League.

[ciggiesnbeer]

On the plus side, Kiddy are relegated as well. 6 fingered twonks.

Hey now. Some of us have Kiddy as our second team. Feck.

[Irish villain]

It will be easy to find articles that depict the worst case scenario. I'd go along with all of it if Tom Fox/Almstadt were still overseeing things with Randy a million miles away. We have started the process to clean up the mess over the past 5 years so the hope is we will approach next season more prepared than many other sides. Not less.

Easy to find such articles because they have been so inept for six seasons that the articles write themselves. Lerner's villa sat back and proved Ian Holloway's 2011 insult  about 'half arsed club that used to be famous' to be true instead of rolling up their sleeves and shoving them back down his throat.

People have spent five years hoping we would turn the corner and things would get better. Instead, things have got worse and worse. It baffles me how any villa fan can, on this day, give Lerner's villa regime the benefit of the doubt.

[Toronto Villa]

It will be easy to find articles that depict the worst case scenario. I'd go along with all of it if Tom Fox/Almstadt were still overseeing things with Randy a million miles away. We have started the process to clean up the mess over the past 5 years so the hope is we will approach next season more prepared than many other sides. Not less.

Easy to find such articles because they have been so inept for six seasons that the articles write themselves. Lerner's villa sat back and proved Ian Holloway's 2011 insult  about 'half arsed club that used to be famous' to be true instead of rolling up their sleeves and shoving them back down his throat.

People have spent five years hoping we would turn the corner and things would get better. Instead, things have got worse and worse. It baffles me how any villa fan can, on this day, give Lerner's villa regime the benefit of the doubt.

Who is giving Lerner the benefit of the doubt?

[TonyD]

This needs to be treated as an opportunity.  I really don't understand what everybody is getting in a hooley about.  We now have an opportunity to compete in a league with a realistic possibility of actually winning something be that the championship or promotion back to the Premier League.  The only downside is if we do go back up next season it will be to just join the gravy train without ever really being able to win it.  The Premier League is shit, uncompetitive and boring, I find it astonishing that so many supporters on here want to carry on playing in that league. Keep your nerve we will have far more excitement next season in The Championship.

A club like Villa simply has to aspire to at least be in the Premier League.

And trying to win it.

[aj2k77]

It will be easy to find articles that depict the worst case scenario. I'd go along with all of it if Tom Fox/Almstadt were still overseeing things with Randy a million miles away. We have started the process to clean up the mess over the past 5 years so the hope is we will approach next season more prepared than many other sides. Not less.

Easy to find such articles because they have been so inept for six seasons that the articles write themselves. Lerner's villa sat back and proved Ian Holloway's 2011 insult  about 'half arsed club that used to be famous' to be true instead of rolling up their sleeves and shoving them back down his throat.

People have spent five years hoping we would turn the corner and things would get better. Instead, things have got worse and worse. It baffles me how any villa fan can, on this day, give Lerner's villa regime the benefit of the doubt.

Who is giving Lerner the benefit of the doubt?

General Footinmouth is probably the only person alive who still thinks Lerner is capable of running a bath.