How Will We Do In The Championship?

[Ads]

I think you're talking about the absence of discipline. We have none in our methods or our work ethic. We lack the discipline to adhere to any principles, to practice rudimentary functionality; we cannot even contrive to play percentage football with Gestede up top. We strive for nothing because we're full of craven men too foolish to value a lump that can head it and the idea that free kicks or corners or byline crossing may have been of some use.

We need arrogance and brutality. Leicester have discipline and they run you ragged with it. They play simple and obvious football. I can't tell you what we do, but whatever we're attempting with our tempoless meandering is not the product of hubris.

[Jimbo]

No, I'm not. i'm talking about arrogance. We can only be arrogant when we've earned the right. Scoring one goal a year and posting 'that's for the haterz' is the very definition of misplaced arrogance.

[Ads]

We will agree to disagree then.

Edit: it's interesting to see strongly held convictions in the greatness of the institution and that a great entity needs true believers to power it and the perception of that as arrogance. Further, to see that used as a pejorative and worse, blamed as the root cause of our demise.

[Jimbo]

Belief is useless without application. We are a great institution, but wallowing in our past achievements doesn't win football matches.

We're like the hard man of the estate who's returned after 10 years in the nick. We still think we're pretty handy, but we've been playing Xbox and watching telly for a decade while every scrote on the estate has been working out and scrapping their way up. Now they're queuing up outside to give us a pasting.

[Tony Erdington]

Football is a simple game, admittedly we need a number of new players and I believe we will get them and a new manager . Then we educate our new team into who we are, and introduce steel into this team,

Our boys go out on to the pitch "we royally support them, and crush all before us"

NO RESPECT and hefty amounts of Arrogance, But the belief has got to run through the club, as fast as Tony Daley.

[Tony Erdington]

Belief is useless without application. We are a great institution, but wallowing in our past achievements doesn't win football matches.

We're like the hard man of the estate who's returned after 10 years in the nick. We still think we're pretty handy, but we've been playing Xbox and watching telly for a decade while every scrote on the estate has been working out and scrapping their way up. Now they're queuing up outside to give us a pasting.

good post, so we must get the right manager in and hungry players, to go with our young skilful players we already have.

the deadwood of course is a stumbling bloke as they are our senior players and we need shot of them , ie lescott bacuna, gabby, Richards and richardson

[sickbeggar]

I think we could easily get promoted, or just as easily be lower table. The ability is there. The missing players in key positions, confidence and professionalism, will arrive (or not) when the new manager turns up

[KevinGage]

We have been mentally and physically weak for a few years now.

The amount of late goals we have shipped for half a decade isn't coincidence, nor the regular canings by lower league sides in the cups.

You don't all that around in 12 weeks, or however long it is between the Arsenal game and our first game in the second division.

[HolmesyVilla]

Paddy Power has installed Aston Villa as the 13-2 favourites to win the 2016-2017 Skybet Championship.  For those of you not familiar with betting, it means if you put a £50 stake on Villa, you will lose £50.

It'll be 5000-1 at Christmas

Skybet:
Champions - 12/1
Promotion  - 7/2
Top 6           - 6/4
Relegation. - 10/1

[eamonn]

we'll clinch the title at the Sty.

Oh my, I have the excitement of being a Villan flowing through my bones again

My my, someone fetch a priest, you can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast.

[stuart r]

I mean it all. Small shit clubs not worthy to play in the same league as us, but here we all are anyway.

The idea that we're arrogant is laughable;

Interesting juxtaposition

[chrisw1]

Right now, with the lack of progress on the sale and managerial appointment, I would say we are more likely to be relegated than promoted.

I appreciate it's not the end of the season yet, but things have gone ominously quiet (yes too quiet Brian).  If we still have this status quo come July then I think we could be in deep trouble.

[Gregorys Boy]

If Lerner can't sell and makes a crazy managerial appointment we will be scrapping to avoid league 1, if he can't sell and appoints a steady solid manager like Bruce/McCarthy with little money maybe mid table, if he sells and new owners make a positive appointment with some player investment then top 6 is possible.

So no chance of the top two then for you?  I think McCarthy would have us banging on the door, at that level I think he's a good manager.

[mr underhill]

Much as I dislike him, I think Pearson would get us out the Championship door and back into the PL, as opposed to just banging on it.

[Gregorys Boy]

Much as I dislike him, I think Pearson would get us out the Championship door and back into the PL, as opposed to just banging on it.

So do I and I've never had any issues with Pearson as a possibly manager only than it might have been a short thing more than a bigger picture kind of deal.  To be fair to Macarthy he's got two clubs out of that divsion in the past and I for one think he's done a good job at Ipswich considering where they were when he took over.