Quote from: trevor fisher on February 08, 2017, 09:50:33 AMI agree with passport 1. Not much sign of a plan so far. The original question stands - please could the owner tell us what the 5-10 year plan actually is.Having said that, I don't expect it so be set in stone, and the rule of the BRitish ARmy is a good one - no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.Reality is you have to adjust to what is happening on the ground. I don't think Di Matteo did, I have more faith in Bruce. Happy to give him and Xia more time. But I still want to know what the plan is - even though they may be adapting it, as reality kicks in.the plan is to be a top 3 in the world club within 5 years isn't it? :-)
I agree with passport 1. Not much sign of a plan so far. The original question stands - please could the owner tell us what the 5-10 year plan actually is.Having said that, I don't expect it so be set in stone, and the rule of the BRitish ARmy is a good one - no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.Reality is you have to adjust to what is happening on the ground. I don't think Di Matteo did, I have more faith in Bruce. Happy to give him and Xia more time. But I still want to know what the plan is - even though they may be adapting it, as reality kicks in.
I think Newcastle could be the game that turns our club around, and not for the most obvious reasons. There is still too much of an attitude around the club that we're too good for this and because we're Aston Villa we'll pummel someone soon and go on a long run of victories. Yet we have won only 8 games this season, the same as Burton. We rarely cut loose and are a poor average lower mid table Championship team. We are an Ipswich, a QPR and the sooner we realise this the sooner we can look to knuckle down and try and turn things around.If we go to newcastle and get a beating - 4 or 5 or so - then the penny may finally drop that we're not as good as we like to think we are and that working hard will only get us out of this division and not some divine right to be in the top flight because of who we are.That needs to happen, and fast, because otherwise we'll start to sink too close to the relegation scrap and only wake up when reality is facing us squarely in the face. That's what we really need - a dose of reality. After 6 months or so we haven't seen it. We won't get close to going further up the tabel until we give ourselves a serious reality check and accept where we are now.
if this shit carries on he won't be here another five months, let alone five years.
nQuote from: peter w on February 08, 2017, 08:36:54 PMI think Newcastle could be the game that turns our club around, and not for the most obvious reasons. There is still too much of an attitude around the club that we're too good for this and because we're Aston Villa we'll pummel someone soon and go on a long run of victories. Yet we have won only 8 games this season, the same as Burton. We rarely cut loose and are a poor average lower mid table Championship team. We are an Ipswich, a QPR and the sooner we realise this the sooner we can look to knuckle down and try and turn things around.If we go to newcastle and get a beating - 4 or 5 or so - then the penny may finally drop that we're not as good as we like to think we are and that working hard will only get us out of this division and not some divine right to be in the top flight because of who we are.That needs to happen, and fast, because otherwise we'll start to sink too close to the relegation scrap and only wake up when reality is facing us squarely in the face. That's what we really need - a dose of reality. After 6 months or so we haven't seen it. We won't get close to going further up the tabel until we give ourselves a serious reality check and accept where we are now.I agree with some of this but saying were "an Ipswich or a QPR"..... no fucking way am I having that!