The Much Awaited Return of Promotion Maths

[exiled on the wirral!]

If any other club had lost 1 in 11 they would be classed as flying..when it's us people knock our away form. Shall we wait until tomorrows result before all the doom sets in?

[QuintonVilla]

Leeds have lost 6 of their last 7 games and their last 3 at home. We need to be winning games when teams like them are on a bad run to capitalise and put some distance between us.

Wolves will win the league. I still think Cardiff and Sheff Utd won't keep up their pace so for me 2nd is still anyone's. It all lies with Bruce and how he has us play away from home. If we start to believe we've got the quality to beat anyone in this league and start to believe we can win away against good sides then we can be right up there. Play how we did at Wolves and Small Heath and we'll struggle to make the play offs.

[Ads]

Good chance to put 3 points between us and 6th spot while also closing the gap on the top to 6 points.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Leeds have lost 6 of their last 7 games and their last 3 at home. We need to be winning games when teams like them are on a bad run to capitalise and put some distance between us.

Wolves will win the league. I still think Cardiff and Sheff Utd won't keep up their pace so for me 2nd is still anyone's. It all lies with Bruce and how he has us play away from home. If we start to believe we've got the quality to beat anyone in this league and start to believe we can win away against good sides then we can be right up there. Play how we did at Wolves and Small Heath and we'll struggle to make the play offs.

With respect mate I don't think you can judge our prospects in a  46 game season on whether we played poorly in 2 local derbies or not.  At least we are capable of putting good runs together nowadays...that is something that would enable us to get in to at least the play offs

[Matt Collins]

Pains me to say it but Wolves look superb every time i see them

Comfortably the best side I've seen in this league. Got to hope it all tails off. Though at the moment I think we probably playing for second place

Nuno has done an outstanding job. Pretty jealous

[saunders_heroes]

Pains me to say it but Wolves look superb every time i see them

Comfortably the best side I've seen in this league. Got to hope it all tails off. Though at the moment I think we probably playing for second place

Nuno has done an outstanding job. Pretty jealous

Plenty of football yet to play and loads of twists and turns to come.

[Matt Collins]

Yep. You've got to hope our squad strength and experience really come to the fore

Plus the freshness of players like grealish, green, Jedinak, Kodjia. Once they get up and running

[SoccerHQ]

Nothing wrong with 2nd place. You even get some sort of trophy for it to go with the Intertoto.

I would be targeting that. Something is wrong if we can't be confident of overhauling Cardiff or Sheffield United with 30 games left.

[Matt Collins]

I'd take second of course

It just narrows the odds a lot

[Villa75]

A win today will start to cement our place in the top 6 - rather than 'in out, in out, shake it all about' - then we can start thinking about the top 2.

[Neil Hawkes]

Unlike the league above us; with our current squad, the team mentality should be geared towards winning the Championship. Wolves are not invincible.

[OzVilla]

Granted Wolves are a good team but I'm still to be convinced they've got what it takes to sustain their form. A couple of injuries will really test their squad.

Plus like most West Midland teams, they do have a habit of shooting themselves in the foot. I think all the promotion spots are as open as I've ever seen in the Championship this year.

I honestly believe that if we maintain this form teams will fear us more because we're Aston Villa, maybe that sounds arrogant but fuck em, Man Utd did it for years in the Prem.

[cheltenhamlion]

Agreed on the last part. Us at the right end of the table, on a run, should scare the shit out of the teams above us.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

If only the teams below us would show the same respect.

[SoccerHQ]

Today was a bad day but you're always going to have them in this division.

Newcastle lost home and away to Blackburn last season.

Worry if we don't beat Sunderland and Ipswich. I expect a decent points haul up to xmas.

Loving the table at the bottom btw. Will be some good trips for Walsall next year.