The Much Awaited Return of Promotion Maths

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Let's just smash Cardiff with a really heavy defeat and see how they react.

Exactly this. A good old hiding can do strange things!

Yes! We'll lose our next two games.

[Ad@m]

Let's just smash Cardiff with a really heavy defeat and see how they react.

Exactly this. A good old hiding can do strange things!

Yes! We'll lose our next two games.

Indeed.

After we thumped then Wolves have got 10 points from a possible 12.

[AsTallAsLions]

Let's just smash Cardiff with a really heavy defeat and see how they react.

Exactly this. A good old hiding can do strange things!

Yes! We'll lose our next two games.

Indeed.

After we thumped then Wolves have got 10 points from a possible 12.

However we collectively feel about Wolves (personally, I've grown to despise them and their fans in particular), they're different gravy to Cardiff. It's a veritable miracle that Cardiff haven't gone on a properly poor run of form the way they play, and honestly it says a lot about the standard of the majority of Championship teams that nobody has really found them out yet. I would love it to be us who expose them for the Hoofball XI that they are and send them spiraling.

Then put the final nail in their coffin at the play-offs.

[mr underhill]

harsh

[Ad@m]

Whatever you think of Cardiff's style of play you don't go more than three months without losing a match unless you're a very good side.

Anyone expecting them to lose 50% of their games from now until the end of the season might be better off hoping to ride a unicorn to work on Monday morning.

[AsTallAsLions]

Whatever you think of Cardiff's style of play you don't go more than three months without losing a match unless you're a very good side.

Anyone expecting them to lose 50% of their games from now until the end of the season might be better off hoping to ride a unicorn to work on Monday morning.

So you're telling me there's a chance

[ChicagoLion]

Whatever you think of Cardiff's style of play you don't go more than three months without losing a match unless you're a very good side.

Anyone expecting them to lose 50% of their games from now until the end of the season might be better off hoping to ride a unicorn to work on Monday morning.

It’s not like we are in a position to look down on Cardiff’s style of play.
It has also proven more effective than the random nature of Bruceball.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It’s not like we are in a position to look down on Cardiff’s style of play.
It has also proven more effective than the random nature of Bruceball.

I beg to differ. From what I've seen of Cardiff they have very little 'style' and if promoted will surely be favourites to be relegated. We may not be fluid but with so many talented players in the squad when we do get it right, we're a joy to watch. Our only problem has been a major lack of consistency. It's what has made this season so frustrating.

[paul_e]

It’s not like we are in a position to look down on Cardiff’s style of play.
It has also proven more effective than the random nature of Bruceball.

I beg to differ. From what I've seen of Cardiff they have very little 'style' and if promoted will surely be favourites to be relegated. We may not be fluid but with so many talented players in the squad when we do get it right, we're a joy to watch. Our only problem has been a major lack of consistency. It's what has made this season so frustrating.

"when we get it right" is the most important bit of that and it's  why I find the whole thing so frustrating.  Our approach, ever since Bruce arrived, appears to be to organise the defence and let the creative players get on with it at the other end, and just make sure we've got a good mix of creative options.  With our spending power, in this league, and reputation we have been able to get in players who wouldn't have wanted to drop out of the premier league for many other clubs but it's not sustainable and if we go up it's not going to work.  I wish we were trying to create a club ethos that made us better than the sum of our parts, rather thana  platform for the better players to perform on.

[AsTallAsLions]

It’s not like we are in a position to look down on Cardiff’s style of play.
It has also proven more effective than the random nature of Bruceball.

I beg to differ. From what I've seen of Cardiff they have very little 'style' and if promoted will surely be favourites to be relegated. We may not be fluid but with so many talented players in the squad when we do get it right, we're a joy to watch. Our only problem has been a major lack of consistency. It's what has made this season so frustrating.

Exactly, Villa have had a Jekyll & Hyde season. Cardiff are more like a Frankenstein's monster.

I'm not sure where this analogy is going, but again it's baffling to me how Cardiff have done so well the last few months. They had that bad spell at Christmas where they lost 4 in a row but have rarely dropped a point since then. I say 'baffling' because, as Rudy says, they're... well... not very good.

[mr underhill]

only they are - and could easily still win the title.

[AsTallAsLions]

only they are - and could easily still win the title.

They won't though. And I think Fulham will pip them to 2nd too.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It’s not like we are in a position to look down on Cardiff’s style of play.
It has also proven more effective than the random nature of Bruceball.

I beg to differ. From what I've seen of Cardiff they have very little 'style' and if promoted will surely be favourites to be relegated. We may not be fluid but with so many talented players in the squad when we do get it right, we're a joy to watch. Our only problem has been a major lack of consistency. It's what has made this season so frustrating.

"when we get it right" is the most important bit of that and it's  why I find the whole thing so frustrating.  Our approach, ever since Bruce arrived, appears to be to organise the defence and let the creative players get on with it at the other end, and just make sure we've got a good mix of creative options.  With our spending power, in this league, and reputation we have been able to get in players who wouldn't have wanted to drop out of the premier league for many other clubs but it's not sustainable and if we go up it's not going to work.  I wish we were trying to create a club ethos that made us better than the sum of our parts, rather thana  platform for the better players to perform on.

Indeed. Another chapter in the never ending book 'Aston Villa - Missed Opportunities'.

[Chris Smith]

Over the next week Cardiff are away at Wolves, Villa and Norwich which will make or break their push for automatic promotion.

[Dr Butler]

Over the next week Cardiff are away at Wolves, Villa and Norwich which will make or break their push for automatic promotion.

and maybe ours too...

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