Do you think if we lose to Luton it'll be like Old Trafford when they'd lost to someone average in the first few years after Fergie left? The TV cameras pan to the people in the crowd, mouths wide open in disbelief, women with hands over their mouths, kids almost (or actually) in tears, grown men with their heads in their hands, some rocking back and forth. Or do you think we've got some way to go to get to that level of entitlement :-)
Quote from: Clark W Griswold on October 26, 2023, 11:40:00 AMDo you think if we lose to Luton it'll be like Old Trafford when they'd lost to someone average in the first few years after Fergie left? The TV cameras pan to the people in the crowd, mouths wide open in disbelief, women with hands over their mouths, kids almost (or actually) in tears, grown men with their heads in their hands, some rocking back and forth. Or do you think we've got some way to go to get to that level of entitlement :-)Lose to Luton ! Come off it. And I get accused of writing nonsense?!We're looking at a potential record win tomorrow!I personally be more surprising if we didn't score 6 goals plus !I really believe it's possible for 7 or 8 . I not sure why you're entertaining defeat on a positive thread.
Lose to Luton ! Come off it. And I get accused of writing nonsense?!We're looking at a potential record win tomorrow!I personally be more surprising if we didn't score 6 goals plus !I really believe it's possible for 7 or 8 . I not sure why you're entertaining defeat on a positive thread.
Anyone else been looking at the league and thinking ... maybe .... just maybe?Our form over the past 8 months has been pretty damn good. Excluding the brain farts against Liverpool & Newcastle (and Legia Warsaw, though we were mostly playing the stiffs in that one), we've been pretty bloody incredible so far this season, and that's with missing two of our most influential players (Tyrone Mings and Jacob Ramsey); Alex Moreno - who looked brilliant towards the end of last season, but probably hasn't played enough to be classed as 'influential' yet; and Emi2, who started to look pretty good at the end of last season too. Tielemans has taken a while to bed in, but is also beginning to look like the kind of player who plays for a top side.I dunno, there's plenty of time for things to go horribly wrong ... but if we can keep going as we have been for another, what, 6 months? .... I mean, Man City will turn in to a machine come the 2nd half of the season, but I sort of think that we might too. Unai Emery just seems the sort of manager who'll get the squad fixated on righting the wrongs of the Newcastle & Liverpool matches, and end up going on a season-long winning streak in the process.
Quote from: algy on October 30, 2023, 01:20:21 PMAnyone else been looking at the league and thinking ... maybe .... just maybe?Our form over the past 8 months has been pretty damn good. Excluding the brain farts against Liverpool & Newcastle (and Legia Warsaw, though we were mostly playing the stiffs in that one), we've been pretty bloody incredible so far this season, and that's with missing two of our most influential players (Tyrone Mings and Jacob Ramsey); Alex Moreno - who looked brilliant towards the end of last season, but probably hasn't played enough to be classed as 'influential' yet; and Emi2, who started to look pretty good at the end of last season too. Tielemans has taken a while to bed in, but is also beginning to look like the kind of player who plays for a top side.I dunno, there's plenty of time for things to go horribly wrong ... but if we can keep going as we have been for another, what, 6 months? .... I mean, Man City will turn in to a machine come the 2nd half of the season, but I sort of think that we might too. Unai Emery just seems the sort of manager who'll get the squad fixated on righting the wrongs of the Newcastle & Liverpool matches, and end up going on a season-long winning streak in the process.I'm hoping we can stay in this top 4-5 group, and if we do anything is possible. It looks a lot more competitive at the top this year with everybody capable of beating everybody else. As a few people have said now, we'll know more once we've played Spurs, Man City and Arsenal at the end of Nov/start of December. If we can keep spanking the lesser teams and can take points off the the likes of Man City and Liverpool, who knows?
There is "no reason" why Aston Villa can't qualify for the Champions League this season according to fan and broadcaster Dan Bardell.A run of five wins in their last six Premier League games leaves Unai Emery's side fifth in the table, four points behind leaders Tottenham.On how realistic it is for Villa to jump from the Europa Conference League this season to the Champions League next year, Bardell told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I think depending how the coefficients go, we know that fifth place may well get Champions League football this year."I look at the Premier League at the moment and Tottenham are going brilliantly. There’s Liverpool, there’s Arsenal and there’s Manchester City as well who I think will be the top three. I do think Tottenham will fall away a bit."But after those three teams, I don’t think there is a massive amount of difference between the other teams in that position. Manchester United aren’t there, Chelsea aren’t really there either. I don’t think Brighton are going as well as they were last season."So I see no reason why Villa can’t compete to finish fourth or fifth. We have got such a good team and Unai Emery just deals with everything that comes his way. His tactical plans are so well-instructed, the players know exactly what they are supposed to be doing both on and off the ball every single minute of every game."They can just adapt and Emery leaves no stone unturned. The fact that we are where we are, it’s absolutely staggering what we’re doing at the moment."
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