Positivity

[Smirker]

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.

I was going to post a thread called 'The T Word' but decided not to until Forest and Fulham have been played and if we get 6 points from that.

Then I'll post it.

Why not? Let's dream.

I think it's too early even for me as an ultra positive deluded Villa fan to start talking about it. But I did see tweets from fans of other clubs (MU and Chelsea) over the weekend asking that same question.

[trinityoap]

This bloody club has even deprived me of the masochistic pleasure of being miserable now.

[Hookeysmith]

Bloody hell the medjia was blowing smoke up Spurs arsehole after scraping a few dodgy wins over Sheffield and Luton

If we get through Forest & Fulham with 6 points* heading into the Spurs game with potentially JJ and Alex back - who knows

*More probable is Luiz / Digne get yellows in either of those game and miss the Spurs game.

Maybe a strategic "yellow" for both if we are comfortable at Forest.

[Smirker]

Well I don't think it's worthy of its own thread so I thought I'd post here.

We've got a good run of games coming up and I think we can get ourselves into the top four during it.

West Ham H
Luton H
Forest A
Fulham H

Our next four.

8 points has to be the absolute bare minimum for me from that. If we are serious about Champions League anyway. But I really could see us winning all four. None of them are as good as our team and none of them have a manager as good as we do.

I'm excited about these four games. Any team coming to VP now should be absolutely shitting themselves. You can't just turn up and take the piss any more.

Mad looking back at this now because if we do end up getting 8 points, I'd be disappointed considering how the last two games have gone.

Should be 10 now.

[Risso]

I'm getting a sign...two numbers...1 and 2.....twelve?  Yes, 12 points...and something else....top of the...it's flat with four legs. Table, yes, that's it, top of the table.

[Smirker]

I'm getting a sign...two numbers...1 and 2.....twelve?  Yes, 12 points...and something else....top of the...it's flat with four legs. Table, yes, that's it, top of the table.

That's what this thread is for 

[Baldy]

Looking at the bottom three, on a points per game basis, we have already avoided relegation this season.

Pretty good after 10 games!!

Now its, onwards and upwards 

[pablo_picasso]

Someone called Dan Bardell is being as positive as a Brummie can be.

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."

I love the way they sneaked in that Dan Bardell is a Villa fan, as if to say that his opinion is not really worth the paper written on as he is a biased fan of the club.

We don't get, "Melissa Reddy, who is a Liverpool fan, followed by her opinion on Liverpool", whenever she does an article about Liverpool.

Condescending pieces of shit...

[Bad English]

Who is Dan Bardell?

[pablo_picasso]

Who is Dan Bardell?

I am Spartacus...

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I've been going since 1966.

The last time I had a really positive outlook was in 1996. We won the LC, were in the semis of FA Cup, and 4th in the League. It proved to be a false dawn, if Collymore had come off who knows ?

This team is better than Sir Brians team, it's better than Big Rons team, it better than Sir Grahams team.

I suspect in time it's going to prove at least the equal or better than Ron Saunders 76/77 and 80/81 teams.

[olaftab]

This bloody club has even deprived me of the masochistic pleasure of being miserable now.

In the past seasons whenever I set off for Villa Park and someone said enjoy the game I looked at them with total bewilderment. Clearly they don't understand a football fans state of mind  getting ready to take up his/her seat in the stadium. Whatever else comes to be one thing you know is that it's NOT enjoyment. It's or was always  sheer misery for 90 plus minutes  and you may be lucky and team wins. So relief yes enjoyment NO.
That was until this season and long may it continue.

[olaftab]

I've been going since 1966.

The last time I had a really positive outlook was in 1996. We won the LC, were in the semis of FA Cup, and 4th in the League. It proved to be a false dawn, if Collymore had come off who knows ?

This team is better than Sir Brians team, it's better than Big Rons team, it better than Sir Grahams team.

I suspect in time it's going to prove at least the equal or better than Ron Saunders 76/77 and 80/81 teams.

Correct ALITA. When I were a kid I was confident for almost every match but then it was Saunders team however in my grown up life I have only ever been confident  about two matches where I had no doubt whatsoever that we will thrash  the opposition. One was the 96 League Cup final and the other was 5-1 demolition of Small Heath.

[algy]

This bloody club has even deprived me of the masochistic pleasure of being miserable now.

[N'ZMAV]

Who is Dan Bardell?

I am Spartacus...

He's the new Howard Hodgson