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.
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 HLuton HForest AFulham HOur 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.
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.
Someone called Dan Bardell is being as positive as a Brummie can be.QuoteThere 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."
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."
Who is Dan Bardell?
This bloody club has even deprived me of the masochistic pleasure of being miserable now.
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.
Quote from: Bad English on October 30, 2023, 05:01:05 PMWho is Dan Bardell?I am Spartacus...
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