This is bad but it's nowhere near as bad as 86-7, stood there with 12,000 others rattling around in the ground watching European champions of four years previous decay in front of your eyes in what seemed like a wanton act of self harm.I am old enough to have been around during the descent into the third division but too young to remember it but for all the nostalgia of taking 300,000 to Port Vale, I bet the long term decay that led to that wasn't much fun either.
Not being quite as old as some of you, this is the longest period of shitness in my supporting lifetime. Fucking years and years of it.
Quote from: Villa75 on January 13, 2019, 11:15:53 AMNot being quite as old as some of you, this is the longest period of shitness in my supporting lifetime. Fucking years and years of it.Oh god yeah. We're 7 weeks away from the tenth anniversary of Whelan scoring for Stoke. Ten long years. Even allowing for the following season, this is, in all probability, our longest sustained period of shitness ever.But we've got money potentially coming out of our eyeballs, and a coach that's desperate to entertain us. I can't promise you it'll get better, but I promise you, it'll get better.**not a promise
Quote from: Lastfootstamper on January 13, 2019, 11:35:28 AMQuote from: Villa75 on January 13, 2019, 11:15:53 AMNot being quite as old as some of you, this is the longest period of shitness in my supporting lifetime. Fucking years and years of it.Oh god yeah. We're 7 weeks away from the tenth anniversary of Whelan scoring for Stoke. Ten long years. Even allowing for the following season, this is, in all probability, our longest sustained period of shitness ever.But we've got money potentially coming out of our eyeballs, and a coach that's desperate to entertain us. I can't promise you it'll get better, but I promise you, it'll get better.**not a promiseIt’s the word ‘ever’ that makes that incorrect. We were relegated from the old first division in 1967 and didn’t get back until 1975 including 2 seasons in division three. But, to be honest, it’s meaningless how crap now is compared to then. What is relevant though was that it took getting things right off the pitch before we saw any improvement on it.
Chins up.You can lose many a battle and still win the war. You can lose many a battle in spectacular fashion and still win in the long run.Cannae in 216bc, despite all the horrors of Stalingrad or the Somme, it stands out as the largest loss of life in a single days battle in the history of warfare. And it was the third catastrophic loss in a row and there'd be one more to come. But who won the 2nd Punic War.
I would say that the forty years from 1935-75, a period that included four relegations to balance against four top six finishes (all of them in the first half of that time) and an FA Cup win was pretty dismal.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on January 13, 2019, 11:05:16 AMThis is bad but it's nowhere near as bad as 86-7, stood there with 12,000 others rattling around in the ground watching European champions of four years previous decay in front of your eyes in what seemed like a wanton act of self harm.I am old enough to have been around during the descent into the third division but too young to remember it but for all the nostalgia of taking 300,000 to Port Vale, I bet the long term decay that led to that wasn't much fun either.Absolutely! I remember being at Forest, Charlton and Southampton away when we were humiliated, beyond humiliated, we were a joke.For me, it was the 2015 Cup Final. Not so much the fact we never turned up, more that our own Neanderthal fans decided to beat each other up or in one case stamp on the head of a fellow Villa fan.I was in the crush outside the toilet inside Wembley with my then 10yr old. It was getting beyond dangerous, when this pissed up 60yr old decided to shove me and then, in front of my lad, said he'd wait for me outside and 'do me in". I did let him know if my Son hadn't have been there, I would have happily accepted his request. A friend of mine was set on about 15 minutes from the end, about three seats up from us. My lad got scared and I said enough was enough and we left. That was the lowest for me, I nearly gave it all up that day.