The turning point

[Steve67]

Smith has taken complete ownership of the players, they were Bruce's, they are no longer.  We still have a way to go but it is so much better to watch. Jack, SJM, Mings and Tammy are in superb form.  We have a real driving force and Smith is doing a great job in pulling it all together.

[john e]

the turning point was losing the play off final

at the time it was an awful experience then the financial meltdown and we looked doomed
but without that we wouldn’t have got the new mega rich owners we would still have the liability of Xia and Bruce albeit in the premiership for a very short spell in my opinion with the underlying money problems ready to unfold at any time

Look at us now new owners new CEO, new manager, playing entertaining football, making decent signings and a eye for  future all in front of full houses

all possible because we lost that day

[Ads]

The turning point?

Where it began, I can't begin to knowin'

[Damo70]

None of the above.  It was instantaneous when my son and I took the Wembley scarves from round our necks and threw them in the litter bin in Aston Park.  I have completely thrown off the mob of hobgoblins making us lose by wearing an FC Cologne scarf.

I have always attributed our decline between 1982 and 1987 on my Mum washing my lucky Villa scarf.

[Roysmert]

sweet Caroline at stoke was the real turning point

[itmustbe_it is!]

It was when I abandoned the Villa tracksuit top I wore at Wembley and most mtaches since and wore a non-Villa wooly jumper against Derby. When we won, I said I'd wear it every match till we lost.

Was uncomfortably warm at Bolton, prepared to swelter tomorrow.

Hope I'm sweating buckets at Wembley

[Fred Crump]

3 :   A) The takeover B) Smiths appointment C) The smug season ticket holder gits in the row in front of me who left just before the first of the goals went in against Sheffield United. A was probably it , B was the happiest moment, but for sheer vindictive satisfaction it has to be C.

[Des Little]

The turning point?

Where it began, I can't begin to knowin'

Clever. I likes it

[pauliewalnuts]

The Stoke half time team talk will have helped, but I don't think we'd have improved as dramatically as we have without the return of Jack.  That and Mings getting up to speed have been the launch pad for the improvement.

This.

Especially important is the move from a defence who looked comedically incapable of not being shit (think, for example, how easy it was for Sheffield United to put three past us) to one which looked looked absolutely solid.

[SoccerHQ]

Must be in minority but we were o.k first half at Stoke, dodgy first 15 minutes but we should've got 1-1 soon after but El Ghazi was finishing like a pub player.

It's simply the return of Grealish.

I was also going to say Mings not getting a 3 match ban from the Reading game but don't think we actually won any of the following three games.

[PeterWithesShin]

Some of the things folks are saying are more long term turning points of the club which while I agree with the question was what was the catalyst as we went from 2 wins in 14 to 9 wins in a row. I'm sticking with Jack, all the other things happened but if Jack was still out there's zero chance we'd have won 9 in a row. I'd go so far that if he was still out we'd already be out of the play-off reckoning.

[SoccerHQ]

Actually thinking about a specific moment in a game our friend Gardner missing that sitter in the 90th minute.

We should've had the SHA game long wrapped up at that point so dropping two points that late and to them and our season would've likely fizzled out like it has for likes of Forest and Preston.

[Cleybrooke]

Even Mr Smith suggests it was 1/2 time at Stoke.  Sweet Caroline...

[TheMalandro]

Sacking Mrs Doubtfire.

[LeeB]

Sacking Mrs Doubtfire.

Undoubtedly.

Only Mings in that team today that Bruce didn't have to choose from.

Taylor was useless, Jedinak was lost at centre half, Whelam was a liability, the keeper and key substitute were out on loan.

It's like night and day watching them now.