Quote from: qwerty on September 23, 2019, 12:47:03 PMIt pains me to see Villa struggling after all that effort to get out of the Championship.we are not struggling! - we have held our own for most of the matches against Spurs and Arsenal who have finished top 6 for how many years?. More than held our own against a decent West Ham team, beaten Everton and should have beaten Bournemouth. We have been denied 2 points from ludicrous VAR decisions against Palace and Arsenal. Had we got those we would be on 6 points only 2 points behind Spurs and Man Utd! Naïve yes, struggling definitely not. It is a massive learning curve in the step up from the championship to the premier league and this takes time. I will see how we are doing at Christmas time - until then I will ignore the negative opinions of many fickle supporters on here and twitter who are exact same ones calling for Dean Smiths head in January last year and we know what happened after that!
It pains me to see Villa struggling after all that effort to get out of the Championship.
also known as a person entitled to an opinion?
Yep. This may be crossing-over with the 'Realistic Expectations' thread but I agree there are at least 3 teams who are obviously worse than us and I'd expect after the whole season to see us finish above them; WatfordBrightonNewcastle I'd add that Crystal Palace and Southampton may well perform worse than us as well.We've begun gelling a new team and that will take time. We have a capable and skilled set of staff, a terrific set of players who are more than good enough to get better and better and, most importantly, a big and growing fanbase wager for good football. The future is bright. No, I'm not worried, I'm excited. UTV.
I had to drive down for meetings in Brisbane today. I went back through a few Villa View podcasts from February.It’s amazing how far we’ve come from where we were then. I’m not suggesting all is rosy but it bloody well cheered me up.