Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 27, 2020, 01:50:39 PMHas a team with the worst defensive record in the PL ever managed to stay up?Bournemouth conceded seventy last season. Something for us to aim for.
Has a team with the worst defensive record in the PL ever managed to stay up?
Why was it never going to happen? That’s nonsense. Better recruitment and better coaching could have seen us much higher.
Quote from: Luke8 on February 27, 2020, 03:10:26 PMQuote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 27, 2020, 01:50:39 PMHas a team with the worst defensive record in the PL ever managed to stay up?Bournemouth conceded seventy last season. Something for us to aim for.Indeed but Fulham were the worst, conceding 81 and were relegated. Huddersfield let in 76 and were also relegated. After a quick check, since the turn of the century, no team with the worst defensive record has survived. John? Anybody seen John?
Quote from: Risso on February 26, 2020, 07:13:12 PMWhy was it never going to happen? That’s nonsense. Better recruitment and better coaching could have seen us much higher.You were really expecting us to be 7th or higher? Because that's where you'd be with 40 points.
I'm not naive enough to think everything in the garden is rosy, but we're heading in to March in 17th which is where we'd like to finish. It's not a bad state of affairs. Obviously we'd all like to have amassed 40 points already so that we could afford to lose the rest of our games but that was never going to happen.We have bad matches and good matches, and bad periods in good matches. If we're only as good as our last fixture, then yes, we're in big trouble, but we're not are we? We've shown in a number of matches that we're better than that, even if we're prone to fuck a few things up.
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 27, 2020, 03:29:18 PMQuote from: Luke8 on February 27, 2020, 03:10:26 PMQuote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 27, 2020, 01:50:39 PMHas a team with the worst defensive record in the PL ever managed to stay up?Bournemouth conceded seventy last season. Something for us to aim for.Indeed but Fulham were the worst, conceding 81 and were relegated. Huddersfield let in 76 and were also relegated. After a quick check, since the turn of the century, no team with the worst defensive record has survived. John? Anybody seen John?How does this relate to goal difference though? as currently 3rd worst with another 2 sides only 1 GD better
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 27, 2020, 01:50:39 PMHas a team with the worst defensive record in the PL ever managed to stay up?Has the most fouled team ever been relegated?
You get a chance to score against us every 5 and a half minutes.Smith has done nothing to address this situation, on Saturday we gave Southampton 20 opportunities.This is just sheer madness and I would love just one journalist to ask him why he thinks this is and what he is doing about it.
Smith joined Villa in 2018 after impressing in his development of the Brentford team - but he admits he has had to adapt his philosophy in his bid to keep the West Midlands club in the Premier League."I've learned an awful lot about going into games and thinking you can control the ball," he said. "With the quality of the players you've got, there are periods where you're not going to have it, and not to go chasing it so quickly."I'm one to go and win it back as quickly as possible but some of the quality within this league doesn't allow you to do that, and when they do beat that press they can get at your back-four or three very quickly, and it gives you problems."We've had to adapt as we've gone through the season but we've also lost some big players to injury, which has also made us adapt. But the players and myself have learned all the way through."
Quote from: ChicagoLion on February 27, 2020, 01:23:27 PMYou get a chance to score against us every 5 and a half minutes.Smith has done nothing to address this situation, on Saturday we gave Southampton 20 opportunities.This is just sheer madness and I would love just one journalist to ask him why he thinks this is and what he is doing about it.Closest answer so far, from skysports.com yesterday:QuoteSmith joined Villa in 2018 after impressing in his development of the Brentford team - but he admits he has had to adapt his philosophy in his bid to keep the West Midlands club in the Premier League."I've learned an awful lot about going into games and thinking you can control the ball," he said. "With the quality of the players you've got, there are periods where you're not going to have it, and not to go chasing it so quickly."I'm one to go and win it back as quickly as possible but some of the quality within this league doesn't allow you to do that, and when they do beat that press they can get at your back-four or three very quickly, and it gives you problems."We've had to adapt as we've gone through the season but we've also lost some big players to injury, which has also made us adapt. But the players and myself have learned all the way through."
Would wishing a coronavirus mass cancellation of sporting events and public gatherings be the wrong thing to wish for?
Quote from: aev on February 28, 2020, 06:24:54 AMWould wishing a coronavirus mass cancellation of sporting events and public gatherings be the wrong thing to wish for?Absolutely not. You're are just thinking of public well being and should be applauded for that. This years league should just scrapped and we should start again from scratch in August. Dissapointing, but the right thing to do and I'm sure Liverpool, Leeds and Baggies fans would be gracious enough to accept it's for the best.