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Offline wince

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1125 on: July 18, 2020, 10:07:42 AM »
I don’t want to be the doom monger but had we taken all 3 at Everton I would still have hope. Left it too late to change our fate. Hope I’m wrong but time will tell

Offline Villan82

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1126 on: July 18, 2020, 10:44:14 AM »
Yet if we do go down four of our players will sell for a combined £125-£150m... add heaton to the core of players and its bonkers we are now likely to drop.

A better management team would have found a way to have us on 40 points by now.

Offline Villan82

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1127 on: July 18, 2020, 10:50:06 AM »
I don’t want to be the doom monger but had we taken all 3 at Everton I would still have hope. Left it too late to change our fate. Hope I’m wrong but time will tell

Had we taken all three I would back us to get out of it. As things stand it is very difficult but still do-able. It's basically the story of our season- leaving ourselves no cushion.

Online Flamingo Lane

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1128 on: July 18, 2020, 11:04:13 AM »
There's no real point in saying this, but I'm going to say it anyway - the more you look at the league table this morning the significance of that goal conceded at Everton just grows and grows.  I really must stop looking at it and go out and do something more purposeful!

Offline Risso

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1129 on: July 18, 2020, 11:06:10 AM »
There's no real point in saying this, but I'm going to say it anyway - the more you look at the league table this morning the significance of that goal conceded at Everton just grows and grows.  I really must stop looking at it and go out and do something more purposeful!

That's fresh in everybody's mind, but we've had numerous such incidents all season, which have all accumulated to where we are now, ie going down.

Offline villa `cross the mersey

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1130 on: July 18, 2020, 11:08:12 AM »
There's no real point in saying this, but I'm going to say it anyway - the more you look at the league table this morning the significance of that goal conceded at Everton just grows and grows.  I really must stop looking at it and go out and do something more purposeful!
As do the two games against mighty Bournemouth - in particular the home defeat ......shocking results and performances

Online Clampy

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1131 on: July 18, 2020, 12:08:08 PM »
Like all of us I am hoping for the best that we survive in the Premiership.  Preparing for the worst I am approaching the months ahead like Bobby Ewing's time in the shower.  This awful season has had an appropriately awful Covid mangled, unreal conclusion.  If we go down I shall of course go to Chumps League games but my personal reality will only kick in when we get back to the Premier League and I can erase from my memory everything that has happened between our Wembley play off joy and the end of this excruciatingly horrible time to be a Villa fan.

I'm not sure about excruciatingly horrible. It's been disappointingly poor but nowhere near as bad as the season we went down not long back, we were an absolute mess. If worst comes to the worst, I think we might be in a better place to deal with it this time.

Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1132 on: July 18, 2020, 12:16:39 PM »
I was just having a look at the list of our league finishes and even if we win our last two games this will be our worst points total in the Premier League, apart from 2015-16.

Offline Villan82

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1133 on: July 18, 2020, 12:17:14 PM »
Sorry Clampy but that is nonsense. We spent £140m in the summer, record season tickets, a positive story and everything in place. This is far more depressing.

Last time we were like a sick horse, on it's last legs, that needed to be put out of its misery. This one is far tougher to take.

Offline VinnieChase84

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1134 on: July 18, 2020, 01:29:36 PM »



Offline brian green

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1135 on: July 18, 2020, 01:47:49 PM »
Clampy, it is excruciatingly horrible to me because I am running out if seasons to watch them.  If you think there was something good about this season so far I am not at all surprised.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1136 on: July 18, 2020, 01:53:29 PM »
There's been plenty of shit this season but there's also been good moments. Not enough of the good but saying there's been nothing is wrong unless no one enjoyed watching Jack earlier in the season, sticking 5 past Norwich, Everton at home, the Leicester semi, the Watford winner to name a few.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1137 on: July 18, 2020, 01:57:53 PM »
And whilst it's clear this lot haven't been good enough to keep us up its night and day to the last time we got relegated.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1138 on: July 18, 2020, 02:02:50 PM »
Day/night whatever, we're just comparing one shade of shite to another - if we go down it will be a disaster of a season. I'm sure the people who deal with finances at the club would agree.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1139 on: July 18, 2020, 02:06:11 PM »
I don’t  feel any different about this relegation than I did the last one, this one is in some ways worse because it should not be happening.

 


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