Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[tonyh]

I started worrying the day the team was announced for Moscow. It is my opinion that MON is seting up for a walk out. I dont know why etc, It's just the way he has been lately, his body language, his unconfortable complaints to the press about the fans.

I like the bloke and still want him to suceed with the Villa but something is definitely wrong, and i just do not mean with the team but other factors.

[adrenachrome]

I started to worry about Villa's future in those last four torrid minutes against Stoke.

In those minutes I crossed the bridge between the unswerving trust in our manager to having serious doubts about his managerial eccentricities.

Things must be bad, BG,  if you have Lost Faith and crossed the Rubicon.

[ATV]

I'm not worried, this is just a Blip.

[achilles]

I'm not worried, this is just a Blip.

Good for you!
I'm not worried either as reality has just hit home and its about where I thought it would be!

[ATV]

I'm not worried, this is just a Blip.

Good for you!
I'm not worried either as reality has just hit home and its about where I thought it would be!

Good for you!

[Moorski]

Start worrying this is more than a blip folks.

[adrenachrome]

I'm not worried, this is just a Blip.

Good for you!
I'm not worried either as reality has just hit home and its about where I thought it would be!

Good for you!

It's all good!

[Ads]

Start worrying this is more than a blip folks.

It looks like a blip to me. Even United are having one!

Conceded six and score one in two games. Sounds a bit like us at the moment!

[villajk]

I am not toooooo worried.

Went to see the reserves play tonight and some of them look pretty good prospects for the future.

However, I am worried for the Man Utd and Everton games.

[PeterWithesShin]

Start worrying this is more than a blip folks.

It looks like a blip to me. Even United are having one!

Conceded six and score one in two games. Sounds a bit like us at the moment!

Difference is, would u bet against the manc scum winning the league? And would u bet on us finishing above Everton?

Our blips tend to be a bit more spectacular than the mancs, bastards.

[Monty]

I started to worry about Villa's future in those last four torrid minutes against Stoke.

In those minutes I crossed the bridge between the unswerving trust in our manager to having serious doubts about his managerial eccentricities.

I think the definition of fickle is moving that far because of one freak game. How many times will that ever happen, especially when you consider that Stoke were the opposition? It's like losing faith in the entire England cricket setup because of the 51 all-out. Not that we had much faith there anyway, so bad example. But still, 4 mental minutes? I think the other 2 and a half years outweigh them somewhat.

[brian green]

If I were a fickle fan I would not be in my seventh decade as a Holte Ender and into my second housand Villa games attended.

The only way I have survived the worst horrors of those years and still come back for more is by being totally truthful with myself about the club I love.

The Stoke game was not four minutes of instant judgement, it was the fulcrum upon which my overall assessment of the Villa management turned.

After the Stoke game I was forced to ask myself the question how much has Martin O'Neill done personally to improve the team?   Or, expressed another way, with Randy Lerner and a new broom sweeping away all the old regime, how much worse would any other manager called in to replace O'Leary have done?

I have very high regard for Martin O'Neill but the admission that I do not have the total confidence in him which I had a year ago is not fickleness, it is plain honesty.

My faith in Randy Lerner remains undiminished because in my opinion he has delivered on all our expectations off the playing pitch.   It is my view that with an owner like Randy Lerner behind him any competent manager would have improved on O'Leary.

[Bigmelonface]

Fucking A.

[TheSandman]

A timely revival because I am worried.

Not about this season per se as looking back on what I said back in August it has almost exceeded my expectations.

However, next season is a different prospect. This year is probably the best chance we'll have of CL football. Arsenal will get themselves together and I think with an improved defence may be contenders for the league as will Liverpool. The only ones who I can see dropping is Chelsea unless they spend big.

The top four are not the only ones who worry me. Man City have pretty much all the money in the world and should be in the mix for Europa League next season at least. Tottenham have by all accounts a good side and as much as I may dislike him 'arry ain't no mug. This is on top of ourselves and Everton.

We lack quality in our squad. What we have is a group who are decent pros but no one really of class apart from Barry and A.Young on a good day. With MON's record in the market can we rely on him to get these quality players? We may well lose Gareth and I dunno if MON will get in a player who is as good if not better than him.

Still I'm probably thinking about this too early.

[pdiddybaby]

Sandman I agree with all what you say but MON stated a while back we would not bankrupt ourselves and did he not state that wages were to be kept at 60% of turnover. Other clubs are going into massive debt to compete or already have almost a decade of Champs league money to build on, we do not. The reality of the modern Prem league is those clubs with the deepest pockets or take the biggest risks are those who will succeed.

Do we give up ? of course not but we have to realise as fans that the path we will be taking will be different to other clubs. Challenging Arsenal as we still are does not mean we can afford or even get the players like Ashravin. Thats why this summer I want us to go for young quality talent and build from there, whether they are English, British or foreign.