Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[ROBBO]

I recall when just three of us kept this thread alive, its timely re-emergence only emphasises that we were right to be worried all along.
My biggest worry is that MON sees the game from a sixties perception and is finding it difficult to adapt to the modern game, he believes in being different at a time when following the trend is the thing to do.
Mind you if we beat United and Everton i am always willing to be fickle and jump on the MON bandwagon again.

To all of you that things are going along fine Piss off you don't belong here.
Mr Green and I have seen it all before.

[JD]

It's like being reunited with a long lost friend. I'm worried that it's out of the bag about Defour. If we don't sign him now, not only will I be worried, I will be mightily pissed off.

[VillaVA]

FABULOUS!  I love Fans Worried,  it is indeed like being reunited with an old friend.

I'm also worried about Steven Defour - Standard are my favourite European Club, he is frickin AWESOME and the whole thing sounds way too good to be true.

[Bigmelonface]

Are you allowed to post on this thread if you are just mildly distressed?

[hawkeye]

the question is wll MON or any other manager have the chance that we have just blown to break into the top 4?
I doubt it, we might have been getting the rub of the green, we may have been lucky that arsenal were having a bad season and the other potential contenders were failing but we had a great opportunity and fucked up.
So what does the future of this famous club look like?
My view is that the R Lerner impact will be enough to keep us at the top end of the leaague with the odd cup run to sustain interst but we will look back on the last few weeks and realise that the hopes of a generation were squandered

[brian green]

The mention of Standard Liege worries me.

The last player of any note we got from them was the never-to-become-the-Villa-legend-he-should-have-been, the doomed Luc Nilis.

If we change our ways and make a smooth, early and conclusive move for Defour I suggest our medical team gives extra special attention to the paragraph Leg Bones, Strength Of, before ticking the box.

That of course is probably hypothetical because our Big Name signing of the summer will probably be Fatty Huddlestone.

[Dave]

The mention of Standard Liege worries me.

The last player of any note we got from them was the never-to-become-the-Villa-legend-he-should-have-been, the doomed Luc Nilis.

Would it ease your fears at all if I said that we signed Nilis from PSV Eindhoven?

[Bigmelonface]

Ha!

[Mister E]

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.

Top post, Brian.
As a quinto-decadian I can only bow to your venerable experience and deep wisdom.

[Mister E]

...This year is probably the best chance we'll have of CL football....

I've read this a few times. It seems like a pretty irrational comment; on what basis can we predict the fortunes of half a dozen clubs over the next 12-24 months?
Using the last 24 months' trends, I would say that Villa are as well placed as any club in the top flight to continue progressing upwards. Unfortunately the past is not always a great predictor of future performance! In the end, we rely on RL and MON doing the right things, having learned from the experiences / errors made previously. Since the consensus is that we've made a few mistakes this season, we have the most to learn and therefore have the greatest potential for real progress going forwards...

well, it's a logic of sorts!

[Bigmelonface]

I'm ever so slightly miffed.

[Legion]

I'm chuffed to fcuk.

[Bigmelonface]

I'm ok now, turns out it was just wind.

[Nelly]

YES! What a legendary thread!

I'm worried that Heskey might be injured whilst playing for England!

Wait... worried or ecstatic?!

[villa `cross the mersey]

The mention of Standard Liege worries me.

The last player of any note we got from them was the never-to-become-the-Villa-legend-he-should-have-been, the doomed Luc Nilis.

Would it ease your fears at all if I said that we signed Nilis from PSV Eindhoven?

Plus it was a freak accident that put him out of the game for life... I had high hopes he would become Villa Great.