Six years ago today.

[kippaxvilla2]

Disastrous day.  Remember Lescotts weight off the shoulders comment like it was yesterday.  We’ve come a long way since.

[Deano's Mullet]

Still pisses me off watching Micah Richards treated like a footballing genius/loveable buffoon every week on sky.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Still pisses me off watching Micah Richards treated like a footballing genius/loveable buffoon every week on sky.

Staggering how he gets a regular slot on TV.

[wittonwarrior]

We were dead and buried a long time before OT.  The two most iconic games if you could call them that:

First away game under Garde - destroyed at Goodison
Norwich Christmas time (the one where Adoma the sub got subbed off himself)

[Zouch Villa]

Still pisses me off watching Micah Richards treated like a footballing genius/loveable buffoon every week on sky.

Staggering how he gets a regular slot on TV.

I still can’t listen to him without having vivid flashbacks to his cackling wanky Santa skit that used to get blared out at Villa park before kick off and half time.  Made me want to scream then, and put a boot through my TV now.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Seem to remember we could easily have won both games against Leicester.

Lost them both, they finished top and we came bottom.

[wittonwarrior]

We drew against Leicester at Villa Park -late kick off; should have won!  As for the away game 2 up.  Oh well

[kippaxvilla2]

That away at Leicester was the truly sliding doors moment of the season.  Sherwood who unlike many I had some time for bringing on forwards when 2 up was to be his and ours undoing.

[dcdavecollett]

At least he waved his arms about a bit...

[Pat McMahon]

I truly felt we were fucked when we drew at home to Sunderland early that season. They were awful, we couldn’t beat them and I couldn’t see where our next win was coming from.

Very prescient of me as the answer was in 5 months time under a new manager.

[Rory]

Every year around that time, when the season ended, there was a sense that 'phew, we got lucky there, let's put it right over summer to make sure it doesn't happen again'.

But year after year, it did.

The blind hope in 2015/16 was no different from any other season, for me. That attitude meant I was  more surprised but also more enraged by that disgrace of a season.

[olaftab]

Rory we had a few warnings as you said. I remember starting a thread titled “Enough is enough” at the end of MacLeish season saying we need to wake up and never have a repeat of the season gone but we were caught in the vortex of relegation and just couldn’t escape or no one was willing to do the necessary to get us out of it. I had a belief that once a club skirts around the relegation trap it eventually ends up getting relegated and so it proved. Currently Burnley are in same predicament. Even if they somehow manage to stay up this season they will go down next season.

[Meanwood Villa]

I put money on us to go down the previous summer when our incoming transfers were Joe Cole and Senderos. We then won three of our first four and Lambert was rewarded with a new contract. He was gone by February after possibly the most soul destroying run of non scoring defeats in our history (up to that point).

The Sherwood revival in 2015 and our transfer activity that summer actually made me think we might do ok in 15/16. In truth the 6-1 at Southampton and the cup final "performance" were the markers of what was to come.

[dcdavecollett]

Yes the 2-2 draw with the Mackems foreshadowed a dreadful season.

I remember in the second half, a good cross (Amavi?) coming in from the left, finding Micah Richards unmarked two yards from goal. All he had to do was chest the ball home, but the big lummox somehow got in front of the ball and ended up helping to clear it from the goal area.

A season of crap summed up in one moment!

[Dave P]

My kids were quite young during this season so I could only pick and choose my games.  However I did go to 6 games and only saw us lose once.  How the fuck did I get that type of ratio during this season?!