Unai Emery

[brian green]

It has had a big impact on me.  Then again I am an old school misery arse Villa fan. If anything can go wrong it will.

[villadelph]

He is going to make all of them sit there and watch that match in slow motion. Over and over and over.

I doubt it.

haha

[Bad English]

I know people are concerned and that but I have read Tweets from people, who are clearly not US citizens* tweeting "Tyrone, we've got you!".

No you haven't, he's at home or in a clinic or something.

*Unless they can tweet a picture of their passport.

[pablo_picasso]

Emery is a very good manager. He's lost games before. He'll sort this out, but I think it will take more sorting than we realise. First games of the season are often strange, but we need to beat Everton and get up and running next week.

Yes, a big hole in the centre of defence for a start and there is no easy fix for that one.

This mindset of us not being able to win if we don't have Mings in the backline has blighted us for three years now with nobody seemingly knowing how to sort it.  Now we have no choice

We had the same problem with Grealish...

...until we didn't.

[WarszaVillan]

It has had a big impact on me.  Then again I am an old school misery arse Villa fan. If anything can go wrong it will.

Which is the default position of most Villa fans. Optimism never ends well in my experience of following Villa. Expect the worst, enjoy the best.

[Ian.]

I do think the Mings injury had a massive impact on us - not just the obvious, ie not on the pitch any more, but mentally.

I agree, he’s a huge character, a natural leader and is one of our best players. Absolutely gutted for him, the squad and us fans.

[walsall villain]

It has had a big impact on me.  Then again I am an old school misery arse Villa fan. If anything can go wrong it will.

Which is the default position of most Villa fans. Optimism never ends well in my experience of following Villa. Expect the worst, enjoy the best.

That’s how I feel. I remember way back when Tommy Docherty came in as manager and turned fortunes around when we were in the old second division. Pre season optimism was very high with new signings made. Promotion back to the top level surely? No… we got relegated. I’ve never done optimism since.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s a different era though. Each to their own but losing faith after a bad game seems premature to me.

[john e]

It depends on what people mean when they say we’re gonna be fine and they’re not worried

do they mean we won’t get relegated because there’s no chance of that
We’ll we be fine as a mid table performing team because that’s perfectly possible

Problem is I was looking to push into the top six this season and quietly confident of doing so
 ‘we’ll be fine’ for me means we’re still on
a 5-1 Defeat on the opening day doesn’t fill me with confidence for achieving that

People point to other teams big defeats fair enough, but when we hit Liverpool 7-2 they still haven’t recovered
They were the best team in the world at that time confidence was high and they couldn’t lose and that was the start of the downfall

These big defeats hit home hard yes, you can recover from them but confidence will definitely  be dented
Add to that Buendia and Mings and things aren’t looking rosy

So yes we’ll be fine in general terms but it it’s a big dent in our aspirations for this season in my view, and no small loss of faith for me anyway

People say they’re not worried, well I am,
 I am worried about not competing for that top six place, probably overreacting, but it’s a big loss to take and something I never thought I’d see under Emery

And as others have said, Everton won’t put it right but the next six games might

Fingers crossed

[passport1]

It has had a big impact on me.  Then again I am an old school misery arse Villa fan. If anything can go wrong it will.

Which is the default position of most Villa fans. Optimism never ends well in my experience of following Villa. Expect the worst, enjoy the best.

That’s how I feel. I remember way back when Tommy Docherty came in as manager and turned fortunes around when we were in the old second division. Pre season optimism was very high with new signings made. Promotion back to the top level surely? No… we got relegated. I’ve never done optimism since.

The Saunders era must have improved your outlook a little?

[LeeB]

It depends on what people mean when they say we’re gonna be fine and they’re not worried

do they mean we won’t get relegated because there’s no chance of that
We’ll we be fine as a mid table performing team because that’s perfectly possible

Problem is I was looking to push into the top six this season and quietly confident of doing so
 ‘we’ll be fine’ for me means we’re still on
a 5-1 Defeat on the opening day doesn’t fill me with confidence for achieving that

People point to other teams big defeats fair enough, but when we hit Liverpool 7-2 they still haven’t recovered
They were the best team in the world at that time confidence was high and they couldn’t lose and that was the start of the downfall

These big defeats hit home hard yes, you can recover from them but confidence will definitely  be dented
Add to that Buendia and Mings and things aren’t looking rosy

So yes we’ll be fine in general terms but it it’s a big dent in our aspirations for this season in my view, and no small loss of faith for me anyway

People say they’re not worried, well I am,
 I am worried about not competing for that top six place, probably overreacting, but it’s a big loss to take and something I never thought I’d see under Emery

And as others have said, Everton won’t put it right but the next six games might

Fingers crossed

I think that this might happen from time to time, a great shellacking, due to the risky strategy we employ, but that strategy will yield more results and achievements than alternative, more conservative approaches.

[pauliewalnuts]

We got a pasting - at home - from a side that went on to get relegated last season.

[passport1]

I can see this is going to be a very long week.

[LeeB]

We got a pasting - at home - from a side that went on to get relegated last season.

Yeah, and then went on a mad run like it had never happened.

[PeterWithesShin]

Man Utd got twatted by Liverpool, Man City, Brentford and even us last season. They won a trophy and are in the CL. It's far from ideal but it's only the end of the world if we let it.