The season overall

[andyh]

I don’t care about league 2 football, but I’ll still watch the play off final.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don’t care about league 2 football, but I’ll still watch the play off final.

So you take notice of it.

[andyh]

I don’t care about league 2 football, but I’ll still watch the play off final.

So you take notice of it.

Yes, but I don’t give a feck about it, as I said.
I won’t care who wins or loses.

[OzVilla]

In the context of 5 years ago it’s a 9/10. In the context of half time today it’s a 6/10.

So it’s probably somewhere in between. 5 CL places and we finished 6th on GD. Went further in the CL than I expected. FA Cup SF no show. A season of highs and lows. Just need to win something though. 7.5/10.

[paul_e]

In the context of 5 years ago it’s a 9/10. In the context of half time today it’s a 6/10.

So it’s probably somewhere in between. 5 CL places and we finished 6th on GD. Went further in the CL than I expected. FA Cup SF no show. A season of highs and lows. Just need to win something though. 7.5/10.

I'd widen the context further. In the Context of Aston Villa for the last 40 years it's well above average, 8/10 for me and a ref decision away from 9/10.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't care who wins the CL this season but i'll still notice it.

[andyh]

I don't care who wins the CL this season but i'll still notice it.

Me too.
Because we were in it.

[VillaTim]

Is it any wonder we aren't taken seriously.
And people moan we aren't taken seriously.

[Smirker]

Top 6 in League. We were miles behind at the end of Feb and lost out on GD.
Europe Qualification 3rd season running.
FA Cup SF
ECL QF
Financially the most appreciated squad in the league.

Go back even 2 years ago and offer us that.

Go back 5 years and you'd be smiled at - notwithstanding the worst performing manager in Villa's recent history in StevieEffingMe in charge for a year.

Go back 7 years when were almost dead and you'd have been laughed at forever.

Go back to the late 19th century and we'd have been furious. Go back to 1983 and we wouldn't have taken it.

The fact is we've blown it.

[PeterWithesShin]

7 times in the last 90 years we've finished higher than 6th. And never has the deck being stacked so heavily against us as it is now with the financial rules. It's above decent, while still frustrating.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't care who wins the CL this season but i'll still notice it.

Me too.
Because we were in it.

We weren't in the EL but you were taking notice of it.

[andyh]

I don't care who wins the CL this season but i'll still notice it.

Me too.
Because we were in it.

We weren't in the EL but you were taking notice of it.

Let it go, for fucks sake

[paul_e]

7 times in the last 90 years we've finished higher than 6th. And never has the deck being stacked so heavily against us as it is now with the financial rules. It's above decent, while still frustrating.

Exactly, getting into the Champions League once doesn't mean missing out on goal difference is deserving of some of the comments this evening.

[PaulWinch again]

This kind of demonstrates how subjective it is. My personal view is that Unai has done an incredible job and raised the bar so much, but that means expectation rises. For me we were in the Champions League this year and we aren’t next year, when we had given ourselves an amazing opportunity to be back there. It can’t go beyond decent for me, as a result. But like I say, I accept it’s entirely subjective.

[VillaTim]

We need to look back at the manager a bit . I know that won't be a popular view , but he has somehow got it wrong in the big games , big style .