VillaChris

As long as QPR don't beat Spurs we will be o.k, if they don't they'll get 4 points from the Spurs and Stoke home games which will take them to 35 points. I can't for the life of me see how they'll beat Chelsea at Stamford Birdge who will still be in the mix for 4th and on the last day at Man. City who could still be in the mix for the title.

How many points were we ahead of Wigan after drawing 0-0 at the JJB? It's go to be 10 or 11 surely?

Ridiculous reversal in such a short space of time, hang your head McLeish.

Wigan are out of the relegation equation now, on 34 and have Wolves at home on the last day, fair play to 'em. They were nearly as dire as us when we pla them 6 weeks back.

If and it's a big if, Wigan manage to hold on and win tonight then the yank should be straight on the blower to McC**t and ask him how, in the space of a few weeks can tiny Wigan beat Liverpool & Arsenal away and Man United at home yet we are beaten before we get on the pitch, absolutely pathetic.....

Well Randy did approach Wigan before he went after McLeish.

He isn't the finished article as a manager but amuses me last summer how some were trying to promote McLeish as some sort of upgrade on Martinez.

To be fair I'd already assumed Wigan will go above us

It's QPR and Bolton who are our main rivals

Yep, that looks correct the form Wigan are in.

As long as we don't lose to Bolton and QPR don't beat Spurs we will stay up. (Blimey how depressing it is to write these sentences).

N'Zogbia was playing much better before his injury.

He has to start against Sunderland.

Awful awful manager.

I honestly can't believe how bad we've been for 99% for this season.

I knew the football would be poor but I thought he would at least get the horribe basics right like being hard to score against and not giving away cheap goals from set pieces.

He's even failing at those things which are supposed to be his forte.

I tried to give him time but lost my patience after Wigan away which was desperate and apart from the Fulham game, the results and performances have been awful ever since.

See ya later Blackburn.

Bleeding Yakubu ( He's in my Fantasy football team :winkold: )

Woops spoke too soon!

Beating Swansea away won't be easy will it, their last away game was losing 3-0 to West Brom.

They'll get 4 points from Norwich and Wigan so they'll finish on 32 points.

All this 36 point target is us not picking up another point all season again which is pretty unlikely.

Blackburn are already 2 down at home to Liverpool.

Hands up who think they'll reach 36 points?

Thought not.

N'zogbia's best games for us this season have been with Ireland in the team.

Once he gets his fitness up, those two will link up well again I think.

Last season we had Bent, Downing and Young and were awful. This season we haven't had Downing or Young and have been without Bent for a good few games now. Take the three best players out of any team and they'll struggle. Villa are no different. Not all about Eck.

We were nowhere near this bad last season. When we had Bent, Young and Downing together we actually weren't bad. "Eck"'s negative tactics are strangling the life out of the club.

Really?

I'm no fan of McLeish at all and he should be certainly fired in the summer but I think there's a fair bit of rewritting of history going on about last season due to us playing well in the final 6 games (whe Houllier was taken ill).

The home games against Sunderland and Wolves stick in my mind as bad as anything we've produced this season. Sunderland had Downing and Young playing and losing dismally to Wolves, we had Bent, Downing and Young all in the team.

I've been critical of Bannan a lot since the drink drive rap as I don't think he's played that well since the incident. I thought he was o.k yesterday. As others have said, that was a superb ball over the defence for Gabby to run onto.

The crux of this is he certainly isn't a wide player, he has to be centrally.

I hope they do it. I used to quite dislike Newcastle, but now I can't help but have complete admiration for what they have done. It's a breath of fresh air to have a club lose it's biggest asset (Carroll) and just invest that money well.

Yes, I think the relegation brought their fans back down to earth, no more "messiah" rubbish either.

I wan't them to get the 4th spot.

Same for me.

I laughed as much as anyone when we relegated them in May 2009 and I'd have laughed even harder if you'd said to me at that moment that in three years time that we'd be battling relegation and Newcastle would be on the verge of top 4.

Just shows what can happen when a previously poor owner starts making some good decisions and has a vision for the club (start scouting and buying cheaply from abroad as opposed to overpaid premier league players).

It can be done. Things can change quite quickly in Football so if Randy can actually start making some proper decisions we could be challenging the top 6 again in a couple of seasons.

3 wins in 13.

Is Saha their Heskey?

Are they going to be pipped for the champions league by....Newcastle. :shock:

I'm surprised at times our attendances haven't dipped below 30k this season. The QPR game was heading that way but the club decided to drop prices to 25 quid all around the ground, don't think they're doing the same for Bolton so that could be a 25k type attendance.

Shite it sounds bad.

Get well soon Herdy.

Safe as houses.

No great fan of Collins but he has been superb in the last month.

Garbage going forward.

Agreed.

It should be a sackable offence if McLeish can't even reach 40 points in a season or indeed the 39 he got relegated on last season.

Agreed.

It should be a sackable offence if McLeish can't even reach 40 points in a season or indeed the 39 he got relegated on last season.

The one regret over Darren Bent has to be we signed him when we were in decline as club.

He really should've been signed at some stage under MON, he would've scored hatfuls in that team with crosses flying in from Young every 5 minutes.