rubberman

All the post-Palace optimism is great, but we won't be winning this.  Back down to earth with a 0-2 bump.

7 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

If there was ever a comment that summed up VillaTalk, it's this.

The new chairman being written off as a massive prick, minutes after being announced.

Mind you - if he's any good someone will poach him off us.  Hope we've got a clause in place in his contract.

After Sunderland I had a brief moment of despair, but then i thought to myself that I didn't want to give up hope - that's what gives me the buzz on a Saturday morning. So until it is mathematically certain, I'm going to keep believing we might yet survive. 

Probably (almost certainly) deluded but feels slightly less so after yesterday.

Vardy just back from surgery and having to play Weds and Sat has got to be in our favour.  Hope the Spurs game is tough for them.

Very big ask to get 2 wins on the bounce, but play with the commitment and desire of last night, get Villa Park bouncing and who knows.  Really no expectation though.

Hoping Sunderland win tonight.  Would keep Swansea in the crap and 17th place within (very faint) sight.

I hope that Jack sees where the slackers in the squad are now, and where those that graft a bit are, and comes to the conclusion that he needs to work his butt off if he wants to get back in.

We're not hated at all.  In fact I think a lot of other fans feel sorry for us and the shit we're putting up with.  On most sites I've seen last night and today, people seem pleased for us to get a win - I guess we are no threat to anyone really!

No chance.

I'm usually stupidly optimistic before a game, but this is a nailed on loss.  Zaha will tear Clark / Cissokho a new one.  At Least 0-2, boos all round and probably an injury to Ayew to heap on the misery.  Depressing.

Off the pitch I really like the way he's going about things. It has to start translating into results and points soon though before the pressure breaks him. 

Desperately need a win and not to have any more humiliation added to this season. There are bound to be upsets - please not us this time. 

36 minutes ago, supermon said:

missa hope villa sign someone soon

Jar jar binks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

rubberman

Villa 1-2 Palace

Bournemouth 2-2 WestHam

Newcastle 0-1 ManUtd

Chelsea 0-0 WestBrom

ManCity 1-2 Everton

Southampton 1-1 Watford

Stoke 1-0 Norwich

Swansea 1-0 Sunderland

Liverpool 1-2 Arsenal

Spurs 2-2 Leicester

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34 minutes ago, Duck said:

Anyone know how much we have to spend? Surely were not still selling to buy? 

Selling to clear out dross I expect - we're not going to be getting much ££ for anyone.

Given the summer net spend, I'd think we'd have £15-20m. + Loans.  

I really hope that Remi's refusal to loan him out / sell him will have given him a boost.  He's had the stick, now here's the carrot - knowing he has a part to play in the rest of the season and figures in the manager's plans.  Get your head together and show us the performance level from the FA cup semi final again please Jack.

1 hour ago, VillanousOne said:

if he signs for us won't a lot of opposition teams ending up passing debuchy on the left hand side?

Brilliant!

I agree.  If our strategy (such as it is) is to buy potential on 5 year contracts, develop and sell on, it is surely even beyond Villa's stupidity to sell one of the brightest talents for a loss after 1 season, whatever the wages.

Not really going our way, is it.

Very strange.  Was there for a year already and had no appearances.  Obviously has some talent but never seems to play - odd.

26 minutes ago, villa89 said:

We are relegated already, there's no point panic buying now when we have 8 points from 19 games. We should just make signings that fit in with life in the championship.

I keep seeing this. But if we sign championship players, we'll stay in the championship. We need to keep aiming on the premiership and make sure we get back to it before the parachute payments run out. We still need to buy / loan quality. 

Had we not had injuries and suspensions I'm pretty sure it would have be virtually the same side each week. Norwich is the aberration proving that we don't have the depth to rotate. Or any depth at all. Or even shallowness frankly. 

I truly hope so. Show us We're not 20th - that there is one team worse than us. Baby steps. 

40 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

We're bottom of the league, the gap to survival has increased, we haven't won since the first game of the season and we've scored less goals than any other team in the league. 

I think it's pretty outrageous that other attacking options haven't been given a chance. How bad does it have to get for us to try something different?

From what I've seen I think Remi has been focussed on consistency and giving the players he sees as the 'best' a run. It's worked for ayew and veretout, for Rudy not so much. 

I presume he watched all the Sherwood games and saw players in and out each week, systems changing and saw how that screwed everyone up. 

That said, with ayew out I hope the plan isn't Sinclair and gestede and we do see more adama-time. 

rubberman
WestHam 2-1 Liverpool
Arsenal 4-0 Newcastle
Leicester 2-0 Bournemouth
ManUtd 0-0 Swansea
Norwich 1-1 Southampton
Sunderland 1-1 Villa
WestBrom 0-1 Stoke
Watford 1-2 ManCity
Palace 1-0 Chelsea
Everton 2-2 Spurs

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Missed the last couple, but back in the office again...

1 hour ago, Kingman said:

Any news on this new manager bounce thingamajig? 

"What happens when you change manager?

So in the Premier League, at least, there is a boost for a short honeymoon period and then performance dips back – and indeed slightly below the level that it was before the club changed manager. Between 12 and 18 games after appointment, the points’ benefit of changing manager has vanished, suggesting that on average there is only a short-term gain and a longer-term negative effect of changing manager."

From: http://www.wbs.ac.uk/downloads/news/2009/10/what-is-the-impact-of-changing-football-manag.pdf

I can't manage to insert the graphic this refers to, but essentially, there is usually a small uplift in the first 6 games after a change, with a bigger impact games 7-12, before reverting to the mean (ie where you were before the sacking).  Our 'bounce' has been negligible - whether this is because of the desperate plunge we were on prior to the change or the lack of impact Remi has had is a matter of opinion. 

Oof.  That's tragic.