sellbydate Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 There are always rubbish teams in the premier league. Sadly we're part of that group nowadays. I think the bottom half of the league has been the poorest it's been for years and years, how many of the teams down there will even get to 40 points? It just shows you how bad you have to be to good down nowadays. We've had a good go at it the last few years breaking all sorts of home records. I think that's completely incorrect. the Bottom half is better, that's why it's so competitive now. There's no whipping boys anymore, it's never a given any more that the top 4 teams will beat the bottom lot as has been proved over and over this season, gone are the days of teams winning the league with 1 or 2 losses. Disregarding the top 8, the rest are very even, just look at some of the players at Fulham who are bottom. Heitinga, Risse, Sidwell, Richardson, Hangeland, Parker, Rodallega, and before January, Berbatov. Experienced Premier League players as well as dangerous players like Dejagah and Holtby. The points total has little to do with the quality of teams, because the league as a whole can get better or worse. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooligan Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 With the way we are playing at the moment and the injuries we seem to keep picking up ,i honestly can't see where the next point is coming from .I am hoping Hull are in the Cup Final by the time we play them and have a eye on the cup final and leave one or two out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Palace L, southampton L, swansea D, hull W, city L, spurs L. That's my opinion but take into account if we lose our next 2 which I think we will our confidence will be even worse than it is now, and if the teams below us manage to pick up some points from their next 2 games pressure will be huge. hull are a better team than us so it would not surprise me if we lost but I think we have one win in us before the end of season. Dunno if Steve B has ever lost as a manager @ VP - I certainly don't fancy our defence v Long + Jelvic - esp on yesterdays showing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I think next season will be our time to be honest. Ironically Benteke being out until October may help because it means he won't be sold in summer. I can't see a club buying a player who has a serious injury. But when he is fit again he will probably leave in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) No way will 34 keep you up. The past 2 seasons a team has gone down with 36, and before that the noses got 39 and went down. Jesus wept we are about as good as a Mcleish Birmingham side. Edited April 6, 2014 by The Fun Factory 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 If Fulham win next week and we lose then we'll only be four points above the relegation zone. We might have to count on Norwich losing those last four games except I doubt they will lose them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 That's what I mean. If we get beat next week and fulham win plus the other teams get points it aint looking that good is it. Then we have southampton at home, say we lose that which there is a really good chance we will then how many points clear will we be. Mark my words I bet 2 teams below us have a decent run of results. I think we will stay up just about but its going to be close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 We should not be fretting over other team's results in keeping up us for the 3 season in a row ffs. This is not acceptable at all for the good ship AVFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 It's also annoying that we have to hope for teams like Spurs - who should be our rivals at the least - doing us favours against poor teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 It's also annoying that we have to hope for teams like Spurs - who should be our rivals at the least - doing us favours against poor teams. ...like us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Well exactly, that's what's annoying. I'm already nervous for Spurs v Sunderland Tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Atleast Spurs did us a favour.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 If Norwich beat Fulham we are safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Yeh we're fortunate the bottom 3 are so poor really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Does anyone think the current bottom 3 will get 35 points? I don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Fulham possibly if they beat Norwich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 That would require them to get 8 points from 5 games, not impossible, but unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 (edited) There are always rubbish teams in the premier league. Sadly we're part of that group nowadays. I think the bottom half of the league has been the poorest it's been for years and years, how many of the teams down there will even get to 40 points? It just shows you how bad you have to be to good down nowadays. We've had a good go at it the last few years breaking all sorts of home records. I think that's completely incorrect. the Bottom half is better, that's why it's so competitive now. There's no whipping boys anymore, it's never a given any more that the top 4 teams will beat the bottom lot as has been proved over and over this season, gone are the days of teams winning the league with 1 or 2 losses. Disregarding the top 8, the rest are very even, just look at some of the players at Fulham who are bottom. Heitinga, Risse, Sidwell, Richardson, Hangeland, Parker, Rodallega, and before January, Berbatov. Experienced Premier League players as well as dangerous players like Dejagah and Holtby. The points total has little to do with the quality of teams, because the league as a whole can get better or worse. I'm not so sure you are right about the bottom half is "better" its more competitive granted,but that could be because there are more poor teams than before competing...... but I 'm not sure that quantifies "better" as for the players....reputations count for nothing, its what you do, not what you imply....they are down there for a reason. they don't play the villa every week.....thats me, just being flippant. Edited April 7, 2014 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyshaw Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 We will stay up and unfortunately go through this all again next season. Things need to change at OUR club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 That's what I mean. If we get beat next week and fulham win plus the other teams get points it aint looking that good is it. Then we have southampton at home, say we lose that which there is a really good chance we will then how many points clear will we be. Mark my words I bet 2 teams below us have a decent run of results. I think we will stay up just about but its going to be close. If that will be the case, that we barely survives, Lambert has to go, its just not acceptable for a club our size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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