Villan4Life Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 21 years ago this week (November 1993) we lost 2-0 to Southampton (Matt Le Tissier with both) with our lowest Premier League attendance at around 15,500 at a very cold Villa Park pitch (groundsmen had to remove snow before game), was an awful game. Just hope history doesn't repeat itself tonight with the scoreline and very low attendance (doubt it will be anything like 15,500 though) How did we get an attendance that low when we had been runners up just a few months before!? Was very cold mate and snow was deep, they spent hours shovelling it off the pitch and lot of the roads around Aston was blocked. Maybe a lot of people didn't want the hassle.. But was lowest league attendance i can remember for us since Premiership was formed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 (edited) http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-southampton-24-november-1993-21417/ was 16,180 not 15,500 for Villa vs Southampton (24th November 1993) Edited November 24, 2014 by Villan4Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 26, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 26, 2014 QPR: 74.5% vvvBurnley: 64.5% ^Villa: 54.0%Hull: 37.8% vLeicester: 25.5% ^WBA: 14.6% vSunderland: 10.5%Palace: 7.1% ^^Liverpool: 6.0%Stoke: 3.2%Spurs: 1.3%Newcastle: 0.8% ^West Ham: 0.2%Burnley: 72.6%Villa: 55.8%QPR: 46.1%Leicester: 35.7%Palace: 30.8%Hull: 26.3%WBA: 8.2%Newcastle: 7.2%Sunderland: 6.5%Liverpool: 3.8%Stoke: 3.3%Spurs: 1.9%Everton: 1.1%West Ham: 0.3%Man Utd: 0.3%Arsenal: 0.1% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 It's looking very real unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobler Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-southampton-24-november-1993-21417/ was 16,180 not 15,500 for Villa vs Southampton (24th November 1993) That was my first game, ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I think the next four games define our season. Get 6-9 points and mid table obscurity beckons. Less than say 4 points and its a full blown crisis and I think we can start thinking very seriously about a relation dogfight. The key to saving ourselves will be, of course, whether own esteemed owner and our CEO have the balls to rid of our clown of a manager before its too late. Sadly judging by the way we are playing I think it will be the latter. Bottom line IMHO is if we keep Lambert we go down, it's that simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Sadly judging by the way we are playing I think it will be the latter. Bottom line IMHO is if we keep Lambert we go down, it's that simple. It's not that simple at all. I don't think it's out of the possibility that we'll stay up with Lambert (again) but it's far from impossible that he'll take us down. Likewise, a new manager certainly wouldn't guarantee safety either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik986 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Sadly judging by the way we are playing I think it will be the latter. Bottom line IMHO is if we keep Lambert we go down, it's that simple. It's not that simple at all. I don't think it's out of the possibility that we'll stay up with Lambert (again) but it's far from impossible that he'll take us down. Likewise, a new manager certainly wouldn't guarantee safety either. In fact, if we take the past as a guide, it has shown that even when it looks likely we will drop, we don't as we haven't. I am not happy with the manager, but he does have one thing, and that's keeping us in the league on a limited budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Every season I think to myself, you have to be amazingly shite to go down. We go on unbelievably bad runs all the time, look out of our depth in this league at times, but yet there are always teams that do even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnmacf Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 To some extent I'd actually rather a relegation fight (and avoid going down) than mid-table obsucrity. Would be more interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 I've got relegation battle fatigue. Can we just have one season of mid table obscurity before launching into another relegation battle in 15/16? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 21 years ago this week (November 1993) we lost 2-0 to Southampton (Matt Le Tissier with both) with our lowest Premier League attendance at around 15,500 at a very cold Villa Park pitch (groundsmen had to remove snow before game), was an awful game. Just hope history doesn't repeat itself tonight with the scoreline and very low attendance (doubt it will be anything like 15,500 though) How did we get an attendance that low when we had been runners up just a few months before!? Was very cold mate and snow was deep, they spent hours shovelling it off the pitch and lot of the roads around Aston was blocked. Maybe a lot of people didn't want the hassle.. But was lowest league attendance i can remember for us since Premiership was formed. I remember that game, friend of mine used to sit on very edge of Holte on the row where side of the stand ended. Wind used to howl round the corner straight into his face. I went to meet him at half time and he was blue, he had to go home at half time because he was so cold only time he ever did that. Remember thinking at the time it was one of the most unenjoyable games I'd ever seen. But as the years roll by it doesn seem so bad, pretty much par for the course these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 27, 2014 Moderator Share Posted November 27, 2014 I went to that as well. I think the ground capacity was reduced by building work wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Well, here we are still in 16th place. Only hope is if Chelsea beat Sunderland by 5 clear goals which at the moment doesn't look remotely like happeniong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Felt optimistic when we shot out the blocks today and took a deserved lead. The equaliser was a real gut punch, very worried this season, the drop is a real possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted November 29, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 29, 2014 I know we're used to shitting ourselves at the bottom of the table but I think we'll be well away from the drop in a couple of months. I think we've got a stronger squad this time round, the last ime we had an injury crisis like this we got done 8-0 at Chelsea, we hae 3 injuries at Centre back and the pair out today didn't look too shabby apart from the one time Okore wandered being caught out with the pen. We'll score more with Benteke fit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 i predicted us 16th. I may have been a little bit too optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Dont see us winning another 8/9 games that we need to stay up. Not without a change of management and/or a decent spend in January. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 we have a better defence than most of the teams around us and Benteke is well capable of getting 12-15 goals which I think would be enough keep us up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 1, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yep, I think we'll be ok. It'll be another underwhelming and boring season. But I don't think we'll get relegated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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