GENTLEMAN Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 We have to keep fighting, come on boys! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 7 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: If they have relegation wage cut clauses in them (that would mean wages in line with what we could sustain in the championship), couldn't we just refuse to sell them? Some of them might actually feel liable and want to help us get back up since they were a part of the failure. (Maybe wishful thinking but other clubs have done it in the past). The better one's would force a move leaving us with the shit that got us here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Not inspired one bit. imagine your a player at Villa now hearing all that garbage last night from Hollis and Fox. if they dont want to help you out what mentality is that going to have on the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 The club have accepted it. Down and out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Thomas Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Was villa when I was born, will be villa when I die, but the way this club is f**king run they make me want to cry! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristchurchVillan Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 1 hour ago, Gary Thomas said: Was villa when I was born, will be villa when I die, but the way this club is f**king run they make me want to cry! There's a song in there somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2016 I'm glad that the top level at the club are being honest about relegation, it would be daft not to. Now it's on the players to save the day, against all odds - that might be a good motivation for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 3 hours ago, ChristchurchVillan said: There's a song in there somewhere The song you are thinking about is "I guess it dosent matter anymore" by Buddy Holly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 So to keep the squad together they have built in relegation clauses into their contracts........................................yep that will definitely work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2016 20 minutes ago, mykeyb said: So to keep the squad together they have built in relegation clauses into their contracts........................................yep that will definitely work. It's about the best we can do. Presumably anyone with the relegation clause has signed up to it. We have to pay less wages for the same players if/when we go down which enables us to hold onto them rather than sell them to free up wages. The ones with good enough options elsewhere will leave, but that would happen anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmarsha_926 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 19 points in 29 is what Leicester had last season with a 7 point gap, I think we could get to that if we keep improving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2016 Tomorrow is pivotal. If we can beat west brom, then the team will think why can't we beat anyone else from mid table down. A poor performance though will set us back completely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2016 32 minutes ago, lmarsha_926 said: 19 points in 29 is what Leicester had last season with a 7 point gap, I think we could get to that if we keep improving You mean 19 after 29 games? Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmarsha_926 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Just now, Stevo985 said: You mean 19 after 29 games? Interesting. yep, we could win our next 3 if we keep improving that points onto 21 points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 6 hours ago, Demitri_C said: Not inspired one bit. imagine your a player at Villa now hearing all that garbage last night from Hollis and Fox. if they dont want to help you out what mentality is that going to have on the squad. I'd be demoralised as a summer signing if I heard from the new Chairman that I was part of £60 million the club apparently wasted. I'd feel worthless like I'm not good enough regardless of what on-pitch stats say. I'm not sure how I'd respond to that it might light a fire under my ass to prove the guy wrong, but it can easily be a case where I'd give up and start making plans to be at a different club next-season. Hollis may have easily just undone a month or two of solid hard work and progress Remi has made with the players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2016 I'm pretty sure we could get to that sort of position by then. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we'll stay up even if we do get to that position. if anything it just highlights how astonishing Leicester's rise has been since then. I'm just surprised by quite how bad a position they were in at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Next 2 games absolutely massive IMO. It's entirely possible we could win both and be on the same points as Sunderland and be right back in the mix. Once we're round about the same points as the other 3 or 4 clubs down there, I fancy us to carry on improving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 22, 2016 Moderator Share Posted January 22, 2016 Yep, and momentum is key too. We'd be the same as Sunderland, but we'd have the wind in our sails and would hopefully only be going in one direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 One direction? Quitting and being shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 33 minutes ago, darrenm said: Next 2 games absolutely massive IMO. It's entirely possible we could win both and be on the same points as Sunderland and be right back in the mix. Once we're round about the same points as the other 3 or 4 clubs down there, I fancy us to carry on improving. That of course requires Sunderland to lose their next two matches as well - let's hope they're in on the plan. And even if Newcastle, Swansea, Norwich and Bournemouth lost both their next games as well (not actually possible, since one of the games involves Sunderland playing Bournemouth) we'd still be four points short of 17th, with just 14 games (many tricky) to go. That's not my definition of "right back in the mix". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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