hippo Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Zatman said: Honeat question. What was your ambition for this season in the summer? By your posts you sound like we should be comfortably in the top 10 Survival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 6 hours ago, hippo said: They tried to build a premier ship team - largely with players who had never played in the premiership Only McGinn comes to mind, seeing as we let Hutton go 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 1 hour ago, nick76 said: Owners sanctioning who the management want to buy.....how dare they! Re above about back up striker Smith 4 year deal...this website was praising it at the time and at the start of the season we all wanted safety as our target and we are still in contention for that. Rumour or talking to all candidates or whatever, they still made the right choice at the end which is the main thing and we went from mid table team to promotion and then invested well over 120m in the summer You just asked me why I am suspicious of the board getting the next move right. All the above are IMO are examples of poor judgement. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted December 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2019 6 minutes ago, hippo said: You just asked me why I am suspicious of the board getting the next move right. All the above are IMO are examples of poor judgement. YMMV Incredible how ALL the good things they have done. Including saving our existence are negated because our fans are throwing a hissy fit. Would you have more or less faith in the current board trying their best to fix this? Or Keith Wyness and Tony Xia? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 25 minutes ago, hippo said: Survival. Which we can still do. I dont see the issue. Do newly promoted playoff winners usually survive easily 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 12 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Incredible how ALL the good things they have done. Including saving our existence are negated because our fans are throwing a hissy fit. Would you have more or less faith in the current board trying their best to fix this? Or Keith Wyness and Tony Xia? I haven't said they haven't done good things - my first post on the topic credited them with pumping money in. I think now is a big test for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Zatman said: Which we can still do. I dont see the issue. Do newly promoted playoff winners usually survive easily Of course we can - but as two fellow strugglers have just blown us out of the water - I think we are in dire straights - I think the answer and action needs to come from board level. Same players and coach and we are doomed. (For this season anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 2 hours ago, hippo said: Of course we can - but as two fellow strugglers have just blown us out of the water - I think we are in dire straights - I think the answer and action needs to come from board level. Same players and coach and we are doomed. (For this season anyway) who has blown us out of the water? Watford are a mid table team just players were assholes to managers and Southampton have a great manager with philosophy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 We've stepped into a world where I'm agreeing with Zatman. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 15 minutes ago, avfcDJ said: We've stepped into a world where I'm agreeing with Zatman. sorry chief 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 The board have done fine so far but then getting back into the premier league was always the easier part imo. Even when we were half broke we still had John Terry, Snodgrass and from last season's intake Tammy Abraham all practically walking to play for us, signings likes of Preston, Brentford and Cardiff could never make in a hundred years. We had lots of quality at championship level in the final third and that's enough to be in mix for promotion. Now the harder part is being creative and clever enough to attract good players in the premier league where the spotlight and pressure is so much stronger. We have hit some turbulance now. Many want the manager out, many don't think many of the signings are good enough for right now and it's hard to disagree with both opinions. Interesting to see what the board do and to me the next six months-year will hopefully set them apart from Lerner and Xia. We completely fell apart when the task was to replace O'Neill with another proven manager who wasn't years past his sell by date and together with the cost cutting beginning started our descent down the premier league. Then Xia was the typical kid in sweet shop owner. These guys have a plan and strategy but sometimes for the short term they need to be adjusted and we're at that stage. Short term focus needed to stay up and then we can regroup and build again with that template in the summer. Since 2015 Bournemouth, Brighton, Watford, Newcastle, Burnley, Wolves and Sheffield United have all been promoted and have or will stay up and establish themselves in the premier league so I don't buy it's some impossible task or we need to keep spending 100m + every transfer window to achieve that. We need to stop being obssessed with so many project players and sign some proven ones even if people turn their noses up at them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VillaAlex Posted January 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2020 Was great to see Purslow come down and congratulate the coaching team today. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, VillaAlex said: Was great to see Purslow come down and congratulate the coaching team today. We need unity as a club - was also great to hear the away fans firmly behind Smith too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, VillaAlex said: Was great to see Purslow come down and congratulate the coaching team today. Yeah. Thought that sent a very public message of support for the manager. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 1, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Yeah. Thought that sent a very public message of support for the manager. He's gone then 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 51 minutes ago, sidcow said: He's gone then "Thank you, come again!" "Just not as manager!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 (edited) Looking on companies house they ploughed another £17m into the coffers today! Edited February 13, 2020 by Kingman 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 18 minutes ago, Kingman said: Looking on companies house they put ploughed another £17m into the coffers today! I've been waiting for someone to explain this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 22 minutes ago, Kingman said: Looking on companies house they put ploughed another £17m into the coffers today! Come on theme park 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 11 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: I've been waiting for someone to explain this. Shares again I assume? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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