Smartin Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Norwich look heavily reliant on Pukki to me, but if stays fit he will bang in a decent amount of goals. Enough to keep them up, I have doubts. I feel like they will have quite a bright start and then struggle massively in the 2nd half of the season, whereas we will get stronger. My 3 to go down currently are: Norwich, Palace, Newcastle Not in any particular order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Albrighton Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2019 1 hour ago, John said: Adrian Durham and Darren Gough (he should stick to cricket) have decided on the evidence of one game that we will go down and Sheffield United will stay up. Unbelievable! It’s almost like they want to provoke a fairly large, sometimes reactionary fan base into phoning them to argue otherwise. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2019 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said: It’s almost like they want to provoke a fairly large, sometimes reactionary fan base into phoning them to argue otherwise. They even took the time out to slate our new favourite son in Mings, just to really try and rattle our cages. Durham is a tool, always looking to say inflammatory things about Villa. Edited August 13, 2019 by villan-scott 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Norwich are gone already. After the game they interviewed Pukki on Sky. He was all smiles, happy to have won the second half. Krul was slightly less pleased, but the manager also came across like a competition winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2019 It looks like training was at VP today, do you think that’s to make it feel more familiar to those new signings who have never played there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 42 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: It looks like training was at VP today, do you think that’s to make it feel more familiar to those new signings who have never played there? Villa Park is so beautiful. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 57 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: It looks like training was at VP today, do you think that’s to make it feel more familiar to those new signings who have never played there? I would imagine it's a combination of things. Get the new lads out there, check out the surface, soak it up a bit. Change of scenery. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 some stats i find interesting about our last and one to last seasons in the Prem last time (so 2014/15 & 2015/16 season). 2014/15 season: - We had a winless run of 9 early in the season. - Followed by a 12 game winless run beyond mid season. - we stayed up with 38 points, placed 17th (W10 - D8 - L20) 2015/16 season: - Relegated bottom, 17 points (W3 - D8 - L27) - Won first game of season, then went on a 19 game winless run. - This was then followed by a 13 game winless run at the end of the season. boggles the mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 5 minutes ago, MaVilla said: then went on a 19 game winless run. Shouldn't be possible. It's unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted August 14, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2019 Expectations maybe too low, but i'd take 6 points from the next 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratvillan Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Total points Category A - Spurs Man City Liverpool - 0 points 0 category B - Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton , Wolves, Leicester - 1 point (sneak a draw) 6 category C - other 10 teams 1 win either home or away. 30 36 I know it's not going to work out like this, and obviously we shouldn't be going into games O'Leary esque hoping for small defeats /draws. But if we're realistic this would probably keep us up. I can see us getting more than 1 off Wolves, but our record against the first three in b is awful. This would mean 4 points out of Bournemouth and Everton would be good. We'll stay up by winning games in our mini league of 11. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyjavfc Posted August 14, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Stratvillan said: Total points Category A - Spurs Man City Liverpool - 0 points 0 category B - Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton , Wolves, Leicester - 1 point (sneak a draw) 6 category C - other 10 teams 1 win either home or away. 30 36 I know it's not going to work out like this, and obviously we shouldn't be going into games O'Leary esque hoping for small defeats /draws. But if we're realistic this would probably keep us up. I can see us getting more than 1 off Wolves, but our record against the first three in b is awful. This would mean 4 points out of Bournemouth and Everton would be good. We'll stay up by winning games in our mini league of 11. 36 points would only see you safe in 11 of the last 23 seasons so might need to find a couple more points than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Five Ken McNaughts Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 This is not particularly relevant, but I have always been amazed by the relegation stats of Leicester City in the season Villa last won the title. On their way to finishing one off the bottom in 80-81, the Foxes chalked up no less than SIX away victories. Their home record was pretty creditable too (seven wins and five draws). One place above them, Norwich also suffered the drop, despite notching NINE home wins and four on their travels. A 42-game season, I know, but still seems darned unlucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 On 14/08/2019 at 03:51, villalad21 said: Villa Park is so beautiful. Watched Bournemouth v Sheff Utd the other night then Burnley v Southampton last night................both games reminded me just how amazing Villa Park is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Seems to be a perception half the premier league is rubbish. Watched Burnley at Arsenal today and they played very well and could've easily got a point. That will be another hard game for us in a few weeks in another winnable home game. Last 15 minutes Bournemouth were very streetwise and were very good in running down the clock and nulifying any momentum we had. If we'd been 2-1 up you'd suspect we'd have just been hoofing the ball in any direction. All part of growing at this level again but my fear is some of these experienced premier league teams will have a bit too much nous for us when we play likes of Watford and Southampton. We should finish above Newcastle though. Trouble is that might only mean 19th at this point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 We've been away 3 years and it has improved a lot since then! We just need to be better than 3 other teams this season. Thats all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AVTuco Posted August 17, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2019 I just hate this losing. If it continues, I'd rather we went down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Just now, AVTuco said: I just hate this losing. If it continues, I'd rather we went down. We could lose 20 games this season and stay up. You'd rather get relegated than that? Burnley lost 20 games but finished 15th, 6 points clear of 18th. Last season Spurs lost 13 games and still finished 3rd. Leicester lost 16 and finished 9th (as did West Ham a place lower). Reality is the top teams are so strong home and away you can finish top 10 and still lose nearly half your games. Way football has gone in last 20 years and inbalance in the top leagues now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 If's and But's Almost don't want to do this now, but I'm pretty sure we will turn it around. 40 is the magic number of points we need to beat relegation. Last season this would have achieved 15th place in the league. To achieve this we would require 4 points per month. If we are to better this and achieve 6 points per month we would beat Wolves last season with a haul of 60 points, 7th. For now let's aim to beat relegation. August Tottenham - Loss Bournemouth - Loss Everton - Predicted Draw Crystal Palace - Predicted Win Predicted Points - 4 Current Points - 0 We still have the chance to pick up 6 points, and we certainly have the chance to achieve 4 points still this month. Roll on Friday, let's get some points on the board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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