November Optimism Gauge

[limpid]

This poll will be open for the first week of the month

[Greenfly]

My opinion hasn't changed, although I do think we're capable of a good top half finish. I'm trying to reign in my expectations a bit though.

[Rodders]

definitely got work to do if we want to finish top 10. At the moment I feel we aren't consistent or strong enough to finish above 12th or so. A good response against Southampton and I'll feel a bit more confident

[sne]

We had a great start to the season picking up 12 points while some of the teams expected to be in the bottom have had terrible starts.

Still feel 11th to 17th is where we'll end up. Our squad is wafer thin and we are still a inexperienced team who rely far too much on Grealish. Should have enough about us to not be directly involved in the relegation fight. Don't think we'll threaten the top-10 thou.

[PussEKatt]

Riding the crest of a slump at the moment.

[PaulC]

im still very optimistic. 

[The Fun Factory]

A bit up and down but I still think we are going to have  a much better season than 19/20. Perhaps not top half yet though.

It would just be nice to be able to go and see some of this live next year.

[romavillan]

I still think getting 50 points this season woudl be a massive achievement,  10 points more than last season would do me fine. We are one or two seasons away of constant investment until we have a Premier league squad that's deep enough to expect to compete in the top half. The ups and downs of the first half a dozen games will be the story of our season, we don't have enough players of enough quality to chop and change to get consistent results.  

[briny_ear]

We only need 28 more points to reach the standard “safe” level of 40 points. Let’s just focus on that for the moment.

[AVTuco]

Still looking at 15th abouts.

[Zhan_Zhuang]

Looking at our transfer business I was hopeful of a top half finish..

Having seen Villa play the last two matches we seem to have regressed...  or been figured out because we have too many attackers and not enough cover.

Voted 11-17, think we'll be 14th and no higher.

[maqroll]

10th place at best.

Plenty of other good sides out there and we ain't the finished article.