Blasterpocket68 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 2 hours ago, RichW said: Surprised this thread is still open. Just don’t see Villa finishing above Brighton, Brentford and Fulham and even one of those teams is going to miss out on European football. There’s not really any easy games but it’s going to be really tough to get anything against Man City and Arsenal (can hope the 12.30 kick off can throw up a surprise) and then Everton away I feel is going to be a tough away visit for any team for the rest of the season. Agree we will be doing well to maintain our current position , move on next season . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 16 hours ago, sheepyvillian said: I think this presumptuous thread may have jinxed us. I'm guessing this is tongue in cheek as nobody in their right mind believes in that "jinx" claptrap. Do they? I said all along that we will do well to get top half and was called "unambitious" amongst other things. (Like what I or any other fan predicts has any bearing on the outcome whatsoever) I suggested that the danger of unrealistic expectations is that it will manifest itself in the kind of negativity seen from sections of our crowd yesterday, when we inevitably don't reach the heights expected. Point being, we need to be patient. We aren't yet a top half side but we will get there. Talk of Europe was always ridiculously premature and, judging by yesterdays booing, some fans almost expected it. Some probably still do. We are a work in progress and need to get behind the manager and be realistic. 10th would be amazing. Top 8 next season is doable, but there was never a cat in hells chance of such a high finish this season. We were full strength yesterday and lost 4-2 at home to a team in 14th. We will have games where we aren't full-strength and still only have one senior striker. I think 11th is where we will stay. Huge summer ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 22 hours ago, VillaChris said: I think a better question is what do people expect a realistic points range to be now? If our form drops off and we revert to our previous managers average PPG (Smith = 1.15, Gerrard = 1.16), then we are looking at a 47/48 point season. Currently, Emery is averaging 2 PPG in the PL (even with the Leicester loss), but i think that's almost certainly unsustainable, if we set a higher end target of 1.5 PPG, that would give us a season total of 53/54 points. So, depending on form, somewhere between 47 and 54 points is the most balanced view i think, anything above that would be exceptional, and beyond any reasonable expectation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupinthe5th Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Man City look beatable Europe is still on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 58 minutes ago, GlobalVillan said: I'm guessing this is tongue in cheek as nobody in their right mind believes in that "jinx" claptrap. Do they? I said all along that we will do well to get top half and was called "unambitious" amongst other things. (Like what I or any other fan predicts has any bearing on the outcome whatsoever) I suggested that the danger of unrealistic expectations is that it will manifest itself in the kind of negativity seen from sections of our crowd yesterday, when we inevitably don't reach the heights expected. Point being, we need to be patient. We aren't yet a top half side but we will get there. Talk of Europe was always ridiculously premature and, judging by yesterdays booing, some fans almost expected it. Some probably still do. We are a work in progress and need to get behind the manager and be realistic. 10th would be amazing. Top 8 next season is doable, but there was never a cat in hells chance of such a high finish this season. We were full strength yesterday and lost 4-2 at home to a team in 14th. We will have games where we aren't full-strength and still only have one senior striker. I think 11th is where we will stay. Huge summer ahead. I was thinking Champions league, tbf. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 We dropped the **** baton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupinthe5th Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 50 points would be a massive achievement 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 16 minutes ago, rjw63 said: We dropped the **** baton. at least it wasnt the soap we dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsky_11 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 On 04/02/2023 at 19:12, VillaJ100 said: How's the CUM looking!??! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupinthe5th Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 2 hours ago, tomsky_11 said: On course for 54 points then If Man City get a points deduction they might be in the top 10 race with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 7 minutes ago, Lupinthe5th said: On course for 54 points then If Man City get a points deduction they might be in the top 10 race with us. The chance of Man City actually getting a points deduction is somewhere between 0.00% and 0.00%. They will fight it for years and then everyone will forget about it around 2028. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 19 hours ago, Blasterpocket68 said: Agree we will be doing well to maintain our current position , move on next season . We are 4 points ahead of the team below us and we gave them a 10 game head start Disappointing to slip below 11th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 So are we confident that Villa can hit the 40 points mark this season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsky_11 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 5 minutes ago, Tayls said: So are we confident that Villa can hit the 40 points mark this season? Are you not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 (edited) where we are now, is fine by me. I think we are still a bit up and down to challenge for Europe....we have lost too many games to be setting our sights high. Edited February 6, 2023 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupinthe5th Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 2 hours ago, Tayls said: So are we confident that Villa can hit the 40 points mark this season? 50 surely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 3 hours ago, Tayls said: So are we confident that Villa can hit the 40 points mark this season? I don't know how we can predict anything.....such is the unpredictable manner of our play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 21 hours ago, Lupinthe5th said: Man City look beatable Europe is still on. just not by us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 1 hour ago, TRO said: I don't know how we can predict anything.....such is the unpredictable manner of our play. But overall it's unpredictably predictable. We know we'll win some we should lose and lose some we should win and probably average 1.4-1.6 PPG over the rest of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Always just round the corner. Can you imagine a European tour with Unai. It would be amazballs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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