NewportStu Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) Can't see anything past relgation for us to be honest. Our form is dire, real relegation form. I honestly can't see where our next win is going to come from. A decent signing or two in this window and the club would've had the shot in the arm we needed. Alas we've spent next to nothing on lower level players and have in my opinion resigned ourselves to relegation and are starting to prepare for the league below. Thanks for nothing Randy. Time to sell up and hand the club to someone who is actually willing to spend a £ or two. He's blatantly got bored of it now, time to get someone with new ideas and enthusiasm in... Edited February 1, 2013 by NewportStu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Can't see anything past relgation for us to be honest. Our form is dire, real relegation form. I honestly can't see where our next win is going to come from. A decent signing or two in this window and the club would've had the shot in the arm we needed. Alas we've spent next to nothing on lower level players and have in my opinion resigned ourselves to relegation and are starting to prepare for the league below. Thanks for nothing Randy. Time to sell up and hand the club to someone who is actually willing to spend a £ or two. He's blatantly got bored of it now, time to get someone with new ideas and enthusiasm in... Once again though, who to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Over the last 100 premiership games we have averaged 1.06 points a game. Are those two signings enough to pick this up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praisedmambo Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) We'll **** stay up. These signings (may) give actual balance and options in midfield and might take the pressure off Westwood and get KEA playing. We have a lot of players back from injury playing better now, who were missing over christmas, there's no reason why we can't pick up some form now. It won't be easy but we've got to be behind the team. We do have quality. If Sylla is any good at all - he could be McCann level, anyone just to get a bit of grit in the centre - then that will be an improvement for the whole team - defence and attack - and hopefully it'll make us competitive again, as we have been at parts of the season. Lambert's teams traditionally finish well, so lets see how we do. Edited February 1, 2013 by praisedmambo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 We'll **** stay up. These signings give actual balance and options in midfield and might take the pressure off Westwood and get KEA playing. We have a lot of players back from injury playing better now, who were missing over christmas, there's no reason why we can't pick up some form now. It won't be easy but we've got to be behind the team. We do have quality. If Sylla is any good at all - he could be McCann level, anyone just to get a bit of grit in the centre - then that will be an improvement for the whole team - defence and attack - and hopefully it'll make us competitive again, as we have been at parts of the season. Lambert's teams traditionally finish well, so lets see how we do. Lambert is a football manager not a genie or a wizard.We have 14 games left and 6 of them are against the top 6 teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praisedmambo Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Lambert is a football manager not a genie or a wizard.We have 14 games left and 6 of them are against the top 6 teams. I'm definitely "remaining positive". I hope we give it a go. I feel better now than last year and even if we do get relegated I'll feel better than last year. There was nothing worse than seeing a future of Eck. That was much more bleak than this, imagine Villa never trying to play football ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) edit - double post Edited February 1, 2013 by ender4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Over the last 100 premiership games we have averaged 1.06 points a game. Are those two signings enough to pick this up? Interesting... an average of 0.98 over the whole season will almost certainly keep us up. So if we continue our current average, we'll easily stay up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poitier Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Yes, we have games against the top 6, but we should expect to get at least a couple of points from those games. Other teams at the bottom have scrapped points off the top teams at home, no reason we shouldn't be able to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Yes, we have games against the top 6, but we should expect to get at least a couple of points from those games. Other teams at the bottom have scrapped points off the top teams at home, no reason we shouldn't be able to. Oh I can think of many Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Interesting... an average of 0.98 over the whole season will almost certainly keep us up. So if we continue our current average, we'll easily stay up. Yes but you haven't considered that Lambert has delivered the worst 24 game period in our history in the prem averaging 0.83 points a game. If we continue on this trend we will finish with 31 points and if we manage to improve to the shockingly bad average of 1.06 points a game we will finish with 34 points. Either of those will likely see us relegated. So we now need to not just improve our average of this season to stay up but improve on our average points per game of the last 2 and a half years. Not sure Sylla and Dawkins will inspire that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Oh I can think of many you been watching too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Seems wrong but I will be backing everton heavily tomorrow and will at least make some easy money to take the edge of another embarrassing loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Seems wrong but I will be backing everton heavily tomorrow and will at least make some easy money to take the edge of another embarrassing loss They are 4/11 not exactly a price to be backing heavily at. Might be some value in handicap betting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 £100 on makes an easy £40 Easy money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Lambert's teams traditionally finish well, so lets see how we do. Do they? i can't be bothered to do a full check but, just glancing at last season, Norwich had 32 points after 24 games ( 8 wins, draws and defeats each) and in the final 14 picked up 15 points (W4 D3 L7, scoring 18 and conceding 27) and slipped from 9th to 12th. So they declined from First 24 games - 1.33 points per game to Last 14 games - 1.07 points per game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted February 1, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) Just looked at my first contribution to this thread to see how wrong I was... "I think if our squad stays as it is we're going to be right down there, but I think we'll be okay. Really need some investment in the squad! " Well, seems I was kinda right, apart from the I think we'll be okay part, still needs investment. Edited February 1, 2013 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) How long can we spend exiled from the top flight before we lose our runners up spot in the list of most top flight appearances? Just to give some perspective of what an absolute mess Lerner has made here. Edited February 1, 2013 by Shillzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaForever1970 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 How awesome would it be if we went on a run and did a Wigan?They been flirting for years, they should go down rather than us, bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intercourse_The_Penguin Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I really don't need to be talked into believing we can stay up, that we've got a chance. I've been thinking we're doomed to relegation for some time now and I think I just need to learn to make my peace with that. Yes, it's negative, but in the words of John Cleese (in arguably his career low-point film role): "It's not the despair... I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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