Voinjama Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Don't anyone dare start a relegation thread yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 After we beat Arsenal I said we would win the league. After losing to Newcastle I predict we will come bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabby Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Don't anyone dare start a relegation thread yet. Thats on hold till after next weeks game ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 taking into consideration that man city, utd, chelsea and arsenal will somehow cover the top 4 with liverpool, everton, tottenham, stoke and newcastle taking up the next 5 spots, i reckon the highest we could break is 10th, but seeing as our midfield is awful, we could be pipped by west ham, west brom and fulham who are also better than us, so realistically, 13th at the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 taking into consideration that man city, utd, chelsea and arsenal will somehow cover the top 4 with liverpool, everton, tottenham, stoke and newcastle taking up the next 5 spots, i reckon the highest we could break is 10th, but seeing as our midfield is awful, we could be pipped by west ham, west brom and fulham who are also better than us, so realistically, 13th at the most Obviously from my username you can see that I think Hughes is a good manager, but Idk how Stoke and Newcastle are nailed on to finish top nine. Unless you are overeacting to the first couple games. always remember, Wolves had 7 from their first three two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 12th. I said 12th before the start of the season I am sticking with that. I think people had been on the sherry when they thought we could be close to the top 8. Nowhere near that at present. I will take a few good peformances like Arsenal, a few crap ones like today, and some improvement to a mid table this year. Thats about as much as we can hope for. If we should be happy as that as Villa fans is another matter altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeps Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 17th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Everyone was optimistic two days ago, its surely pretty crazy to react this way to one game? Still top 10 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaguy Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Top 10, still hoping top 8. Yeah we had a bad game, but happens to the best, look at Chelsea, City etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1974Centenary Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 If you don't win your home games you have no chance of finishing mid table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villadude Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 17th, 16th at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 17th, 16th at best. Best case scenario is 16th? Too bad we'll all forget about this comment when it looks incredibly silly by the end of the season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Everyone was optimistic two days ago, its surely pretty crazy to react this way to one game? Still top 10 Hi Rovers... I get totally what you are saying and it is quite churlish to push a panic button so early and as you have observed after one game. My concern though is that we watched the Newcastle game play out almost the same way as the previous Liverpool game. Slow start (kind of like one of those dreams where although you are trying to run, your feet are stuck in treacle), go a goal behind etc with a very 1-sided first half. We rallied in both games after the break and arguably could have got an equaliser versus Liverpool like we did against Newcastle. We then saw Newcastle raise their game (which I think Liverpool would have done) and go and score another. De Ja Vous - or however you spell it. I'm not panicking by any means. Liverpool seem to be destined for better things another season in to the Rodger's Realm, and I don't think anyone can say that Newcastle are a poor side - they have some great players. They might go all yellow bellied in the freezing cold winter etc, but you never know. Difficult to know what direction we are heading at the moment. Second home game running - defeat. And whilst I do not like to single individuals out, is Gabby playing centre forward or further out towards the wing? At times, it seemed to me that he was polluting Benteke's space, whereas I was would have expected him and Weimann to be ready to fly down the wings and use their pace? In the first half, if anyone cares to watch it back, just see how many players were just following the ball - and generally all bunched over to our left hand side. It looked amateurish - over to you Paul; in you I trust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) Honestly? I can't call it at the moment. I fear for us in truth after that pile of pants at the weekend. At home we are relegation fodder, 5 wins from 21 home games? That is disgraceful!! I am stopping going to home games now as i am fed up of watching us play clueless blunt football & seeing us lose to mediocre teams. Away we are hit and miss so i expect a mixed bag of results. Very disappointed as there was so much optimism at the season's start especially after the Arsenal result which is looking more & more to be in the "Fluke" category as was the Anfield win last season. The excuses from the club are wearing a bit thin now, they had plenty of time to resolve our blatantly obvious issues which are 1. We can't defend 2. We have no creativity apart from being quick on the break away from home. Seems like we've been saying that for the last goodness knows how long :/ Edited September 16, 2013 by danceoftheshamen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Stick with it Shamen... I don't see why you should get to dodge it and we still have to go... ;-) I'm sure we'll get better... <fingers crossed> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SikhInTrinity Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 So four games in and the knee jerk reactions have begun. Just as I didn't go overboard with the win at Arsenal, I ain't going to go the opposite way for a loss. Generally the league is poor, apart from the top 6, their isn't really much difference between the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I think we've slipped back into 16th like a comfy pair of old slippers, and don't expect much variation between now and the rest of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Not panicking just yet, but I just don't see where we're going to get the points at VP from. I think we'll do well away, but we're only set up to play well when teams come at us. Man City at home is actually a more enticing fixture fro me than Newcastle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 If you don't win your home games you have no chance of finishing mid table. 2011 the club finished 9th, but only won 8 of the 19 home games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Papillon Posted September 16, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2013 Nothing really surprising about our season thus far. After our very good games against better teams, I wanted to see how we did at home against a weaker team with obvious problems playing away from home. Liverpool took the lead early on, but controlled the game in the first half. In the second half they (surprisingly) laid low and let us dictate the game, which turned out to be a good plan as we created little apart from the Benteke-shot in the right corner. Watched the Newcastle-game in replay yesterday, and have to say we were poor. A bit like I imagined it would be on a poor day for this team, pretty much like I expected our team to be before the season kicked off. Newcastle won two games away from home last season and should be a team we create a lot against, but we kind of did the same things over and over without success. KEA was talked up after the first few games, like he had some kind of renaissance, but playing against the best teams on adrenaline is something totally different to playing bottom-half teams at home. He shows that he is a good enforcer on his day, but as a footballer playing to win he is very limited. There are 100 other midfielders like him in the league. Weimann has opened this season fairly quiet, but the more time he spends on the "wing" like he does, he is going to lose out on becoming a great striker. He is a striker, with pace and a lot of team-work in him, but if he just runs and tackles all game he is going to become a weaker striker when it comes to scoring goals. It looks insanely great when he runs 50 yards and nicks a good pass for Benteke on the counter, but I guess he would like to be in the box tucking away crosses from another midfielder. We know Gabby is fairly limited when it comes to scoring goals, he needs a lot of chances and his biggest asset is his pace - he thrives in his role sometimes, but Weimann is quickly becoming lost between two roles IMO. Probably too much pressure on him this early in his career, because a few good games last season and we suddenly believed he was going to be doing the same every week but that's hard. Lost 1-2 at home to Newcastle, after a week of rest and few injuries. Worrying attacking play and 1 shot on target (although that doesn't always mean much). A bit like expected, and probably put to bed all the strange predictions of us finishing 6th-7th this season. We need a result against Norwich next week, or we will probably find ourselves in the relegation zone again in two weeks when we go to Etihad and Manchester City away. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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