Credit your positivity but your post reads as if we’ve had a few bad weeks and fans are over reacting.
But the reality is we’ve been dire for ages. Even in Europe, other than the Marseille and Ajax home games where we played well, the other 4 group games the performance levels were poor...
There’s also an almost undeniable correlation between levels of reinvestment and league position.
Villa sold Grealish for £100m and now they’re 4th. Why? Because they chose to reinvest the money into the squad. Now they’ll be in the champions league and will recuperate a big portion of that money.
When other clubs fans used what I thought was a lazy line of ‘you’ll end up like Southampton if you keep selling’ we are staring that possibility in the next year right in the face!
The stats really are grim and add perspective surely, even for RDZ’s biggest advocates. This along with 6 wins in the last 25 games and our form being worse than only Luton and Sheff United from earlier in the thread really just sums it up. You can’t argue statistics.
Couldn’t have put it better! But if you think about it, it’s the only way he can deflect blame from himself onto the board. A classic case of a work man blaming his tools.
Of course you are correct! I’ve just looked back at our results to remind myself and we’ve stunk the league out since we got our arses handed to us at Villa Park
Tell me about it! Myself, you and a just a handful of others come to mind saying this since January! Finally everyone’s woken up to it, we won’t get another point this season
What’s fair about that? Travelling fans paying hard earned money home and away week after week to see this utter dross. Some of them don’t even look like they are trying