Are you worried?

[Jon Crofts]

There you go.

[cdbearsfan]

Phew, thanks. I can stop worrying now.

[kippaxvilla2]

I am worried now that this is no longer a sticky.

[levico]

Loosely based on the old adage that it’s the hope that kills you, perversely the worse it gets the less I worry.
When your hope and dreams for the club under Emery start to fall apart it’s painful until you get to the tipping point of realising that ‘tits up’ is the new norm and winning trophies is extremely unlikely.
If and when Unai starts to turn things around then the anxiety will return.

[kipeye]

Loosely based on the old adage that it’s the hope that kills you, perversely the worse it gets the less I worry.
When your hope and dreams for the club under Emery start to fall apart it’s painful until you get to the tipping point of realising that ‘tits up’ is the new norm and winning trophies is extremely unlikely.
If and when Unai starts to turn things around then the anxiety will return.

That exactly reflects my thoughts in the original post.

[VillaTim]

Stable mid table is ok i guess . It's when we get bad enough to start getting caught up in another 2015 era that you have to worry .

[Demitri_C]

I didnt think we would get CL when the window shut because we weakened the squad and i still feel that way. We are actualky doing worse than i expected.

Like citeh we made bad decisions in the summer and its costing us. Id say we may squeak europa if we add a few players in jan. But if this is squad until end of season i think we wont even qualify for conference

[martin o`who??]

I'm loathe to call it a perfect storm but it is a combination of factors hurting us at present. The extra drag - albeit a positive one - of the Champions League, while simultaneously having to sell to comply with PSR rules and key players losing form -  SJM simply isnt at the moment. The Tyrone fiasco seemed to destabilise the group and we've never righted the ship. I have total cofidence in Unai to sort it but our lot do turn remarkably quickly, get behind them and don't panic. Its easy to sing "Villa till i die" when we're winning. Am i worried?? - no, not yet.

[Reuben]

We've had 4 disappointing draws.  Win 2 of those and we'd be 6th, win 3 and we're level with Arsenal and Chelsea.

It's all fine margins in a tight division (except Liverpool) - most worrying is the best team we have beaten (position wise) is Fulham.

[Demitri_C]

We've had 4 disappointing draws.  Win 2 of those and we'd be 6th, win 3 and we're level with Arsenal and Chelsea.

It's all fine margins in a tight division (except Liverpool) - most worrying is the best team we have beaten (position wise) is Fulham.

For me Reuben its not just the results its the performances as well. We have been well below par most of the season. If we were at least playing well i would feel abit more optimistic than what i currently do

[wince]

No

[itbrvilla]

We've had 4 disappointing draws.  Win 2 of those and we'd be 6th, win 3 and we're level with Arsenal and Chelsea.

It's all fine margins in a tight division (except Liverpool) - most worrying is the best team we have beaten (position wise) is Fulham.

For me Reuben its not just the results its the performances as well. We have been well below par most of the season. If we were at least playing well i would feel abit more optimistic than what i currently do

IMO our 2 best matches were Arsenal and Bayern and we lost one of those. The others have been largely poor or OK.

[VillaTim]

Emery's subs are baffling

[Olneythelonely]

Emery's subs are baffling

Only if you’re easily baffled. Which you appear to be.

[Demitri_C]

This certainly helped eased my worries abit. Hopefully this recent spell is our "poor form" of the season and teh second half of the season is far better

Still think we need to get a wide player in as bailey and philiogene are not cutting it at the moment