Saturday's match - The villa situation

[Yobocop 1,444]

I''m sure you are all aware that if we beat Sunderland or even draw that will send Aston Villa down.

Surely another ''motivating factor'' to our players particularly those who were here under the Lambert regime.

OTBC bring on Saturday afternoon, cannot wait

[Number 9 0]

Didn''t motivate them last week.......

[Yobocop 1,444]

fair point...however this is more clearcut and they should be motivated enough already shouldn''t they?

[AJ 1,359]

Same situation as last weekend, if we better their result their relegation is confirmed. Fortunately for them the false hope and misery continues as we managed to lose for them

[norfolkbroadslim 225]

It''s a different situation to last weekend.

If Villa fail to win, irrelevant of what we do, they are down.

If Villa win, just a draw from us sends them down.

[It's Character Forming 1,204]

In reality Villa have no chance . It''s one from 3 to survive and Villa don''t matter except that they''re playing Newcastle in those games.

[lappinitup 629]

[quote user="Its Character Forming"].....Villa don''t matter except that they''re playing Newcastle in those games.[/quote]You often find once relegation is confirmed and the pressure is finally off, those teams start picking up a few results, especially as some of the players will be looking to move on and will be trying to impress any watching scouts.

[ZLF 335]

I remain bemused by the obsession with relegating Villa, they have been doomed for weeks and its only a matter of time before mathematical certainty arrives.

More worried about what we and our players are up to in ensuring we stay up.