TheAlehouseBrawlers

One positive from Saturday was, despite the understandable apathy from a lot of the crowd, the Northam was decent. Kept with it (until the mass exodus after Villa’s second) and the whole end was pretty much together in most of the chanting rather than either side doing their own thing.

…and they were fookin’ relegated with us in ‘74. The fella is an obnoxious prick.

I was thinking, about this time last year, but then I remembered us getting turned over by Cardiff, Stoke and hammered at Leicester and the play-offs suddenly looking a bit iffy. So last time is clearly the play-off games. Wonder how we'll all be feeling this time next year.............?

I was quite content with the first half tbh, half time pint in the sunshine outside the KIngsland was pleasant and had us looking forwards with a bit of hope for the second half but never happened. No ambition, they were just happy to continue defending a 0-0, Villa were never letting us get away with that. Subs didn't help.

Tbf, whether you like them or not, that certainly happened for this season with all the different fanzones, Dell Pub and Knightwood Lounge. That was a fair amount of change for a start.

Nice kits tbf, so probably nothing like we’ll get. And, as often requested, the home shirt would go nice with our traditional dark blue shorts.

I can't see it being an Aston 'Thriller' but strangely I'm looking forward to it again now. Each time I've walked out of the ground recently I've been thinking that I'm giving it a miss for a bit but I keep coming back. Feels a bit different this time now relegation is confirmed and with the change at the helm, it's all now about chipping away at worst points tag and building any kind of momentum for next season. Hopefully I still feel the same when I walk out of the stadium at 5pm on Saturday.

Like, takes me back to the 70s.......

Who’s gone tell him the correct phrase is “write him off” ?

Happy Relegation Day. No kidding, been painful getting here but the sun is shining and already looking forward to next season. If we get back up we can only hope lessons have been learned but probably wishful thinking.

I'd imagine there'll be plenty of Palace fans heading down the A3 and coming from that direction on the M27. Hopefully the start of a miserable evening for them. As if.

Ah, the famous ’Three Rs’ Rasmus…Russel…Relegation

After the Lord Mayor’s Show, their heads now focused on the semis…heart says 0-0. Head says 0-3.

Only £60m? Pah. Make that over £100m........ "Tottenham and Man City must pay over £100m to sign Tyler Dibling" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/03/26/southampton-100m-tottenham-man-city-tyler-dibling/ https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/2032676/tottenham-man-city-southampton-tyler-dibling

That was a bad time for RSB though, they still talk about the year they only had 5 players and no goalkeeper. Still ended the season with more points than us though…