Could there be hope after all?

An interesting snippet of news has come out of Villa Park this week. That being that the players were not enjoying the training, led by Culverhouse. Now, apparently, Culverhouse's sessions were heavily centred on 'long ball' and 'set piece' training.

This season, the aspect of Villa I have grown to detest most is the crude style of play. This has bothered me more than our league position. In fact, I've often thought that I could even accept our position if we were trying to play football.

Interestingly, although we were beaten heavily at Swansea, very, very surprisingly we had more of the ball than the home team and our pass completion at The Liberty was probably the highest of the whole season. Think back to our earlier meeting at Villa Park and you will remember we were passed off the park. Swansea's possession that day was around 70% I believe.

So could it be that under Sid Cowans and Shay Given, we are seeing an immediate change in style? Is it just possible that our atrocious style was not in fact down to Lambert after all?

Here's the rub. We NEED to win against Hull. This will not be easy against the team led by the best English manager today (Steve Bruce). But they are relatively safe on 37 points and they have a cup final to look forward to. I'm predicting now that Villa will actually WIN. I've got some good vibes about this.

I'm willing to see how the last three games go now. But here's the surprisetip:

I BELIEVE VILLA WILL BEAT HULL.