M_Afro

On 27/11/2022 at 11:03, Brumstopdogs said:

Ha Ha - think they're off to Dubai in December. Little chance of a sun tan in brum in November!

Give it a few years mate!

We’ve got to get a home draw. We always seem to get drawn away.

Does not matter who we draw. We are winning it this year. It’s time.

9 minutes ago, Enda said:

Nah, he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Wow. You’ve really raised the baaaaa with that one!

I’ll get me coat!

Also we can’t forget Ugo

Mark Walters was better than Daley. Sid Cowans was better than everybody!

39 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

As would every player in world football. 

Your logic is beyond backwards, if you can't see that Emi has the raw attributes to be a top player, and Emery is the best manager we are going to get to make that happen, then I am unable to help you.

I hope you’re right but I really don’t think that you are. We’ll just have to wait and see. He isn’t strong, he isn’t fast, he doesn’t hit the ball particularly hard, he’s small and he gives the ball away a lot. He’s decent (not great) in tight spaces but he doesn’t have the pace to break away and often when he does find space he loses possession anyway. 
I would be much less shocked if Coutinho starts to flourish under Unai, than I would if Emi does. Hopefully they both will.

1 minute ago, Steero113 said:

You just wanted to sell a £40m asset for half his value after he's had absolutely no time with a world class manager whatsoever. This is after making an uninformed decision on his ability level based on 1 year with the managerial equivalent of a breeze block. 

The problem is. If he now has a year with a top manager and he’s still not very good, then his value will have plummeted. I don’t know how you can value him as a £40m asset. We paid less than that for him and he has been poor. I too would take £20m for him. I want him to prove me wrong but he doesn’t appear to have the raw attributes to justify his price tag.

Our record of buying GK’s is utterly woeful! Goodness knows how we managed to stumble across Emi. Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day I suppose.

Just now, daggy_333 said:

Bit OTT....

I was only joking……I’d also keep Carlos and Boubs

Bold them all apart from Emi 1 and JJ!

4 minutes ago, Spoony said:

I really foresaw us winning this trophy in Unai’s first season. Disappointed we didn’t go big in this game tbh. 
 

Anyway hopefully he will realise our squad outside of about 7 players is immensely weak. 

He’s gonna win the FA cup instead!

2 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

He will have learnt a lot from seeing some of our squad players tonight.  

I agree. It was a worthwhile evening from that point of view. Unai cannot work miracles. We have players who just implode under the smallest amount of pressure. He will get it right but we must be patient.

Poor old Unai saw the real villa tonight. 11 goals conceded in last three away matches! Shudder!

He needs to fix our away form fast. A point or more at Brighton on Sunday would be a great start.  

I thought he was decent tonight. His goal was top class. 

Anonymous again. I just don’t get him I’m afraid.

Not a great day at the office for Ty! He was all over the place. 

I actually enjoyed that. Tactically we have been spot on. They look fairly devoid of ideas and we are growing into the game. 

Poor old John just can’t find any form. He looks totally lost out there tonight. I hope he can turn it around but it’s seeming to look less and less likely. A goal would do him the world of good.

2 hours ago, viivvaa66 said:

Under Gerrard, both wing backs were pushing forward, same for McGinn and Ramsey, that means it wasn’t really anyone to pass to at the back, and we had to go long.

Under Emery, the back four, Martinez, Luiz, Dendoncker were available on our half, made it impossible for ManU to press them all, meaning there were always somebody available to pass to.

 

That Man Utd team that was selected on Sunday was never going to be that effective in the press. It will be really interesting to see how we cope against Brighton next weekend as they press very well. They will certainly test us much more than Utd did.

2 hours ago, sidcow said:

Couldn't agree more. This is why I will be turning up in my normal suit, tie and bowler hat, Daily Telegraph stuffed under one arm. 

Nice to hear you’re still going strong Mr Benn. How’s the shopkeeper? (One for the kids!)

33 minutes ago, Vancvillan said:

Mate, I've got to ask - what are you basing this lack of patience on?  People keep bringing it up.  SG? Deano? Tony Xia?

And the bit in bold - do you actually believe that or are you using hyperbole for effect? I'm fine with the latter, otherwise that's going to need a bit more detail.

I genuinely think that the only manager afforded any patience in probably the last 20 years was Dean. Gerrard had his dissenters from the very first day as did Bruce, Di Matteo, McLeish, Houllier to name just a few.

I know that this is partly due to really poor appointments and also a depressed period of pretty awful form but we, I include myself in that, can be very impatient. We all think we know better than the bloke qualified to do the job and whom spends every day with the players. We are all guilty of thinking that the bloke who’s not getting picked is much better than the incumbent.

We have had a rough trot over the past 15 years or so. I understand why people are impatient but it really is totally counter productive. We are basically self harming!