Cliffy Biro

Just now, foreveryoung said:

Was never a foul was it, Sanson got the ball.

When the ref is a genuinely confirmed United fan it is.

8 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

Can’t agree with this. We’ve been monumentally unlucky tonight and we were by miles and miles the better team against Brentford for 75 mins. 

on another day we’d be winning the last two games and on a high. 

results will come, signings for fine tuning will help. 

 

 

Maybe im misremembering the Brentford game then because i thought we we're rubbish in that. I dont think you can consistently not take your chances against teams you are dominating and claim bad luck either. We are in serious need of quality in multiple positions imo and i think the last few weeks have proven that.

Well the work definitely starts here after the new manager bounce we had its been a very concerning few weeks. He's probably realising just how much work is to be done.

1 minute ago, Kiwivillan said:

I really think some people need to rewatch the match and focus on one player because Buendia on the whole was one of our top 5 tonight

I literally just watched the entire game not 30 minutes ago. In my opinion he had 4-5 moments but was pretty poor generally, its fine if you disagree with that but i dont need a rewatch.

Just now, Phil Silvers said:

Not worthy of discussion, he clearly is not 100% fit. 

Doesn't look like he stays uninjured for long enough to ever be 100% fit.

I think if any of the £30m signings of the summer makes it here it will be Buendia but still mostly poor tonight with a few decent moments rather than the other way around.

Its moments like the half arsed press on Dias for his goal that just makes it hard to like a player. Show some effort ffs. Nothing worse than someone who doesn't look arsed,

City's class just proving the difference so far, their decision making compared to ours is night and day. What a naive and reckless approach we've had to this game, we've approached it like were favourites and City are minnows. 

Bit like having a side chick but telling your wife that you love her the most really isnt it? Not interested in your little pr offensive jack, you made your choice now just accept it and move on. Dont think its a great idea to talk about another club like that when you current club has just spent 100m on you either, all a bit weird for me.

3 minutes ago, Wezbid said:

I like the cut of his jib. Humble, down to earth considering his prominence in the game. Focussed on improving, asking for more whilst also praising what we have. Very good. The standard of play has improved very quickly, far more organised, more fluidity going forward. The last 6-9 months under Deano we've looked like jigsaw pieces scattered all over whether we win, lose or draw. 

He's seemingly very focussed on shapes and having us move as a team. I don't want to jinx things but even if we lose against City, I don't expect it to be absolute savagery. That said, he's also learning and coming up against a better standard of manager now. 

Yea i'm not getting carried away with the good start without sounding like a miserable sod but you also get the feeling that he isnt either which is encouraging. Knows theres work to do and still things to prove in the long term.

5 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Maybe! I’d need to see more evidence of that over more games.  We conceded less shots than usual which is a massive positive.  Watching it though I wasn’t convinced we were more disciplined, there was still a few hairy moments that has become common place and a different day would’ve been punished.  I did feel we tried to play more through the middle but I thought our attacking play, especially early second half was far more sloppy than usual as players weren’t on the same page.  The subs made the difference without doubt.

To be honest, it’s difficult to take any analysis from this game.  First game for new manager, players trying to impress which has negatives because over trying and positives because they try harder.  The opposition also has to be taken into account and also half of these players today have only had a couple of days with Gerrard and his coaching team so hardly enough to make too much difference.

We won, a good day at the office and that’s what I’m happy about tonight.  I’ll reflect more on this game after we have played some more games so there is a bigger dataset to look at.

Plus he pretty much stated that the first few games would be temporary tactics to stop the rot before he can impose his ideas or something basically to that effect. Definitely not getting too carried away or downbeat off one game had we lost, need a bigger sample size to see his true impact.

3 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

Blimey. Wonder what these numerous “rules” might be?

No mentioning of JG is one of them, although im not sure if that was a joke or not  

3 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Interesting team. Sure we have seen this lineup before. Looks like a diamond

I assumed it was Watkins on the left of a 4-3-3?

15 hours ago, MaVilla said:

he's been here a year (10-11 months to be exact), he joined in Jan 21.

15 hours ago, Tom13 said:

He's been here 10 months.

That is mad, i honestly thought he had joined last year 

2 hours ago, MaVilla said:

he has a good 4 years to go of zero appearances and ending up with zero return on investment before thats even a discussion!

Well he's been here 18 months and played about 45 minutes so he's off to a good start atleast.

He'll be competing with Micah for worst signing ever soon enough at this rate.

On the subject of Smith though, dont really know what to expect from him at Norwich, he had a lot of money and did a good job overall here but theres definite question marks over some big chunks of his time here. Really hope Gerrard isnt a disaster and we dont swap places with Norwich leaving Smith looking smug  

2 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Not a chance mate! A lot of those are level with us or less.  The amount of pull the PL has and money.

Football fans are mental man  I love Villa as much as anyone but were aren't bigger or even close to most of those teams listed.

1 hour ago, Lord Willard said:

I'm all game about clever free kicks and corners but watching Matty Cash run to left wing to take a throwing to the edge of the box is an absolute joke and I hope the new gaffer tells him to pack it in 

Agree with this. Good set pieces is obviously very important but we just seemed to go mental with it. Do a long throw once in a while by all means but watching us do it every time we got a throw in anyway near their 3rd was so painful.

Tony Xia - nearly ruined the entire club by being an absolute fraud. Can't be overstated just how close we were to being in big big trouble.

1 hour ago, hippo said:

Go on give us your best guess ?

Frenchmen goes to Disneyland in France with his kids? Hmm this is a tricky one.

Well its certainly a bold move to say the least. Huge risk for both parties but hopefully one that pays off for us.

21 minutes ago, useless said:

When we appointed Smith he hadn't achieved much, no more than plenty of other championship managers have achieved at similar sized Championship clubs, but was still a good fit as there's so much more to take into consideration when selecting a manager.

You could appoint a champions league winning manager and it'd still be a gamble because of so many variables tbf. I dont think its possible to appoint a manager and it not be a risk. Not saying he would have been my first choice but its atleast an interesting gamble. You also have to remember its a huge gamble for him too so hes obviously not afraid of a challenge.

i'm not overly convinced by Gerrard but i'd take him over Martinez 100 times out of 100.

6 minutes ago, Peter Griffin said:

Neither are Ajax

A tad more European pedigree than us for the past 30 years.