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If that is how Poch reasons (I doubt it) he can properly go **** himself. We might be poor at the moment but we certainly aren't a team with 'too many fires to put out'. The man obviously has a spine made of marmalade.
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Now they just need to appoint Mourinho.
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I hear ya', and it's not a slight on SI, I think they do a really great job with the game and they've done a lot over the years to create the most comprehensive manager game ever, and I can always not but the game every year. I've been with them since day one. I think Ubisoft did something similar with Assassin's Creed? Might be wrong since I don't play those games.
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At this point I just think they should move to a bi-annual release cycle and maybe look at the possibility of releasing updates to the existing game in between to reflect rules changes, current squads and possibly smaller feature updates in between for a heavily reduced price (ie paid DLC instead of a full release). It just feels like the game has reached a level where they are struggling a bit to find features they should add.
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Hahaha, it's all derivatives of the same base produce, so I assume that is the reason. From what I understand, Swedish isn't very easy to learn. Neither is Finnish. God knows I tried. The company I work for had a lot of consultants at Volvo before the pandemic (IT sector). Not sure now to be honest.
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Well, it has it's downsides as well, but it's the only place I've tried so can't really complain.
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Sweden. Followed Villa from afar for decades, but never been to Villa Park. A bit embarrassing for sure, but it will happen sometime.
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5th in 12? That's impressive. What's the record? Can they fire Bilic before he's even managed a game for them? That'd be really impressive.
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Oh man, talk about nostalgia! generally I like simulators. Have played a lot of sub sims over the years. Silent Hunter series, Sub Command, Dangerous Waters and more arcadey iterations such as Cold Waters. Also used to play the IL2-series of sims as well as DCS, but the increasing complexity of setting up peripherals such as head trackers sort of turned me off those. For more relaxed sims I played a lot of PC Building Simulator some years ago. Really relaxing and fun.
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Could be, although I would consider that to be rather counterproductive. I mean, if they leave him in charge but refuses to buy players he wants feels like a very self defeating strategy, and essentially a value judgement that he actually isn't good enough to be trusted. If that is the case I just don't see why they haven't already fired him. I think that would essentially mean that he's all but fired in practice, and the club is just waiting for his successor to say 'yes' before pulling the trigger. I think it's more a case of the coaching staff saying that we have essentially what we need, with due concern to how the transfer market is inflated but our competition. Granted, I've neither owned, coached or even been involved in the running of clubs such as Villa, but to me it just smells of bad management if they refuse him players.
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This bothers me more than anything else to be honest. Digne seems to have been a bit of a bust, but no manager or club ever goes 100% on signings, and I think Couts was a sound purchase considering his loan spell and fee, Kamara and Carlos very, very good on paper, with a proper chance of really improving the squad. Now we'll have to wait and see if that is indeed the case as three of them are out. So net we haven't really added to the squad at all if we consider Couts part of last years squad. And I certainly don't think SG will suddenly find ways of extracting that extra bit of effort from the guys all of a sudden. It's bad luck really, and we're in for a bitch of a run until January when we might be able to add one or two more of quality, even though I doubt our ability to do so considering our rather bashful Summer.
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I can fully understand that and see why people would.
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I get what you're saying, and I'm not claiming you advocated riots, that was my own suggestion for forcing change. What I mean is that I think the club sees something we don't OR they're are just waiting for his successor to accept their offer and SG will be off. I think we all want the same things, nice football and a proper go at the upper half of the table. I also think most if not all fans that have seen Villa over the past year agrees this is not good stuff. We might differ in our view of why, with some suspecting issues with the squad, and not just the manager, but we need to be patient regardless. I think he'll be gone sooner rather than later, for one reason or another.
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I also fully understand wanting him gone STAT. I just think the record is stuck on repeat now and we keep repeating the same message with increasing hyperbole.
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No. it isn't torture. Much like you I've followed Villa for a long time, and at times it feels like we are cursed and just can't kick on. We play poor football, but Jesus Christ, that happens sometimes. It's annoying as **** and I really wish we could play scintillating, incisive football that would be the envy of others, but for me to call it torture wouldn't even be close to the truth and would be extremely hyperbolic. Do I like what I see? No way. I haven't really liked what I've seen for a long time. The Championship years was just a reminder of our massive failure in not managing to stay up. I hated football in general then, as it was **** painful to be constantly reminded of us not being in the top flight, but that wasn't really torture either. It was just sad, as I doubted we had the ability to go back up until we hit the season where we actually did. But yeah, to each his own, but I'm not sure many actually see it as torturous, but what do I know?
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I get your point, but that is just not a true statement. If you had been chairman, owner or otherwise involved he'd probably be gone, but claiming that he objectively should be out is just spurious. The powers in charge see something, hope, belief something that sees him still on the job. Yeah, it's frustrating and I wish we could just snap our fingers and we'd have a proven, world class manager in charge, but things just doesn't work like that. It's hard to be patient, but right now we have no other choice outside of rioting outside Villa Park until they arrest the fans or fire him.
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Honestly, there is no way he'd still be manager if even half the whispers on here about the players attitude towards him had been true.
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Stop making sense. We don't do that here.
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Yeah, I know it's weird. But I touched on it in another thread regarding our conduct as ' financially sane' in the market as our competitors drive up prices. Hence the Dendonker and the CB who's name I've lost now. Less spectacular players for much less money that can do a job essentially, instead of jumping on the carousel and fighting for the other targets as prices sky rocket. But yeah, it might be as easy as having the wrong managers trying to get more out of what we have. Certainly isn't too far fetched.
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Man, ShopTo was my go-to way back when, unless I confuse them with some other company. It was much cheaper buying from them compared to most other physical and online stores even though I live in Sweden.
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Agree as well. I did think it was probably a good time to try something new when Smith was sacked, but I certainly wouldn't have appointed SG at that point. I have no idea who else was available and willing, but it was always a bit of a punt, and a decision I think in large parts were fueled by business reasons rather than purely sporting ones. Getting a world superstar in to increase brand awareness and possibly attract a different caliber of players etc. Reasons that I also think weigh in as the board decides what to do next. Punting him and appointing Dyche or similar level probably isn't an option. If they let him go I think (or at least hope) it is for someone more recognizable such as Pochettino, Nagelsman, Tuchel or similar that is willing to give 'the project' his personal touch. From the vibes coming out of the club, they seem in no real hurry to get rid, which might mean the lads are behind him or that the board at least understands there's things wrong with the squad that needs fixing for Gerrard or a presumtive successor. Time will tell.
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**** awesome. Saw one of the best sleeves I've seen when I was in San Diego a few years back. A woman with a bald eagle up on the shoulder morphing into the star spangled banner on and around her forearm. Looked really good. If I'd get the Swedish flag on my arm I'd probably end up on some domestic security police extremist watch list.
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The RJW63 Official Jack Grealish Appreciation Thread
daft replied to kevangrealish's topic in Other Football
This. If we are earthlings, ManCity is the alien race that anal probes us and impregnates cows with human fetuses. That's how big the difference between our clubs are. -
Agreed. They seem to be way too professional for letting the slide get too bad over time. They might have a bit more patience than us fans, but that could be down to them having an information advantage over us. For all we now, the lads might love the gaffer and what he's trying to do.
