Shaw_nuff

Asset prices go down as well as up. Gold, silver, houses etc. It's the risk you take. The second property bubble burst is almost upon us so better price it to sell Randy and feck off.

Still not getting a sniff.

He would still have his uses for me. He's the sort of defender you want on the pitch if the likes of Andy Carroll were playing. A big unit with more bravery than sense.

Definitely a theme going on here: I raise you a Derek:

At least he knows how to handle fake tits.

That Atkinson team was more than hard-working. It had an enormous amount of ability in it. Best football I've ever seen us play. We needed a cash injection to push on and Ellis wavered.

14 planes crashed that afternoon.

Considering Aston Villa whimpered to a 4-0 defeat in their last cup final in May, Tim Sherwood’s latest missive was perhaps the most ill-advised yet. Packaged as a “must-win” game against Swansea, Villa looked just as lifeless and listless as they had in their previous eight Premier League games. It is now nine league games without victory. After an insipid first half, it appeared as though a rousing half-time Timmy team-talk had inspired his players. Jordan Ayew, signed by Sherwood for £10million in the summer, stooped to head home and Villa Park erupted with relief. It was a relief that lasted six minutes. Gylfi Sigurdsson fired home a free-kick soon after, and Andre Ayew crowned another defeat for Sherwood, his 16th – and surely last – in 28 games with three minutes remaining. Sherwood boasted of a fully-fit squad before the game, a statement which prompted yet more questions as soon as his starting line-up for a “must-win” game was announced. Alan Hutton, Micah Richards, Joleon Lescott and Kieran Richardson should not have formed a Premier League defence eight years ago, never mind in 2015. Gabby Agbonlahor should not still feature in top-flight games, never mind start them. Villa’s best player in Carles Gil remains on the bench. Rudy Gestede – a man backed by Sherwood as the best header in English football – is fielded, but with no wingers on the pitch. A litany of mistakes, and that was before kick-off. Bear in mind this is a side who spent more than every other Premier League club aside from Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United this summer. The problems at Villa run as deep as they do high in the infrastructure, but that no longer excuses Sherwood’s clear unsuitability not only for the Villa job, but for any managerial post currently. “That’s my job as a manager to take that responsibility. I’m not in the background, am I? I’m the manager, I get paid to stand at the front and take it on the chin and that’s what I’m doing.” Now shackled by a win percentage of just 35% at Villa Park, this appears to be Sherwood’s last defence. He is a Football Man, willing to ‘front up’ and, as the leadership cliches pour out of his mouth, “take it on the chin”. The thing is, no-one has ever doubted Sherwood’s determination. The issue is that he simply isn’t a Premier League manager; he’s a barely a Football League one. As speculation concerning his job mounted throughout the week, Sherwood delivered a 427th embattled message: “I’m easy with it. My job doesn’t change. I still need to win a football match which I’m aware of. I’ll be taking full responsibility for the team’s performance and we’ll win tomorrow.” Sherwood will surely therefore take “full responsibility” for his side having less shots than their opponents, less passing accuracy than their opponents, less passes than their opponents and less possession than their opponents. Oh, and less goals for their opponents. This, after all, was a Swansea side who had not tasted victory of any kind since August. Only two sides have been on a worse run of form that Garry Monk’s men: 19th-placed Villa and rock-bottom Sunderland. If the Black Cats extend their Wear-Tyne winning run over Newcastle on Sunday, Villa replace them at the foot of the table. Adamant war cries of “we’ll win tomorrow” are all well and good, and a clear staple of the Sherwood management theory. This does quite the disservice to Brendan Rodgers, but they are bosses built in a similar mould. Few are better equipped to lead a confident side in the midst of a good run of form, but both struggle to ignite that form in the first place. Nick Miller asked a fortnight ago not only whether Sherwood was a good manager, but whether he was even a manager at all. What is clear is that at some point he has to back up the bluster. All signs suggest that he can’t. “Am I going to be in the job next week? I’m not the person to ask. I feel like the club is in a hole,” Sherwood added after the game. What he fails to see is that he is the one holding the shovel. Another journalist who doesn't know the difference between less and fewer. Basic English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a good job the future isn't seeable for one nanosecond then.

As painful as it will be it's inevitable now anyway. We'll just go next year or the year after. The whole edifice is rotten and what we have is the facade of a once great club filled to the brim with rancid puss. The classic old stadium hides the truth - Randy just wants to keep us up (just) take most of the PL money and hold out for his fantasy asking price. Only he's fcked up once again. So he'll either sell on the cheap next season or have to dig deep to propel us up first time. Fans won't stand for anything else.

Who wouldn't? Douglas Bader?

Haha that would be brilliant All the fans take a white towel in and just throw it on the pitch at the end of the game if that doesn't send a message to the board i don't know what will A towel with Lerners face on it Complete with man make-up.

I'd prefer Bruce Forsyth myself would love to see him do one of these on the touchline He won't come to Villa. How's he supposed to say 'Good game, good game'?

what mind games? Guzan was poor for nearly 2 seasons, dont remember Tim being here then. Sherwood gave him a challenge by dropping him and Guzan hasnt answered the challenge Sorry, I just think that's a massive exaggeration. The incident I'm referring to is dropping him for the remainder of the season instead of putting an arm around him and giving him one or two games rest. He's a shed load better than Given in any case. Then the endless speculation over his future. Why is it we forget that without Guzan we wouldn't even be battling to stay in this league anyway? For two seasons he was one of the few players to actually earn his wages. Even in the Chelsea battering he was man of the match (just shows how under siege the poor sod has been). If Brad hadn't performed better than the sum of the team, we'd already be down. He has one bad patch for which he is scapegoated beyond belief probably causing his confidence to drain and now he's worse than useless apparently. Part of me hopes he finds another club for his sake. he doesn't deserve the shit he's getting.

Sorry, can't find (or even be bothered to find) a gif of De Gea's howler. I'm certainly not saying that Brad's head is in the best place at present but he's a much better keeper than the panning he's been getting. In fact, my main gripe with sherwood is his mind games with Brad - disgraceful in my view.

Brad has only made one 'clanger' (citeh) the others have been mistakes.... the mistake mostly being that we have so-called Premier League defenders who can't control a fcking football. De Gea made an almighty fck-up on his return to action - kicked it straight opposition striker. Just lucky for him he never got punished. Much worse than anything Brad has done this season.

I have my beef with Sherwood and some of his decisions but this shit has been coming for years, The foundations are crumbling now. There's no clear picture as to what kind of club we are and we have no identity. Relegation could keep us down for years or it could. like our previous brief encounter, lance a lot of the poison and build us some momentum. I'm not sure any manager can stop the rot in its current form. It appears to be ingrained.

I wouldn't know what any of these shows are. I'm not allowed to watch anything interesting due to my tele nazi missus. It's wall to wall cooking shite - great british bake off, master chef, sunday lunch (or is it brunch?) endless shite that you can't even smell, let alone taste. That or strictly. If they had a strictly bake-off I think she'd wet her knickers. I'd defecate in mine.

What a load of bollocks You smell

Out of interest ,which top leagues are slower than the PL. All of them? If so, our best teams get turned over time and time again by 'slower' teams/players. I'm playing devil's advocate here. But maybe it's our pace that's wrong, not his.

Absolute rubbish. I don't often get really peed off with individual players but i just don't know how Bacuna gets away with even being able to draw breath in this league. The guy is not a footballer. His second touch is a sending off. Hutton, for all his limitations, was one of the only players to come out with any credit last season before his injury, I'd even say he was our player of the season, although i realise this is like judging your favourite dog turd sandwich.

It's time for that gif again: Tim Sherwood... Ray Wilkins... Paul Lambert... Alex McLeish... Anyone who refuses to play Gil Round em up, put em in a field and bomb the bastards!

I'd rather let Sasa Curcic have a knock on my missus.

Don't you mean another year closer to that Pirlo role he covets?