Lerner's Driver

Derek McInnes

It's a hoax post, but carry on, you're in the mood.

How many multi millionaires do you know who relish the opportunity to admit they were wrong? Hell, even some of us lesser mortals struggle with that!

I thought, as many did, you surely can't discount his record, he must have something about him to get four teams up, but he now looks utterly clueless. Some of it may be bad luck, but luck tends to mirror the general performance level and right now nothing is working. I never bothered reading up on it before he arrived, but does anybody know what got him results at other clubs because it can't have been 'this'?

Agreed, a joke either way, and anything but funny.

Is that a joke or serious?

With Wyness' record on choosing managers I'm not sure I'd leave anything up to De Boerd.

I don't know if it is genuine or not, but I can tell you that it is possible for someone to send a text so it appears to come from a certain number even though it hasn't because it happened to me. Some AH*LE sent my mother a message in this way so it was clearly someone who had my number and hers, though how they got hers, I have no idea.

Gap in the market surely... Dinotwit... for the redundant, yesterday's man in a confusing modern world. Just press the potato icon for any number of automatically generated old school, honest to goodness, sayings your fans will just lap up.

A bit like our chairman with his tweeting, then! I know some on here don't like anything to do with social media, a little ironically perhaps given they are on Villa Talk, but I think there is something interesting about professional individuals who are open and communicate with their customers rather than treating them like irrelevant numbers on a spreadsheet. I think it shows the person cares about the job they are doing if they are also prepared to talk about that job and encourage debate. Tony may just see a kindred spirit.

Agreed. I just did a bit of reading up on him and a number of things stand out; he has excellent English and is clearly intelligent, but more than that, you can tell he thinks about the game and his decisions are taken after careful consideration, rather than based on hunches after years of experience. In other words, he feels the risk and trusts his judgement, rather than just trusting his judgement, as our current manager appears to some to do. The following section taken from a recent Guardian article exploring his career to date, including his relationship with Gary Monk and their success at Leeds in revitalising the club, was particularly interesting... “When you look at the club we went into, it was a little bit broken and the team was not attached to the fanbase,” he says. “There had been too many changes and the club had lost that sense of competitiveness Leeds were famous for. The end product is that the fans got their team back, they saw that we had a real sense of stability among the staff and players and I think we gave back a better club than the one we took in the beginning." https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/09/pep-clotet-oxford-united-challenge It may be too big of a leap from Oxford to Villa, but he has lots of positive attributes and it is interesting that he and Tony have started following each other on Twitter, as this has often proved to be the start of something more serious in Tony's thinking.

Not sure, might potential new signings be tempted by the charm and sophistication of a lovely stroll around ethnically diverse Stratford? The planners have even done their best to restructure the area so there is clear divide between the haves and the have nots.

London, Premier League, higher wages

How many wildebeest escape to live long, happy lives as the leader of their herd after they've been chased and wounded by a predator?

Quite right. I can't remember another having quite the same affect.

Aside from the brief results respite a new manager will bring, I will certainly enjoy not reading this thread any more.

I'm mostly of the opinion that he probably won't get us up either, but whilst we're not losing he is just about hanging on and in this particular moment, it's still not impossible that he could achieve it. I've never enjoyed listening to him though. The repetition of ideas, even within the same sentence, is indicative of a man playing for time and it grates. There's no clear philosophy, he just spouts generalisms. "It's my biggest challenge", "we have to improve", etc on a loop. On balance, I too am sick of listening to our manager, but... I don't really look forward to listening to many of them because most of them are making it up as they go along. Only a handful ever have 'it' (the club and themselves), fully composed and coherent throughout a season. That said, if we all gave up simply because we were sick of listening to other people, this place wouldnt exist for a start!

Good signing. Pleased with this.

Why would he be Green's replacement? They operate on different sides.

Isn't that an apology, of sorts?

Bruce likes playing two up top, could he play Davis and Hogan together?

A wise strategy in relation to a range of things.

Nor I.

Didn't we decide Hogan was sh*te?

Snodgrass may have struggled at WHAM, but as we all know, players don't always fit the club's they join, so if he signs, I won't be writing him off as garbage before he's even kicked a ball, not least because he has performed under Bruce before. I hope he does join, as I think he will be an asset and I've just lumped a ton on him.