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19 minutes ago, rbcuk said:

This appointment has set us back years, nothing has been right since he come, players wanting to leave, another bomb squad to train with the youth, us buying up coming players, now that’s changed to 29+ on overinflated wages that have literally bugger all sell on value 

i just want him gone now

Also add the fact that youth was never going to get a look in, and Villa park and the Villa academy are no longer a destination for providing youth a way through to the first team. Instead, we just add over priced, over age mediocrity.

This is all going down hill very fast.

Disappointed to see Iroegbunam head to QPR. However let's be honest, our youth players were never going to get a chance under checkbook Gerrard.

12 points behind Arsenal after 5 games. How scary is that?

If we lose tomorrow we will be 12 points behind Arsenal after 5 games - Yikes

Dean Smith - 4 wins on the bounce and just beat the Blues (Extra Gold Star)

Smith 2 - 1 Noses

Job done. Well done Dean.

Deano and AJ, make sure you kick those Blue asses tonight. Good luck boys.

29 minutes ago, duke313 said:

If Poch and Potter both reject us?  Rodgers or Dyche will be viable alternative, who would we prefer in that scenario?

I'd much rather have Deano back.

3 hours ago, MWARLEY2 said:

Lets face it. 32 league games in and i cannot remember many outstanding performances or wins 

The 4 nil against Southampton was their worst game of the season and we should have won by more .  Maybe the 3 nil against a Leeds team and crowd totally demorolised. Or the 3 1 against Burnley.

But other than that very very little . 

Just occasionally plucky halves of play where we were good but not good enough and ended up losing. Not whole games of good play. Just halves.

Even Graham Taylor back in 2003 gave us some good performances.  

Scary when the best three wins are Leeds, Southampton and Burnley.

I would have preferred Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea as per the other guy.

Worrying. 

Aston Villa have lost eight of their last eleven Premier League games against Arsenal (W3), including both meetings against them last season. Those three wins all came consecutively between July 2020 and February 2021 under Dean Smith.

This seems so long ago ................ The Fans were united and we are so positive for the future

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Moyes makes a change at half time to affect the game, and West Ham come out a better team. Gerrard just does like-for-like changes in a system that isn't working. 

He is out of his depth. He really really needs to go.

This is one of those games ............. First goal the winner.

It is a Dull game ................ Both sides creating next to nothing

We're not great but West Ham are really bad. We should win this.

2 hours ago, sne said:

£5m supposedly. The massive compensation in likely part of why the club will hesitate to act.

Double what Deano was getting.

I'll take a win. Good job their keeper was crap. Poor for the corner, a very poor for the penalty.

Why did we not bring the young lads on sooner? There was no need bring on Buendia and Bailey.

Lucky to go in level at half-time. It certainly wasn't pretty.

Watkins and Ings have nothing to work with.

It's a strong line-up. I was hoping to see one or two of the youth players in there. They don't seem to get a sniff with Gerrard at the helm.

4 minutes ago, thunderball said:

 

I think that pretty much sums up everything. Mic drop!

Good player, but we should not be spending this type of money when Gerrard's job is in jeopardy. 

Archer should not be part of this or any other deal.

2 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

 

And we employed two of them.

2 minutes ago, Spoony said:

I increasingly feel like we let Smith down tbh. He deserved a little longer. Gerrard has done absolutely nothing to warrant the same extension. 

I think you're right. Although we were having a bad run at the time, I firmly believe that he would have pulled through it and at least equaled Gerrard's 13th place. 

Purslow saw an opportunity, to what he believed was an upgrade, and it's coming back to bite him in the ass.

4 minutes ago, ROTTERDAM1982 said:

Gerrard. I'm uncomfortable with replacing a manager after less than 3 months. I like the players he has brought in, i think some of the players he inherited are not as good as we think they are. We had nobody in the final 1/3rd anywhere near the quality of Zaha or Eze.

3 Months - He's been here since November, has had two transfer periods and a pre-season. We have gone backwards not forward. Initially, we just looked poor against the better teams under Gerrard. No we look really poor against almost everyone.