VillaChris Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Yes it was a fun season, a better version of last season I'd say. The less said about the next two seasons and him in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 21, 2013 Author Share Posted November 21, 2013 solano was dols best buy, 1.5m absolute bargain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2013 Good coach. Shit man. Although PDC has shown you can get away with that in the lower divisions. I actually wish him well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Good coach. Shit man. Although PDC has shown you can get away with that in the lower divisions. I actually wish him well. wouldnt even say he was a good coach but he could spot a good bargain. always felt a Director of Football role be good for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 The mere mention of this man makes me shudder.If I met any previous manager of our great club, including mcleish, I would gladly shake their hand....bar this word removed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2013 Good coach. Shit man. Although PDC has shown you can get away with that in the lower divisions. I actually wish him well. wouldnt even say he was a good coach but he could spot a good bargain. always felt a Director of Football role be good for him His record at Villa before they figured out he was a shithead suggests he was a good coach. And yes he could spot a player too. As I say, he might get more leeway behaviourally in the lower leagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Was he such a shit man (genuine question)? I never really minded him. Thought he wasn't a bad manager, good in the transfer market and just lost his way a bit towards the end. I know he called us all "fickle" but that's probably the truest thing any manager has ever said about our fans.... Unless I missed something or things he said/did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2013 He was given 2 dressing rooms and he lost them both (Leeds & Villa). He used to criticise his own players in post match interviews and nothing was ever ever his fault. A disingenuous wimp of a man with no character, no charisma and precious little in the way of personality. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 have met him and he is an arrogant man as well, wouldnt acknowledge Villa fans by even looking at them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Deeply arrogant individual. Yes, he occasionally spotted some good players, but he signed some equally bad ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 yeah but I think he could have actually done more with the money MON spunked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2013 No he couldn't because he would've fallen out with the squad. With him you can't ignore the bad because it was very bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 i understand that but meant the players he would have actually bought for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2013 Yeah his eye for a player isn't in question and I've also mentioned DoF as a possibility in the past. I suspect he's probably just hard to get on with whether you're a player or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Spent 3 months haggling to sign Mathieu berson and then after getting him decided he was a waste of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rino8 Posted November 22, 2013 Visiting Supporter Share Posted November 22, 2013 (edited) He was given 2 dressing rooms and he lost them both (Leeds & Villa). He used to criticise his own players in post match interviews and nothing was ever ever his fault. A disingenuous wimp of a man with no character, no charisma and precious little in the way of personality. Read an interview with Danny Mills talking about him earlier today with his time at Leeds, pretty much exactly that From the outside O’Leary appeared clever and charming. How many times did you hear him talk about us as inexperienced boys who had so much to learn? It was pretty much the default statement come rain or shine. For a while it was true. But it started to grate when we were around the top of the Premier League and in the semi-finals of the Champions League, or when players headed off for international duty. Some of my England team-mates used to ask ‘what’s all that about?’ Training under him was always high-tempo, the same way we played. But we did very little tactical work, no work on basics and not a lot on set-pieces. When it came to set-pieces, we left them to Ian Harte. Simple. And as for the team talks, we used to chuckle about those. The instructions were written down on a board and the bottom line as O’Leary called it was basically the top line, if you get what I mean. There were good times, of course, and O’Leary was very much part of them. But the feeling among the squad was that when things went wrong it was our fault. When everything went right, it was down to O’Leary. A blame culture developed – a him-and-us scenario. Edited November 22, 2013 by Rino8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 23, 2013 Author Share Posted November 23, 2013 i will never forgive that oaf for that doncaster performance worst i have ever seen, and he sat there like a plum and didnt know what to do just sat there like a plonker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 i will never forgive that oaf for that doncaster performance worst i have ever seen Have you not seen us much over the last three/four years then because you've missed some stinkers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 24, 2013 Moderator Share Posted November 24, 2013 i will never forgive that oaf for that doncaster performance worst i have ever seen Have you not seen us much over the last three/four years then because you've missed some stinkers? Stinkers were better than Doncaster. That deserved a brand new word of its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Have you not seen us much over the last three/four years then because you've missed some stinkers? even the bradford games were not as bad as that game in my opinion name a game worse than that doncaster against lower opposition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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