Ginko Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Possession football is boring You watch possession football everytime you watch a Villa match, only it's the other team playing that way. Surely it'd be more entertaining to watch us with the ball than chasing the other team around the pitch? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Not this shit again Morpheus. You are about the only one who thinks that Lambert's signings record has been poor. Or maybe the only one who can't take the whole picture into consideration. To state that this ratio of successful signings has been poor as some kind of fact is ridiculous and a bit pathetic. I actually think it far more pathetic for someone to fabricate statements just to have a dig. http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topic/9477-things-that-piss-you-off-that-shouldnt/?p=1225896 Swansea are about one third the size of Villa. Sounds like he got fed up rather than anything else. Right so when another team's manager isn't 'doing well', it's the clubs fault. But when our manager isn't 'doing well' then it's all his fault. Sound logic to be fair. There was nothing at all fabricated in that post. You took a completely unnecessary and stupid dig. Then you call other people out for doing the same. Slightly bad form is it not? Yes it would be bad form if what you are referring to was unnecessary and a stupid dig. It was neither. You liked a post which condoned a social network game in which a young person died. Someone who has a profession which by it's very nature should lead by example should not be doing that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) You watch possession football everytime you watch a Villa match, only it's the other team playing that way. Surely it'd be more entertaining to watch us with the ball than chasing the other team around the pitch? Haha, ain't that the truth. Edited February 4, 2014 by supernova26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Not this shit again Morpheus. You are about the only one who thinks that Lambert's signings record has been poor. Or maybe the only one who can't take the whole picture into consideration. To state that this ratio of successful signings has been poor as some kind of fact is ridiculous and a bit pathetic. I actually think it far more pathetic for someone to fabricate statements just to have a dig. http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topic/9477-things-that-piss-you-off-that-shouldnt/?p=1225896 Swansea are about one third the size of Villa. Sounds like he got fed up rather than anything else. Right so when another team's manager isn't 'doing well', it's the clubs fault. But when our manager isn't 'doing well' then it's all his fault. Sound logic to be fair. There was nothing at all fabricated in that post. You took a completely unnecessary and stupid dig. Then you call other people out for doing the same. Slightly bad form is it not? Yes it would be bad form if what you are referring to was unnecessary and a stupid dig. It was neither. You liked a post which condoned a social network game in which a young person died. Someone who has a profession which by it's very nature should lead by example should not be doing that. Staggering that you can take any sort of moral ground regarding anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Possession football is boring You watch possession football everytime you watch a Villa match, only it's the other team playing that way. Surely it'd be more entertaining to watch us with the ball than chasing the other team around the pitch? I just personally prefer more direct running/counter attacking football (i.e Dortmund, Madrid etc... not Villa ) rather than possession based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Not this shit again Morpheus. You are about the only one who thinks that Lambert's signings record has been poor. Or maybe the only one who can't take the whole picture into consideration. To state that this ratio of successful signings has been poor as some kind of fact is ridiculous and a bit pathetic. I actually think it far more pathetic for someone to fabricate statements just to have a dig. http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topic/9477-things-that-piss-you-off-that-shouldnt/?p=1225896 Swansea are about one third the size of Villa. Sounds like he got fed up rather than anything else. Right so when another team's manager isn't 'doing well', it's the clubs fault. But when our manager isn't 'doing well' then it's all his fault. Sound logic to be fair. There was nothing at all fabricated in that post. You took a completely unnecessary and stupid dig. Then you call other people out for doing the same. Slightly bad form is it not? Yes it would be bad form if what you are referring to was unnecessary and a stupid dig. It was neither. You liked a post which condoned a social network game in which a young person died. Someone who has a profession which by it's very nature should lead by example should not be doing that. Staggering that you can take any sort of moral ground regarding anything. Yeah well we all have our little crosses to bare Stefan don't we. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yet to see a convincing argument as to why we should replace Lambert with Laudrup. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted February 4, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2014 I'd swap all day long Sadly it's a pointless discussion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Possession football is boring You watch possession football everytime you watch a Villa match, only it's the other team playing that way. Surely it'd be more entertaining to watch us with the ball than chasing the other team around the pitch? Gérard Houllier was ridiculed for attempting to play possession football with us. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I just personally prefer more direct running/counter attacking football (i.e Dortmund, Madrid etc... not Villa ) rather than possession based. That's perfectly reasonable, each to their own. I'm not completely sold on possession football either and think a middle ground between the two provides the best entertainment. I'd just rather boring possession style over what we have now because at least when you have the ball the opposition can't score, so increasing our possession should give us a better chance to win games and it would be easier on our defence who seem to keep getting injured from having to work their asses off most of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Laudrup wouldn't be able to play the football he wants at Villa with our poor footballers, it'd be a recipe for disaster. We need someone to build it and bring the play in slowly. I'm hoping Lambert is the man to do that, but we've got backwards in terms of performance this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ginko Posted February 4, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2014 Possession football is boring You watch possession football everytime you watch a Villa match, only it's the other team playing that way. Surely it'd be more entertaining to watch us with the ball than chasing the other team around the pitch? Gérard Houllier was ridiculed for attempting to play possession football with us. By some people, you're never going to please everyone. All I can post is my own opinion, I was all for giving Houllier more time. I thought we were starting to head in the right direction. One of the main reasons I wasn't too thrilled about Lambert's appointment was because we were once again drifting away from that style of football and we were back to a style closer to that which we played under O'Neill which I wasn't a huge fan of either. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted February 4, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2014 I'd like to know why people are so supportive of Lambert though, because he has done nothing to impress me since joining, he's been a total disappointment from day one considering he was my first choice for the job. Crap signings, crap tactics, seemingly crap team talks, do people just support the manager as they feel it's a duty as a fan? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) It won't happen anyway, Randy is too loyal. Are Morpheus and Stefan having a competition on who can create the longest multi-quote? Edit your posts, you divs. Edited February 4, 2014 by supernova26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 do people just support the manager as they feel it's a duty as a fan? I'd say lots do yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spoony Posted February 4, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2014 Absolutely knew this conversation would be taking place here. If I may weigh in: 1) Laudrup could not do any better with our tiny budget, cost cutting and insanely over-expecting fans 2) Lambert has got us ABOVE Laudrup's Swansea 3) We wouldn't be playing better football because to do that you have to have better personel. Who cost money. Which we don't have. Sacking Lambert for what he has achieved in an impossible situation makes no sense and replacing him with Laudrup makes no sense because he wouldn't receive the backing he would need to make the team his own. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I'm not convinced by all this chat about crap signings and crap tactics etc. We are 10th on a shoestring. That's not by accident and the man knows more about the game than any of us. Event if we don't see it he seems to know what he's doing and the proof is on the PL table. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 do people just support the manager as they feel it's a duty as a fan? I'd say lots do yes. I'm not sure I'd say it was that simple. Some people just realise that he's going to be here for the foreseeable future and it would be better to have a little faith and show support to him because doing the opposite could be to the detriment of the team, especially on matchdays. Others are willing to cut him some slack and give him the benefit of the doubt because he has come in and kept us up one year and got us to 10th so far this year whilst working under some incredibly difficult constraints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Proof is in the PL table ? We are 5 points above the drop zone !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I don't think anyone is calling for Lambert's head, just weighing up the options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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