Popular Post maqroll Posted December 28, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2015 6 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Yes, people wanting yet another manager change at this point are absolutely delusional. Delusional would be people believing another manager change will happen at this point. I think the word you're looking for is "stupid". 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 10 hours ago, mikeyp102 said: Don't think that's true, from a brief look they sold approx £15m of players and signed Joselu and Shaqiri for £20m plus another 2 undisclosed which would probably be at least the same as us. Well according to the a quick search on tinternet the daily hail and sky sports news thought so that Stoke net spend was 3.3 and Villa's was 8.9 last summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Richardson, Sinclair and Clark in a must win game. Jesus Christ If this goes badly then Garde deserves every complaint he gets 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-k Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 5 minutes ago, Zatman said: Richardson, Sinclair and Clark in a must win game. Jesus Christ If this goes badly then Garde deserves every complaint he gets Lescott does not have the legs to play with one day rest, and I wouldn't risk Okore either with his history and just coming off a layoff. What other options does he have? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 but I would rather pick a fan from the crowd instead of Richardson or Sinclair. Jack, Gil, Adama, id rather play with 9 men than have them 2 on the pitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I don't have a problem with the defensive changes he has made and it makes sense that Lescott and Okore may struggle with 2 games in 3 days. It is further forward that worries me. We have to win this game and the forward 6 overall looks way too defensive. I'd have much rather have seen Grealish, Gil or Traore either side of Ayew rather than Bacuna and Sinclair. In fact I was hoping for Gestede to start and for us to have Ayew and one of either Grealish, Gil or Traore supporting him. I can't get my head around Garde playing to keep things tight and for a draw but that line up suggests that. The option to go with a more attacking line up was there and it seems he has taken the more defensive one. I hope I am wrong as we have to get the three points. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) EDIT. Edited December 28, 2015 by kurtsimonw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Guy is playing for draws at the moment it seems, we need wins and sharpish and hes putting out 4 central midfielders when we have wide players... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 He's not interested in staying up, more concerned about making small steps and looking after his career. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Staying up is not an option for him now. What he is trying to do is get past the record lowest points total then not to go down with a whimper and try and build. He is far too timid as a manager 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 6 minutes ago, Cliffy Biro said: Guy is playing for draws at the moment it seems, we need wins and sharpish and hes putting out 4 central midfielders when we have wide players... To be honest I don't think he is playing for draws, I think he has ideas and tactics in his head which us (the fans) don't know and they don't always come off, but then again that is every manager I would assume! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 4 minutes ago, Richard said: Staying up is not an option for him now. What he is trying to do is get past the record lowest points total then not to go down with a whimper and try and build. He is far too timid as a manager I agree with the first two sentences yet for me it leads me to a favourable third sentence rather than a critical one ! We have a tiny tiny chance of staying up. If Im recalling correctly you yourself have sen us as doomed for a long while now. Therefore what is wrong with "not going with a whimper, and trying to build" ? Arent they the two things he can most realistically do, and we realistically need ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: To be honest I don't think he is playing for draws, I think he has ideas and tactics in his head which us (the fans) don't know and they don't always come off, but then again that is every manager I would assume! They don't "always" come off? It hasn't come off once, we've scraped 3 draws since hes been here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 What is wrong with it is from a fans perspective we have **** all to shout about . He may as well try and take the game to the opposition and play decent football. There are two ways of not going down with a whimper. One is def endive lay try and restrict teams from scoring 3, 4 or 5. The other is to try and win a game or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 This is a baffling team choice to be fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 17 minutes ago, Richard said: What is wrong with it is from a fans perspective we have **** all to shout about . He may as well try and take the game to the opposition and play decent football. There are two ways of not going down with a whimper. One is def endive lay try and restrict teams from scoring 3, 4 or 5. The other is to try and win a game or two. I agree decent football would be a relief. And I agree about taking the game to the opposition...at the right times obviously...I think we are better at that than defending anyway. But we need to be more solid defensively too....Im sure nobody would want us to be all out attack.....then its just a question of balance, and given the two opening sentences you said, especially the one about building, in the end, all teams have to be built from the back, whether its boring or not. It doesnt mean he is necessarily timid as such. It isnt his fault weve had nothing to shout about for years, Tim tried to be a crowd pleaser and ended up with us worse off than ever. A proper, careful, building job has got to start somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itdoesntmatterwhatthissay Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 451 today. Really liking Garde, seems to really know the game even if we could've done with him 2 years ago and not in the battle for survival. I'm looking forward to seeing what January holds, who he gets rid of etc. Last week 2 up top, smart, needed to see how it might work, today we have ball players and carriers in a packed midfield. Bit too much responsibility on Ayew but the formation will allow an attacking player to come into the middle later on to support the striker. Making best use of our crappy players....excluding Richardson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 It's just poor. Having us sitting so deep all the time, it allows teams to just put balls in at will and with our defense and keeper, it's asking for trouble all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I like Garde but I don't think today's starting line-up was the right one - Norwich are poor and looked very bad until they scored. Still time to rectify it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Ultimately he's lacking the balls to truly take the risks to get the wins we need, too conservative and leaving out the players who can get us goals and cause trouble for opposition defences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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