Popular Post VillanousOne Posted May 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2016 (edited) Sticking with the players every fan blames/hates was like sticking two fingers up at the fans We would have applauded/respected him had we never had to see Lescott, Bacuna, Richards and Guzan in a Villa shirt ever again. I appreciate that lack of depth and injury would mean some of those players would have to feature, which is understandable. But the players we least hated because there were some limited terms of redemption left, such as Gil, Traore, Grealish, even Vertout (when he wasn't injured) and maybe even Okore at big push. Plus RHM and Green got barely a cameo between them. All Black did was finish Okore's Villa career (Jores didn't help on that front), send Green back to the reserves/youth teams when he had just broken through under Garde. Freeze out Gil and Traore and Vertout. Rarely play Gestede and Ayew together and persist with the defensive clown show and make Grealish barely a bit part. Plus for the youngsters... aside from Toner, he pretty much ignored Lyden and our young forwards unless he had to play them due to injury. Spouting shit about not wanting to ruin them... Toner stepped up and looked decent. If he had of played any of the above and they had been crap NO-ONE WOULD HAVE TURNED ON THEM, WE WOULD MERELY HOPE THEY WOULD GAIN AND LEARN FROM ANY EXPERIENCE GAINED. That plus stunningly dour tactics, 5 at the back etc etc. Very few if any substitutions and no real attempt to ever win any game in charge. Doesn't mean that squad could have won anything, but we at least demanded he and the players try. They didn't. Edited May 15, 2016 by VillanousOne 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Plus ruined any opportunity to start the process of preparing for next season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay.P.A Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 What a clueless, inept, useless 'manager'. Anyone, ANYONE there today knew we needed something changed around the 55th/60th minute. Yet Eric Black decides to do NOTHING. We had Grealish, Adama, Gestede all on the bench, why not bring on one or two of them and actually have a go?! We were ALREADY RELEGATED FFS! Fair enough, Lescott had to go off, so the change to bring on Richards was forced, but why the hell did he start with 5 at the back in the first place? We didn't even play with a striker! Sinclair was out on the right and Ayew was on the left touch line, literally nothing up front. I might be wrong here but every time Sinclair or Ayew got the ball, they couldn't pass it to each other because they were miles away! Thank GOD this clown is off now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Useless rocket polisher. If he deliberately wanted to do a bad job, he couldn't have done it any better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Reckon the players have something on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Bye bye utter cack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upper north stander Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Good f######g riddance !!!! clearing in the woods! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Well I think your all being totally out of order, he did the best he could with the players he had........... Joking he was F***** useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Has he gone yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 I wouldn't expect him to go until we have a new manager, it'd be inappropriate to sack a first team coach until the new manager has said who he wants in those positions, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie09 Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 I wouldn't expect him to go until we have a new manager, it'd be inappropriate to sack a first team coach until the new manager has said who he wants in those positions, IMO. I'd struggle to get behind any manager that wanted Black as part of his set up. The guy is a grade A tool, worse than McNeil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 I don't expect him to be here next season under any circumstances, but I'd expect a new manager to have first refusal on all of the staff currently employed, considering we'll have to pay them off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 4 hours ago, dudevillaisnice said: Plot twist, takeover fails Black told to stay on. straight from an M.Night Shyamalan movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Will probably sign a 4 year in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 To me the most disturbing aspect is that he was so outrageously poor, in all respects, that despite our plight it was clear after a couple of games he wasn't up to the job and needed to go. I'm aware it could've looked like farce to sack yet another Manager, I'm aware we were already down, and all the rest of it, but the job of managing us should never be treated as unimportant or incidental, or available on any old terms to anyone. It says a lot about Hollis (and Little ?, and Bevington ?- who I assume is still here ) that they were prepared to allow him to just see out the season like that, prepared to listen to the garbage he spouted, prepared to see us go down with so little effort, prepared to see supporters effectively treated as an irrelevance. Yes Board interference would usually be bad, as would sacking a Manager after a couple of games, but he was not within a million miles of being adequate as a Manager, this was obvious very early on, yet he sat it all out. It was almost like a child with the sweetie jar and there were no adults around to tell him to behave. And who thought he was an appropriate choice ? Who picked him ? Whose judgement gave us a Manager who got 1 point from 21, and conceded nearly 3 goals per game ? 7 games is a fifth of a season near enough, if the NEW Manager (or any, in any Club) goes 7 games with that record the scrutiny would be immense. I just think him, and others, have got away with murder with this one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Should of give it Sid and Stan. Would of got more of a tune out them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted May 15, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 15, 2016 We wouldn't have had to sack him, we could have just brought in a manager. I don't think it mattered though, we're still weeks if not months away from anything mattering at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 4 hours ago, Jay.P.A said: We were ALREADY RELEGATED FFS! My only explanation for the way he's gone about this is he still hasn't realised this even now. Baffling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 His game plan didnt work.. whatever that was... but also to have the young kid Toner marking Giroud.. who unfortunately took Toner apart. Should have been our experienced leader Lescott or Richards. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Eric Black is just another ingredient in the boiling, bubbling cauldron of diarrhoea soup which has been this club this season. He is the three month past the expired date dollop of sour cream on top of this stinky soup which includes the ingredients of Randy Lerner, Tim Sherwood, the January transfer window, Micah Richards, Guzan, Lescott, Charles N'Zogbia, Paddy Reilly, our playing style, the 45 to 50 minute conceded goals, our ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and many other random pieces of crap. Hopefully we can fix all this so we are not served this anymore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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