Stockport_Villain Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 (edited) I don’t understand any team having Clark in a defence and hoping for anything other than disaster. Every time I see him when he wins the ball/receives a pass he then gives it straight back to the opposition who immediately take advantage of the fact that he is out of position. He is one of the worst defenders I have ever seen in a Villa shirt. Edited May 16, 2016 by Stockport_Villain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 6 hours ago, Stockport_Villain said: I don’t understand any team having Clark in a defence and hoping for anything other than disaster. Every time I see him when he wins the ball/receives a pass he then gives it straight back to the opposition who immediately take advantage of the fact that he is out of position. He is one of the worst defenders I have ever seen in a Villa shirt. That's rubbish. Clark was our best defender in the 2014/15 season with Okore in the partnership. He has not been first choice played this year but started in our wins versus Bournemouth, Blues, Norwich, Palace and Wycombe. I'd have him ahead of Richards or Lescott any day. At least he cares about the club. And he will be playing in the Euros this summer. He does make mistakes, he is not a world beater, but he could do a job for us next season. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Clark's a weird one. Next to the right player (e.g. Okore) he's very good most of the time but next to the wrong player he's absolutely awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stockport_Villain Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 im not denying he's better than Lescott and Richards but not by much. However compared to Mountfield, Evans, McNaught, God, Laursen, Teale, Southgate, Cahill, Mellberg, Johnson and so on he's not fit to lace their boots and as far as I'm concerned not good enough for Villa, even in the Champonship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 7 hours ago, Stockport_Villain said: I don’t understand any team having Clark in a defence and hoping for anything other than disaster. Every time I see him when he wins the ball/receives a pass he then gives it straight back to the opposition who immediately take advantage of the fact that he is out of position. He is one of the worst defenders I have ever seen in a Villa shirt. Clark's never kicked on really from the promise he showed around 2010. Shows how far we've fallen he;s made probably about 100 appearances for us. He needs pace alongside him (like Okore) as he's not quick and gets caught out by the high ball as he's very average in the air. Add in being lightweight against physical strikers and also failing time and again against simple movement in the box when a cross comes in and we wonder why we're on 17 points with regulars like him in the side. And he's been one of the slightly better players this season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Didn't he play a lot more last season than this? Not that we did amazing then either mind you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Could be wrong but he seems to have played a lot since xmas. Also started the first 4 games of the season as him and Richards were first choice CBs up to the Leicester game. Tbh if he has a decent tournament for Ireland we may get some bids for him so would be tempted to sell. In an ideal world I'd keep Okore and Baker and get in two decent CBs who know that level and we should be alright with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 If we get new owners prepared to splash cash to rebuild then we will have to get players to do a job this season with only a few staying on past this season as we then look to rebuild again next summer for being back in the premier league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 To answer the question of the thread; a winning one, hopefully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 16 hours ago, Mantis said: Clark's a weird one. Next to the right player (e.g. Okore) he's very good most of the time but next to the wrong player he's absolutely awful. Nah it's not that weird at all. He's just shit all the time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 3 minutes ago, villa89 said: Nah it's not that weird at all. He's just shit all the time. Except he's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, Mantis said: Except he's not. you're right, only when he plays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 He was quite good next to Okore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 plz rename the thread 'what mannschaft will we see next season' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Field Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Given reason news I expect our team to look something like this: De Gea, Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar + 7 Chinese players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 No Suarez? Xia out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 --------------10m----------------- 10m------10m---10m------10m 10m------10m---10m------10m -----------10m---10m---------- That kind of money should get us out of the Championship and then hold our own in the Premiership. Then again 442 I see, Xia and RDM out! When should we have our first protest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Hopefully this takeover will persuade Amavi and Ayew to stay on at least another year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 18, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 18, 2016 The championship next season could have rafa in charge of a premier league quality NUFC, and then us with a squad also composed of premier league quality signings who would be attracted to where we are headed. The revolution will be televised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted May 18, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 18, 2016 1 hour ago, Jareth said: The championship next season could have rafa in charge of a premier league quality NUFC, and then us with a squad also composed of premier league quality signings who would be attracted to where we are headed. The revolution will be televised. Although not at 3pm on a Saturday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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