Popular Post Mantis Posted September 18, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2016 1 hour ago, KJT123 said: Saw a poll on Twitter earlier asking who would the fans rather have now out of the last four managers. Sherwood was leading it on about 50%, which I find absolutely hilarious. **** hell. I'd even have McLeish over Sherwood. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 4 hours ago, LondonLax said: How often has a team bought a whole new first 11 then immediately hit the ground running in the league. It is always a struggle to integrate so many new players at the same time. not often but Southampton and Watford have done a good job in recent seasons with wholesale changes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 5 hours ago, Mantis said: How is Garde not a proper manager? He's a proper manager, he just came in at the wrong time. And initially we were slightly better under Garde (although still not nearly good enough) and obviously he inherited a mess which Sherwood partly created. Remi Garde is about as qualified as a football manager as me or you. shocking manager and worse than clowns like Mcleish or Houllier that managed us 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, Mantis said: **** hell. I'd even have McLeish over Sherwood. rusty knife vs a rustier knife... what did we do to deserve that! Edited September 19, 2016 by villakram edit: all the silly whitespace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 15 hours ago, Mantis said: Bizarre fact of the day: Newcastle have lost more games in the league this season than we have. Just shows what could have been. i was just thinking the same thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 1 hour ago, Villaphan04 said: i was just thinking the same thing Fine lines between success and failure - pity games didn't last 80 minutes as we'd be right up there challenging - whether it's a fitness issue or just lack of concentration we must learn to see out games and with our personnel we have a better chance if we try to kill teams off with another goal rather than try and hang on and defend a one goal lead . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Demitri_C Posted September 19, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2016 6 hours ago, Zatman said: Remi Garde is about as qualified as a football manager as me or you. shocking manager and worse than clowns like Mcleish or Houllier that managed us Cant disagree more, he was left out to dry by Lerner. never given an opportunity to show what he could do with a bit of money 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 6 hours ago, Zatman said: Remi Garde is about as qualified as a football manager as me or you. shocking manager and worse than clowns like Mcleish or Houllier that managed us Couldn't agree more. Probably the most stupid appointment weve ever made. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 6 hours ago, Zatman said: not often but Southampton and Watford have done a good job in recent seasons with wholesale changes IT does take time to 'click' - but whilst we are in that interim period - there shouldn't be nothing. There should be the odd victory, the odd good performance. - But we are not even at that stage - there doesn't even seem to be a pattern of play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvillafan Posted September 19, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted September 19, 2016 49 minutes ago, hippo said: IT does take time to 'click' - but whilst we are in that interim period - there shouldn't be nothing. There should be the odd victory, the odd good performance. - But we are not even at that stage - there doesn't even seem to be a pattern of play. The problem we have is compounded by our last few years. We have largely a completely new squad this season. And a new manager. And a lack of any sort of identity or "play style" from the previous botched years under Lerner and our "academy". So the time to 'click' is effectively threefold worse than teams like Southampton, Watford or even Swansea that make smaller changes than we have this season. We have a LOT that needs to be fixed and, typical of Villa, we do it all at the same time and will probably change things before we even get the chance to see the end result. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 13 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Who's Pepe? If we are talking about Pep then it's a silly comparison as he is probably the best manager in the world with the richest owners in the world. I wasn't comparing with Pepe as a manager, that has been interpreted by others. I was merely saying that Pepe has come in to a new league for him and made an instant difference.....It could be said about Ranieri too. just saying ,the instant impact can be made. some folk could say its harder with someone else's players, as they have done. Yes, we have had a whole team change in mitigation, but we will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 There is another alternative......let it run its course and see what happens. We just need fans who can accept that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NurembergVillan Posted September 19, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2016 36 minutes ago, TRO said: I wasn't comparing with Pepe as a manager, that has been interpreted by others. I was merely saying that Pepe has come in to a new league for him and made an instant difference.....It could be said about Ranieri too. just saying ,the instant impact can be made. some folk could say its harder with someone else's players, as they have done. Yes, we have had a whole team change in mitigation, but we will see. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 9 hours ago, Zatman said: Remi Garde is about as qualified as a football manager as me or you. shocking manager and worse than clowns like Mcleish or Houllier that managed us Based on what exactly? The fact that he failed at Villa when the club was at its lowest ebb in decades hardly makes him some sort of terrible manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pas5898 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 20 minutes ago, Mantis said: Based on what exactly? The fact that he failed at Villa when the club was at its lowest ebb in decades hardly makes him some sort of terrible manager. Agreed. Pep Guardiola wouldn't have kept that team up last season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Bear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 (edited) Dont get me wrong, I'm not saying there is manager out there we could get who would fill me with confidence or be the right man for the job. What I do know though is it sure as shit aint RDM. Edited September 19, 2016 by R.Bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 1 hour ago, NurembergVillan said: What's Alfred Hitler got to do with it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted September 19, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, villarocker said: What's Alfred Hitler got to do with it? A mix of Godwin's law and NV getting lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I hope we can sneak (another) draw this week, then have to target a couple of wins. Back to the attacking format. We can't afford to sit back. Newcastle will bombard us - particularly for the last 10 minutes - so we need to be set up to counter hard and fast and take advantage of them throwing everything forwards. Really no point in changing anything now. I don't have open-ended faith, and we have to get back to the swagger we had early on to show we are going in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 8 hours ago, Eastie said: Fine lines between success and failure - pity games didn't last 80 minutes as we'd be right up there challenging - whether it's a fitness issue or just lack of concentration we must learn to see out games and with our personnel we have a better chance if we try to kill teams off with another goal rather than try and hang on and defend a one goal lead . Sneaking a draw at home to Newcastle shows lack of ambition and belief - they are not Barcelona and we should attack them - they've lost more than us this season . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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