sidcow Posted December 26, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2017 8 minutes ago, Zatman said: you think Hitzlsperger can do a job Someone needs to Hammer this team into shape. The way soccer ball works Hitz would be a terrible manager but Stefan Beinlich will he a world class manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, Heretic said: Fortune favours the brave, as Virgil once said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 26, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: Sack him! I wouldn't have put it quite as eloquently as that, but I agree this does sum up my sentiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Just now, Brumstopdogs said: Haha, knew that was coming... And there he is, with the new manager's signing on fee. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 10 minutes ago, Johnnyp said: What was so apparent and utterly shocking given our net spend, especially when they took over after 10 minutes, was how intelligent and composed they were on the ball compared to us. We are in the dark ages in how we are managed, run, scouting..the lot and I know brentford are a London club which helps but they are well down the pecking order when it comes to getting good young talent but like I said in a previous post a clever innovative hard working club with a very good manager. But they wasn't at the start of the season.....they just wait for us to have their best game. maybe he is playing for the job.....little tinker. If they did this every week, they would be top of the table. Its more we are that bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: Sack him! There you go again sitting on the fence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Just now, sidcow said: I wouldn't have put it quite as eloquently as that, but I agree this does sum up my sentiment. Sack him, fire him, hang him, shoot him, kidnap him.. just get him to f**k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 1 minute ago, DaveAV1 said: There you go again sitting on the fence I know. Habits are getting broken in a lifetime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 29 minutes ago, USA_Villa said: Here's why we should employ Dean Smith tomorrow. He gets the best out of his players ! He sold his three best players to the Blues at the start of the season, and look at what's happened to them. Hogan, looks distinctly average in our side. Every time we play Brentford they are the better team. Better organized, better football and ultra confident on the ball. Not once do we see them hoofing the ball up aimlessly. There's a plan, a backup plan, and the manager can make things happen on the fly. Today, he played Josh MacEchran for the first time for a few weeks. Why?, because he needed someone to take care of Grealish in the floating role he had. As soon as Davies came on, MacEchran went off because we went to 4-4-2. Oh how pleasant it is to see a manager with a plan and able to react. Get him in tomorrow. Please And he just so happens to be a die hard Villa fan too. He'll do me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, TRO said: But they wasn't at the start of the season.....they just wait for us to have their best game. maybe he is playing for the job.....little tinker. If they did this every week, they would be top of the table. Its more we are that bad. Seen brentford earlier in the season and I know managers will bang on about been unlucky but they genuinely were. Add in losing Dean, Colin and Jota..3 starters and it's impressive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brumstopdogs Posted December 26, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Wainy316 said: And he just so happens to be a die hard Villa fan too. He'll do me. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Villas-Boas is still looking for a job. More realistically though, we should be doing everything possible to try and get Lee Johnson from Bristol City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 23 minutes ago, TRO said: But they wasn't at the start of the season.....they just wait for us to have their best game. maybe he is playing for the job.....little tinker. If they did this every week, they would be top of the table. Its more we are that bad. I disagree they have played like that every time I’ve seen them. They’ve just thrown it away a few times against other sides who have also been coached. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post honest_bertie Posted December 26, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2017 I appreciate when people say how Dean Smith would be a real risk and Villa would be to big for him but I am at the point of not caring about that and would take the risk. For me it could go either way, 50/50. Some people would take a punt on a young German manager just based on the Klopp/Wagner blueprint but how many of them are left and available, Norwich have tried that and it's not going so well. I think in Smith he is as close to a progressive and forward thinking manager as you could find right now. He obviously works very hard with his team to coach players to work in different systems and plays with no fear. I wonder if he had been schooled as a coach in Munich and had a foreign name if people would be more receptive to him. If I could watch Vila making the effort Brentford players were tonight and were able to pass and move like they were tonight I would be happy, we'd loose a few but with the players we have in the right set up I'm confident we'd win more. As other posters pointed out Smith has lost his best players the last two seasons but still gets players organised and to work in the teams style, playing really good football. We have had too much short term thinking at Villa and arrogantly presumed we could just chuck money at promotion and all would be sorted, you don't always get what you pay for and in Bruce that is more than evident. We've pretty much gone through every type of manager in the last 6 years or so apart from one from the lower leagues of English football, right now Dean Smith looks like one of the best options to me. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted December 26, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2017 While there's still a shot at play-offs Bruce won't be sacked. And there's no money this Jan window either so a new guy can't do much about the squad. My prediction is Bruce in place till summer and we can only hope that Terry's return cuts out these crappy goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Agree @honest_bertie of course it might not work but that doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t work change again until it does. Yes he has inherited a good system there but he still has to coach the team, give them belief, choose the tactics, and in all those aspects he is light years ahead of where we are - and it’s not too late to have an impact even now. If it doesn’t work what’s the difference ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Gutting, honestly thought Bruce would be better then he has been, I’ve defended him and now I’m fed up and want him gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) Bruce has had more than enough chances and failed miserably hopefully he gets the bullet sooner rather than later. We need to plan for the long term now because we will probably be down here for many years. Get rid of the pensioners Bruce has signed and build a youthful side around O'Hare Grealish and Davis. Also bring in a progressive manager that can get the best out of Hogan by playing a passing game with a modern style enough of the Jurassic park tactics. Dean Smith would be my choice and i'd also take the other ginger from Brentford as well Ryan Woods his range of passing and engine is superior to anything we have in the middle of the park. Edited December 26, 2017 by AshVilla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 2 minutes ago, AshVilla said: Bruce has had more than enough chances and failed miserably hopefully he gets the bullet sooner rather than later. We need to plan for the long term now because we will probably be down here for many years. Get rid of the pensioners Bruce has signed and build a youthful side around O'Hare Grealish and Davis. Also bring in a progressive manager that can get the best out of Hogan by playing a passing game with a modern style enough of the Jurassic park tactics. Dean Smith would be my choice and i'd also take the other ginger from Brentford as well Ryan Woods. I still can't get over the fact they got mceachran for 750,000 quid. Composed, very clever, not afraid of the football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 5 minutes ago, AshVilla said: We need to plan for the long term now because we will probably be down here for many years. I'd say we have been appointing players and staff for the second division for quite a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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