Strog Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 On 29/05/2022 at 21:12, foreveryoung said: Southgate could never manage the golden generation. He gets away with this team, cause it's a fairly young squad. Truthfully, I don't know how they put up with his babble, surely must be different when the FA aren't watching. I don’t think he could manage a golden shower 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 There's nothing more to be said that hasn't been said a million times by a million people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Strog said: I don’t think he could manage a golden shower He definitely could. As long as it was over Mason Mount. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strog Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Just now, jacketspuds said: He definitely could. As long as it was over Mason Mount. Haha, you’re not wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KentVillan Posted June 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2022 He’s come up with a formation and playing style that keeps as much of our best talent out of the team as possible. It’s really quite an achievement. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, KentVillan said: He’s come up with a formation and playing style that keeps as much of our best talent out of the team as possible. It’s really quite an achievement. Plays to our weaknesses not our strengths 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KentVillan Posted June 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2022 It’s the Sven era all over again. A rigid, tactically narrowminded manager wasting a standout generation of players, but doing a decent job in the press conferences. At least Sven’s excuse was he’d played 4-4-2 his entire career and was a bit unlucky that he was named manager just as English club football moved on to single-striker formations. Southgate has nothing like this holding him back. He just has a completely wrong analysis of what wins international tournaments. He has confused correlation with causation. He’s obsessed with keeping clean sheets, but he does it by overloading the defence and DM positions. That isn’t how the best sides keep clean sheets, though. A really good side should be able to keep a clean sheet with a back 4 and one DM. Southgate thinks it requires a 5 and 2 DMs and then he leaves most of our best players on the bench. It’s **** madness and it’s entirely based on his misunderstanding of statistics. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 9 minutes ago, KentVillan said: It’s the Sven era all over again. A rigid, tactically narrowminded manager wasting a standout generation of players, but doing a decent job in the press conferences. At least Sven’s excuse was he’d played 4-4-2 his entire career and was a bit unlucky that he was named manager just as English club football moved on to single-striker formations. Southgate has nothing like this holding him back. He just has a completely wrong analysis of what wins international tournaments. He has confused correlation with causation. He’s obsessed with keeping clean sheets, but he does it by overloading the defence and DM positions. That isn’t how the best sides keep clean sheets, though. A really good side should be able to keep a clean sheet with a back 4 and one DM. Southgate thinks it requires a 5 and 2 DMs and then he leaves most of our best players on the bench. It’s **** madness and it’s entirely based on his misunderstanding of statistics. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHY Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 I have a genuine dislike of the bloke, it’s not O’Leary level yet but it’s getting there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Genie Posted June 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2022 I think most England fans would rather see this talented bunch of attacking players take the games to the opposition and potentially lose than the turgid safety first, safety second grind we are getting. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHY Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, Genie said: I think most England fans would rather see this talented bunch of attacking players take the games to the opposition and potentially lose than the turgid safety first, safety second grind we are getting. Spot on mate. Don’t mind losing if you have a go. Given the talent we have having a go should be a given! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 A huge well done to him for wrecking the Jubilee celebration weekend His ridiculous, hippocrytical treatment of our players, especially as a former player here himself, is enough for me to enjoy watching his boring team implode. Cue a shambles of a Nations League now having lost to the Worst team already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calcifer Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Picks Maguire who as been pretty S*** most the season and Mount who must be giving him great head to get picked in the 1st 11. Bloke has no idea, picks his favorites and glad we lost. See Grealish started the game in his favored position... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Useless boring word removed wants burning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 9 minutes ago, danceoftheshamen said: Cue a shambles of a Nations League now having lost to the Worst team already. As we saw with Reece James I don't think it's necessarily a case of the worst team it will be who gives a shit the least and I'm expecting that to be Germany Wonder if UEFA will change the rules again to prevent them from being relegated a second time With these stupid June games I'll throw it out there, Hungary won't finish bottom of the group so a big nation is going down to tier 2 next time round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calcifer Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Just now, Kingman said: Useless boring word removed wants burning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted June 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2022 I know I'll change my view when the tournament starts, but it almost makes me hope he fails miserably at the World Cup. The fact that he's still the manager, and the whole farce of it being a corrupt winter WC is hardly making me look forward to it. Trying to support England in the Euros was a painful experience due to his piss poor management last summer. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Delphinho123 Posted June 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, KentVillan said: He’s come up with a formation and playing style that keeps as much of our best talent out of the team as possible. It’s really quite an achievement. It’s not just that. He even manages to play world class players out of position and picks a formation absolutely nobody is used to. That line up today is just negligent. The FA should look at it, sit him down and say, “what the bloody hell do you think you’re doing?”. Maguire shouldn’t be starting. Walker isn’t a centre half, never has been. TAA is a right back, not a right wing back, are we playing a formation to accommodate him? Tomori should be starting. That system doesn’t suit Bellingham. Why is Mount playing on the left? Why is James Justin playing left wing back? Has he played left wing back for his club? How many times do we need to try this formation when it clearly doesn’t work? That isn’t even the half of it. I could go on. F*** me. It isn’t hard. Play a back 4 with a right back and left back who play there for their clubs, play Rice in front and build from there. All this f****** around with the back line and playing 3 right backs every game has to stop. I’ve said it before (a million times), we won’t win a thing with this moron in charge. The only team better than us on paper in Europe (maybe even in the world), is France. We should be winning things, but we won’t and everybody knows it. It’s a good job I don’t care about our national team otherwise I’d be really mad! Edited June 4, 2022 by Delphinho123 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 16 minutes ago, villarule123 said: I know I'll change my view when the tournament starts, but it almost makes me hope he fails miserably at the World Cup. The fact that he's still the manager, and the whole farce of it being a corrupt winter WC is hardly making me look forward to it. Trying to support England in the Euros was a painful experience due to his piss poor management last summer. There won't even be any Villa players in his squad this time. Makes it easier for me to ignore, plus the obvious reason of it being held in Qatar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted June 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2022 I'm no fan of Sterling in many ways, but the last England game showed that the Bellingham/Grealish/Sterling axis was a tremendous footballing combination. Bellingham's solid play and control of the midfield, Jack's creativity and inch perfect passing and Sterling's one true excellent ability in quick darting runs in behind the defenders and arriving at the right time. Build the team around that, stop letting Sterling think he can do anything else, and we'd have a real shot at the world cup. Other variations exist that we have seen work in fleeting glimpses here and there. So why not go with them? Just why? We've all seen it, we all know what could be achieved with these players. It's just baffling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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