screwdriver Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 It's worth investing the big money just to get back in the big time. If you're half arsed about doing it by getting lower league managers and pray it works out.......thats what I call a massive spunk! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, screwdriver said: It's worth investing the big money just to get back in the big time. If you're half arsed about doing it by getting lower league managers and pray it works out.......thats what I call a massive spunk! the big money like on Ross McCormack, Scott Hogan, Bolasie? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwdriver Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 spunk money on proven talent. look a all the shit goaly's we've got? 4 utter garbage keepers. They're just pulling names out of a hat. press and guess. Get heaton in on loan. Pay the going rate. He's worth 10 points a season with clean sheets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Listening to Shearer describe Wolves' players on MOTD.....'all comfortable on the ball'....how many of our players can you say are comfortable on the ball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 30 minutes ago, wilko154 said: I'm so confused by this... You want to play one winger? That would be a really unbalanced formation ?! i was thinking more you can't have two out and out wingers that don't track back and have two full backs that can't defend. I presume Dean swapped El Ghazi for Adomah as Adomah usually tracks back and is more wide man than out and out winger (mainly because he is too crap to be a proper winger). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwdriver Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Im sure we won the league with only one winger morley. The other "wide" guy bremmer was a box to box grafter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravillahope Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 31 minutes ago, screwdriver said: We should of gone all out to get brendan rogers. Blow celtic out of the water with compo. Yes we need to build for the future. But we need to be in the prem before we end up like Accrington Stanley. Their nativity means we are stranded in the hellish purgatory that is the sky bet championship. Leave Celtic for Villa..... You're having a laugh!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwdriver Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 McGinn turned down celtic for Villa. That league is tinpot every one knows it. He fluttered his eyelids at us but we flapped it. He knew it was time to go Rangers are poised to dominate for a few years now. Gerrards time now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 13 minutes ago, New_Hope said: Listening to Shearer describe Wolves' players on MOTD.....'all comfortable on the ball'....how many of our players can you say are comfortable on the ball? You haven't seen a Neil Taylor throw in. Guys so comfortable on the ball he wants to take it home with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravillahope Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 My first choice to replace Bruce would have been Rodgers although I was never sure that he would leave a champions league team for a toxic mess of a championship side and I wasn't surprised that Smith got the job. I see his appointment in two ways, firstly totally unconvinced that he's the man to take us up such a massive jump in club size and fan expectation but on the flip side maybe the right and clever appointment in getting us a championship manager for a championship club which some need to get used too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 26 minutes ago, screwdriver said: spunk money on proven talent. look a all the shit goaly's we've got? 4 utter garbage keepers. They're just pulling names out of a hat. press and guess. Get heaton in on loan. Pay the going rate. He's worth 10 points a season with clean sheets. The goalkeeper is the least of our worries right now. Heaton is now Burnley's first choice keeper, they aren't going to let him go out on loan. We've also just spent 6 million on Kalinic who is a very good keeper, why would we waste anymore money?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NurembergVillan Posted January 19, 2019 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2019 51 minutes ago, screwdriver said: Their nativity means we are stranded in the hellish purgatory that is the sky bet championship. 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sam3773 Posted January 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2019 Steve Bruce, a well known defensive manager, had 11 league games this season with us. The team kept 1 clean sheet and shipped 18 goals. 1.6 goals per game conceded. Smith has had 16 league games, conceding 25 goals with 5 clean sheets. 1.6 goals per game conceded. Both were without Tuanzebe at CB - Bruce out of choice, Smith out of force. Both conceding 1.6 goals on average. Scored? Well in Bruce's 11 we scored 19 goals or 1.7 average. Under Smith's 16 we've scored 31 goals or 1.9 on average. So what have we learned? Well we knew the defense Bruce put in was rubbish and that's still the case. Naturally, we haven't signed any starting defenders yet. Naturally we are scoring slightly more under Smith. Not much though and considering the injury to Grealish isn't awful. I dunno, it's almost like both managers are using the same squad of limited, somewhat aging players and what we need is a period of stability under a proper coach for, say, longer than 15 bloody weeks. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7392craig Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 I know it seems like a small detail, but I always worry about managers when results are going bad, and they say the players have got good character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avcol Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 6 hours ago, romavillan said: Ok, i agree about the youth, we'll might as well. the stuff about the plan not working for weeks though, its the same plan that totally turned the club around and produced some of the best football we've played for years. plus today he switched to a flatish 4-4-2 so that looks like another option. We've won one game in almost two months. It hasn't worked since the loss of Grealish and Tuanzebe. Maybe he could start a game with a different formation rather than us salvaging a draw once the system has changed. We will begin the next game with the same old team when it's crying out for a bit of a mix up. Players aren't punished for awful performances. 8 points from our last 8 games. We all know the famous Einstein quote. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 10 minutes ago, Avcol said: 8 points from our last 8 games. We all know the famous Einstein quote. That we do... A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avcol Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 3 hours ago, 7392craig said: I know it seems like a small detail, but I always worry about managers when results are going bad, and they say the players have got good character. I worry that he's a bit of a soft touch, he's said a few times the players have good character and are 'training well'. It's ok after a match pointing out where we went wrong and that we were sloppy in possession blah blah blah but it's the same dialogue week in, week out. Do something about it man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-R Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 5 hours ago, screwdriver said: It's worth investing the big money just to get back in the big time. If you're half arsed about doing it by getting lower league managers and pray it works out.......thats what I call a massive spunk! No way, we have invested big money under bruce and many before and look at the squad we have. Don't see why doing more of what has failed us is suddenly going to change our luck. We have a massive wage bill, massive pile of players who don't seem to want to play there hearts out for a club they so often say they love. I see championship players and even league two players, playing with more ambition than what our first teamers are. I bet any money that there are tons of players out there who would give anything to be in there shoes and play a hundred times better. Our players are the problem and ok they came from behind today but the out lining problem is that we have a squad that just isn't clicking, moulding together to get the job done. Do you really want to invest heavy knowing our parachute payements are gone soon, risk it all on more players coming here with negative attitudes. We won't go up if we risk big investment after big investment, we have to bring players in who want to be here for the rite reasons, play football because they see this club as there future and want to take the club further. Basically Grealish and Mcginn are the types of player we need at villa, we can take our time finding them,it's best we do that so long as they are rite for the club and they come here witj the rite mentality. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 6 hours ago, New_Hope said: Listening to Shearer describe Wolves' players on MOTD.....'all comfortable on the ball'....how many of our players can you say are comfortable on the ball? Then why doesn't DS adapt his tactics and play to their strengths instead of their weaknesses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Because we get the same turgid shit that Bruce gave us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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