USA_Villa Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 48 minutes ago, Jas10 said: Never known a manager to spout so much BS… it’s all WORSE NOW! I can't believe this guy, he throws everybody under the bus. It's just one big blame game. He's now started on Dean and Shaky. OMG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 minute ago, USA_Villa said: I can't believe this guy, he throws everybody under the bus. It's just one big blame game. He's now started on Dean and Shaky. OMG Why is he even mentioning stuff like that. Desperation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishVilla10 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 52 minutes ago, Jas10 said: Never known a manager to spout so much BS… it’s all WORSE NOW! Ah brilliant, we don’t win games, we can’t score goals, 4 points off bottom but we top the confidence and belief charts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Following on from the tweet above I officially declare “HAHA” a whopper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Imagine how shite we'd be had the confidence and belief not been rescued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Jas10 said: Never known a manager to spout so much BS… it’s all WORSE NOW! What a prick. Worry about your reputation Steve. **** him off for the love of God. Starting to actually hate him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Jas10 said: Excuses, excuses So I guess we can’t judge Forest as a newly promoted side either as they spent money. Absolute clown. Comical how transparent he is now being in trying to destroy any form of expectation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, penguin said: So I guess we can’t judge Forest as a newly promoted side either as they spent money. Absolute clown. Comical how transparent he is now being in trying to destroy any form of expectation. To be fair, I think what he probably meant was just is that we can't under estimate them. Which is true, and goes for any side in the League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbcuk Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 (edited) 29 minutes ago, sne said: Steve Bruce Mk II, the only update is the hair. It's uncanny. Edited October 20, 2022 by rbcuk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 29 minutes ago, sne said: Steve Bruce Mk II, the only update is the hair. It's uncanny. He's Steve Bruce and Mark Hughes doing the fusion dance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 We thought he’d use as as a stepping stone to the Liverpool job… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viivvaa66 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 17 minutes ago, penguin said: So I guess we can’t judge Forest as a newly promoted side either as they spent money. Absolute clown. Comical how transparent he is now being in trying to destroy any form of expectation. All managers say something respectful about the opposition, even Pep does that. Yes, it would have been more entertaining if they done some proper fighting talk like: I don’t understand why we have to play those losers, just give us the 3 points Not sure how that collection of overweight amateurs are able to call them self premier league players It seems like everybody can become managers these days, XXX shouldn’t even be allowed to coach a pub team. So this is not something to criticise Gerrard about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted October 20, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2022 20 hours ago, nick76 said: Like what? He’s the man completely in charge on the training ground. If the dynamics aren’t working then it’s his responsibility to fix them. You think of any type of issue…..then when you think about it it’s in his control. I can’t think of anything that isn’t. If I knew, I wouldn't ask. It's speculative.. I'm not really talking about what he controls or doesn't, but what might be happening that the public and media can't see or may not know about. Just curious about people's thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 10 minutes ago, viivvaa66 said: All managers say something respectful about the opposition, even Pep does that. Yes, it would have been more entertaining if they done some proper fighting talk like: I don’t understand why we have to play those losers, just give us the 3 points Not sure how that collection of overweight amateurs are able to call them self premier league players It seems like everybody can become managers these days, XXX shouldn’t even be allowed to coach a pub team. So this is not something to criticise Gerrard about. Well you’ve taken that to quite the logical extreme, there is a whole gulf in between there. Devoid of any context though, sure I can see how it could just read as a BAU pre-match quote, if not a little odd. But in the context of quotes all within a week of: “Chelsea should be coming to Villa Park and wiping the floor with us”. Him favourable comparing the situation now to when he took over. Now our next opposition can’t be judged as newly promoted side. All taken together absolutely reeks of a man desperate to lower expectations to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 A Gerrard pre match presser: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Here's some context Gerrard, you're shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsky_11 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, penguin said: “Chelsea should be coming to Villa Park and wiping the floor with us”. This was in response to question about Potter and what his expectations would be from their fans, etc. If anything its about putting more pressure on them than us, because I doubt Gerrard was saying the same to our players. They didn't. They were lucky to get a result in the end and our performance was very good. Non issue. 12 minutes ago, penguin said: Him favourable comparing the situation now to when he took over. He's right in the specific terms he mentioned. We are 6 points from last 5 games, and were unlucky it wasn't more. That is better than 0 points from 5 games and having deserved that return from them. Wider context sure that's less the case. Longer term form compared to where Smith is about the same in terms of points return. We are absolutely better defensively than Smith's team and consistely have been under Gerrard. We are cleary worse in forward areas than under Smith (at least when we had Grealish. Without him, less so.) though until this season we were on the whole trending upwards in this area. But clearly Gerrard is going to try and back himself and try and highlight what positives he can. Be weird if he didn't 18 minutes ago, penguin said: Now our next opposition can’t be judged as newly promoted side. Same kinda shite most manager's come out with at most press conferences. "Opposition are better than you might think so we need to be prepared, can't expect anything to come easy." Keeps own players focused. Puts more expectation on opposition. Non issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 39 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said: If I knew, I wouldn't ask. It's speculative.. I'm not really talking about what he controls or doesn't, but what might be happening that the public and media can't see or may not know about. Just curious about people's thoughts. That’s the problem, other people have used the excuse (not you) to defend him saying we don’t know if something going on at the training ground or elsewhere. Yet when I ask like what, in terms of the training ground, which he fully controls, nobody seems to have anything. He controls the training ground, if there is a problem it’s under his control. I think sometimes we are trying to find an excuse aside from the obvious of just poor coaching. If somebody had a real other excuse then fine but something we can’t think of, something the media don’t know about just seems unlikely now that would have such an affect to the squad and the performances for so long in real matches. Plus if there was don’t we think the CEO and owners would’ve gotten involved, we haven’t heard anything like that. Just poor coaching! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Rare footage of Gerrard making his team selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 He is basically a Lada. Think we need a better car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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