thefeet1980 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Credit where credit's due. Great result. Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyOne Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I was pulling my hair out before he made the subs. I thought here we go.... But yeah, credit where credit is due for this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 No critique Tonight. Not only have we beaten Chelsea 3-1, but he did it with a lot of positives. Bent left hungry on the bench, Ireland putting in his best performance yet, our defending was much, much better (apart from Dunne's foul in the box), Clark playing the whole game and Bannan & Gardner getting appearances. It wasn't the prettiest of 3-1 victories, but a win is a win and the goals were taken excellently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanvilla_1994 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Fair play to the man he got it spot on today IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moorski Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Credit where it due today a great result,hopefully we can build on it we need a home win badly now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 More of that please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Bear Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 This thread should be locked for a week. Got everything absolutely perfectly right today. Fantastic team line-up and substitutions. Well done Eck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Even more impressive given it was against the amazing bestest tacticalist manager everest in the world Andres Villa Boas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Well done to AM. Just hope it isn't back to the norm after this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Great today every player was good no criticism of anybody, hopefully this was the change we need. Win vs Swansea and we can dream of Champions League again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Fair play to him. Much improved over the last 3 games. 23 points halfway through the season is far from great but its 3 points up on this stage last season when we had Ash and Downing. Shows how shit we were last season I guess. We have Swansea, Everton, Wolves and QPR as our next 4 games. Three of them at home. Hopefully we can continue to play as we have in recent games and get ourselves up in to the top 7/8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Best manager we've ever had. What a man! i kid of course, although great result. Just now need to start picking up points consistently and my opinion will change. Come on Alex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floridavillan Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Great match today at Chelsea. Well done McLeish! Since the Arsenal match we've looked like a team with a backbone! UTV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villianusa Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I have lost a lot of faith in AM since the start of the season; he earned some back today. He has started to get it right over the last few games. Well done to Alex and the team today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyOne Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I hope once Herd is available again he'll put him at RB and Cuellar in the middle. There's still the concern of Warnock and to a certain extent Dunne's prone mistakes, but at least our defence will improve. Leave Clark in the midfield, we look so much better wtih him there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis_B Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 If only he could get something productive from our No 10 - he is anonymous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I honestly thought he was never going to make those subs . So he surprised me and got it right. He had the team pretty much bang on in terms of set up and we played very well today and were worthy winners. Whatever Chelsea problems are we played very well. It is the first proper result we have had under McLeish . It has been his best day. Has to keep us playing more like this consistently and he will win over ppl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 He had the team pretty much bang on in terms of set up and we played very well today and were worthy winners. Whatever Chelsea problems are we played very well this. we went there and made them look very ordinary and toothless at time. Under circumstances probably best away performance since winning at Old Trafford. Also good to see we came from behind as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetrees Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I honestly thought he was never going to make those subs . So he surprised me and got it right. He had the team pretty much bang on in terms of set up and we played very well today and were worthy winners. Whatever Chelsea problems are we played very well. It is the first proper result we have had under McLeish . It has been his best day. Has to keep us playing more like this consistently and he will win over ppl. He has my support because he is our manager. I have no problem about where he came from, or what he did to his previous club. I also think that he is a pretty honest and decent bloke. But he will never 'win me over' because the style of football is exactly like O'Neill's, who didn't 'win me over' for the same reason. I hope that, for the good of stability at our club, McLeish stays at our club for a decent length of time, but I will never stop praying for the day when a 'footballing' manager takes charge of our team once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LambStockmix Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 There is a hell of a lot more work that needs to be done but today was nothing less than an outstanding result. I was convinced AMC would repeat his same old mistake of not trying to win games in the last 20 minutes that were there for the taking, I was ranting like a bastard in the match thread. However for the first time he did what everyone has been wanting him to do all season and actually went for it. He must get credit for that. If he continues with this attitude then I have no problem with him. Other pluses were him keeping Hutton out the team. I worry that with another game in a couple of days time we won't be able to keep the same team? Benty will come in hopefully but let's pray AMC keeps in the current heroes; Cuellar, Ireland, Clark. Maybe drop zog though. BETTER. Up The Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts