Sorry that all that 'boring,negative football' has passed to your side of the city but - even with 'better' players McLeish will not let them 'cut loose' and actually try and win a game..with his negative tactics last season Blues drew 15 games and only won 8 to send us 'down' again! He will not change his 'let's not lose before we try and win mentality..eventually,this will be his downfall at Villa.He will succeed in getting the wage bill down as instructed but I cannot see him achieving anything else.I really thought he would target a Wembley final in one of the competitions to get you lot 'on his side' but he failed in that as well!! Maybe,just maybe if enough of you 'talk with your feet' your man at the top will get the message.I have to say I think McLeish did us a favour by resigning as the only reason he were'nt sacked for getting us relegated was because the Chinese could not afford to pay him off!!
lionbrad - spot on, excellent article. Don't expect the media to criticise unless they see a team already doomed. The stream I watched yesterday actually had a commentator who was blaming the fans in the ground, saying the lack of support was obviously affecting the team. I think that's the current media line on Villa. And McLeish said he ignored the "disgruntled few" who you'd find in any group of supporters.
If MON had been in charge, we'd have won (and I'm not a MON enthusiast). City are going through a sticky patch, they've some very good players but it's not quite working at the moment. In fact we nearly drew, only a superb save from Hart denied a great strike from Bent, but that was only in the final few minutes when we actually tried to get something from the game.
If Houllier had been in charge, we'd have won. He'd have set out to win from the start. By the way, I gather he was at the match yesterday, presumably to see how we were doing; I wonder what he thought!
I had some hopes a few weeks ago that McLeish had finally seen the light, that he would forge a team which would claim it's proper position in the PL (with our current players, I'd put that as competing for 8th). But those hopes have gone; he's a poor, negative, manager who's 20 years out of date, not good enough for us or any PL team. I hope that sometime, I hope soon, very soon, that he'll go.
Apathy bites as Villa slump into bottom 6
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posted on 13/2/12
Sorry that all that 'boring,negative football' has passed to your side of the city but - even with 'better' players McLeish will not let them 'cut loose' and actually try and win a game..with his negative tactics last season Blues drew 15 games and only won 8 to send us 'down' again! He will not change his 'let's not lose before we try and win mentality..eventually,this will be his downfall at Villa.He will succeed in getting the wage bill down as instructed but I cannot see him achieving anything else.I really thought he would target a Wembley final in one of the competitions to get you lot 'on his side' but he failed in that as well!! Maybe,just maybe if enough of you 'talk with your feet' your man at the top will get the message.I have to say I think McLeish did us a favour by resigning as the only reason he were'nt sacked for getting us relegated was because the Chinese could not afford to pay him off!!
posted on 13/2/12
lionbrad - spot on, excellent article. Don't expect the media to criticise unless they see a team already doomed. The stream I watched yesterday actually had a commentator who was blaming the fans in the ground, saying the lack of support was obviously affecting the team. I think that's the current media line on Villa. And McLeish said he ignored the "disgruntled few" who you'd find in any group of supporters.
If MON had been in charge, we'd have won (and I'm not a MON enthusiast). City are going through a sticky patch, they've some very good players but it's not quite working at the moment. In fact we nearly drew, only a superb save from Hart denied a great strike from Bent, but that was only in the final few minutes when we actually tried to get something from the game.
If Houllier had been in charge, we'd have won. He'd have set out to win from the start. By the way, I gather he was at the match yesterday, presumably to see how we were doing; I wonder what he thought!
I had some hopes a few weeks ago that McLeish had finally seen the light, that he would forge a team which would claim it's proper position in the PL (with our current players, I'd put that as competing for 8th). But those hopes have gone; he's a poor, negative, manager who's 20 years out of date, not good enough for us or any PL team. I hope that sometime, I hope soon, very soon, that he'll go.
posted on 14/2/12
LionBrad - 100% agree.
A concise and entirely accurate summary of how us Villa fans are feeling now!
posted on 17/2/12
Yet they're still denying everything on SportsWitness!
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