Open advice to AM

[batucada]

1. Football is a simple game. The team that gets the ball the most times in their opponent's goal wins the game.
2. If your side have the ball it's almost impossible for the other team to score. Therefore,to keep hoofing the ball out of defence and giving it back to the other side is not very smart as the team that's got the ball are the team who can score.
3. Most goals are scored by a player with the ball in the penalty box. Therefore if you dont get players into the box with the ball it's very difficult to score a goal.
We could also go on to talk about motivation and self belief but perhaps we should just start with the above for the time being.

[rutski]

yawn

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I do hope Mr Mcleish reads this advice. It is obvious he has little experience of what happens in a football game.


 Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1978–1994 Aberdeen 493 (25)
1994–1995 Motherwell 3 (0)
Total  496 (25)
National team
 Scotland U-21 6 (0)
1980–1993 Scotland[1] 77 (0)
Teams managed
1994–1998 Motherwell
1998–2001 Hibernian
2001–2006 Rangers
2007 Scotland
2007–2011 Birmingham City
2011– Aston Villa

[Chris Smith]

Open question to Batucada; do you seriously think we're currently in a position to go to Spurs and dominate possession, whoever the manager?

[Dave Cooper please]

Oh God, will it ever end?

[Risso]

Open question to Chris Smith:

Do you not think your views would be taken more seriously if you'd watched the match?

[UsualSuspect]

I do hope Mr Mcleish reads this advice. It is obvious he has little experience of what happens in a football game.


 Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1978–1994 Aberdeen 493 (25)
1994–1995 Motherwell 3 (0)
Total  496 (25)
National team
 Scotland U-21 6 (0)
1980–1993 Scotland[1] 77 (0)
Teams managed
1994–1998 Motherwell
1998–2001 Hibernian
2001–2006 Rangers
2007 Scotland
2007–2011 Birmingham City
2011– Aston Villa

For all of his experience i think AM hasn't got a basic grasp of tactics.

Heskey is not a midfielder
Hutton is not a midfielder
Bannan is not a right winger
Nzogbia is better on the left

Very basic but to AM it may as well be Nuclear physics

You forgot to add that Rangers worst ever run of league games without a win was under the fuckwit and Rangers finished 3rd

[andrew08]

He was also in charge of a team that bucked a 100 year trend of FA by winning a trophy.

[Greg N'Ash]

I do hope Mr Mcleish reads this advice. It is obvious he has little experience of what happens in a football game.


 Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1978–1994 Aberdeen 493 (25)
1994–1995 Motherwell 3 (0)
Total  496 (25)
National team
 Scotland U-21 6 (0)
1980–1993 Scotland[1] 77 (0)
Teams managed
1994–1998 Motherwell
1998–2001 Hibernian
2001–2006 Rangers
2007 Scotland
2007–2011 Birmingham City
2011– Aston Villa

well a career in scotland and the blose. you could say he's a complete beginner

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I do hope Mr Mcleish reads this advice. It is obvious he has little experience of what happens in a football game.


 Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1978–1994 Aberdeen 493 (25)
1994–1995 Motherwell 3 (0)
Total  496 (25)
National team
 Scotland U-21 6 (0)
1980–1993 Scotland[1] 77 (0)
Teams managed
1994–1998 Motherwell
1998–2001 Hibernian
2001–2006 Rangers
2007 Scotland
2007–2011 Birmingham City
2011– Aston Villa

well a career in scotland and the blose. you could say he's a complete beginner

Argue all you like about Mcleish not being a good enough manager for the  Villa job, but re-read the initial statement made by Batucada.
The inference is that Mcleish knows no more about the basics of football than someone who has never taken even a cursory interest in the game. In my book, that is not constructive criticism or debate but simply pointless and semi abusive.
With regards to most of someones experience being in Scotland making them a beginner, its seemed to be a fairly sound sound grounding for Ferguson and a few others.

[Greg N'Ash]

yeah i wasan't being serious to be honest

[Risso]

I do hope Mr Mcleish reads this advice. It is obvious he has little experience of what happens in a football game.


 Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1978–1994 Aberdeen 493 (25)
1994–1995 Motherwell 3 (0)
Total  496 (25)
National team
 Scotland U-21 6 (0)
1980–1993 Scotland[1] 77 (0)
Teams managed
1994–1998 Motherwell
1998–2001 Hibernian
2001–2006 Rangers
2007 Scotland
2007–2011 Birmingham City
2011– Aston Villa

My five year old daughter - no football experience other than kicking a Toy Story ball around the garden.  Even she wouldn't have picked Hutton at right midfield.

[pauliewalnuts]

Open question to Batucada; do you seriously think we're currently in a position to go to Spurs and dominate possession, whoever the manager?

Yes, that's what people have been doing - screaming blue murder about our failure to dominate possession.

Honest, Chris, I am a great admirer of your work, but you're having an absolute nightmare on this one.

[Fasth56]

Open question to Batucada; do you seriously think we're currently in a position to go to Spurs and dominate possession, whoever the manager?

Chris, we are an established premiership side, clearly we should be able to do it. Swansea(championship last season) went to Anfield and enjoyed 55% possession.

[jonavfcc]

Open question to Batucada; do you seriously think we're currently in a position to go to Spurs and dominate possession, whoever the manager?

Do you think its ok to go to spurs  and just sit back all game? If Villa took your attitude we wouldn't even be in the premier league and its sad to see that in recent years we have gone to old trafford, anfield, stamford bridge etc. and showed no fear and shocked a lot of people yet we go to spurs on monday have hutton on the wing heskey on the other wing and show no intention of ever going forward?