Yet more de-Pression.

[dave.woodhall]

www.thebirminghampress.com/2012/02/27/on-the-ropes/

[pestria]

Spot on Dave.

The constant reversion to type will ultimately be the reason thousands more fans stay away over the remaining games of the season and next unless he's replaced.   It's also the reason he's always destined to be a failure at Villa.

In a season where a handful of wins will gain a comfortable mid table position surely it's better to die on your legs than trying to live on your knees.

[German James]

Agree entirely. It's quite baffling, with the players we've got, why he approaches so many games as if he's only fielding nine men, all of them defenders. He must be lacking in confidence to apparently have so little faith in his attackers OR his own ability to get them to take the game to the opposition.

[dicedlam]

I can see the comparisions in mentality with Audley Harrison, but are you saying that Alex is immensely talented?

[dave.woodhall]

I can see the comparisions in mentality with Audley Harrison, but are you saying that Alex is immensely talented?

You can't be daft to get where he's got. Whatever his failings, he's still played & managed at the top level for years. In the same way Audley gets called a failure even though he's achieved more than a fraction of 1% of boxers ever do. 

[Mazrim]

Audley Harrison does have a letter from Lennox Lewis saying how good he is.

[Simon Ward]

Audley Harrison does have a letter from Lennox Lewis saying how good he is.

I received a letter from Father Christmas once, saying how good I'd been that year!

Not really a great recommendation is it? As usual Mr Woodhall has hit the nail on the head.

[MadJohnnyC]

I like the comparison to Audley. Pretty much hits the nail on the head for me.

[KevinGage]

I think that letter cringefest was the first time I actually had serious misgivings about RL.

An appointment as woeful as McLeish was OK because Siralex liked him.
He also seemed to be swayed by the nice things McLeish had said about the Villa anytime we had turned B-lose over. Which was often, pre GH and Ginge.

Had he been the owner of Middlesborough or Bolton in the mid noughties, DOL would have been headhunted.  I wish O'Leary had been headhunted, as it happens.  By one of those tribes out in Burma.

[Legion]

Excellent analogy.

[Simba]

Again. Very good. Keep it up.

[Witton Warrior]

Alway like reading these Dave for the style and balance not the outcomes reported.

Your last paragraph reminds me of when I was a kid and didn't like competition until one fella said "you hate losing more than you like winning" - so I gave it a go. Wasn't brilliant at anything but had lot of fun and even ended up running some events. Maybe AM needs to just have a go?

[MarkM]

"Audley Harrison.  Olympic gold medallist, immensely talented, he goes into the ring looking every inch a potential world heavyweight champion"

You must have seen something that I didn't!

[Legion]

"Audley Harrison.  Olympic gold medallist, immensely talented, he goes into the ring looking every inch a potential world heavyweight champion"

You must have seen something that I didn't!

I see a clueless oaf that is well out of his depth. Oh...

[ROBBO]

His body language says it all, he looks haunted, i think he knows he's out of his depth but doesn't know what to do about it, he would be better of managing a lower division side but give him enough time and it could be us.