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Author Topic: Alex McLeish - Thank You.  (Read 11056 times)

Offline Mortimer's Bear

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2012, 09:00:21 PM »
As it happens I thought we played as I hoped we'd played under TSM, we'd sacrifice quality for workrate and guts. I wish him well in his next job, wrong man, wrong club, wrong time.

I'm not sure I'd agree about us having much 'workrate'. We often gave up at half time and always seemed to slow down and die off.

He's saying it's how he hoped we'd play under TSM, not how we did.

He said he thought we played as he'd hoped.

Unless he's on about the Swansea game, not last season in general. In which case, I'm a muppet who assumed the wrong context.

Ah right, I read it as we played against Swansea on Saturday how he'd imagine we'd play last season under you know who.

Offline PeterWithe

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2012, 09:09:38 PM »
That's what I meant.

Offline hawkeye

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2012, 09:20:05 PM »
There is allready a Hollman thread pls lock

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2012, 10:08:52 PM »
I was shocked that he wasn't even in the top 3 players for distance covered in yesterday's game. Bannan covered the most ground 6.76 miles, KEA 6.74 & Lowton 6.18.

He didn't play the whole game though. And as others have said I think it's the intensity with which he harries the ball more than ground covered.

Offline gervilla

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2012, 10:30:01 PM »
Thank you for being so shit that the nightmare only lasted for one sorry season....and for Bret Holman.
That doesn't level it out though.

Offline not3bad

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2012, 11:05:35 PM »
I as actually thinking last night that TSM might still have his job at Villa if he had kept Guzan in goal.

Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2012, 11:06:43 PM »
I as actually thinking last night that TSM might still have his job at Villa if he had kept Guzan in goal.

As I've said before - Bent stayed fit, four or five goals in the right games and we'd have been safely in mid-table.

Offline not3bad

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2012, 11:10:28 PM »
Margins for error.  Always very slim.  But I'm glad things have turned out as they have.  Especially as I watch Benteke scoring on Match of the Day 2!

Offline Chipsticks

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2012, 11:11:03 PM »
I as actually thinking last night that TSM might still have his job at Villa if he had kept Guzan in goal.

As I've said before - Bent stayed fit, four or five goals in the right games and we'd have been safely in mid-table.

I wonder where we'd be now if we'd finished mid-table. TSM would still be manager, and it would be interesting to see who he would've signed. We'd probably struggle to break into the top half, and I could easily see us having a poor second season.

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2012, 11:12:06 PM »
I as actually thinking last night that TSM might still have his job at Villa if he had kept Guzan in goal.

As I've said before - Bent stayed fit, four or five goals in the right games and we'd have been safely in mid-table.

I wonder where we'd be now if we'd finished mid-table. TSM would still be manager, and it would be interesting to see who he would've signed. We'd probably struggle to break into the top half, and I could easily see us having a poor second season.

Whatever would have happened, it turned out for the best.

Offline Chipsticks

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2012, 11:16:55 PM »
I as actually thinking last night that TSM might still have his job at Villa if he had kept Guzan in goal.

As I've said before - Bent stayed fit, four or five goals in the right games and we'd have been safely in mid-table.

I wonder where we'd be now if we'd finished mid-table. TSM would still be manager, and it would be interesting to see who he would've signed. We'd probably struggle to break into the top half, and I could easily see us having a poor second season.

Whatever would have happened, it turned out for the best.

Agreed. It's nice to have everyone behind the manager.

Offline not3bad

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2012, 11:24:30 PM »
Of course to Randy Lerner and Paul Faulkner, thank you Alex Mcleish means thank you for successfully lowering our expectations.  Hardly anybody thinks Villa should finish top 6 this season.

Of course next season may be different.  Hopefully.

Offline sonlyme

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2012, 12:09:54 AM »
Take his face off the screen. I don't want to see it.

Certainly - now is it the one on the left or the one on the right...?

I apologise and from now on will only use the following image and the letters TSM in all correspondence.




Let me finish by saying all's well that end's well.
TSM has gone - we have a vibrant and dynamic new manager, who spots talent early and then gets the best out of it.  Once again - round VP the future looks bright.
So no more TSM posts - promise.

There is allready a Hollman thread pls lock

Are you a moderator?
Is it that you dislike my posts?
You are aware of the Holman thread - yet you seem not to have added a comment to it.
Yet take the time to comment here?
Puzzling?

Offline eamonn

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2012, 12:10:08 AM »
Great opening post - agreed, it should go in the fanzine. Not sure I'm gonna have a ham sambo for lunch tomorrow though.

Offline mattjpa

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Re: Alex McLeish - Thank You.
« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2012, 06:41:04 AM »
There is allready a Hollman thread pls lock

Why? It's an excellent piece of writing that has sparked a positive, healthy debate about Aston villa on an Aston villa forum. Don't be a martyr....

 


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