Quote from: ozzjim on January 05, 2015, 01:33:34 PMWould not be averse to him coming back at all. Did well as caretaker and was part of the style Houllier was better at implementing than Lambert. I think if we had handelled Houllier's enforced departure better the following years might have been so much easier. For instance, not rushing to get rid of McAllister and therefore when Martinez turned us down, giving McAllister a chance rather than panicking and appointing McLeish. We were playing good football under McAllister and the results were very good.
Would not be averse to him coming back at all. Did well as caretaker and was part of the style Houllier was better at implementing than Lambert.
Quote from: OCD on January 05, 2015, 11:04:18 PMQuote from: ozzjim on January 05, 2015, 01:33:34 PMWould not be averse to him coming back at all. Did well as caretaker and was part of the style Houllier was better at implementing than Lambert. I think if we had handelled Houllier's enforced departure better the following years might have been so much easier. For instance, not rushing to get rid of McAllister and therefore when Martinez turned us down, giving McAllister a chance rather than panicking and appointing McLeish. We were playing good football under McAllister and the results were very good. I think this is a bit of rewriting of history here regarding McAllister when he stepped him although I do accept it was a difficult situation with Houllier taken ill and us still being in a relegation battle. Anyway here they are:Villa 1-1 StokeWBA 2-1 VillaVilla 1-1 WiganArsenal 1-2 VillaVilla 1-0 LiverpoolSo the first 3 are pretty much par for what we've had in the 3 and a half seasons since, frustrating home draws against other relegation struggles and an incredible defeat to West Brom, a game we were leading, West Brom went down to 10 men and we somehow lost. Not helped by one of the worst subs I've ever seen a Villa manager make at 1-1 when he brought on Pires who singlehandly slowed down every single attack we had.The last two were good but total flukes as it was completely out of kilter with how we'd defended for the previous 36 games for a start. If that was the level we'd reached for even half the games that season we'd have finished top 6 no problem.
Few samples of post match threads under G Mac...http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=43361.0http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=43273.0http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=43206.0Nothing ever really changes does it?!
I fucking hate the team, most of the squad, the management. Never seen a team with less collective balls in villa colours. In retrospect it was clear that players would do fuck all for McAllister, and then he further hamstrings us with a retarded substitution. I hope they slash and burn this summer, players and management, and start again, and not in fucking August. If Randy is not decisive this summer in cutting out the shite I will have finally gone from pro to anti. We are where we are because GH/GM was a mistake, which was not rectified, and far, far shitter teams with better managers are making mugs of us all over the place. What a massive pile of fucking shit of a season.
Wish we could shoehorn Hoddle in to coach the "passing game" then fuck Lambert off and appoint him head coach
Mike Phelan would be great but he's stepped up as caretaker at Naarwich (caretaker manager, not caretaker like the bloke from Tony Hart).
Quote from: SoccerHQ on January 05, 2015, 11:46:25 PMQuote from: OCD on January 05, 2015, 11:04:18 PMQuote from: ozzjim on January 05, 2015, 01:33:34 PMWould not be averse to him coming back at all. Did well as caretaker and was part of the style Houllier was better at implementing than Lambert. I think if we had handelled Houllier's enforced departure better the following years might have been so much easier. For instance, not rushing to get rid of McAllister and therefore when Martinez turned us down, giving McAllister a chance rather than panicking and appointing McLeish. We were playing good football under McAllister and the results were very good. I think this is a bit of rewriting of history here regarding McAllister when he stepped him although I do accept it was a difficult situation with Houllier taken ill and us still being in a relegation battle. Anyway here they are:Villa 1-1 StokeWBA 2-1 VillaVilla 1-1 WiganArsenal 1-2 VillaVilla 1-0 LiverpoolSo the first 3 are pretty much par for what we've had in the 3 and a half seasons since, frustrating home draws against other relegation struggles and an incredible defeat to West Brom, a game we were leading, West Brom went down to 10 men and we somehow lost. Not helped by one of the worst subs I've ever seen a Villa manager make at 1-1 when he brought on Pires who singlehandly slowed down every single attack we had.The last two were good but total flukes as it was completely out of kilter with how we'd defended for the previous 36 games for a start. If that was the level we'd reached for even half the games that season we'd have finished top 6 no problem.I wouldn't say the Liverpool win was a total fluke, as we deserved that win. What a great afternoon that was - us beating them and Blues being relegated in the dying minutes of the season.
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