Maybe some of our prospects should have stopped at the club, and been coached and given game time so they are exactly as the manager wants them for next season. Now there’s a crazy idea!!
Watch Norwich's goal at Bolton. That's why you stick by a good idea, even during the lean times. Sensational football.
Quote from: Ads on February 16, 2019, 10:36:07 PMWatch Norwich's goal at Bolton. That's why you stick by a good idea, even during the lean times. Sensational football. You could probably list more clubs that stuck with managers and it got worse. We need to see signs of a plan, of players improving and of good purchases. So far Smith has been abject, his impact is similar to that of Garde except Smith has had the thick end of £10m to spend.We cant just trust if enough time is given the manager will come good, look at Lambert, Bruce, McCleish. You can't just cite Fergusson took 7 years at Man U to win anything. There are plenty of examples of clubs that chop and change managers until they get it right that do very well. Look at Wolves for instance, do you think their fans wish they had given Zenga or Lambert more time? If no improvement happens in the next 4-5 games we need to get rid.
I like Andre Green but don't think he's any good.
Quote from: ASHTONVILLA on February 16, 2019, 11:09:11 PMQuote from: Ads on February 16, 2019, 10:36:07 PMWatch Norwich's goal at Bolton. That's why you stick by a good idea, even during the lean times. Sensational football. You could probably list more clubs that stuck with managers and it got worse. We need to see signs of a plan, of players improving and of good purchases. So far Smith has been abject, his impact is similar to that of Garde except Smith has had the thick end of £10m to spend.We cant just trust if enough time is given the manager will come good, look at Lambert, Bruce, McCleish. You can't just cite Fergusson took 7 years at Man U to win anything. There are plenty of examples of clubs that chop and change managers until they get it right that do very well. Look at Wolves for instance, do you think their fans wish they had given Zenga or Lambert more time? If no improvement happens in the next 4-5 games we need to get rid.And get killed in the rush of top-quality applicants for a job where one manager out of the previous five will have lasted more than a year.
But these performances are new level low bad, and it's not as though it's a couple of games. Yes of course sitting at Chelsea through all 8 goals was awful but they had Hazard, Lampard, etc, whch is incomparable to what Wigan put out six weeks ago against us. This is far, far worse.14 games is a long run for performances of this particular level of to go on for. There have been no glimmers of hope or anything to latch onto. To go into Wigan away using the same formation after the Swansea cup game seemed silly at the time, but to then play the Hull game with the same formation and so on, and so on. People say he needs his own players, but you can't go through a whole season using only one tactic if you want to be successful. Teams will work you out and it's too easy to prepare for. We sign a load of players to play this 4-3-3, one or two get injured, and we're stuffed again next season. It's not stupid to say that because the evidence is there from this season to show he can't handle it. And that has to be considered when it comes to deciding whether he should be given time. So far he's failing massively. The players might well have their faults but they are not THIS bad.And people say no short term fix is good. Well you're a lot better off getting promoted and coming back down because you get the parachute payments again. Get promoted with a short term fix if needs be (just because Bruce didn't work doesn't mean somebody else might not), then look to do the rebuild and change the philosophy of the club, not go for a long term solution with a manager who evidently isn't up to the job and is currently cementing us as a lower end of the championship side. Crystal Palace took 4 weeks to sack De Boer when they realised they'd got it wrong. We have got this one wrong, and there is no point giving the wrong person time. Yes the merry go round of Villa managers needs to stop, but only when we find the right person, and that is looking more certain that that person isn't Dean Smith