Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: The Villa Werewolf on April 11, 2011, 11:24:55 AM
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I'm in the select band of Villa fans who actually quite like Robbie Savage, but I was slightly irked by his comments about us last night.
He said something like: 'Villa are lucky this season because they're a poor side, they're just fortunate there's three sides even worse than them'.
Last season, 18th place was Burnley with 30 points. The season before, Newcastle were 18th with 34 points.
We've got 37 points with six games to go, and still aren't safe. In what f**king way are we 'lucky'?
Have I just bitten on another of his trademark wind-ups?
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missing half your players for half of a season is not lucky.
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You've bitten.
Although he was caught out himself by Barton. How riled did he sound during the assessment of his performance?
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He was just trying to be controversial. See his comments about Barton too.
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Robbie Savage's mouth is not connected to his brain so I wouldn't take any notice of anything he ever says.
In an era of BBC cutbacks I can only presume he's a very cheap option.
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He said something like: 'Villa are lucky this season because they're a poor side, they're just fortunate there's three sides even worse than them'.
It's all comparative and we may have more points than others in other seasons, but then the relative strenght of the league has averages out this season. Personally I think he's a hateful spunk monkey but he's right on this point - we've been woeful!
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Savage can barely string a sentence together. How he gets media work is beyond me, and it's even more baffling that it's the BBC who's employing him. Talk about dumbing down!
Hopefully he'll go the way of Ian Wright pretty soon and we'll never hear him in the media again.
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I didn't hear a word Savage said; I was too busy staring open-mouthed at his outfit.
I think you'd struggle to find a more unluckier team in the Premier League all season than us, whether it's the injury problems we had for half the campaign or the number of times we've hit the woodwork (highest in the league, last time I checked).
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I tend to take what Robbie says with a pinch of salt although he made me laugh when on about Joey Barton claiming to be the best midfielder in the country.
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I didn't hear a word Savage said; I was too busy staring open-mouthed at his outfit.
Had to laugh when Colin Murray called him 'the man from Del Monte'!
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You've bitten.
Although he was caught out himself by Barton. How riled did he sound during the assessment of his performance?
I thought that too, he obviously doesn't like Barton.
He's just an ex bluenose, who always get's abuse at VP and occasionally nutted, i guess he has his reasons for not liking us.
meh!
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Savage is a bell end
He's just bitter he never got to play for us
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Id take Savage over Alan luntcugs Green or the new face(?!) of Sky Gary Neville anyday. He is passionate, and opinionated, and usually good value. I think the tongue is clamped firmly in the mouth most of the time. I would say that for the squad we have, we have been the most disappointing in the league this year, but thats more comparing the promise to the results. There are far more than three worse squads than us in the league, Wigan, Blackpool, Birmingham, West Ham, Blackburn, Sunderland, Birmingham, Newcastle, Wolves, Birmingham spring to mind immediately.
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I don't mind him if I'm honest. He is an amusing caricature. I was amazed by his outfit too.
He wasn't wrong. We have been terrible this season and underperformed massively if you consider the nature of performances even with everyone fit (We were probably better when we had our injuries). Usually there is a dire team who go down easily with three or four bad teams who are in the shit until the end of the season when two go down. This year it is more six or seven bad teams all of whom are thanking the lord that they have a better chance of being safe.
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I don't mind him if I'm honest. He is an amusing caricature. I was amazed by his outfit too.
He wasn't wrong.
He didn't even believe it himself, he was just trying to have a go back for all the stick we've given the little shit bag over the yaers..
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He talks out of his arse. He contradicts himself, splutters his words and gets frustrated because he hasn't the verbal skills to get his point across - the laughable attempted Barton piece being a prime example.
He's right about us being a poor team (that's blatantly obvious), but there's more than 3 worse teams than us. He's a f#ckin idiot.
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What's amusing about being thick and unable to put up an intelligent argument? Listen to him on the radio and he just keeps repeating the same things. He's suited to the level of Talksport, local radio or X-Factor, not the main BBC channels.
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What's amusing about being thick and unable to put up an intelligent argument? Listen to him on the radio and he just keeps repeating the same things. He's suited to the level of Talksport, local radio or X-Factor, not the main BBC channels.
It's another example of the BBC dumbing down. Let's just hope they realise what a moron he is and discard him the way they did with that other simpleton Ian Wright.
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The problem with Robbie Savage is that he thinks talking about himself is the most important thing, so does Murray and thats why I reach for the off button when either appear on TV or radio.
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We've got 37 points with six games to go, and still aren't safe. In what f**king way are we 'lucky'?
I think that we can consider to be lucky if we'll get saved, as we'll probably will, despite of having a so said manager that plays 5 players out of role and that leaves regularly on the bench our best player super Mark Albrighton.
:-)
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He's just the same as a pundit as he was as a player,shit,average at best.
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Anyone got any pictures of what he was wearing?
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We've got 37 points with six games to go, and still aren't safe. In what f**king way are we 'lucky'?
I think that we can consider to be lucky if we'll get saved, as we'll probably will, despite of having a so said manager that plays 5 players out of role and that leaves regularly on the bench our best player super Mark Albrighton.
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Albrighton's no where near our best player, yet.
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Far too much airtime given to him I'm afraid.
No way are we lucky to have our Manager walk out on us 5 days prior to The season starting with no money spent and our best player seduced to Citeh.
Grade A cock!
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i'd rather listen to Macho Man Randy Savage.
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The BBC is run by middle-class wankers. To a normal person Robbie Savage appears as he is: a stupid, ignorant, loud-mouthed tosser. To BBC drones he appears to be a fresh, edgy Éveryman. They assume the proles will lap him up.
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Id take Savage over Alan luntcugs Green or the new face(?!) of Sky Gary Neville anyday. He is passionate, and opinionated, and usually good value. I think the tongue is clamped firmly in the mouth most of the time. I would say that for the squad we have, we have been the most disappointing in the league this year, but thats more comparing the promise to the results. There are far more than three worse squads than us in the league, Wigan, Blackpool, Birmingham, West Ham, Blackburn, Sunderland, Birmingham, Newcastle, Wolves, Birmingham spring to mind immediately.
What about Birmingham?
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Shit, i cant believe i missed them out
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On a serious point, the Lawro analysis of our game was very good I thought and what I remember from watching it.
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Since when did anyone give a flying fook what Robbie Savage's opinion was on any subject?
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I don't mind Savage personally...he doesn't take himself too seriously which is refreshing for a multi millionaire ex footballer. So he says a few things to provoke opinion? He's obviously not doing a bad job if we're talking about him!
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He said we were a poor team, and given the players we have and what we've achieved this season it's hard to disagree. The sum of the parts is a huge fat negative. He'd just watched what any neutral would say was a poor game, littered with mistakes and at times desperate football, between two poor sides. It was a fantastic result for us, we worked hard, but it was hard labour. Savage is looking for a full-time media career and he'll get one, because he's got opinions and is not afraid to express them. Ok, it's deliberately controversial at times but compare that to the bland fence-sitting of the likes of Shearer who is paid a lot, lot more money for saying little of consequence and looking smug. I thought the segment on Barton he did was excellent. As an aside, someone I know who knows nothing about football and barely knows who he is shared a radio studio with him a little while ago, while he did his 6-0-6, and was impressed at how down to earth and easy going he was.
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Anyone got any pictures of what he was wearing?
I'm really worried about you!
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I,ve got a framed photo over my desk at home of Dion Dublin ( of all people ) about to drop one on that odious little toe-rag Savage . Whoever wrote that this illiterate buffoon was better suited to Talk Shite Radio got it spot on .......Godzvilla! .
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it's deliberately controversial at times but compare that to the bland fence-sitting of the likes of Shearer who is paid a lot, lot more money for saying little of consequence and looking smug.
Good points. I'd rather be annoyed and wound up than fall asleep. At least there's some entertainment value.
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Hate him with a passion who makes me grit my teeth every time i hear him or see him on the box, mute or switch off whenever i see or hear the horrible little long haired wanker. Without doubt the player i hate most in the world
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BBC are very frightened by the audience they're losing to TalkSport. Savage is their attempt to compete with that shit.
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Anyone got any pictures of what he was wearing?
I'm really worried about you!
Me too!
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Mark Lawrenson actually put his comments into some perspective by saying something like... "so says a former Birmingham City player". That just about sums it up. I know Savage has always had a cack dress sense but Christ it was shocking on Sunday lol
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Anyone got any pictures of what he was wearing?
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