Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on February 27, 2012, 11:29:28 AM
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www.thebirminghampress.com/2012/02/27/on-the-ropes/
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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.
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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.
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I can see the comparisions in mentality with Audley Harrison, but are you saying that Alex is immensely talented?
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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.
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Audley Harrison does have a letter from Lennox Lewis saying how good he is.
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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.
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I like the comparison to Audley. Pretty much hits the nail on the head for me.
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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.
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Excellent analogy.
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Again. Very good. Keep it up.
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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?
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"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!
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"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...
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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.
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Audley Harrison, the titan destined to clean up after having won a gold medal with a broken hand. A lionheart with physique, power and mentality to clean up a very, very average division. Not McLeish.
Audley Harrison, affraid of his own shadow, who gets soundly beaten by poor and average opposition regularly and is critiscised for wasting his resources and being negative in mind and body. McLeish.
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Excellent article, again.
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Thanks.
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Audley Harrison, the titan destined to clean up after having won a gold medal with a broken hand. A lionheart with physique, power and mentality to clean up a very, very average division. Not McLeish.
Audley Harrison, affraid of his own shadow, who gets soundly beaten by poor and average opposition regularly and is critiscised for wasting his resources and being negative in mind and body. McLeish.
I know sod all about boxing but the first statement to me is analogous to his time at Rangers and the Scottish Premier and maybe to a certain extent his tenure. as the manager of the Scotland team.
I don't want him to go, at least not right now. I'd just prefer the teams he prepares and picks didn't play like a drain.
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I was of that opinion a few weeks ago but too many sins have been repeated for me to think he's anything other than out of his depth.
A nice guy, but the wrong guy.
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It is truly the mark of an eternal loser that when the going gets tough, they scuttle back to their comfort zone. And AM has shown more than once that he is all too ready to do that.
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He has the same look he had at Blues in the last 6 months, when according to a friend who sits by the directors, Pannu and Yeung were on the phone to the bench and signalling to him to bring on forwards during games and he was refusing and gesturing back from the bench on a regular basis. The man has waded into the deep, without any thought of what to do if the current gets too strong for him to get back to shore. He is lost, and will never find himself at Villa Park. The kindest solution would be a mutual parting of the ways, but I think both sides have too much pride to admit their mistakes, and ultimately we are the ones who are going to suffer, for a long, sustained period of dire agony.
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He has the same look he had at Blues in the last 6 months, when according to a friend who sits by the directors, Pannu and Yeung were on the phone to the bench and signalling to him to bring on forwards during games and he was refusing and gesturing back from the bench on a regular basis. The man has waded into the deep, without any thought of what to do if the current gets too strong for him to get back to shore. He is lost, and will never find himself at Villa Park. The kindest solution would be a mutual parting of the ways, but I think both sides have too much pride to admit their mistakes, and ultimately we are the ones who are going to suffer, for a long, sustained period of dire agony.
Sadly very true, Randy's stubborn incompetence is going to be our undoing. I can't think of two characteristics that are more of a nightmare as a combination.
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Great Article Dave, I think you have expressed the opinons all of the reasonable minded Villa fans
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The promising signs here and there are no doubt credit to McLeish, but I don't count Arsenal at home as one of those. It was a stupid, stupid give-away.
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You hit the nail the head.still believe the players dont help the hanager or the club as much as they could.
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Good work Dave.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein