Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on October 24, 2022, 10:48:14 PM
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An apology, and stuff.
https://heroesandvillains.info/2022/10/24/no-doubt-about-it/
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A few slips of the pen Dave, but you capture a very strong essence of what we're all feeling right now. Positive and hopeful. Nice one.
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The non-stepping stone point is a good one, and one I hadn't really considered before.
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No doubt about it, can't argue with any of that.
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Completely agree about the O'Neill/Atkinson thing. I haven't been this excited about a Villa managerial appointment since BFR.
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Yep, spot on.
I just hope everyone at the club, especially the owners, and Unai, are informed by somebody or other about how impressed we are with the appointment, and how unanimously over the moon we all are to have him as our manager.
The cup of good will and support runneth over.
UTV.
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We don't need to keep pointing out typos, do we?
This appointment feels seismic: I think O'Neill's was exciting but for achievements in the game, Emery eclipses that. I can't think of a bigger name manager at Villa, or one with a better record.
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I enjoyed reading that, it reflected the concern about how long the owners would stay with the SG experiment and whether ‘continued improvement’ was a real aim or a PR line, last November. Well, they’ve shown us!
Thanks Dave, and thanks especially to Messrs Edens and Sawiris. Exciting times have returned to the Villa!
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The non-stepping stone point is a good one, and one I hadn't really considered before.
Agree with that point as well. This smacks of someone who has unfinished business in English football and sees Aston Villa as a club who he can fulfil those ambitions with.
He’s only 50 as well, so pretty young in management terms, yet has a wealth of experience behind him.
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Yep, sums up my thoughts precisely. V good
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Exciting times ahead. Good article Dave and it was becoming a concern where on the curve of the project the club was heading. I reckon they had never taken their eye off of it, just had faith in Purslow’s man who again had that faith in Gerrard.
It wasn’t to be and he could have been brilliant, could obviously being the gamble they took. It’s great to be in the hands of an elite and proven manager.
I haven’t been up for a long while, I’ve been very busy having a family. The last time I came was at the start of my journey being a father. That was when Ashley Young was on our bench under MON. After four attempts I do have a child who’s into her football. I’ll be coming up again soon I hope.
The only problem I will have is it will have to be to watch the ladies team as there will be no chance in hell for me to get tickets to see the men play!
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The next manager appointment was always going to tell us the direction of the club. It’s clear we’re on an upward trajectory which is great.
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Yeah I started following Villa under BFR and this is probably the only time I have been seriously excited apart from O’Neill
He shows the height of our ambition and we will have had to give him assurances about backing
He inherits a strong squad was potential to improve and hopefully a couple of well though through purchases will strengthen the team and balance out the squad combined with a few coming back from injury
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A good piece which sums things up nicely. Aaron Danks is an interesting one, I really hope he doesn't get thrown out with the dishwater, Sunday's performance showed that he knows how to set up a side to play to their strengths in the correct positions. They were motivated too, though that wouldn't be hard given what had gone on over the prior eleven months. There could be a lot more yet of what Aaron Danks can bring to the table. Again, a nice piece.
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What a great read Dave.
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Spot on Dave. I have eaten so much humble pie since Sunday morning, What an exciting time. I was at a meeting when the news came through, mostly Albion fans, a few Wolves and 1 other Villa. It went down like a lead balloon. They aye appy. Is it true his brother Dick is coming with him to manage the Blues?
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Fair play NSWE. It's a hell of an appointment.
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What a great read Dave.
My pleasure Daz.
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What a great read Dave.
My pleasure Daz.
Hear hear. Excellent read. And I was with you wavering on them and thinking they might not be what they said. They have to have sold this to Unai, and sold it well.
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I was starting to have similar misgivings. I didn't think we'd improved the first team enough in the summer, and the owners were conspicuous by their absence at Villa Park this season. Getting Emery is a huge step to show that they're still bang up for it. Backing him in the next couple of windows is absolutely key though. We're all buzzing after smashing Brentford, but it's still not a top 8 first team in my opinion.
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Great read, Dave. Wow ....what a difference in my mood from Thursday night to Monday evening, when the news was confirmed.
Love the idea that Unai is determined to prove himself in the Premiership (not that he did badly at Arsenal, especially after replacing a legend).
Really impressed with the decisive and ambitious move from the owners. Aupa Villa!
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I never understood the feeling on here that our owners were losing interest after just one gamble. Maybe there’s the Lerner years that makes one think there is a limit. Our owners are here for the long haul and it’s the reason SG was binned. That it wasn’t done sooner got me thinking negatively or at least thinking that a longer time would be given to the overall project. They don’t want to change the datelines so they’ve acted. It’s how serious business people do things.
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Reading that has stirred my loins - excellently written and really captures where i think most of us were. Broken and disillusioned.
I would imagine his first walk down the touchline (against that rancid filth) will bring the roof off. Beat them scumfuckers in his first home game and i want William to knight the fucker already
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I never understood the feeling on here that our owners were losing interest after just one gamble. Maybe there’s the Lerner years that makes one think there is a limit. Our owners are here for the long haul and it’s the reason SG was binned. That it wasn’t done sooner got me thinking negatively or at least thinking that a longer time would be given to the overall project. They don’t want to change the datelines so they’ve acted. It’s how serious business people do things.
I was very much in this camp. Moving us up to the top 8 was never going to be easy with bumps along the way but our owners are have the wherewithal to deal with that.
Great piece Dave your recent doubts played on my mind but all good again now with this seriously ambitious appointment.
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I never understood the feeling on here that our owners were losing interest after just one gamble. Maybe there’s the Lerner years that makes one think there is a limit. Our owners are here for the long haul and it’s the reason SG was binned. That it wasn’t done sooner got me thinking negatively or at least thinking that a longer time would be given to the overall project. They don’t want to change the datelines so they’ve acted. It’s how serious business people do things.
It wasn't the Gerrard appointment for me, it was the relative lack of spending in the summer, especially when the window was open for ages after Carlos was injured.
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Done.
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I am fucking excited
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Great read that. Thanks. The last paragraph is particularly good. The fact that he's been rubbing shoulders with the European elite while we've not qualified for ten years makes it pretty astonishing that the club captured his services. Whoever is responsible for that achievement please take a well earned bow.
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what a difference a few days make.
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I was definitely getting a bit worried that they had lost interest.
Perhaps they might have acted a bit sooner. But that’s all academic now as this is a brilliant appointment.