Gerard Houllier

[Villa'Zawg]

Just to look at a quick fact on GH's games in charge:

Villa have failed to win 82% of the games GH has been in charge of.

not good

Villadawg, please look at the site rules, you are not allowed to sign on here with two different names.

Unless I have a split personality your assumption is shite

I am MarkM and he knows it.

[Olneythelonely]

67% of people think that Villadawg is MarkM, but the other 34% like marmite.

[eastie]

So while randy dithers another transfer window ticks away- last nights display with one shot on target in must win game was a joke- is randy going to wait till the window ends and we lose at blues and Wigan?

If the sky reports are correct then get your wallet out mr Lerner aNd
d let's have some players who want to give their all for Aston villa rather than the gutless crap we had on the pitch last night.

[cdward]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9342663.stm

"We are in a relegation fight now. The crowd must be frustrated. I understand their frustration," Houllier said.

"[But] had we won they would have been chanting my name. We're going through a difficult period, but we'll make it."

Chanting his name! what drugs is this guy on?

OK so now we have a good performance from the kids (Manu) and a good performance from the experienced players (Chelski), but that's it, the sum total of 2 points from good performances, both which saw us surrender a lead. They can now both be viewed as the exceptions rather than the norm.
It looks like Carew, Ireland, Davies, Sidwell, Dunne, Guzan, Warnock are all out of favour. There is a lot of potential there that could be effective in a relegation battle, which we will probably never see.
If we are sticking with Houllier i worry about what players we can attract, will they be better than the current squad , if Kyle Walker is anything to go by, then that is debatable, also will Houllier be able to motivate who is left, the problem now is the confidence of the players will be gone.
 

[Risso]

He wants Allardayce, easy to say when you dont have to pay to watch his fucking teams play. Not that the last ten minutes were much different.

Ooh get you Mr Betterfanthanyow.  I don't "want" Allardyce, I just think that as a caretaker boss until the end of the season he'd be a much better bet than Houllier.

I'm trying to think of what would be worse, having that fat twat as manager or being in the Championship. I certainly don't want to watch that type of football every week.

Relegation would be an absolute fucking disaster, a humiliating one at that.

However, I'd rather go down than have Allardyce inflicted on us with his gut wrenchingly horrible brand of "football".

Some of the "football" we've served up is far, far worse than anything Big Sam has come up with.  What was our plan B last night.  Dropping Young and Bannan into defence and having them launch long balls into the box. 

As it is, we play shit football, and get shit results.  I'd accept playing shit football for the rest of this season if the results inproved.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9342663.stm

"We are in a relegation fight now. The crowd must be frustrated. I understand their frustration," Houllier said.

"[But] had we won they would have been chanting my name. We're going through a difficult period, but we'll make it."

Chanting his name! what drugs is this guy on?

Probably Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors although that shouldn't affect his mental state.

[RonBurgundy]

It does feel like this season has been a perfect storm of a disaster:
MON walking out at the worst possible time; Bizarre managerial selection process; massive injury list - including players we are linked with, not just those in the squad; Houllier's ability to fall out with half the team; things on the pitch not going our way - see Emile's miss last night and the fact he conspires to get sent off as we win a free kick.

Looking back this team's decline started last season but has accelerated to alarming proportions in the last 2 months.
We need to rebuild but now it has become about surviving above everything else. Must be a sickener for Randy - all that investment and 5 yeards down the line staring relegation in the face.

Last night was frightening - I understand the reasons for putting out the team he did, but cannot understand why he made no change at half time or at least 60 mins in. The fact that our team did not seem up for the challenge of such a key game fills me with dread.
My mate kept saying last night we have all these winnable game from mid Feb onwards - but i worry this team can't handle the stress of fighting for their lives to avoid relegation. Other teams around us have more experience of this as the season reaches its conclusion. I have a horrible vision of us needing a win against Liverpool on the last day to stay up.

How did we get to this so quickly?

[glasses]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9342663.stm

"We are in a relegation fight now. The crowd must be frustrated. I understand their frustration," Houllier said.

"[But] had we won they would have been chanting my name. We're going through a difficult period, but we'll make it."

Chanting his name! what drugs is this guy on?

Probably Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors although that shouldn't affect his mental state.

As bad as the DOL 'fickle' quote?

[adam#1]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9342663.stm

"We are in a relegation fight now. The crowd must be frustrated. I understand their frustration," Houllier said.

"[But] had we won they would have been chanting my name. We're going through a difficult period, but we'll make it."

Chanting his name! what drugs is this guy on?

Probably Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors although that shouldn't affect his mental state.

Although the cardioselective beta blockers might slow him up a little bit.

[eastie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9342663.stm

"We are in a relegation fight now. The crowd must be frustrated. I understand their frustration," Houllier said.

"[But] had we won they would have been chanting my name. We're going through a difficult period, but we'll make it."

Chanting his name! what drugs is this guy on?

Probably Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors although that shouldn't affect his mental state.

As bad as the DOL 'fickle' quote?

maybe he means as they were at man city singing fuck off houllier?

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

They were chanting his name. To be sacked in the morning !!! Three quality signings with Walker now on loan can turn this round .....

[eastie]

a keeper left back midfielder centre half and striker - make that 5 new quality signings and we may have a hope!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The only chance Houllier has is to go and get, whatever the cost, Patrice Bergues, the man that was the football brain behind Houllier's success at Liverpool. The Scousers were right, Houllier on his own is clueless. Bergues is the Ronnie Barker to Houllier's Ronnie Corbett; without Bergues he's nobody.

[Shrek]

The scariest thing is we are leaking goals at a terrible rate, I just hope  Houllier makes a few decent signings.

[pauliewalnuts]

He wants Allardayce, easy to say when you dont have to pay to watch his fucking teams play. Not that the last ten minutes were much different.

Ooh get you Mr Betterfanthanyow.  I don't "want" Allardyce, I just think that as a caretaker boss until the end of the season he'd be a much better bet than Houllier.

I'm trying to think of what would be worse, having that fat twat as manager or being in the Championship. I certainly don't want to watch that type of football every week.

Relegation would be an absolute fucking disaster, a humiliating one at that.

However, I'd rather go down than have Allardyce inflicted on us with his gut wrenchingly horrible brand of "football".

Some of the "football" we've served up is far, far worse than anything Big Sam has come up with.  What was our plan B last night.  Dropping Young and Bannan into defence and having them launch long balls into the box. 

As it is, we play shit football, and get shit results.  I'd accept playing shit football for the rest of this season if the results inproved.

The diference is, we're playing shit because we don't know what to do.

Sam's teams play that guff (which I think is way worse than anything we've served up) as his main tactic.

It wouldn't just be playing shit football till the end of the season if we appointed Allardyce, either, he'd be here for several years.