Gerard Houllier

[Brend'Watkins]

I do wish he'd shut up. Okay, Gerard, you might just have turned a corner with these players, but please keep it under your hat instead of pissing them off again by telling the world about 'moody, moaning' players - unless, of course, you were only talking about Warnock and Carew. Either way, accentuate the positive.

I think this 'moaning' dig is aimed purely at Warnock.  Why else would he be now training with the reserves?  Besides, by all accounts he is a right old whinger and that as well as being shit for most of the season is the reason he's no where near the team.

[bob]

I wonder what Warnock did to warrant training with the reserves. I know he's been shit but...

[PaulTheVillan]

Houllier seemed to handle the Dunne situation very well & he's back playing very well.

The same could happen with Warnock. He needed dropping, he's been gash.

[Ger Regan]

I wonder what Warnock did to warrant training with the reserves. I know he's been shit but...

If he is meant to be a whinger, then there's every possibility that he mouthed out of turn once too many, and is being made an example of. No loss either, based on this season's form.

[sfx412]

I wonder what Warnock did to warrant training with the reserves. I know he's been shit but...

Suggest he's been approached by someone that allows him to stay in Liverpool perhaps and go against the new rule that players must live nearer Villa?

[pauliewalnuts]

I vaguely remember someone saying on here (I think) a while back that Warnock was a real whingeing git, always moaning about something.

[bob]

Cor, he sounds like a right whinger, doesn't he?

[Bad English]

Fair play to Houllier, he is in the press every day giving it the "I'm sorting the Villa lads out" routine and the "How dare you talk about [the Aston Villa manager] like that?" spiel. I don't remember the last time our name was so often mentioned. Not so long ago, you could go on the BBC website every day for a month and still not see "Aston Villa" in the latest news menu, apart from when we played a game. Add to this the MON press fan club and we are up to our nostrils in publicity. It's grrr-eat.

All we need to do now is win the FA Cup and the season will be complete.

[Shrek]

It's ironic how Gerrard has turned it around, yet the man alot of people were suggesting Owen Coyle is having a nightmare, haven't won a game this year yet, 1 point from 15.

3 points tonight please Gerrard

[Concrete John]

I don't think he's really turned anything around yet.  He have a feel good factor after signing Bent, which he then followed up with a good win, but if the worst happens tonight see what this thread is like tomorrow!

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think he's really turned anything around yet.  He have a feel good factor after signing Bent, which he then followed up with a good win, but if the worst happens tonight see what this thread is like tomorrow!

I'd agree with you on that, John.

Spirits have been lifted in the last few games, and the results have improved, but we've still got a fair way to go.

The absolute worst thing tonight would be to repeat the Chelsea -> Sunderland let down (whilst I see the arguments that we could easily have beaten Sunderland, I think that was one of the most insipid, pathetic performances I've seen from us in a long, long time)

[Shrek]

It all depends on the defeat, if it is like Sunderland, same tactics as Chelsea no subs etc then he deserves critisim, but if we batter them and they get a lucky goal on the counter then we have still turned it around.

People need to realise we won't win every game, we can't turn on him every time we lose.

[bentshouldbe9]

i have one crittisim of houllier

he should of bought bent on Jan 1st so he could play in the fa cup for us :-)

apart from that , i like what he is doing

[sfx412]

Well I can see a change. Gone are the demands to sack him, gone are the complaints about players not wanting to play for him, gone are the talk that he has no clue tactically, gone are the much vaunted kids who got us into the mire, in have come 3 decent signings although I can't really comment on Makoun he does seem to be rated by many, you see little suggestion we are already relegated now, and the performances have got better.

Yes, as I said a few days back, if we do a Chelsea- Sunderland at Wigan, you'd wonder, but then maybe we'll break Utd unbeaten run, who knows. It will be a hard slog, no question, there are still of matters that need sorting, but things have changed, for the better.

[Villa'Zawg]

It all depends on the defeat, if it is like Sunderland, same tactics as Chelsea no subs etc then he deserves critisim, but if we batter them and they get a lucky goal on the counter then we have still turned it around.

People need to realise we won't win every game, we can't turn on him every time we lose.

I couldn't disagree more. I understand that we won't win every game but if we can't get a result at Wigan we haven't turn anything around.