0% Villa. Di Matteo sacked?

[SashasGrandad]

Why does he get gardening leave? This suggests disciplinary issues to me.

He's got green fingers?

Chairman took him to his back garden to show him his roses. Always a bad sign when Deadly used to do that!

[Villa'Zawg]

I think three things have contributed to us being where we are.

The first was MON leaving, which, no matter how much Villadawg would doubtless prefer us not to think about any more, fucked up the season right from the off.

The second was the collection of a truly hideous run of injuries, which would have tested any manager or club, let alone one with a patchy squad with notable weaknesses like ours.

The third has been Houllier not delivering the results he should have. I can see what he is trying to do, and I like the way he likes us to play, but he has also conspicuously failed to deliver anything like a decent run of results. Long term, I like his thinking. Short term, it really has been very poor indeed.

Losing the manager on the eve of the season was unfortunate and unsettling but I don't understand why it should be deemed to have fucked up our entire season. We're not the first team to lose a manager unexpectedly and we coped well enough initially, the 10 points from our first 6 games was a perfectly decent start to the season.

And yes, there was a period when we seemed to have an inordinate amount of injuries.

The point I was trying to make to tonto is that regardless of these type of mitigating factors, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle. I've no doubt that the West Brom manager will have had more difficult mitigating factors to deal with than the Villa manager.

[Toronto Villa]

I think three things have contributed to us being where we are.

The first was MON leaving, which, no matter how much Villadawg would doubtless prefer us not to think about any more, fucked up the season right from the off.

The second was the collection of a truly hideous run of injuries, which would have tested any manager or club, let alone one with a patchy squad with notable weaknesses like ours.

The third has been Houllier not delivering the results he should have. I can see what he is trying to do, and I like the way he likes us to play, but he has also conspicuously failed to deliver anything like a decent run of results. Long term, I like his thinking. Short term, it really has been very poor indeed.

Losing the manager on the eve of the season was unfortunate and unsettling but I don't understand why it should be deemed to have fucked up our entire season. We're not the first team to lose a manager unexpectedly and we coped well enough initially, the 10 points from our first 6 games was a perfectly decent start to the season.

And yes, there was a period when we seemed to have an inordinate amount of injuries.

The point I was trying to make to tonto is that regardless of these type of mitigating factors, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle. I've no doubt that the West Brom manager will have had more difficult mitigating factors to deal with than the Villa manager.

Fucking hilarious. Now you've turned to name calling like hawkeye because you can't make your point in a reasonable manner. How very, very pathetic of you and sad.

[eastie]

Villadawg we are as close to the top 8 as we are to the bottom 3, we have had extremely tough circumstances and surely you must see that the manager has had to overcome such a situation- at the end of the season if we have finished 8th it will be great considering the handicaps, we are battling for 8th as much as we are battling to avoid relegation , please give him a chance to turn it around.

If at the end of season we have finished bottom 8 maybe your point will be more valid.

[damon loves JT]

Can I just point out that West Brom are terrible, and I hope Jeremy Peace gets a fungal infection up the crack of his arse?

Thanks

[DB]

Is Dudley an Albion area or Wolves?

Mixed.

Yeah, depends where - west is more Wolves but east of Dudley heading toward West Brom is as you'd expect. A smattering of Villa too (like myself)...good news is no Blue noses, don't really get many in the Black Country - I never knew of 1 growing up. Lovely Tipton is the real mix between Dog Heads and the Tesco Bags.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think three things have contributed to us being where we are.

The first was MON leaving, which, no matter how much Villadawg would doubtless prefer us not to think about any more, fucked up the season right from the off.

The second was the collection of a truly hideous run of injuries, which would have tested any manager or club, let alone one with a patchy squad with notable weaknesses like ours.

The third has been Houllier not delivering the results he should have. I can see what he is trying to do, and I like the way he likes us to play, but he has also conspicuously failed to deliver anything like a decent run of results. Long term, I like his thinking. Short term, it really has been very poor indeed.

Losing the manager on the eve of the season was unfortunate and unsettling but I don't understand why it should be deemed to have fucked up our entire season. We're not the first team to lose a manager unexpectedly and we coped well enough initially, the 10 points from our first 6 games was a perfectly decent start to the season.

And yes, there was a period when we seemed to have an inordinate amount of injuries.

The point I was trying to make to tonto is that regardless of these type of mitigating factors, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle. I've no doubt that the West Brom manager will have had more difficult mitigating factors to deal with than the Villa manager.

Leaving when he did dropped us right in it and meant we started the season in the worst possible consequences. I know you're keen to make out it was like the office secretary flouncing off, getting in a temp for a few weeks, then appointing a permanent replacement who'll hit the ground running, but I suspect the truth was very different.

As for your final point, you're right, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle, something I alluded to with my final point about Houllier.

I don't quite see why the West Brom manager has more difficult mitigating factors to deal with, though. I'd have thought that being plucked from a desk job in Paris and dropped into the PL after an absence of several years puts a manager at a considerable disadvantage.

[KevinGage]

Daft decision.

Was one of a number of managers who I thought might be worth keeping an eye on, a possible future Villa manager.

Hopefully he goes to a half decent club on the continent, rebuilds his career without the handicap of a smalltime stipeyfilth board - and we reap the benefits in a few years.

[hawkeye]

I think three things have contributed to us being where we are.

The first was MON leaving, which, no matter how much Villadawg would doubtless prefer us not to think about any more, fucked up the season right from the off.

The second was the collection of a truly hideous run of injuries, which would have tested any manager or club, let alone one with a patchy squad with notable weaknesses like ours.

The third has been Houllier not delivering the results he should have. I can see what he is trying to do, and I like the way he likes us to play, but he has also conspicuously failed to deliver anything like a decent run of results. Long term, I like his thinking. Short term, it really has been very poor indeed.

Losing the manager on the eve of the season was unfortunate and unsettling but I don't understand why it should be deemed to have fucked up our entire season. We're not the first team to lose a manager unexpectedly and we coped well enough initially, the 10 points from our first 6 games was a perfectly decent start to the season.

And yes, there was a period when we seemed to have an inordinate amount of injuries.

The point I was trying to make to toronto is that regardless of these type of mitigating factors, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle. I've no doubt that the West Brom manager will have had more difficult mitigating factors to deal with than the Villa manager.

Fucking hilarious. Now you've turned to name calling like hawkeye because you can't make your point in a reasonable manner. How very, very pathetic of you and sad.

[Villa'Zawg]

I think three things have contributed to us being where we are.

The first was MON leaving, which, no matter how much Villadawg would doubtless prefer us not to think about any more, fucked up the season right from the off.

The second was the collection of a truly hideous run of injuries, which would have tested any manager or club, let alone one with a patchy squad with notable weaknesses like ours.

The third has been Houllier not delivering the results he should have. I can see what he is trying to do, and I like the way he likes us to play, but he has also conspicuously failed to deliver anything like a decent run of results. Long term, I like his thinking. Short term, it really has been very poor indeed.

Losing the manager on the eve of the season was unfortunate and unsettling but I don't understand why it should be deemed to have fucked up our entire season. We're not the first team to lose a manager unexpectedly and we coped well enough initially, the 10 points from our first 6 games was a perfectly decent start to the season.

And yes, there was a period when we seemed to have an inordinate amount of injuries.

The point I was trying to make to toronto is that regardless of these type of mitigating factors, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle. I've no doubt that the West Brom manager will have had more difficult mitigating factors to deal with than the Villa manager.

Fucking hilarious. Now you've turned to name calling like hawkeye because you can't make your point in a reasonable manner. How very, very pathetic of you and sad.

Word filter changed kemo sabe.

I don't really understand how it can be considered an insult though. I mean imagine if I suddenly decided that VD was an insulting term...Oh! Hold on a second....

[dave.woodhall]

Lovely Tipton is the real mix between Dog Heads and the Tesco Bags.

Not exclusively.

[hawkeye]

I think three things have contributed to us being where we are.

The first was MON leaving, which, no matter how much Villadawg would doubtless prefer us not to think about any more, fucked up the season right from the off.

The second was the collection of a truly hideous run of injuries, which would have tested any manager or club, let alone one with a patchy squad with notable weaknesses like ours.

The third has been Houllier not delivering the results he should have. I can see what he is trying to do, and I like the way he likes us to play, but he has also conspicuously failed to deliver anything like a decent run of results. Long term, I like his thinking. Short term, it really has been very poor indeed.

Losing the manager on the eve of the season was unfortunate and unsettling but I don't understand why it should be deemed to have fucked up our entire season. We're not the first team to lose a manager unexpectedly and we coped well enough initially, the 10 points from our first 6 games was a perfectly decent start to the season.

And yes, there was a period when we seemed to have an inordinate amount of injuries.

The point I was trying to make to toronto is that regardless of these type of mitigating factors, we shouldn't be in a relegation battle. I've no doubt that the West Brom manager will have had more difficult mitigating factors to deal with than the Villa manager.

Fucking hilarious. Now you've turned to name calling like hawkeye because you can't make your point in a reasonable manner. How very, very pathetic of you and sad.

Word filter changed kemo sabe.

I don't really understand how it can be considered an insult though. I mean imagine if I suddenly decided that VD was an insulting term...Oh! Hold on a second....

[Villa'Zawg]

Neil Moxley in the Daily Mail is saying Hogson is the target for new manager. 

[darren woolley]

I read that they wan't ostrich face Hodgson but would he keep them up.

[LeeB]

Can I just point out that West Brom are terrible, and I hope Jeremy Peace gets a fungal infection up the crack of his arse?

Thanks

I think he'd probably get off on it.