Will GH last the season?

[BlueNoseBadger]

You must be a Chelsea fan, seeing as you can type and appear to hold balanced and considered opinions.

Nah, but I had to train a monkey to decipher my caveman utterings & type them up for me as my 6th finger on each hand keeps getting in the way

I think you'll find that all clubs have a mixture of fans

[LeeB]

You must be a Chelsea fan, seeing as you can type and appear to hold balanced and considered opinions.

Nah, but I had to train a monkey to decipher my caveman utterings & type them up for me as my 6th finger on each hand keeps getting in the way

I think you'll find that all clubs have a mixture of fans

Not on the evidence we see from your brethren on here.

Anyway, enjoy the site, and please do read the "...gift that keeps on giving" thread. It's long, but worth it. 

[Louzie0]

Bluebadger - you remind me of my uncle in solihull. Every Christmas the whole family would get together in sutton (villa) or in solihull (bloose) with the branch from chelmsley wood and argue about villa v blues when we'd got past the buffet supper and gone out for a fag behind the extension...sadly we have lost that with recent major ancestral villa/blues losses in the family. I still remember the centennial fireworks.  This rocket is for villa, this rocket is for...! Albion!

[BlueNoseBadger]

Cheers for the welcome.
I am a Bluenose, so my allegiances will always be swayed towards them, and I'm afraid at times I will enjoy elements of Schadenfreude at your expense - that's part of what a rivalry is all about
However, I will try to remain civil at all times - at the end of the day we are all just passionate fans who have chosen a particular shirt to follow and nail our colours firmly to that mast.

For the record, I was raised (some might say dragged up) in Sparkhill, but haven't lived in the UK since the mid-90's.
Therefore please take any comments I might have in the context that I am witnessing events from afar & by virtue of sites such as this or Joys & Sorrows, and from watching matches via streams or on local coverage
Thanks again
Badger

[eastie]

Where are you living now then bluebadger? You are very interesting in your opinions and sometimes it's good to see how people on the outside see things at our club- I'm impressed.

[cheltenhamlion]

I would normally suggest under a rock but never did I believe, as long as there was a hole in my jacksy, that I would see a nose use the word schadenfreude!

[PaulTheVillan]

GH should be given this season, pre-season & next season.

[Merv]

6 words
Louis Van Gaal available this summer

If you think Houllier falls out with players, wait until you see what Van Gaal would do to the dressing room!

[The Left Side]

GH should be given this season, pre-season & next season.

I agree, no point doing it now let him clear some of the deadwood out and give him a chance.

[TonyD]

If I was RL I would look at the next two games.  If the results go badly he owes a duty of care to the club to make a change.   Yes getting shot of the manager is a big risk but I believe keeping him would represent a bigger risk.

Funny how anti GH posters are knee jerk.   This season has been with a few exceptions an utter disaster.  Nothing knee jerk there.  2 points better off than West Ham says it all.

[BlueNoseBadger]

Hi Eastie - I'm in the Pacific NW of the USA at the moment, but was in China for the last 5 years & the Low Countries for about 8 years before that.

Cheltenhamlion - I know a lot of long words but, coming from Sparkhill, I'm afraid most of them are in Urdu or Gaelic 

[Monty]

6 words
Louis Van Gaal available this summer

If you think Houllier falls out with players, wait until you see what Van Gaal would do to the dressing room!

I would love to have seen Van Gaal's reaction if he were Villa manager and Dullins did what they'd done this week.

[Nastylee]

Can't see GH getting the chop before the season ends. Assuming we survive then I think GH will be given next season too and the chance to mould his own squad. My concern is this: we would all expect Friedal, Beye, Dunne, Warnock, potentially Collins and Walker, NRC, A. Young, possibly Petrov, Carew and Heskey to depart. We could probably scrape £25m for that lot and a saving in wages but that list represents a large proportion of first team players that will need replacing. The worry is do we have the money to replace them? History tells you £10m-£12m gets you an unproven Ashley Young, a James Milner or a Stewart Downing. Do we have the necessary £50m to spend or are we expecting to build a squad with £5m players, which TBH doesn't get you much these days? A poor start next season will probably result in an unhappy Holte End and a lot of pressure on RL. We shall see.

[hawkeye]

Unless there is a catastrophie we will start next season with GH, the likelyhood is that we will be in a relegation scrap until the end of the season, then there will be a summer clear out and we will see a lot of the youngsters get thier opportunity. He will be judged on the following season

[brontebilly]

Id like to see Steve McClaren come in - I think he has the right profile really. Did well at Boro though he did leave a bit of MON behind him in terms of older players on big contracts, the failure with England wasnt as bad as was made out either, Russia and Croatia were decent teams, England were no better. Think he learned some humility from that experience and did very well in Holland while Germany didnt go too well there was issues with the board being far too close to the likes of Diego. I think he would jump at the chance of coming to Villa maybe even with Houllier as technical director.

Van Gaal and Magath like Houllier might see Villa as a step down from what they are used to. Plus we cant go down the blank cheque book route to attract big name managers.

McClaren for me. Think it would be a good fit for us if people could see past the 'wally with the brolly' bullshit.