Quote from: Mark Kelly on August 30, 2011, 07:50:21 PMI didn't hear too many complaints after the Blackburn game, Monty. Three games and admittedly the Wolves game was no end-to-end local derby ding dong but let's put the wigs, false bosoms and heavy make up away for a week or two.In my mind, to date, McLeish has only really made one mistake and that's not playing Bannan in the advanced midfield role. Get that right and whisper it but we could have the most entertaining and points at Villa Park in a very long time.Very true, but I think the fact that he doesn't do it but plays Heskey in that role could be taken as indicative. Like I say, I hope not, but there is certainly a listless feeling around the club at the mo.
I didn't hear too many complaints after the Blackburn game, Monty. Three games and admittedly the Wolves game was no end-to-end local derby ding dong but let's put the wigs, false bosoms and heavy make up away for a week or two.In my mind, to date, McLeish has only really made one mistake and that's not playing Bannan in the advanced midfield role. Get that right and whisper it but we could have the most entertaining and points at Villa Park in a very long time.
Quote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 09:03:17 PMQuote from: Monty on August 30, 2011, 08:53:36 PMQuote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 08:37:17 PMCracking programme on 5Live tonight about the perfect number 10 and rather sums up the current debate we're having on Heskey vs Bannan/Ireland.I was thinking just that. Also, surprise surprise nobody's mentioned Sid.I nearly texted it in but couldnt be arsed. Great programme from 5live, they should get Richard Williams on more often, instead they give airtime to utter fuckwits like Gobby Cabbage and Alan Green.Agree with that, even though Williams can be a really annoying right-on sort of guy sometimes.
Quote from: Monty on August 30, 2011, 08:53:36 PMQuote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 08:37:17 PMCracking programme on 5Live tonight about the perfect number 10 and rather sums up the current debate we're having on Heskey vs Bannan/Ireland.I was thinking just that. Also, surprise surprise nobody's mentioned Sid.I nearly texted it in but couldnt be arsed. Great programme from 5live, they should get Richard Williams on more often, instead they give airtime to utter fuckwits like Gobby Cabbage and Alan Green.
Quote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 08:37:17 PMCracking programme on 5Live tonight about the perfect number 10 and rather sums up the current debate we're having on Heskey vs Bannan/Ireland.I was thinking just that. Also, surprise surprise nobody's mentioned Sid.
Cracking programme on 5Live tonight about the perfect number 10 and rather sums up the current debate we're having on Heskey vs Bannan/Ireland.
As I said on the post match thread I came away from the Wolves game feeling very old and very tired.Setting aside all the issues of points won and lost, substitutions good, bad and incomprehensible, defence tweaking, offence creaking, I have seen all three games and they have all been excruciatingly dull meat and two soggy veg offerings.Two big red lights should have started flashing for Alex McLeish last Saturday - the size of the crowd and the pissed off expression on Darren Bent's face at the wild shooting and bad service from those around him getting rushes of glory pangs.If the crowds slide away it will not matter a monkey's whether we are ninth or twelfth and if Darren Bent says he wants away the policy of retrenchment will immediately become a policy of damage limitation and survival.Whether Alex McLeish can or cannot play attractive attacking football, whether he knows how to play attractive attacking football or whether the board provide him with the funds to acquire players of attractive attacking football the club will be locked into a downward spiral if the gates fall away and the best players continue to leave. He has no choice. The entertainment value of the games in which we play has to be improved.We cannot afford the luxury of safety first football. It is like thinking the slower you ride your bike the less likely you are to fall off. The financial structure of football is such that the damage you sustain by excessive caution is greater than the damage you sustain by excessive ambition.We have seen in the last two days the chickens come home to roost big time for Arsene Wenger. He is paying the entirely predictable price of excessive caution. Of course rash expenditure can destroy a club but the notion that Premiership security can be achieved while simultaneously slashing expenditure is false.
Quote from: Monty on August 30, 2011, 09:07:48 PMQuote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 09:03:17 PMQuote from: Monty on August 30, 2011, 08:53:36 PMQuote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 08:37:17 PMCracking programme on 5Live tonight about the perfect number 10 and rather sums up the current debate we're having on Heskey vs Bannan/Ireland.I was thinking just that. Also, surprise surprise nobody's mentioned Sid.I nearly texted it in but couldnt be arsed. Great programme from 5live, they should get Richard Williams on more often, instead they give airtime to utter fuckwits like Gobby Cabbage and Alan Green.Agree with that, even though Williams can be a really annoying right-on sort of guy sometimes.Well he does work for the Guardian. ;-) However I'd rather that over the utter banality and lowest common denominator output 5live seem to think they need to come out with to compete with the utter abomination that is Talkshite. As Pat Nevin said there is plenty of room for educated and intelligent debate about Football without talking down to fans. I still can't believe that erudite fans are not given more of a punditry role within the media rather than the tired ex pro's who invariably have a brain the size of a pea.
I still can't believe that erudite fans are not given more of a punditry role within the media rather than the tired ex pro's who invariably have a brain the size of a pea.
I don't ramble. I reflect in print.
Quote from: AV82EC on August 30, 2011, 09:18:01 PMI still can't believe that erudite fans are not given more of a punditry role within the media rather than the tired ex pro's who invariably have a brain the size of a pea.There was a time when we were starting to be involved. Then the cult of celebrity took over and everyone talking about football now has to be an ex-player with the supporter input coming from reading blogs and confusing one man's obsessions with the opinions of teh majority.