Concrete Ron

[The Man With A Stick]

Shame, I used to like AZ.  I take it Juventus didn't call his agent back then?

Makes me wonder what difference it would have made to our season if he'd still been a Villa player and fully fit.  Very little I reckon.

[aj2k77]

No goodbyes , no thanks to the club or medical team for all the time they spent with him during lay offs. What a stand up captain. Twat.

My guess is that; that would have all been done privately to the people concerned a long time ago.  Maybe something to the fans perhaps but, this is modern football were talking about.

For me it's good etiquette, especially for a former Captain to say a little piece for the fans, not slink away in silence.

He left six months ago.

And he said nothing then. I'm using this as another chance of bashing him.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm sure he's gutted.

[aj2k77]

I'm sure he's gutted.

I'm sure he couldn't give a shit, like during his time at the club.

[Ads]

We don't miss him at all, which given how badly we defend, sums him up.

[CJ]

As I've said before, the way we pronounce 'Vlaar' is the way the Dutch pronounce their word for custard - 'Vla'. Appropriate

[chrisw1]

Some very silly comments on this thread.

A fit Vlaar was a very good player, notwithstanding the odd howler.  Given how desperately we have defended this season to suggest he wouldn't have improved us is pretty remarkable.

[Ads]

Not really. He was mindbogglingly shite at times last season and was responsible, among others for why we were such a calamity.

Nothing in his previous three years of on and off football suggests he'd be any better than what we have this season. A good six games in an orange shirt doesn't alter that fact.

Just thinking of the rubber legged fool and his ability to single handily cost us games is winding me up. Christ but we've suffered some shite players these past few years.

Its October, I’m at Loftus Road and so close in the upper tier that I feel I can almost reach down punch the useless twat for being out jumped by Bobby fucking Zamora.

“Vlaar you useless ******!”.

Its like a horrible Vietnam flashback.

The horror. The horror.

[aj2k77]

Vlaar is symptomatic of the weak defenders we've had over the last 5 years. He was pushed and pulled around like a rag doll half the time and had a clanger in his back pocket. The fact he's talked of as our best defender lately shows......how far we've fallen.

[seanthevillan]

I think he was capable of the odd very focussed performance, where he could read situations well and seemed to just get everywhere at the right moment.

That focussed performance, though, was very rare - most of the time he was unable to organise the defence and constantly caught out of position/exposed for his lack of pace.

[SoccerHQ]

Yeah last season was certainly his weakest of the three but he still up some good performances in the run in like at Spurs when he had Kane in his pocket and also the cup semi. He also had a couple of good games with Senderos at the start.

He was good in 13/14 though, our win ratio was ridiculous when he did and didn't play which was obviously a lot.

Nowhere near the standard of Ugo, Southgate, Mellberg, Laursen etc but I'd rather have him in the squad than people like Clark and Lescott.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

vlaar when fit was never anything more than average

[Desontheholte]

Concrete Ron ha ha! About as concrete as a lump of turd! I will never get James Hanson out jumping him for the Bradford goal at vp.. just one in a line of many errors!!

[Nastylee]

vlaar when fit was never anything more than average

A squad of average players would have us in an average position. I'd say that our players currently well below average hence why we are a pile of steaming shite.

[ChicagoLion]

Yeah last season was certainly his weakest of the three but he still up some good performances in the run in like at Spurs when he had Kane in his pocket and also the cup semi. He also had a couple of good games with Senderos at the start.

He was good in 13/14 though, our win ratio was ridiculous when he did and didn't play which was obviously a lot.

Nowhere near the standard of Ugo, Southgate, Mellberg, Laursen etc but I'd rather have him in the squad than people like Clark and Lescott.

agree, he had some bad games but mostly we were better with him in the team. He is better than any of our current centre halves.