Quote from: pauliewalnuts on November 27, 2013, 10:57:57 AMMy take on Collymore is- he's definitely a Villa fan, and the more of them there are in the media, the better- we didn't get anything like the best out of him- we used to give him plenty of stick, I'm not surprised he reacted- he's had his problems and continues to struggle with them, had our manager at the time been a bit more enlightened, maybe we'd have got more out of him- he's not a bad broadcaster at all. Agree on all pointsWhen Stan said he had problems all i ever heard was "What with his money?"Just goes to show how material things dont matter a jot at times
My take on Collymore is- he's definitely a Villa fan, and the more of them there are in the media, the better- we didn't get anything like the best out of him- we used to give him plenty of stick, I'm not surprised he reacted- he's had his problems and continues to struggle with them, had our manager at the time been a bit more enlightened, maybe we'd have got more out of him- he's not a bad broadcaster at all.
It also shows how much things have changed in the last 10-15 years collymore now would have got the support and help he needed, collymore in the mid-90s was told to get on with it.
Hasn't stopped Marlon King unfortunately.
Quote from: evalast1910 on November 26, 2013, 05:33:46 PMQuote from: LeeB on November 26, 2013, 03:49:00 PMQuote from: evalast1910 on November 26, 2013, 12:33:15 AMI was with Bryan Hughes tonight (ex blues) really nice bloke, spoke very highly of Villa park and he is a lifelong Everton fan, and he said to me the one thing he wanted to do was score at Goodison and celebrate scoring.....I heard a funny story about him.Go on..... I heard a few last night, he was doing a Q&A with Dean Windass.I know a girl who reckons she shagged Andy Johnson in a Birmingham hotel, whilst Hughes sat on the couch cracking one off.The zany world of professional football, eh?
Quote from: LeeB on November 26, 2013, 03:49:00 PMQuote from: evalast1910 on November 26, 2013, 12:33:15 AMI was with Bryan Hughes tonight (ex blues) really nice bloke, spoke very highly of Villa park and he is a lifelong Everton fan, and he said to me the one thing he wanted to do was score at Goodison and celebrate scoring.....I heard a funny story about him.Go on..... I heard a few last night, he was doing a Q&A with Dean Windass.
Quote from: evalast1910 on November 26, 2013, 12:33:15 AMI was with Bryan Hughes tonight (ex blues) really nice bloke, spoke very highly of Villa park and he is a lifelong Everton fan, and he said to me the one thing he wanted to do was score at Goodison and celebrate scoring.....I heard a funny story about him.
I was with Bryan Hughes tonight (ex blues) really nice bloke, spoke very highly of Villa park and he is a lifelong Everton fan, and he said to me the one thing he wanted to do was score at Goodison and celebrate scoring.....
Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere...great comeback!Stan Collymore@StanCollymore"@JeromeMichelKur: Why didn't you play for Arsenal/Spurs? Because you were rubbish? >WANTED TO PLAY FOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS #LFC #NFFC #AVFC05:13 PM - 04 Jan 14
Or this:
I was discussing our current situation with a couple of Villa supporting colleagues earlier today and the topic of conversation inevitably came round to the manager. I thought one of them made a really good point when he said that he feels that both the current owner and the manager don't really 'get' the club and other managers (O'Leary, Houllier, McLeish) have struggled because they too haven't really understood it. Conversely, managers such as Ron Atkinson, Brian Little, John Gregory and to some extent Graham Taylor have had a better understanding of the club in the past and have tended to do a little better even if they weren't able to sustain that success.
Quote from: tomd2103 on January 07, 2014, 12:15:28 AMI was discussing our current situation with a couple of Villa supporting colleagues earlier today and the topic of conversation inevitably came round to the manager. I thought one of them made a really good point when he said that he feels that both the current owner and the manager don't really 'get' the club and other managers (O'Leary, Houllier, McLeish) have struggled because they too haven't really understood it. Conversely, managers such as Ron Atkinson, Brian Little, John Gregory and to some extent Graham Taylor have had a better understanding of the club in the past and have tended to do a little better even if they weren't able to sustain that success.I had a similar conversation with someone the other day, although we came to the conclusion that Lambert does 'get it'. Which is a completely different question to whether or not he's actually any good as a manager. God knows what Lerner thinks, its not as though we've heard a peep out of him for years.