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Offline LeeB

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2014, 12:29:06 AM »
My mates often discuss a similar conundrum.  What if we'd have won the league in 1992-3, & not Manure?  Would we have gone on to enjoy similar dominance?

Probably not. They would have won it sooner rather than later and the 1,000 Year Reich would have begun then.

I do wonder that if we'd have won it, they might have chopped Ferguson for choking twice on the trot.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2014, 01:53:39 AM »

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2014, 02:06:04 AM »
Melberg or Laursen. Both leaders.

Giggs is a wanker.

Biggest in the league. Makes Terry look like a saint in comparison.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2014, 10:44:59 AM »
Southgate

Was that a joke?

No! A master-stroke, to give us a real scapegoat and lay off the players.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2014, 10:46:51 AM »
Southgate

Was that a joke?
No. He's exactly the sort of ex-player that they would hire.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2014, 12:14:04 PM »
Ian Taylor would probably be popular, but he's never shown any indication that he would want to go into management.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2014, 01:25:44 PM »
Boris Johnson is, inexplicably, popular, but I wouldn't want the bumbling buffoon managing Villa.

We should appoint someone who is good at managing football teams. Not an ex-player as a pathetic Geordiesque sop to the fans.

Mind you, Kent Nielsen's doing well with Aalborg...

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2014, 02:17:51 PM »
Boris Johnson is, inexplicably, popular, but I wouldn't want the bumbling buffoon managing Villa.

We should appoint someone who is good at managing football teams. Not an ex-player as a pathetic Geordiesque sop to the fans.

Mind you, Kent Nielsen's doing well with Aalborg...
Definitely. There's no room for sentiment really. Results have to come first. It worked out well enough for Little and to a lesser extent Gregory, but they'd got their toes wet before coming here.
I wouldn't be adverse to players like Laursen and Taylor being part of the coaching set up of a more experienced manager. But the top job would be beyond them at this moment in time to be honest.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #23 on: May 06, 2014, 07:37:45 PM »
Ian Taylor.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #24 on: May 06, 2014, 08:00:10 PM »
A point worth remembering. All the relegated teams changed managers during the season.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2014, 05:59:58 AM »
A point worth remembering. All the relegated teams changed managers during the season.

Good point.

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #26 on: May 07, 2014, 08:54:43 AM »
My mates often discuss a similar conundrum.  What if we'd have won the league in 1992-3, & not Manure?  Would we have gone on to enjoy similar dominance?

Probably not. They would have won it sooner rather than later and the 1,000 Year Reich would have begun then.

I do wonder that if we'd have won it, they might have chopped Ferguson for choking twice on the trot.

I suspect he would have been given one more season as like it or not they were becoming the team to beat and were underlying becoming stronger.

Offline adbo9

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2014, 09:14:36 AM »
Lets not forget Lambert was the "fans" choice.......... by and large fans know pretty much the sum total of fuck all about the workings and goings on of a topflight football club.........

If fans had their own way we'd have a new signing every day, a new manager every time we lose and a new contract for the gaffer every time we pick up some points......


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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2014, 09:33:45 AM »
In such circumstances, Sid would probably be the ex-player most suited to take over the job in the same circumstances Giggs has. 

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Re: If we'd done what Manchester United did
« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2014, 09:38:29 AM »
Lets not forget Lambert was the "fans" choice.......... by and large fans know pretty much the sum total of fuck all about the workings and goings on of a topflight football club.........

If fans had their own way we'd have a new signing every day, a new manager every time we lose and a new contract for the gaffer every time we pick up some points......

Hindsight is 20/20.  Problem is, I think we forget just what a big and sometimes difficult job being manager of Aston Villa is.  As with players, some managers are going to struggle with the expectations of bigger clubs. 

 


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