Lambert's replacement

[Toronto Villa]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

More the sense that we won't have five to six games to say, 'yep, can see what he's trying to do' and the manager getting breathing space even if results go against him initially. We don't have that luxury.  Would have thought that's fairly obvious.

What about the new manager bounce?

None of us can say with absolute certainty that won't occur.

The sheer relief of not playing under Lambert might result in champagne football. 

As we witnessed with Houllier though, a manager with a more progressive style of play might find resistance from the playing staff.  It's also harder to create than destroy, so I struggle to see us going from a shot-shy outfit to a fluid attacking unit overnight. There would need to be a period of transition for that.

All that takes time, and we don't have a whole pile of that to play with.

we don't need to go from shot shy to fluid. We just need to go from shot shy to shot.

[aj2k77]

I'd rather have stuck with Lambert than go with Sherwood.

Yeah, I mean I miss his 10 game winless runs and 12 goals already.....

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I go out for a curry come back and read we're trying to steal Pulis from the Baggies and willing to pay them £2.5m in compensation. Tim Sherwood? Tony Pulis? Has the world gone fucking mad?

[Louzie0]

I go out for a curry come back and read we're trying to steal Pulis from the Baggies and willing to pay them £2.5m in compensation. Tim Sherwood? Tony Pulis? Has the world gone fucking mad?

I feel your pain.
And share it.


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[villan from luton]

I dont want MON back, he was instrumental with his hissy fits in putting our beloved club where we are now. Whatever we think of Randy, he gave him massive backing and then when he questioned some of the signings MON didnt like it.

[West Derby Villan]

Not my first choice, but whoever gets the post will get my support until.............

[Louzie0]

Interesting location for this thread.

[Louzie0]

Absolutely.

Now is the time for somebody globally and unbelievably rich to come in and save Fabio Capello by sending him to Villa.

And for Villa to resist the new employee induction programme and not send him to peel spuds for the Retaurant.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

If the total sum of ambition for Aston Villa is Tim Sherwood then I will honestly give up. I haven't suffered all these years to be further insulted.

I expected far better from Fox. Maybe I seriously overestimated his talent. Time will tell.

[Damo70]

Capello could probably afford to buy us and put himself in charge. If the Russians finally got round to paying him.

[django]

I think Sherwood would be the worst possible appointment, an absolute calamity and not what we need when trying to address our tailspin. He is an idiot. Unfortunately our owners are idiots too so it's exactly the sort of crazy shit they might come up with.

Hopefully it's just newspaper bullshit, if not I despair.

[rob_bridge]

1-16 with sone bookies. Thats a done deal.

As fir falling low. We hired McLeish. And paid compensation to That Lot. We became Small Time then.

[Jim Shoes]

1-16 with sone bookies. Thats a done deal.

As fir falling low. We hired McLeish. And paid compensation to That Lot. We became Small Time then.

Nar we became small time when Lerner took over, McLeish just proved that to the world.

Sherwood is a tool and an inexperienced one at that...........perfect tosser for Lerner to put in charge.

[Holte L2]

I've never given a fuck what a Spurs fan thinks and I don't intend to start now.

Two of my best mates are spurs fans. They live in Goulders Green. Two of the nicest blokes you could meet. They hated Sherwood when they had him. Now they are worried on our behalf.

That's gracious of them. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Tim Sherwood is the answer to anything except a particularly strange question, but you are never going to get an objective opinion about any manager from his former supporters, particularly when the club involved see themselves as somewhere between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the natural order.   

So who is your preferred choice from who is realistically available?

Dave, my two supporting mates really aren't of that nature. They see Villa and Spurs at equal standing.
When we went to WHL in May they didn't rate Sherwood then and they feel the same now. Their dislike is down to his inability to employ tactics properly. He was also known within the club as Levy's snitch with regards to AVB.
Sherwood is always someone I hated as a player and his character reference from my mates does him no favour.

[Monty]

Sherwood is an idiot, and worryingly proud of it. The idea that he might even be viable as a candidate for our club is barely beyond risible. Why, despite the club that we are, must we always have to appoint the morons? We can't we get any of the Pocchetinos, the Karankas, the Rodgerses? To quote Tennyson, 'why do must we only toil, we who are the roof and crown of things?'