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Author Topic: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread  (Read 60697 times)

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #316 on: February 10, 2015, 11:36:50 PM »
Probably 90% of managers in the world. The approx £2m a year for starters.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #317 on: February 10, 2015, 11:37:58 PM »
You don't have to have a manager/assistant/coach who was a forward. BFR was never more than a very limited wing-half (asy your dad) but style-wise his teams were as good as it got.

Agreed - someone who understands the attacking side of the game, which is clearly missing. Having a manager who doesn't see that gaping hole in either his own knowledge and/or his current coaching set-up should be a sack-able offence in of itself.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #318 on: February 10, 2015, 11:39:47 PM »
What I will never get is that in the first season we played some fantastic attacking stuff. It's one of the reasons I was fully supportive of Lambert all that season. As the squad has got better our attacking ability gets less, how is that possible?

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #319 on: February 10, 2015, 11:41:17 PM »
He added: "The first goal was really disappointing as we were on top and started the game really well. The ball has travelled 60 or 70 yards from their goalkeeper.

It's this kind of crap that annoys me. Thompson said hull were very much on top before that scores.  Utter nonsense.

By the way reading that interview sounds as if its a leaving speech.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #320 on: February 10, 2015, 11:41:47 PM »
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Paul Lambert has told his players they must treat every game as a cup final from now until the end of the season as they look to bounce back from the defeat at Hull.

Lambert described the dressing room as "flat as you'll probably get it" after the 2-0 loss to the Tigers on Tuesday.

Villa are currently in the bottom three in the Barclays Premier League but Lambert has called on his players to fight with everything they've got to power away from the drop zone between now and the end of the current campaign.

Lambert is confident his players will climb the table but reiterated the need for character in the final run-in.

He said: "I probably can't describe how low we're feeling right now. As a group we're down.

"I just told them we've got thirteen cup finals and we have to win these cup finals that are coming our way.

"There will be a few other teams that'll be fighting with you to stay in this league.

"You have to make sure you're out of that bottom three.

"I've just said to the lads there are two ways you can go about it. You can meet it head on or you buckle under it. And you make sure you don't buckle for your own career.

"You've got to go into the next game and win it. You can't feel sorry for yourself.

"You've got to pick yourself up and you've got to go again.

"This football club is a great football club. It's huge. The supporters will expect a reaction. They have the biggest thirteen games of their careers coming up.

"I still believe, 100%. I still believe that the football club will be fine.

"There are good players in the dressing room. There's no two ways about.

"We're just missing that little bit in the final third. We have thirteen cup finals on our hands, that's the big thing. But I still believe 100% that Villa will be fine.

"Everyone will have to show character. From me right down, big players always rise to it anyway.

"This will be a test for everybody but, as I said to them, a lot of teams are going to be there with you. That's going to happen so you have to be ready for it.

"We have got to win ugly now. This is not the time for playing pretty football. No matter how you do it, you have to win.

"We try to play the game the right way. Now you have to win ugly to get points.

"I have no doubt we have enough leaders. There are big characters in the dressing room to see it through."

Lambert lamented the manner of the Tigers goals as he spoke to the press after the final whistle.

He added: "The first goal was really disappointing as we were on top and started the game really well. The ball has travelled 60 or 70 yards from their goalkeeper.

"We never dealt with it. That goal gives their stadium a lift.

"We're chasing the game from there.

"Even the second goal is a short free-kick that went into the box and we never dealt with that particularly well.

"We had enough of the ball to do better than we did in the last third.

"If you look at the players we had on the pitch, we had Gabby Agbonlahor, Carles Gil, Joe Cole - you've got so many options attacking-wise.

"Tonight it didn't go for us but we went with an attacking line-up.

"That's not just labelled at the forward lads. Collectively as a group we never did enough."

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #321 on: February 10, 2015, 11:42:24 PM »
What I will never get is that in the first season we played some fantastic attacking stuff. It's one of the reasons I was fully supportive of Lambert all that season. As the squad has got better our attacking ability gets less, how is that possible?
Beginners luck, more than judgement? And the fact that we were coming off the back of a season with McLeish, so ANY team was going to look more creative after that! ;) 

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #322 on: February 10, 2015, 11:42:38 PM »
What I will never get is that in the first season we played some fantastic attacking stuff. It's one of the reasons I was fully supportive of Lambert all that season. As the squad has got better our attacking ability gets less, how is that possible?

Yes but it always needed building upon and instead he's just allowed it to stagnate season by season. The run-in last season, where we barely survived, should have been a huge wake-up call but it was still never addressed.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #323 on: February 10, 2015, 11:43:59 PM »
Sorry but I can't bring myself to read the shit that comes out of that clueless twat's mouth.

I tried, honestly but by line 3 or 4 I gave in.

Been there, done it, not going again.
« Last Edit: February 10, 2015, 11:45:31 PM by The Sound of Villadelphia »

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #324 on: February 10, 2015, 11:45:23 PM »
"You've got to pick yourself up and you've got to go again.

Let me rephrase that for you Paul.... "You've got to pick yourself up and get the fook out of our football club, and never come back EVER AGAIN!"

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #325 on: February 10, 2015, 11:46:19 PM »
62% possession.

0% goal threat.

It's looking good for those 13 cup finals then...

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #326 on: February 10, 2015, 11:47:15 PM »
"You've got to pick yourself up and you've got to go again.

Let me rephrase that for you Paul.... "You've got to pick yourself up and get the fook out of our football club, and never come back EVER AGAIN!"

You've got to pick up your P45 up and leave it on Tom's desk.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #327 on: February 10, 2015, 11:47:46 PM »
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Paul Lambert has told his players they must treat every game as a cup final from now until the end of the season as they look to bounce back from the defeat at Hull.

Lambert described the dressing room as "flat as you'll probably get it" after the 2-0 loss to the Tigers on Tuesday.

Villa are currently in the bottom three in the Barclays Premier League but Lambert has called on his players to fight with everything they've got to power away from the drop zone between now and the end of the current campaign.

Lambert is confident his players will climb the table but reiterated the need for character in the final run-in.

He said: "I probably can't describe how low we're feeling right now. As a group we're down.

"I just told them we've got thirteen cup finals and we have to win these cup finals that are coming our way.

"There will be a few other teams that'll be fighting with you to stay in this league.

"You have to make sure you're out of that bottom three.

"I've just said to the lads there are two ways you can go about it. You can meet it head on or you buckle under it. And you make sure you don't buckle for your own career.

"You've got to go into the next game and win it. You can't feel sorry for yourself.

"You've got to pick yourself up and you've got to go again.

"This football club is a great football club. It's huge. The supporters will expect a reaction. They have the biggest thirteen games of their careers coming up.

"I still believe, 100%. I still believe that the football club will be fine.

"There are good players in the dressing room. There's no two ways about.

"We're just missing that little bit in the final third. We have thirteen cup finals on our hands, that's the big thing. But I still believe 100% that Villa will be fine.

"Everyone will have to show character. From me right down, big players always rise to it anyway.

"This will be a test for everybody but, as I said to them, a lot of teams are going to be there with you. That's going to happen so you have to be ready for it.

"We have got to win ugly now. This is not the time for playing pretty football. No matter how you do it, you have to win.

"We try to play the game the right way. Now you have to win ugly to get points.

"I have no doubt we have enough leaders. There are big characters in the dressing room to see it through."

Lambert lamented the manner of the Tigers goals as he spoke to the press after the final whistle.

He added: "The first goal was really disappointing as we were on top and started the game really well. The ball has travelled 60 or 70 yards from their goalkeeper.

"We never dealt with it. That goal gives their stadium a lift.

"We're chasing the game from there.

"Even the second goal is a short free-kick that went into the box and we never dealt with that particularly well.

"We had enough of the ball to do better than we did in the last third.

"If you look at the players we had on the pitch, we had Gabby Agbonlahor, Carles Gil, Joe Cole - you've got so many options attacking-wise.

"Tonight it didn't go for us but we went with an attacking line-up.

"That's not just labelled at the forward lads. Collectively as a group we never did enough."

Thing is with Lambert and that clown Lerner in charge even if they managed to pick themselves up and claw their way out of danger, those that don't manage to get a transfer out will face the same soul destroying struggle next year, while we will have the soul destroying task of watching them go about it.

And on that cheerful note I will wish you all a pleasant evening.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #328 on: February 10, 2015, 11:49:26 PM »
FFS i'm done. Until he's gone I just cannae take any more of the shit he's serving up.

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Re: Hull City v Aston Villa Post-Shambles Thread
« Reply #329 on: February 10, 2015, 11:50:01 PM »
Sorry but I can't bring myself to read the shit that comes out of that clueless twat's mouth.

I tried, honestly but by line 3 or 4 I gave in.

Been there, done it, not going again.

The best line was, "We have got to win ugly now. This is not the time for pretty football". I don't know about you but I will miss all that pretty football I have been watching week in week out for the last couple of years.

 


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