It's not Sherwood!

[LeeB]

JG2 sums it up for me.

It's miles off, you could maybe compare him taking over at Spurs. John had a much better team that he'd spent time working with and they liked him.

It was a shrewd move. This is a punt.

[claret and blue blood]

I think he will be brash, loud and direct, JG2, and he will do well for us.   Not CL by a long chalk but certainly not permanently in the shit house.

I respect your opinion Brian and as I've been out all day reading this thread tonight has pretty much depressed me ,however I agree with you and have a feeling he will at least save us and give us long suffering supporters a team who go out on the park determined to give 110% to win games.

[Ian.]

Seen a few of his press conferences in you tube and he's extremely honest and passionate. We are desperate for a bloke whose infectious that can that squad believe in themselves. With the right staff around him this could be a tremendous appointment, i truly believe that

I hope so.

So do I.

Me too, boy don't we need a fresh start and some hope.

[N'ZMAV]

JG2 sums it up for me.

It's miles off, you could maybe compare him taking over at Spurs. John had a much better team that he'd spent time working with and they liked him.

It was a shrewd move. This is a punt.

Ok

[olaftab]

I get the feeling this could either be one of the best appointments ever or one of the worst, nothing in between.

We have had our share of worsts we need some luck now.

[Villa in Denmark]

Coach? Alex Ferguson wasn't a coach. Mourinhio isn't a coach. I want a manager who can win games.

What's the big obsession with a coach? A coach belongs in the NFL.

I think the obsession is that we haven't got any and it fucking shows.

No, a coach is something obssessed with only recently. Go backs few years and they're nothing. Who's Man City or Chelsea's coach? Do they matter more than their managers? No. Blatantly not.

Do they matter more than their managers? Maybe, as a part of the "whole package"
It's the coaching staff that the players spoend most of their time at Bodymoor being drilled in what the manager wants in terms of tactics, honing of skills etc.

A good coach won't make a shit manager into a good one, but a poor coach can make a good manager look shit.

Under Brian Little we'd done really well and played some fantastic football with Alan Evans as assistant manager and som chancer called Gregory as 1st team coach.

A few months after Gregory left it all went to rat shit, and short term got better after Gregory returned (just long enough for him to step back from hand-on coaching and start doing the "real" managers job.

One of the things that is always held up as reason why Fergie lasted as long as he did, was that every few years he'd change out the coaching staff to get some fresh ideas and stop everything getting into too much of a comfort zone.

One of his last assistants was Mike Phelan who's just turned up at Hull.  They might be shit, but they've started making more of what they've got and grinding out a couple mof results.  The exact thing we've been complaining about.

One of the things that worries me moist about Sherwood is that he's not got the backroom staff with him that he worked with at Spurs, and our current coaching set up has been conclusively proven to be not fit for purpose since Christmas 2013, about the time the first allegations against Karsa and Culverhouse started to show up.

[citizenDJ]

I was reading an interview with a guy from the Welsh FA - where Sherwood is doing his Pro Licence. He was absolutely raving about him, his technical knowledge and vision. Interview was from last March, when he'd started the course. Found it quite interesting, a different viewpoint. Also mentioned his five years on coaching staff at Spurs; playing 4-3-3 with U21s.

I always felt, at Spurs, he expected the boot at any minute.

Really? Could you post a link to this interview?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-tottenham-hotspur-boss-tim-6521056

[Rico]

Welcome to Villa Park Tim. Hope you can do a job for us, however,  a word of warning : If you think Spurs was a big job, you haven't seen nothing yet my son. Get it right and you'll be a legend. First on the list: Avoid relegation at all costs! Good luck!

[LeeB]

JG2 sums it up for me.

It's miles off, you could maybe compare him taking over at Spurs. John had a much better team that he'd spent time working with and they liked him.

It was a shrewd move. This is a punt.

Ok

Sorry, didn't mean to be dismissive. Again, I hope your right, if we get anything like Gregory's first 10 months out of him I'd happily tea bag him.

[He wears a magic hat]

Whether you pro sherwood or anti sherwood you gotta admit there is something exciting about the furst fewweeks of a new managerial appointment.

I'm a sth who has tickets for Newcastle and Sunderland and I've gone from non plus about these up and coming fixtures to really excited

[Monty]

I was reading an interview with a guy from the Welsh FA - where Sherwood is doing his Pro Licence. He was absolutely raving about him, his technical knowledge and vision. Interview was from last March, when he'd started the course. Found it quite interesting, a different viewpoint. Also mentioned his five years on coaching staff at Spurs; playing 4-3-3 with U21s.

I always felt, at Spurs, he expected the boot at any minute.

Really? Could you post a link to this interview?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-tottenham-hotspur-boss-tim-6521056

Yep, found it. It's a step in the right direction but other than general compliments it doesn't provide much by way of examples.

[Villa in Denmark]

JG2 sums it up for me.

It's miles off, you could maybe compare him taking over at Spurs. John had a much better team that he'd spent time working with and they liked him.

It was a shrewd move. This is a punt.

Great minds and all that.

I can see why people compare Sherwood's appointment with Gregory's, but I don't think it's quite the right analogy.
His appointment at Spurs was more akin to Gregory getting the managers job with us, as both stepped into the roles already knowing most of the squad and the Club.

I'd argue that in the short term, Gregory was far less of a risk than Sherwood is, as Gregory had already proved he could get the best out of that squad - it had all started to go to shit after he left for Wycombe.

Anyway, he might be a gobshite, but for now he's our gobshite and we can only hope he can pull 14/15 points out of the next 13 games to give us a chance.

[Toronto Villa]

I was reading an interview with a guy from the Welsh FA - where Sherwood is doing his Pro Licence. He was absolutely raving about him, his technical knowledge and vision. Interview was from last March, when he'd started the course. Found it quite interesting, a different viewpoint. Also mentioned his five years on coaching staff at Spurs; playing 4-3-3 with U21s.

I always felt, at Spurs, he expected the boot at any minute.

Really? Could you post a link to this interview?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-tottenham-hotspur-boss-tim-6521056

That's certainly not the impression a lot of people have of him, and I would take that view above any Spurs fan.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Apparently Laursen would like to come back as a coach

Source?

Go back a page Rudy - the link is there.

UTV!

[LeeB]

I was reading an interview with a guy from the Welsh FA - where Sherwood is doing his Pro Licence. He was absolutely raving about him, his technical knowledge and vision. Interview was from last March, when he'd started the course. Found it quite interesting, a different viewpoint. Also mentioned his five years on coaching staff at Spurs; playing 4-3-3 with U21s.

I always felt, at Spurs, he expected the boot at any minute.

Really? Could you post a link to this interview?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-tottenham-hotspur-boss-tim-6521056

That's certainly not the impression a lot of people have of him, and I would take that view above any Spurs fan.

Yes, that's actually cheered me up quite a bit.