It's not Sherwood!

[Villa in Denmark]

In addition to having a sizeable cheerleading squad in the world of punditry, Sherwood is a determined and disciplined self-publicist. His method so far has largely involved staring at the camera as if he is about to chin it, and telling everyone who will listen how good he is at managing. Sunday's game with Leicester was a case in point, when a few half-time pearls of wisdom in an advisory, popping-in capacity apparently won them the game.

And yet there was a marked difference between the first and second half performance. Maybe there wasn't a great deal he needed to say, who knows.  The main thing, of course, was the result, however it was achieved.

I know I can spout some shite at times, but that's not my quote

[Loxton01]

Does anyone have the full press conference

[Walmley_Villa]

I'm normally a believer in teams often reflecting the personality of the manager and that is exactly what happened to Villa under PL. We became timid and coy. TS does exude confidence which came out in the team during the second half yesterday and gave us a bit of what we want to see - the closing down and pressing, bodies in the box etc. We have given ourselves a better chance of staying up now than if we had made no change of manager imo.

[ciggiesnbeer]

You can see why he can wind up certain players but he does speak his mind...this from late 2014

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x294yy5_sherwood-talks-spurs_sport

I appreciate the honesty but I wouldn't like to see Lambert talking that in depth about us in a few months. Doesn't seem very appropriate.

[Villa in Denmark]

I'm normally a believer in teams often reflecting the personality of the manager and that is exactly what happened to Villa under PL. We became timid and coy. TS does exude confidence which came out in the team during the second half yesterday and gave us a bit of what we want to see - the closing down and pressing, bodies in the box etc. We have given ourselves a better chance of staying up now than if we had made no change of manager imo.

Swapping Lambert for the Have I Got News For You tub of lard would probably have given us a better chance of staying up.

I'm pretty sure that if he gets us playing a bit more aggressively and with a bit more self belief (like we saw in the second half) we'll end up being almost comfortable, the players are plenty good enough.

It's what happens after May that gives the bigger questions.

[brian green]

The original HIGNFY tub of lard was of course the long time MP for Sparkbrook who in all his years representing that wonderful place never pronounced the name of it correctly with the emphasis on the second syllable or ever said a good word about Villa. He claims to be a Wednesday fan.

[oldhill_avfc]

You can see why he can wind up certain players but he does speak his mind...this from late 2014

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x294yy5_sherwood-talks-spurs_sport

I appreciate the honesty but I wouldn't like to see Lambert talking that in depth about us in a few months. Doesn't seem very appropriate.

You can debate whether he should have gone public, but you can't argue with many of his sentiments.

[Villa in Denmark]

The original HIGNFY tub of lard was of course the long time MP for Sparkbrook who in all his years representing that wonderful place never pronounced the name of it correctly with the emphasis on the second syllable or ever said a good word about Villa. He claims to be a Wednesday fan.

I could it was a politician, Roy Hattersley?

[ciggiesnbeer]

You can see why he can wind up certain players but he does speak his mind...this from late 2014

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x294yy5_sherwood-talks-spurs_sport

I appreciate the honesty but I wouldn't like to see Lambert talking that in depth about us in a few months. Doesn't seem very appropriate.

You can debate whether he should have gone public, but you can't argue with many of his sentiments.

Oh for sure, he is spot on. Just not sure I would like him saying it if I was a Spurs fan.

[aj2k77]

It's just a hatchet job from line one. He did a better job at Spurs than AVB, no doubt. He's not a massive name, so what, neither are we anymore. We need enthusiasm and we need energy, he will provide it. He won't provide Mourinho style tactical nuances but then we are trying to stay up not win the Champions League. Basically the bloke who wrote the article doesn't like him so picks out meaningless things like the gillet to bash him. The Benfica manager row, he was taking the piss and Sherwood took offence to it, he wasn't going to back down, good for him. It's about fucking time we had someone stand up for our club you know, instead of being the butt of the medias jokes, good old Villa 0, no shots since Jesus how funny. If this is the guy to do it and we stay up and have a bit of pride and passion about us again then he's done a bloody good job for me and he's going to get my backing.

Spurs ponces.

Well said.

Actually most of that was being said about him on here in the days before he was appointed.

And in many places by 'poncy Spurs fans'. It just reminds me a lot, as someone else said, of when the Sunderland fans didn't listen to us about MON when they appointed him. They just looked at the 6th place finishes and thought that was the whole story.

I agree that he's probably not the best tactician around, but we are 18th in the league, never score and go on what seems like unending runs of winless games. MON had at the time almost unlimited power and money and chose to buy guff like Harewood, Shorey, Knight, Heskey etc etc etc he finished below Moyes and Redknapp, two managers who reached the Champions League whilst we finished 6th year in year out. Sherwood took over Spurs in 7th and although they only climbed to 6th they picked up a lot of points and scored a hell of a lot of goals, 40 in 22 games. He took a bashing for some beatings against bigger clubs, what isn't mentioned is that before he took the job under AVB they also took some serious beatings, I think possibly a 5-0 and a 6-0 against Man City and Liverpool? So it wasn't a new problem created by the chancer Sherwood, it was there under the previous manager too.

I'm under no illusion that we've picked up the cream of the crop of current managers but saying he's a chancer based on he wears a Gillet, has mates in the media and wants his teams to play with passion is a load of old bollocks and his record, admittedly over a tiny sample pool stands up to scrutiny for where we are today.

[adrenachrome]

This is the header of the ESPN blog.



The geezer writes quirky articles which are deliberately controversial. Like this, for example:

Jan 12, 2015 Let's have Pietersen playing for Australia in the Ashes
Alan Tyers says only way to end score-settling Kevin Pietersen's long-running feud with England is to have him play for Australia in the Ashes
 

[mr woo]

Well ok, he wouldn't have been my choice and I still have reservations over his appointment but I've given it a couple of days to sink in and I've heard what he's had to say today and I would say this - I find it a little easier to understand why Fox was prepared to give him a chance. He actually speaks with authority and comes across as a leader, which Lambert never did. If he can get that confidence to rub off on the players it would do them the world of good.

A kind Fa cup draw and 3 points against a bruised up Stoke at the weekend could make the start of a nice positive run in to the end to the season.

[dave.woodhall]

This is the header of the ESPN blog.



The geezer writes quirky articles which are deliberately controversial. Like this, for example:

Jan 12, 2015 Let's have Pietersen playing for Australia in the Ashes
Alan Tyers says only way to end score-settling Kevin Pietersen's long-running feud with England is to have him play for Australia in the Ashes
 

There's a lot of football hipster types writing on the web now, in that 'irony' style pioneered by WSC and honed by The Fiver. They tend to be very snobbish and dismissive of anything that's even vaguely old-school English.

[john e]

are you a hipster Dave ?

[LeeB]

are you a hipster Dave ?

Did you see that jacket?