It's not Sherwood!

[john e]

Call me a simpleton, but the fact that Sherwood speaks in a language that I understand as a fan of Aston Villa makes me like him all the more. I don't need to be patronized as a fan. I don't need to have someone try and teach me the game I have been watching for over 30 years and make me feel as though I'm not seeing the big picture. Or that I simply don't understand. He makes me relate to him because he relates to us. I feel like he sees what I see. There are things that we all saw were missing under Lambert. We all said Lambert for the most part bought really well, especially when he spent a bit of money. We are now seeing those players perform to a standard we all knew they are capable of.

Sherwood has not only given them belief but in doing so has brought out the qualities they have as players. Long may it continue.

agree with you
I really didn't know much about Sherwood before he arrived and was thinking the worst seeing what everyone was saying about him,
so I watched a couple of his interviews that other posters had found bad, and was suprised that I  liked the way he spoke, and actually answered the question in a straightish manner

since then I've really enjoyed the stuff he's been saying, I know he's a bit blokeish and off the cuf but I like that about him, bit more character than what we have been used to,
 the internet and my FB page is jammed from all the memes and jokey video's been put out about him,
 it makes a change going from playing the boringest football with the boringest manager to being entertaining as a club again

btw, we are agreeing far to often nowadays, something will have to be done about it

[Toronto Villa]

Call me a simpleton, but the fact that Sherwood speaks in a language that I understand as a fan of Aston Villa makes me like him all the more. I don't need to be patronized as a fan. I don't need to have someone try and teach me the game I have been watching for over 30 years and make me feel as though I'm not seeing the big picture. Or that I simply don't understand. He makes me relate to him because he relates to us. I feel like he sees what I see. There are things that we all saw were missing under Lambert. We all said Lambert for the most part bought really well, especially when he spent a bit of money. We are now seeing those players perform to a standard we all knew they are capable of.

Sherwood has not only given them belief but in doing so has brought out the qualities they have as players. Long may it continue.

You're not a simpleton, TV, you're simply in love.

Speaking of love, I get the idea Sherwood absolutely loves his job, the intensity, the club, the raw passion of the Albion game made him realise what we're all about and wants to make it his own. My favourite Sherwood quote from the weekend sums all this up;

“I have nothing but respect for Levy and the Spurs board, without them, I wouldn’t be Aston Villa manager.”

I gather Sherwood's full time celebrations didn't go down too well with the Spurs fans - Houllier he ain't.

I might be Mark. I have had many man crushes in my time. Dwight gave many pant stirring moments back in the day, as did Sid and Platt. More recently I get a twinge every time Benteke buries one. So it is entirely possible that I get a little weak at the knees for Tim. And yes, his back handed slap at Levy was ace. Oh, and fuck the Spurs fans. I'm delighted Sherwood gave it the full treatment, before the final whistle I might add, and loads after it. Love the passion.

[ozzjim]

TV wrote....

"More recently I get a twinge every time Benteke buries one"

Wow.

[Toronto Villa]

TV wrote....

"More recently I get a twinge every time Benteke buries one"

Wow.

C'mon Ozz, when he buried that header against Spurs or beautifully scored the second against QPR, and especially the equalizing third for his hattrick, admit it, you got a little hot under the collar so to speak

[supertom]

TV wrote....

"More recently I get a twinge every time Benteke buries one"

Wow.

C'mon Ozz, when he buried that header against Spurs or beautifully scored the second against QPR, and especially the equalizing third for his hattrick, admit it, you got a little hot under the collar so to speak

I went from half six to midnight.

[cheltenhamlion]

Nice note from Sherwood to the nipper that. He has also agreed to appear at a do the Trust are putting on at the end of the season. Tom Fox will be in attendance as well. It will be my first chance to cross swords with him.

[jwarry]

Apologies if posted before but this is an interesting read
http://www.spursfanatic.com/spurs-result/spurs-0-1-aston-villa-pochettino-diamond/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SpursFanatic+%28Spurs+Fanatic%29

[ciggiesnbeer]

Interesting read. Amusing though that he writes an article describing how simple minded "tactics" Tim, out thought the sophisticated Pochettino, but then concludes by saying Sherwood is just a one dimensional impact manager.

Amusing.

I did like his tactical analysis though, very informative.

[LTA]

Call me a simpleton, but the fact that Sherwood speaks in a language that I understand as a fan of Aston Villa makes me like him all the more. I don't need to be patronized as a fan. I don't need to have someone try and teach me the game I have been watching for over 30 years and make me feel as though I'm not seeing the big picture. Or that I simply don't understand. He makes me relate to him because he relates to us. I feel like he sees what I see. There are things that we all saw were missing under Lambert. We all said Lambert for the most part bought really well, especially when he spent a bit of money. We are now seeing those players perform to a standard we all knew they are capable of.

Sherwood has not only given them belief but in doing so has brought out the qualities they have as players. Long may it continue.

agree with you
I really didn't know much about Sherwood before he arrived and was thinking the worst seeing what everyone was saying about him,
so I watched a couple of his interviews that other posters had found bad, and was suprised that I  liked the way he spoke, and actually answered the question in a straightish manner

since then I've really enjoyed the stuff he's been saying, I know he's a bit blokeish and off the cuf but I like that about him, bit more character than what we have been used to,
 the internet and my FB page is jammed from all the memes and jokey video's been put out about him,
 it makes a change going from playing the boringest football with the boringest manager to being entertaining as a club again

btw, we are agreeing far to often nowadays, something will have to be done about it

In fairness to Sherwood he is following a manager who had the personality of a rubber plant.  I think it must be a good place to be at the moment, as we all know its harder to be motivated turning up for work when the atmosphere is one of defeatism and misery.

One things for sure and that is people are talking about us again, as opposed to mocking us.

[Monty]

To be fair, Sherwood has been playing the diamond pretty much no matter what, so he might not have played it against Spurs because of their deficiencies. Also, 4-3-3 should really out-do the diamond - as the article states, Spurs huge failure was that they didn't get it wide early enough, to get two-on-ones against our full-backs. That said, a lot of credit goes to Sherwood for having the courage to go with such a ballsy system, and it does seem to suit our players very well - not least Benteke.

[SoccerHQ]

Know I completely understand where Paulie is coming from when he says the games so far are far too small a sample to indicate whether Sherwood will be a success long term.

I completely agree with that.....however here's the crux. How could the same didn't apply to Houllier when people were queuing up to laud he should've got another year when we were total rubbish between September-January of that season and only picked up a bit towards the end when he was ill anyway.

The sample back then probably wasn't that much bigger than what Sherwood has had so far and we had a much better squad anyway in those days.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Hmm not sure about that Monty. Sherwood has changed things up a fair bit I think I could be wrong but I think he played 4-4-2 with 2 out wide (Swansea), 4-4-2 with a diamond (Spurs), 4-3-3 (West Brom). If thats right (my memory is going) he seems to be changing things up a fair bit position wise although the attacking style does remain the same.

[Dave]

That said, a lot of credit goes to Sherwood for having the courage to go with such a ballsy system, and it does seem to suit our players very well - not least Benteke.

Then again, we were using that narrow system at our very worst last season (remember Albrighton playing as an as-I-like-to-call them number ten?). And it didn't suit our players very well then.

Admittedly that was with no Benteke but even so.

[Sexual Ealing]

Apologies if posted before but this is an interesting read
http://www.spursfanatic.com/spurs-result/spurs-0-1-aston-villa-pochettino-diamond/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SpursFanatic+%28Spurs+Fanatic%29

Rarely in the field of human endeavour can so many words been written, to be read by so few, about something that doesn't matter.

[Toronto Villa]

Yes agreed. He hasn't just used the diamond.

And in any case you can have whatever system you want vs another system. The players have to know how to play it and be trained and motivated to do so effectively. If the other team has 11 better players, or 11 more confident players they can outdo any system. What we have right now is players becoming confident when they go on the pitch irrespective of the system being deployed. And as with any system sometimes it works and other times factors lead to defeat.