It's not Sherwood!

[Jon Crofts]

I'd like to present Sherwood with a shiny new sword.

Present me with it.  I'll show him where to put it.

Too late.

http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2015/10/14/man-rushed-to-hospital-with-sword-up-bum-after-trying-to-remove-piles-by-himself/

[Des Little]

It's time to sack the twat. Saying he's bored watching us is taking the piss. He's asking to be sacked so give him what he - abd we - want before its too late.

[Ron Manager]

I agree with the Villa diseases comment. We are rotten and foster ng.

Fostering? You shouldn't put Tim and Ray in charge of kids. They can't cope!

[Tony Erdington]

it would be just our luck tim gets a result against swansea, and randy thinks thats alright.

Atleast Guzan is tryin to get him out.

[Jimbo]

To even think you can do what Wilkins, and Houllier before him, did demonstrates a deep-rooted lack of regard for the club. But it kind of reflects our position in the order of things. We're generally seen as a nice but passive club that will accept any old shit. I suppose that's what happens when you continually appoint duff staff - inexperienced managers, lower league dross - and aim merely for survival each year. We're slowly destroying ourselves and our reputation.

[Axl Rose]

The same Amavi that most on here have said has massive potential and don't think we'll be able to keep him? Hutton would get into other PL sides as well, and as much as he isn't rated on here so would Westwood.

Amavi, yes, and to some extent, Hutton, I agree with you.

But Westwood? No way. One of the worst players I've witnessed in a Villa shirt. An abysmal player.

Though as with all players, different people see different games and appreciate different attributes. I'd love Westwood to prove me massively wrong, but besides the cup semi where I was eating huge slices of humble pie, I've never seen him look anywhere near decent.

[Malandro]

Atleast Guzan is tryin to get him out.

I do feel sympathy to Sherwood with this. Imagine the equivalent in a normal work place - you work your hardest all week and then some doughnut fucks it all up in a second.

[Holte L2]

I expect him to be sacked today. I can't see how he can get through the next 24 hours.

[andyh]

I expect him to be sacked today. I can't see how he can get through the next 24 hours.

Thats what a lot want.
I think its in hope though, rather than expectation.

[claret and blue blood]

Anybody e-mailed Fox yet asking for release from this idiot?

[paul_e]

The Torygraph

Tim Sherwood's job at risk if Aston Villa lose to Swansea - is David Moyes in line to replace him?

Defeat at Chelsea has left Villa with four points from nine games and another loss could spell end for Tim Sherwood, with David Moyes apparently interested in replacing him

By Matt Law
10:30PM BST 18 Oct 201

 Tim Sherwood was about to address the question of whether Aston Villa’s summer recruitment policy had been a huge gamble, when the club’s press officer decided it was time to wrap up proceedings.

As Sherwood was whisked away, a journalist shouted: “He [the press officer] obviously doesn’t fancy that question.” Villa’s manager laughed and replied: “Yeah, write that.”

It may well be that Sherwood, who is among the most approachable of the Premier League’s ­managers, was sharing a joke but the impression remains that the club spent the money raised from the sales of Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph on players who are not ready for a relegation battle.

One presumes the jobs of ­sporting director Hendrik Almstadt and ­director of recruitment Paddy ­Reilly are not in jeopardy. But ­defeat at Chelsea left Villa with four points from nine games and another defeat at home against Swansea City could spell the end for Sherwood, with David Moyes apparently ­interested in replacing him.

“I’m trying to instill in the players not to be scared to lose,” Sherwood said. “If anyone should be scared to lose then it should be me, but I’m not. I want to go out on the front foot and if I die, I die on my sword.”

Of the summer signings who ­arrived from overseas, Sherwood only started with the midfielder Idrissa Gueye and forward Jordan Ayew against Chelsea, with the left‑back Jordan Amavi and the winger Adama Traoré making substitute appearances. “When you play for a big club like this, it’s a big step up because it’s very different from Ligue 1,” Sherwood said. “It’s very different in the Premier League. We brought Adama on and it wasn’t his day, but I’ve said before that he’s in development. He’s been playing in league two in Spain and it’s not the most competitive.”

Inexperience was not to blame for Villa’s downfall at Stamford Bridge, however, as the 31-year-old goalkeeper Brad Guzan miskicked towards Joleon Lescott, 33, who could not control the ball and Willian nipped in to set up Diego Costa for the opener. Sherwood’s assistant Ray Wilkins, 59, should have known better than to make such a show of enjoying his return to Chelsea.

 Ahead of kick-off, Wilkins made a beeline to greet familiar faces in the East Stand Lower of Stamford Bridge, where he had a season ­ticket, and frequently turned to joke with the Chelsea fans in ­between hugging Jose Mourinho on the touchline while the game was being played.

It was the wrong image to portray to the beleaguered Villa fans who want to see fight from the club’s management and players. The travelling support did sing Sherwood’s name, albeit only before their team were losing.

“Let’s get one thing straight: we are on the same side,” Sherwood said. “They [the fans] know that if anyone is going to be fighting for them then I think they would quite like to have me in their corner.”

I believe the process, in psychology, is known as flooding, get someone so used to the thing they're afraid of that it becomes ordinary.

What he should actually be doing is instilling the players with the mental strength to trust that if we play our own game the opposition will have to change tactics to deal with us.  I'm utterly fed up with us being a passive team who respond to the opposition rather than forcing the issue.  For a few weeks last season and for the part of the Houllier season where he had a squad to pick from we were doing it but otherwise we've had 9 years of playing defensively and trying to counter-attack to wins.  The likes of Southampton and Swansea should serve to show that you don't need an expensive squad full of world class players to play positive football, which has always been the argument to suggest that it's more pragmatic to play defensively for the poorer sides.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Anybody e-mailed Fox yet asking for release from this idiot?

No, but funnily enough I have found my email to Fox sent the morning of 14 Feb, pleading with him not to appoint Sherwood. The basic gist of it was - he's achieved nothing, Spurs fans hated him, there's no need to rush into an appointment, take your time and get the right man.

[PaulWinch again]

"I can take a lot of inspiration from people like Alan Pardew, who was screamed out of town in Newcastle and look at him now,"

For a start he's hardly been 'screamed out of town' has he? and secondly Pardew only was ok after he left Newcastle, so what exactly is Sherwood saying? It looks like he's saying himself that he needs to leave.

[mr underhill]

is he actually Lambert in a Tim Sherwood mask?

[Chico Hamilton III]

"The last few weeks have been boring, I've felt bored watching it. People going square, sideways, I'm not telling them to do that. I'm telling them to express themselves."

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11677/10034714/tim-sherwood-admits-he-is-bored-by-his-struggling-aston-villa-side