It's not Sherwood!

[Ian.]

"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

He really does not know the art of public speaking. I can't see him finding another job in management after this one. The only thing I'm really concerned about now is why we have not sacked him. He should have gone last week.

[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."

He might be right here. Going square and passing sideways has got Butch Wilkins written all over it......

[Ian.]

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."

It's a good job Ashley Young is not still playing for us.

[ozzjim]

Is he still here?

[Ger Regan]

What sort of nonsense is "I'm telling them to express themselves", anyway? Is that the height of his tactical expertise? Is this combined with him asking them to just run around a bit?

[PaulWinch again]

I'm really not sure how he hasn't been sacked yet. The performances are a disgrace, he's criticised the recruitment policy and now he's slating the players themselves. It's just a waste of time to continue down this failed path.

[ktvillan]

The first few pages of this thread make for very interesting reading. We all knew didn't we?

Proof if needed that the lack of a footballing brain at the club continues to really drive us further along our downward spiral.

A bunch of posters on a message board knew hiring Sherwood would be a bad idea, yet according to the clueless Mr Fox he was on a "short list of one".

The mind boggles. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

It says it all about the Lerner regime if there was really only a shortlist of 1.   It had been clear for several months that Lambert was a dead man walking and any reasonably well run club would have used that time, and sounded out all their contacts,  to research and draw up a list of potential replacements with some sort of track record in one or more of the major European leagues.   In fact that process should really have started before Houllier's ticker went tock, and tabs should have been kept on the viable candidates.   To have ruled out everyone except a cocky chancer with very limited track record is up there with targeting McLeish in terms of being about as damning as it gets.   

[kippaxvilla2]

The first few pages I was in the minority.  I genuinely wanted him here and I don't mind admitting it.  I am on the verge of ending my support for him though given his increasingly ridiculous press statements.

[VillaAlways]

I'm really not sure how he hasn't been sacked yet. The performances are a disgrace, he's criticised the recruitment policy and now he's slating the players themselves. It's just a waste of time to continue down this failed path.

Worryingly all these comments about being bored are on the OS so I'm presuming the club/press officers don't have a problem with what he's saying.

[Tony Erdington]

to coin a phrase from, GOOD MORNING VIETNAM,

He licks the sweat off a dead mans dick

[ozzjim]

I was in support too. I am not now though. I was wrong as can be.

[AVH87]

Looking back at the first few pages of the thread, although most people had reservations, he has actually surpassed expectations for a lot of people, seeing comments such as 'Championship here we come'. He got us out the bottom 3 last season and into the Cup Final with impressive performances in the quarters and semi. Now it's time for him to go, and we need a long-term appointment in. Short-term he has worked, but we have to cut ties now or last season's escape will only have been delayed by a year.

[Chico Hamilton III]

The first few pages of this thread make for very interesting reading. We all knew didn't we?

Proof if needed that the lack of a footballing brain at the club continues to really drive us further along our downward spiral.

A bunch of posters on a message board knew hiring Sherwood would be a bad idea, yet according to the clueless Mr Fox he was on a "short list of one".

The mind boggles. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

A shit footballing decision is one thing ( even though most of us on here realised the mistake as soon as it was announced) but it's the shit business decision to hand him a 4 year contract that really winds me up. That's going to cost us a couple of million, on top of the couple of million we had to pay Lambert after his extension following a couple of good games at the start of last season, on top of the couple of million we paid McShit before him. I reckon if Fox had stuck a pin in a list of Football league managers that we'd have had a better chance of selecting a better one than the last 3 we've had

[supertom]

It's best for Sherwood that we chuck him out now. Before he gets to the point where the good work he did last season for a run of a few games, which kept us up and got us to Wembley, gets completely forgotten.

Indeed all that gob-shitery that Spurs fans warned would come, has been coming now. Sherwood is starting to talk complete nonsense and he's trying to deflect blame away from himself. The ego is getting a bashing and being the tosspot, bull headed pillock that he is, means he's always going to act a bit precious. Things will get worse. He is inexperienced. He hasn't been doing this for long. He was bad at Spurs, but what he never had to deal with was a losing streak. He's taking that now and he's going to meltdown. In our situation we can't have a manager whos going to lose the plot and lets face it, Tim Sherwood, if he hasn't already, is going to lose the fucking plot. He's a dick head. He's your classic dick head. He's the guy, if he wasn't in football, would be the loud, shite-talking dickhead in the pub who no one is actually sitting with, but who will still impart his wisdom none-the-less. He's the guy that come closing, will be ready to start a fight only to get floored in one punch by the little guy he thought he could pick on.
He's a waste of fucking space. He's now turning to what most of us suspected he would. What Spurs fans had been seeing (and why despite doing fairly well there, why none were too sad to see him go).

[PeterWithesShin]

The squad we have is good enough to be a 'comfortable' mid-table, the manager is failing to get anything like the best out of them. For me, it's that simple.

These sort of comments are a bit lazy. 

We leak goals at the back - mistake after mistake - from experienced pros and rookies alike - that's not good enough for mid-table.

The midfield of any combo of Westwood, Sanchez, Vertout and Gana is so sterile - not good enough for mid-table.

Up front/atatcking options of  Ayew, Gestede, Gill - mid-table? dont  think so. Gill promises but doesn't score enough and based on opta type stats doesnt create enough for a mid-table side either.

It's not lazy to think our main problem is coaching and how we set up in games which are the responsibility of the manager. We still don't look fit enough, responsibility of the manager. Our corners and set pieces are still crap, responsibility of the manager.
It's not lazy to think that players are struggling when every week he is changing the starting 11, the formation and tactics. 5 at the back at home to fucking Stoke, next game gung-ho away to Chelsea. It's mentalism. How can the player be building up confidence or understanding in what they are doing if it changes every week.
We all know Guzan isn't the best passer of the ball, and now his confidence is shot, to me it's simple coaching to play it safe and cut out the risks but he's obviously still being told to pass it out most of the time. How many times did Guzan cost us with his passing before Lambert, and then Sherwood, decided he should pass the ball like a sweeper?

And look at the squads of Leicester, Albion etc, even Stoke who beat us at a stroll, how many of their payers would you want.