Three positives of Tim Sherwood being our manager....

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Fuck them

Fuck you...if you're not performing

Fuck everybody who isn't Villa ( hopefully)

my favourite quote.

That would look good on a claret and blue T-Shirt.

Good idea!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

1. He'll kick some lazy, underperforming arses.
2. He knows what a net looks like.
3. "So this is Old Trafford? So fucking what."

Love number 3 Dave.

[Toronto Villa]

The biggest plus is that he isn't pointing fingers, he's genuinely excited and he's being accountable the position we find ourselves in. That it's not because on Lambert we are in the bottom 3, WE Aston Villa are in the bottom 3 and he and his team are not just aware of the issue, importantly part the solution.

[supertom]

I don't think Sherwood would stand for the sort of mind numbing, dreary way we've approached playing football for 2 seasons now. We've got lots of quality in attack and I think he'll want them to express themselves. At the very least I see us being far more positive in games. Whether we become effective is another matter, but hopefully Benteke for one will hit form again.

[bob]

The biggest plus is that he isn't pointing fingers

[OCD]

Certainly likes to point.

[stuart r]

His confidence/self belief which he will hopefully instil into the team.

He doesn't seem to be in awe of the club or the job in hand. Previous managers have talked about what a great, massive club we are but have seemed a bit intimidated by it all.

He is unlikeable. Most good managers are annoying in some way or other (Graham Taylor being the exception of course).

[supertom]

A couple of my mates would always wind me up about Lamberts post match interviews as on a few occasions he'd state he was "proud" of the lads, even after we'd been solidly beaten. So without fail after every defeat I'd get a text saying "Lambert must be proud." But that was Lambert. It summed him up. Always so content (it seemed). Getting beaten and beaten convincingly seemed to be acceptable. If we'd managed 2 shots on target we'd "played excellently."

Sherwood might be a bit of a twonk but at the very least he won't be happy with losing (particularly when it's fully deserved). There'll be no hiding it. I rarely remember Lambert acknowledge we were good enough. Sometimes there'd be absolutely no denying, like getting pillocked 8-0.

Lambert to me is like a guy who turns up at an orgy with a semi and a sigh who blindly fumbles for 90 minutes with no result and leaves feeling his done his job.
Timmy is the sort who looks at himself in the mirror before leaving and gives himself a raging hard on. He'll enter the love den with gusto. Sometimes he might give an inspired performance, other times he'll be done and asleep within 4 minutes but at least the intent will be there.

[Villa in Denmark]

Certainly likes to point.

Reo Coker taught him everything he knows

[Chico Hamilton III]

He can't be worse than Lambert
He starts with a clean slate
The "dead cat bounce" effect

[OCD]

Lambert to me is like a guy who turns up at an orgy with a semi and a sigh who blindly fumbles for 90 minutes with no result and leaves feeling his done his job.
Timmy is the sort who looks at himself in the mirror before leaving and gives himself a raging hard on. He'll enter the love den with gusto. Sometimes he might give an inspired performance, other times he'll be done and asleep within 4 minutes but at least the intent will be there.

You don't get analysis like that in the media.

Lambert always used to talk about not getting too excited after a win or too upset after a defeat. That summed him up really. One of Sherwood's lines in his first press conference was that we will lose some between now and the end of the season but we'll also win games and to throw punches. Very different approaches - one of a man who was very controlled, very tempered and another who is very passionate, which is why not everyone will like him because he will have views that not everyone will agree with and he'll be very passionate about those views.

[Toronto Villa]

The biggest plus is that he isn't pointing fingers

Sherwood OUT!

[berneboy]

He is unlikeable. Most good managers are annoying in some way or other (Graham Taylor being the exception of course).

I was never very fond of Mr. Ferguson but he did ok.

[Monty]

Okay! I finally have three things:

1) His (largely unearned) swagger and confidence might well rub off on the players, which I think would near-certainly keep us up;
2) I like the look of Seamus Brady, the performance analyst (also, we now have a performance analyst);
3) I'm pleased to see KMac back.

Long term, I'm still not sure it will end in anything but an almighty conflagration, and possibly with us being dragged through the media as ungrateful a la MON (never mess with Henry Winter's favourites), but those three things stand us in good stead for now at the very least. And, of course, if he wins us the Cup and keeps us up I will paint a picture of me getting obese from humble pie and walk from Edinburgh to VP with it balanced on my head.

[john e]

I don't think Sherwoods the man, grave doubts about him