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

[Des Little]

1. He's
2. Not
3. Lambert

[ROBBO]

We will see wingers playing on the wing, we will see a team going out to win rather than not to lose. we will see goals being scored again at Villa Park. Hows that.

[KevinGage]

1. I can understand what he's saying.
2. The players will as well.
3. If its OK with Paul Merson, its OK with me.

The Sky Sports mutants were talking even more cock than usual today.

Sam Allthepies would have been an 'ambitious' appointment, with one eye on the future, apparently.

[brontebilly]

He is another Danny Dyer wannabe mockney mug innit

He was the captain of a league winning side, did a decent interim job at Spurs last year and was available to step in immediately

I wish him the best and hopefully will give us enough in the short term to stay up. I would be surprised if he is still at the club at 12 months and the most likely outcome is that he surpass David O'Leary as the most hated Villa manager in recent memory.

[pauliewalnuts]

I wish him the best and hopefully will give us enough in the short term to stay up. I would be surprised if he is still at the club at 12 months

So would I.

and the most likely outcome is that he surpass David O'Leary as the most hated Villa manager in recent memory.

Crikey. That's a bit harsh, surely? I'm massively underwhelmed by the appointment, but he'd have to dynamite the McGregor statue to manage that.

[brontebilly]

I wish him the best and hopefully will give us enough in the short term to stay up. I would be surprised if he is still at the club at 12 months

So would I.

and the most likely outcome is that he surpass David O'Leary as the most hated Villa manager in recent memory.

Crikey. That's a bit harsh, surely? I'm massively underwhelmed by the appointment, but he'd have to dynamite the McGregor statue to manage that.

Maybe I'm being very pessimistic but Tiger Tim has plenty of form in feeding stories back to his media mates. When the pressure comes on him, it will be very interesting to see how he reacts.

I'm not buying the narrative that he has come in too late either, with the players we have Sherwood should pull us comfortably clear.

[dave shelley]

Fuck them

Fuck you...if you're not performing

Fuck everybody who isn't Villa ( hopefully)

[tomd2103]

I wish him the best and hopefully will give us enough in the short term to stay up. I would be surprised if he is still at the club at 12 months

So would I.

and the most likely outcome is that he surpass David O'Leary as the most hated Villa manager in recent memory.

Crikey. That's a bit harsh, surely? I'm massively underwhelmed by the appointment, but he'd have to dynamite the McGregor statue to manage that.

Maybe I'm being very pessimistic but Tiger Tim has plenty of form in feeding stories back to his media mates. When the pressure comes on him, it will be very interesting to see how he reacts.

I'm not buying the narrative that he has come in too late either, with the players we have Sherwood should pull us comfortably clear.

He's pretty much in a no lose situation isn't he?  If we do end up going down he can point the finger elsewhere and if we do stay up then it will be down to him.

I'm still at the stage where I can't quite believe he has been given a 3 year plus deal to manage Aston Villa Football Club.  It's another sign of the total lack of ambition at the club and that changes are needed at every level and not just the manager.

[olaftab]

It's just a reflection of the mutliplication of hyphonated names over here

Seriously they're talking about legislation to limit it to 2 family names, there are examples of 4 and 5 going around at the moment, plus 2 or 3 given names.  Birth certificates are now printed in A3 to accomodate it all.

Aha you mean inclusion of father's father mother's father fathers's mother mother's mother dead sister/aunt/uncle etc etc?
That's what you get when you are small town in North og Germany spread over a rather large area.

[ozzjim]

1 positive, opinion on here has no longer converged to a single monotonous thought process of Lambert going so there is plenty to debate and argue about.

[olaftab]

I'm not buying the narrative that he has come in too late either, with the players we have Sherwood should pull us comfortably clear.

That's a rather false narrative .........

[Louzie0]

Exciting gifs of the manager

Clean slate for players to go for it and get in the team

No idea what he will say post match

[ciggiesnbeer]

Exciting gifs of the manager

Clean slate for players to go for it and get in the team

No idea what he will say post match

good point that one. I have forgotten what an interesting post match press conference is like.

[robbo1874]

We just need him to keep us up (and win the FA cup).

That's all.

I'd have given him a short term contract til the end of the season with a big bonus attached, plus an automatic one year extension if he manged to keep us in the top flight.

Just hope everyone gets behind the club now. They should do everything they can now to enable people to go to the remaining home games.

[Louzie0]

Exciting gifs of the manager

Clean slate for players to go for it and get in the team

No idea what he will say post match

good point that one. I have forgotten what an interesting post match press conference is like.

If we win by a few tomorrow, he could start with, 'I thought we were excellent...'
In that case, I wouldn't mind.