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

[Damo70]

As a youngster he spent his first couple of years as a professional footballer under SGT at Watford

He captained a side to the Premier League title in his mid twenties

He doesn't seem to suffer fools gladly and had the balls to take on the job when it appears likely he could have had options in the summer without the pressure of an immediate relegation battle

[claret and blue blood]

Fuck them

Fuck you...if you're not performing

Fuck everybody who isn't Villa ( hopefully)

my favourite quote.

[PaulWinch again]

As I'm sure others have said he is good at spotting young players. He identified that Kane and Bentaleb were good enough and gave them a chance.

[Villa in Denmark]

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.

Cheeky fucker. :-D

Until they backed the wrong side in the Napoleonic wars Norway and around 30% of Sweden were Danish, plus the Danish border on Jutland extended around halfway towards Hamburg from where it currently lies.

Anyway, having caught up on the thread from last night I'll agree with whoever said the days of Agbonlahor and Benteke swanning about, blatantly not trying are hopefully over.

(I give it 3 weeks before Agbonlahor is leaking stories to the press about what a slave driver Sherwood is and everyone hates him already. A further 2 days before "sky sports understands" that Sherwood was warned about his attitude before he took the job. :O)

[Michel Sibble]

This came from a Spuds fan on another Villa forum, this may give an insight into why Fox courted him for a long time (and why I feel less depressed from his intial appointment!). Methinks he could give some choice words about Lerner too...

Tim doesn't stand no-triers or ego's well. He says it as he sees it and doesn't (unfortunately?) give a flying **** what people think of him - he's independently wealthy (he's invested well in some very successful businesses).

Tim was largely responsible for over-hauling and rebuilding as well as planning our new academy/development squad and could be largely credited for the crop of top class youngsters that have come through and are about to. - He is a believer in youth with a mixture of experience. As he proved with us he is not one to run to the transfer market at the first difficulty, it fact he turned down the opportunity do that and held faith in the three youngsters he brought through when he was appointed (Mason, Bentelab and Kane - he was annoyed that Carroll had been loaned to Swansea and made his thoughts known).

The problem you will have with Tim is that he will seek out and kick out weak players and he will tell the chairman/club what he thinks - this is his greatest downfall, one which I hope he's learned from.

He is a disciplinarian and gets very angry very quickly if players let their conditioning go or simply aren't as fit as he thinks they should be.

He has a great tactical brain, but tends towards 100 mph, high intensity, high tempo total football. Hugely exciting when he gets it right, but does mean that you'll be exposed at the back, so perhaps end up scoring plenty and conceding plenty.

You'd do well to give him a chance, as I do think a fresh face not connected with the club could work wonders for you.

[peter w]

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.

Ha! And this coming from someone who I at a stretch is coming from a Pakistani/sub-continent heritage where the gene pool is spread very thinly indeed...

[Louzie0]

This is better!

Oops! I wondered where this one had ended up, thought I was posting in the match thread at the time!

[Damo70]

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.

[Tuscans]

Been watching quite a few interviews of Tim Sherwood on Youtube and I have to say I like the guy. I would prefer to play and listen to someone like him every day than Lambert and I like the way he treats players like men instead of the prim donas they think they are.

[Tuscans]

The complete opposite of the last guy....

[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

And going by today, effective half time talks!

[Toronto Villa]

Yes, he's just delivered a better HT team talk than his predecessor has in about two seasons.

[martin o`who??]

1/ I can understand what he`s saying.

2/The players can understand what he`s saying.

3/The press can understand what etc etc......

[john e]

This came from a Spuds fan on another Villa forum, this may give an insight into why Fox courted him for a long time (and why I feel less depressed from his intial appointment!). Methinks he could give some choice words about Lerner too...

Tim doesn't stand no-triers or ego's well. He says it as he sees it and doesn't (unfortunately?) give a flying **** what people think of him - he's independently wealthy (he's invested well in some very successful businesses).

Tim was largely responsible for over-hauling and rebuilding as well as planning our new academy/development squad and could be largely credited for the crop of top class youngsters that have come through and are about to. - He is a believer in youth with a mixture of experience. As he proved with us he is not one to run to the transfer market at the first difficulty, it fact he turned down the opportunity do that and held faith in the three youngsters he brought through when he was appointed (Mason, Bentelab and Kane - he was annoyed that Carroll had been loaned to Swansea and made his thoughts known).

The problem you will have with Tim is that he will seek out and kick out weak players and he will tell the chairman/club what he thinks - this is his greatest downfall, one which I hope he's learned from.

He is a disciplinarian and gets very angry very quickly if players let their conditioning go or simply aren't as fit as he thinks they should be.

He has a great tactical brain, but tends towards 100 mph, high intensity, high tempo total football. Hugely exciting when he gets it right, but does mean that you'll be exposed at the back, so perhaps end up scoring plenty and conceding plenty.

You'd do well to give him a chance, as I do think a fresh face not connected with the club could work wonders for you.

well lets go with that spuds fans view rather than the other ones shall we for now
but why did he say his greatest downfall was seeking out the weak players and kicking them out, I would have thought that's a positive

[villan from luton]

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."

ditto