Manager for next season

[Ian.]

Eric Cack, tiresome, we know the clubs fucked behind the scenes, no need to keep going on about it. Probably just deflecting a bit of attention away from his shite selections and results.

So it's ok for the fans to hark on about the sorry state of things behind the scenes, but not him? Why not? The results have been shit for years now, the last 33 games especially. It's certainly not his doing is it? I hope he sounds out exactly who the culprits are to the next manager.

Because it's his job to attempt to start some kind of improvement in the atmosphere to start the long road back. That is what he is paid to do. Otherwise what exactly is the point of him?

I don't think it's his job to sort that sorry shit out. Christ, If he could he'd deserve a bloody statue at the club. The only way to sort this out is a cull and new blood. How can he possibly do this? Like he says, like we all know it's a toxic environment and he doesn't (like Remi before him) stand a chance.

Someone had to fill a gap for a short term, that's all. If Little would have stepped in with the same results would you be calling him useless?

So basically he's pointless and we might as well put a traffic cone in the dugout and carry on. Thought so.

Not really. A traffic cone can't actually communicate fuck all can it?

I'm glad he's sounding out, these players are a disgrace to the club and everyone should know it.

[ciggiesnbeer]

 I have changed. Lets put the terrible performances aside Eric "Black cloud" is now just speaking negatively about us every single god damn interview. I wish he would give it a rest and just say he thinks we are going to win, even if he doesn't believe it.

He has become a depressing figure. He is more low energy and more depressed than Garde in his final weeks but without the justification. He needs to go or cheer up, or (the horror) get us a fucking point or two.

If he cant change I want him out, I am sick of his negativity already.

[brian green]

Sympathise Paulie but I would just like to take my seat at a Villa game and be entertained a little.  Not subjected to mass emotional self flagellation. I want to see something, anything, different regardless of the final score.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

Evening. You're ALL right. We've had some downright BAD managers in our time - McNeill to name but one, and so several cretins further down the line of McLeish, Lambert, Sherwood...and now we have a guy who is fortunate enough to have fallen covered in sticky goo into a money pit....it's NOT his fault. He has poor players - well, actually RICH players - who don't put in the effort and he doesn't have the average players who would throw themselves at everything going, like Baker. He's outa here very soon and it is to be hoped that the next manager has the opportunity to clear the dead wood.

[Clampy]

He's not been a total disaster because the damage has already been done, but some of his negative team selections and substitutions haven't warmed him to me that much.

[Toronto Villa]

Black has nothing to lose. He's not going to be here. And if he's not going to minimize the mood at the club in public, then don't make it worse by picking some of the players that have contributed to it. He no longer has to pick Bacuna or Richards for example but he still is. He is not making the situation which is already toxic any better by doing what he is doing or saying what he is saying.

[old man villa fan]

Let's all put our hands up and give up, it's all so difficult.

No it's not.  Identify the problems and start to do something about it.  It won't all be put right in a day, it will take time but at least make a bloody start.  Stop making excuses as to why we cannot do something and start to make some positive steps forward.  Desperate situations call for bold actions.

[Villa in Denmark]

Here's the link - http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11677/10261183/aston-villa-called-toxic-by-interim-boss-eric-black

Villa is a 'toxic place' and he 'should never have taken the job.'

Cheers, Eric.

Don't like the way he says 'they are losing their incomes'.  Is he an employee or not?!?

Boo fucking hoo.

The lowest paid of that senior squad is probably still going to be scraping by on £10K per week if they get the full 50% pay cut.

And it's ironic he talks about the loss of prestige in calling yourself a PL footballer, when for some of those for whom it will have the biggest impact, having played PL for the majority of their careers, are the ones who showed the least fucks about working to preserve that status.

[aj2k77]

Eric Cack, tiresome, we know the clubs fucked behind the scenes, no need to keep going on about it. Probably just deflecting a bit of attention away from his shite selections and results.

So it's ok for the fans to hark on about the sorry state of things behind the scenes, but not him? Why not? The results have been shit for years now, the last 33 games especially. It's certainly not his doing is it? I hope he sounds out exactly who the culprits are to the next manager.

Because it's his job to attempt to start some kind of improvement in the atmosphere to start the long road back. That is what he is paid to do. Otherwise what exactly is the point of him?

I don't think it's his job to sort that sorry shit out. Christ, If he could he'd deserve a bloody statue at the club. The only way to sort this out is a cull and new blood. How can he possibly do this? Like he says, like we all know it's a toxic environment and he doesn't (like Remi before him) stand a chance.

Someone had to fill a gap for a short term, that's all. If Little would have stepped in with the same results would you be calling him useless?

So basically he's pointless and we might as well put a traffic cone in the dugout and carry on. Thought so.

Not really. A traffic cone can't actually communicate fuck all can it?

I'm glad he's sounding out, these players are a disgrace to the club and everyone should know it.

Communicate what? That we are shit? We already know that. A traffic cone with a cd player on repeat inside then.

[supertom]

He has to go too. He's crap and he's another member of the Villa team who reeks of defeat and apathy. It doesn't matter who we get as manager. Eric Black will be as much use as a dick made of jelly. He has to go. Clean sweep and start again. His dreary apathetic interviews have been as shambolic as his team selections. You cannot keep a job after such ineptitude and frankly I think his interviews lack professionalism. We all know how shit the situation and how piss poor our players are behaving. We don't need the management moaning about it in the press too.

[Villa in Denmark]

Eric Cack, tiresome, we know the clubs fucked behind the scenes, no need to keep going on about it. Probably just deflecting a bit of attention away from his shite selections and results.

So it's ok for the fans to hark on about the sorry state of things behind the scenes, but not him? Why not? The results have been shit for years now, the last 33 games especially. It's certainly not his doing is it? I hope he sounds out exactly who the culprits are to the next manager.

Because it's his job to attempt to start some kind of improvement in the atmosphere to start the long road back. That is what he is paid to do. Otherwise what exactly is the point of him?

I don't think it's his job to sort that sorry shit out. Christ, If he could he'd deserve a bloody statue at the club. The only way to sort this out is a cull and new blood. How can he possibly do this? Like he says, like we all know it's a toxic environment and he doesn't (like Remi before him) stand a chance.

Someone had to fill a gap for a short term, that's all. If Little would have stepped in with the same results would you be calling him useless?

So basically he's pointless and we might as well put a traffic cone in the dugout and carry on. Thought so.

Not really. A traffic cone can't actually communicate fuck all can it?

I'm glad he's sounding out, these players are a disgrace to the club and everyone should know it.

Communicate what? That we are shit? We already know that. A traffic cone with a cd player on repeat inside then.

There are vary degrees of shitness and all manner of reasons for that.

The general message coming out seems to be that we are irredeemably shit, which everyone knows, and that the primary cause has been ineptitude festering at pretty much every layer of the club from backroom staff at Bodymoor up to Lerner.

It's that that's seen us get ever decreasing returns out of half decent players and ultimately end up we are.

It also means that the right changes behind the scenes to correct that rancid organisation might not require huge funds to get competitive again, if the existing players can be brought back to something approaching their potential.

[LeeB]

I don't really know what people expect from Black.

Coax improved performances out of a bunch of couldn't-give-a-fuck mercenaries in the closing games of a season in which - as things stand - we have so far, after 35 games, have amassed a total of *16* points?

What's the point in him playing the kids? Why? What would it do other than tarnish them by associating them with the second most embarassingly shit side the premier league has ever seen?

Personally, I couldn't give a fuck what he says. He thinks it's toxic? He's fucking right. The entire club is toxic.

He comes out and says it? Again, who gives a fuck? Maybe it'll contribute to the general public opinion of the club and put yet more pressure on the half-witted gigantic man-baby who owns us to do something to change it?

We can't un-relegate ourselves.

I personally hope that the same team of useless, self-centred twats who got us into this position play out every single remaining minute of this season, and that it is as gut wrenchingly embarrassing for them as it should be.

Look at you, sticking up for your new best mate.







*only joking, I heartily agree.

[joe_c]

I personally hope that the same team of useless, self-centred twats who got us into this position play out every single remaining minute of this season, and that it is as gut wrenchingly embarrassing for them as it should be.

I heartily concur. The only pleasure left to me this season is getting drunk and giving the hapless wasters a dog's abuse.

[andyh]

the negativity around the club is so engrained it's going to take something special to get rid of it.
The problem is this  period of intense negativity is dragging on,and on and on........

At some point someone has to put a stake in the ground and say enough is enough, the new start starts now.
That has to be with the new manager.

Until that happens we are going to continue to drift.
The club a has got to sort this out, one way or another.

That new season is is not that far away.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't really know what people expect from Black.

Coax improved performances out of a bunch of couldn't-give-a-fuck mercenaries in the closing games of a season in which - as things stand - we have so far, after 35 games, have amassed a total of *16* points?

What's the point in him playing the kids? Why? What would it do other than tarnish them by associating them with the second most embarassingly shit side the premier league has ever seen?

Personally, I couldn't give a fuck what he says. He thinks it's toxic? He's fucking right. The entire club is toxic.

He comes out and says it? Again, who gives a fuck? Maybe it'll contribute to the general public opinion of the club and put yet more pressure on the half-witted gigantic man-baby who owns us to do something to change it?

We can't un-relegate ourselves.

I personally hope that the same team of useless, self-centred twats who got us into this position play out every single remaining minute of this season, and that it is as gut wrenchingly embarrassing for them as it should be.

Look at you, sticking up for your new best mate.







*only joking, I heartily agree.

He's got nice dogs.