Eric Black

[OzVilla]

You are right SV he does not want to rock the boat but the boat he does not want to rock is his own.  He has had a nice comfortable career earning about five times as much as a nurse or a teacher for doing virtually nothing.  He wants to protect his nice little earner and be able to move to another back room cushy number until he retires.  He is working from some virtual How To Manage Football Team Manual and parroting footballspeak he has picked up here and there along the way.  He is like a self taught pub pianist playing Chopin.

Disagree, if Black just wanted a cushy life, why did he tell the world Gabby wasn't fit enough to play team first football and banished him from the squad?  Surely he wouldn't have done if he didn't want to rock the boat.

The bottom line is someone has to manage these c*^%# and I'd play them every second of every game to let the fans feelings be known and/or hopefully get some offers on a few.

I honestly woud'nt let the kids have any part of this shambles of a season.  These wankers can take their medicine now.

[sickbeggar]

Aye he's just doing an unpleasant job temporarily. He won't be here in a month so what do people expect? Banish 20 players to the reserves when they'll be re-instated 5 minutes after he picks up his P45? I'm sure the players will be shitting themselves

[Phil from the upper holte]

In all honesty I wish we had just played the kids.

[Olof's Beard]

I hope he goes now because his post match comments about not having any reason to change the team because their performance was so good made my skin crawl. If he can't understand that with the club dead and buried, the fans just want some fun again then he is ridiculously blind. We will see the same XI next week so don't get your hopes up about Grealish, Adama, Green or even fricking Okore.

[JUAN PABLO]

I remember how much blackburn fans hated their football 2012-2014 and got relegated . I think Black was assistant then .

to see Bacuna  ( wants to play for athletico Madrid probably ) ,Westwood  ( great at pointing ) and Richardson ( out of contract ) in midfield. I think whats the point in that and him. .

[Clampy]

I remember how much blackburn fans hated their football 2012-2014 and got relegated . I think Black was assistant then .

to see Bacuna  ( wants to play for athletico Madrid probably ) ,Westwood  ( great at pointing ) and Richardson ( out of contract ) in midfield. I think whats the point in that and him. .

I saw Westwood point yesterday. I thought it was just a myth but he did.

[JUAN PABLO]

I remember how much blackburn fans hated their football 2012-2014 and got relegated . I think Black was assistant then .

to see Bacuna  ( wants to play for athletico Madrid probably ) ,Westwood  ( great at pointing ) and Richardson ( out of contract ) in midfield. I think whats the point in that and him. .

I saw Westwood point yesterday. I thought it was just a myth but he did.

I actually saw Richardson did

[HolmesyVilla]

He's in a position where he's not gonna improve his reputation or chances of another job after Villa based on results that's for sure, so the other side of managing the football club he seems to be doing ok(ish) although I'd like to Villa to say where are Traore and Veretout...

Regarding the shower of shite team he is picking I have to look at as this: these people playing are the ones we want shot of so consequentially we have to play them as if we put them on the bench or drop them then one guarantee is they will be stuck with us next year. So we have to improve our chances, however slight they are, of some foolish team buying one of these asshole wanker 'player' that we own

[Risso]

Nobody was expecting him to come and be the next Pep Guardiola, but his perforamnces both in terms of picking the team and his spoken comments have been worse than dismal.

[PeterWithe]

I think that's harsh, he's not an experienced manager and has come into a pit of vipers. When we apportion blame for this mess Blacks name should not be anywhere near the top of the list.

[OzVilla]

Well he called out Gabby for being the fat, lazy tosser than we suspected he was and suggested that the players weren't giving anything back to the fans.  He's playing players we want shot of and protecting the kids.

All that's fine by me so not sure where all this aggression comes from, he's only been here 8 weeks. He's done pretty much exactly what I would have done.

[OzVilla]

I think that's harsh, he's not an experienced manager and has come into a pit of vipers. When we apportion blame for this mess Blacks name should not be anywhere near the top of the list.

Infact he shouldn't even be on the list. Here's my shame top 10 as to why we are where we are today and who's most culpable;

1) Lerner
2) Lambert
3) Fox
4) Gabby/Micah
5) Faulkner
6) Sherwood
7) MON
Reilly/Almstadt
9) Karsa/ Culverhouse
10) McLeish
11) Manchester City

[Risso]

Well he called out Gabby for being the fat, lazy tosser than we suspected he was and suggested that the players weren't giving anything back to the fans.  He's playing players we want shot of and protecting the kids.

All that's fine by me so not sure where all this aggression comes from, he's only been here 8 weeks. He's done pretty much exactly what I would have done.

Why's he playing Kieran Richardson?  His contract is up this summer.

[tomd2103]

I just don't get what these people see.  I mean how hard is it to pick the team below:

                     Bunn

Hutton      Okore    Clark     Cissokho

                Gana   Veretout

Traore           Grealish           Ayew

                    Gestede

You could maybe take Gestede out and put Ayew up front or start Sinclair ahead of Traore, but let's at least have a go.

[villan from luton]

Well he called out Gabby for being the fat, lazy tosser than we suspected he was and suggested that the players weren't giving anything back to the fans.  He's playing players we want shot of and protecting the kids.

All that's fine by me so not sure where all this aggression comes from, he's only been here 8 weeks. He's done pretty much exactly what I would have done.

Why's he playing Kieran Richardson?  His contract is up this summer.

Thank fuck for that