Eric Black

[OzVilla]

Cannae fault the lads. Check
Go again. Check
Thought they were fantastic. Check
Should have come away with something. Check.
Lost. Check.
Conceded loads. Check.
Boring as fuck team with crap substitutions. Check.

He must be Paul Lambore's shitter, thicker, duller brother.

Thicker? Is that even possible.

[Clampy]

Gana needed to come off has he'd been tackled not long before and was struggling after that. I presumed he was hoping to catch them on the break by bringing Sinclair on, but yeah, a midfielder would have been the best choice.

[auntiesledd]

Cannae fault the lads. Check
Go again. Check
Thought they were fantastic. Check
Should have come away with something. Check.
Lost. Check.
Conceded loads. Check.
Boring as fuck team with crap substitutions. Check.

He must be Paul Lambore's shitter, thicker, duller brother.

Leave it out AJ: Uncle Eric's been in the game for 35 years!! Don't you know nuffink?

[CT]

My plan for next week....

Let Black leave early. Put Sid in charge, just for two games.

Play the youngsters against Newcastle. If we play the same names the atmosphere will be (rightly) negative and we will just simply lose.

Play those kids. Play Grealish, Traore, Green etc. As fans, we will be fully behind them and who knows...maybe they might be quite good. Maybe they might give us a chance not to lose a football match. Maybe they'll put in the hard yards that the others won't.

In reality, Black will pick lescott, Richards, Bacuna, Guzan and the triumphant returning hero Gabby.

We'll lose and the Geordies get to twist the knife that's been twisted so many times already this season.

Ok, so you pay the kids.
Name me your defence for a start

Not sure what your point is.

Lyden, Toner, Suliman, Borg.

Oh yeah, well done

Thanks for that, much appreciated.

[Gregorys Boy]

Apart from his negativity in selecting pretty much the same bunch of usless sods who got us in this mess week in week out, I don't have too much bad to say about Black. 

The performances have improved slightly, but slowly (maybe by default), he handled the Gabby and Okore situations very well, and has come across as a very level headed and decent guy in interviews.  I'm not going to pick fault with his tactics or subs, because the guy has been thrown into this mess,and is a caretaker manager afterall.  I don't want to see him in that role after this month, but I don't think he has much to be blamed for either.

[cdward]

I find some of his honesty quite refreshing actually, calling the club out for being toxic is not what we want to hear but it's the truth. His dropping of Agbonlahor, and Okore are brutal but honest, ok he is not a great manager, but  he is only a stop gap, I'm more interested in who the new owner(s) and manager will be.

[brian green]

The punishment of Okore may well have cost us a valuable player in the fight to escape the Championship.  Pure Paul Lambert clunk handedness in my opinion.  I don't expect Black to win games but I do expect him not to fuck up the squad any more than it is fucked up already.

[Gregorys Boy]

The punishment of Okore may well have cost us a valuable player in the fight to escape the Championship.  Pure Paul Lambert clunk handedness in my opinion.  I don't expect Black to win games but I do expect him not to fuck up the squad any more than it is fucked up already.

But you can't play favourites based on talent.  Okore was out of the line and it would have set a bad example to give in to him.  Black was quite right in how he handled it.  Chances are Okore will want a move anyway, and to be fair Black gave him the option to be part of the squad and chose not to take it.

I find some of his honesty quite refreshing actually, calling the club out for being toxic is not what we want to hear but it's the truth. His dropping of Agbonlahor, and Okore are brutal but honest, ok he is not a great manager, but  he is only a stop gap, I'm more interested in who the new owner(s) and manager will be.

Spot on. And those decisions and the speed in which they happen will be the main factors in how we fare next season and beyond.

[ChicagoLion]

All Black has managed to do is make an awful situation worse.

[auntiesledd]

If he possessed any dignity at all, he'd change his surname to Cack.

[Richard E]

If he possessed any dignity at all, he'd change his surname to Cack.

I'm not sure you've completely grasped the concept of 'dignity.'

[peter w]

The punishment of Okore may well have cost us a valuable player in the fight to escape the Championship.  Pure Paul Lambert clunk handedness in my opinion.  I don't expect Black to win games but I do expect him not to fuck up the squad any more than it is fucked up already.

Nonsense.  You want a player to be able to call the shots? You want a potential gabby situation whereby the manager is rendered lame by a player who can say and do what he likes with impunity? Black hasn't fucked it up at all. It's players like Okore that have.

[old man villa fan]

The punishment of Okore may well have cost us a valuable player in the fight to escape the Championship.  Pure Paul Lambert clunk handedness in my opinion.  I don't expect Black to win games but I do expect him not to fuck up the squad any more than it is fucked up already.

Nonsense.  You want a player to be able to call the shots? You want a potential gabby situation whereby the manager is rendered lame by a player who can say and do what he likes with impunity? Black hasn't fucked it up at all. It's players like Okore that have.

That depends on what happened before Okore refused to go on the bench.  We do not know what was said between player and manager and over how long.

[brian green]

I think auntie's post is very good. Rude, satirical and witty.  Wish I had posted it.

[auntiesledd]

I think auntie's post is very good. Rude, satirical and witty.  Wish I had posted it.

Awwww thanks Brian. I'll pop the cheque in the post for you first thing Tuesday.