Eric Black

[sid1964]

Hopefully he will clear out his desk, the guy has been a total joke (be interesting to see after his 35 years of experience) if anyone else will employ him in a managerial or coaching role)

Good riddance!

[kippaxvilla2]

After a long, hard half season he's gone on holiday don't you know.

[Des Little]

After a long, hard half season he's gone on holiday don't you know.

Don't hurry back Eric

[peter w]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

[Jimbo]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

We lost 4-0.

[old man villa fan]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

If you're being serious, I assume you mean until Richards came on. A defence without Richards and Hutton looked more solid. I can believe that, although didn't see the match myself.

[passport1]

I have no feelings for Black one way or the other. He was Acting Manager. We have had plenty of those in recent seasons.Could we have the real thing next time?

[VillaAlways]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

Apart from the 4 goals

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

If you're being serious, I assume you mean until Richards came on. A defence without Richards and Hutton looked more solid. I can believe that, although didn't see the match myself.

I honestly think Richards coming on made a difference...before then we were "more solid" and hoped we could nick a goal....afterwards, we just fell apart.
I sincerely hope we've seen the last of him. One of the worst defenders I've ever seen in a Villa shirt.

[chrisw1]

He hasn't done a very good job.  But I think any manager coming into this position would have struggled - it was an impossible situation.

It is hard to fathom what he was trying to achieve, but non of us know the true situation with the squad.  Had Jacks head gone? is there a clause in Traores contract that means the powers that be don't want him played etc?  We would have probably all done things differently - but it's easy for us armchair managers - play the kids and 10 strikers and we may lose 25-10 but at least we've gone down fighting and had some entertainment etc etc...  Who know's what his thinking was, but one thing I am sure of is that  it wasn't to set the team up to be as shit as possible just to piss off the fans and ruin any chance of him having a career going forward.

So, when spitting all this venom at a caretaker manager who took over the worst premiership squad in history with a fractured dressing room and confidence in tatters for 7 games, lets not forget who the true culprits here are.  There's the obvious ones, Lerner, Fox etc.  But Garde couldn't have been shitter.  Go and look at his thread and compare it to this one.  And I don't buy he was trying to 'do the right thing' etc.  Yes, he was dealt a bad hand, but he gave up just as surely as the board did.  He was the one who had an opportunity to get this squad working and salvage a few points.  But he sails off into the sunset with a few cheery waves and good luck in the future Remi, whilst the guy left holding the baby gets some of the worst venom I have seen on this site for years.  Once again I ask why?  My conclusion can only be that one sounds like Wegner and the other MCleish.

[David_Nab]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

Well it helps when you have just the 2 attackers on the pitch with every one staying back , Arsenal could of been nervy the crowd could of turned on them as they have been dodgy at home and we rock up with a clear plan just to hold on.Everytime Ayew got the ball he had literally no forward pass and yet he still gave them some troubles.

It all fell apart when we made subs and ended up continuing with a 5 man defence but with Sanchez and Richards as 2 of the CB's then it al fell apart

[LeeS]

I think EB has acted very selflessly. Everyman and his dog, plus his dog's stinking turd could see that playing the same shocking team week in week out would result in defeat after predictable defeat. So I just cannot accept that EB couldn't see the same thing. Which means that he must have been doing someone else's bidding.

With a record as shabby and embarrassing as ours, he could have come in, played the kids, put Grealish and Traore on, told the full backs to bomb on, given the midfield licence to get forward and played with a gung-ho spirit - and it is virtually mathematically impossible he could have done any worse. But in the process he'd have garnered support from press and fans alike (who love that sort of thing) and probably done enough to get himself a short managerial contract out of it somewhere like Blackburn or Charlton.

Instead, he killed off his own 35 year career. Dead. Deceased. It is an ex-career.

[Axl Rose]

Absolute dicksplash. If I ever have to see him again anywhere near Villa, i'll cry.

[German James]

So TSM3 departs, leaving... Well, nothing. We moan (rightly) about most of the players stealing a living, but Eric Black did absolutely fuck all, while he was here. Nada. Nichts. Rien. Less than Ray Wilkins. Nowt.
Not once did he do anything that made me notice he was there, let alone bothering his arse. Don't bother writing these two months into your CV, mate, and we'll try and forget you... Oh. Who was I talking about? No, it's gone.

[Tony Erdington]

Thought we looked a lot more solid at the back yesterday and defended quite well.

4 fucking nil!!!!!