Eric Black

[London Villan]

Clueless Muppet. As his record as a manager shows.

[ciggiesnbeer]

The lowest expectations of any manager in recent years, yet he managed to somehow make things even worse.

Terrible dour and depressing manager without a motivational bone in his body.

Not a bad man by any means, just completely out of his depth for our needs. I hope he gets a job somewhere at a club away from any team management duties and gets to become the coach he believes he is.

[London Villan]

Oh and good riddance to Parks too - any coach of the club who swears at fans should be sacked on the spot.

[Villa in Denmark]

The lowest expectations of any manager in recent years, yet he managed to somehow make things even worse.

Terrible dour and depressing manager without a motivational bone in his body.

Not a bad man by any means, just completely out of his depth for our needs. I hope he gets a job somewhere at a club away from any team management duties and gets to become the coach he believes he is.

It takes a special kind of genius to come in with zero expectations and undershoot.

[Pete3206]

Thanks very much for your services to comedy Eric.

[PeterWithesShin]

Not even as good as this Eric.

[dave shelley]

Maybe we got Thisversion.

[PeterWithesShin]

Considering how little he seemed to do I just assumed he was Eric Idle.

[CJ]

When he gets to wherever he's going, he can fuck off a little bit more.

[wittonwarrior]

And Garde was better?  Seems Black has caught the backlash from a  lot of shit that had already gone on.

Played ok at OT, at home v Newcastle and away at Watford.

Garde - fairly well against Man City, reasonable at home v Leicester reasonable again at home v Norwich and?

What Garde tried to do is make us harder to score  against.  Not sure what Garde's aims were.

And I am not saying  Black  was brilliant he wasn't but neither was Garde or Sherwood.

[dave shelley]

Given that the world is round, so they tell me, he'd better not go too far otherwise he'll be on his way back.

[kippaxvilla2]

He's got 35 years experience in football and we haven't so I don't know why you lot are blaming him for continually playing Lescott, Bacuna, Richards, Guzan.  It made perfect sense........said no one ever.

[Ads]

He shoehorned Bacuna into the side at centre half, after we'd been relegated and perpetuated a poisonous environment, securing one point in a reign so gutless and negative it would have made McLiesh's side at White Hart Lane in November 2011 look like the successors to Total Football.

[ciggiesnbeer]

And Garde was better?  Seems Black has caught the backlash from a  lot of shit that had already gone on.

Played ok at OT, at home v Newcastle and away at Watford.

Garde - fairly well against Man City, reasonable at home v Leicester reasonable again at home v Norwich and?

What Black (edit) tried to do is make us harder to score  against.  Not sure what Garde's aims were.

And I am not saying  Black  was brilliant he wasn't but neither was Garde or Sherwood.

Completely fair point. I am happy to chuck him in the same bucket as the other two. I will say Sherwood at least was capable of motivation occasionally.

In the list of people who got us relegated I would say

Randy Lerner, Fox, Hollis, the board & the transfer window's of shame
The players
Sherwood
Garde
Black

But black put himself on the list by his utter lack of anything. He could be off it or have come out of it with some credit , but he did not. So he is just added to the "people who are to blame" list even if its at the bottom. he didn't need to be on it at all.

[PaulWinch again]

He had a free shot at being positive and getting the fans onside. Instead he was ultra defensive and drove an even bigger wedge between the club and the fans. He was terrible.