Coaching set up for next season

[Hookeysmith]

Basing this on bookies favourite Pearson getting the gig and knowing if so his previous back room team would not be joining. What set up would you like

GK coach - Parkes has to go - no coincidence that Guzan went from FPOTS to clown with Bunn no better - wonder where Spinksy is nowadays?

Fitness coach - I would keep Gurverne (sp) we may be shit but we are a hell of a lot fitter than when we started the season

1st teams coach - Close the door Mr Black and the nonentity you brought in - I like the system that Little had previously with critical areas having their own  specialised coaches like a GK coach

Defending coach - Pearson should be ok with this

Midfield coach - maybe the perfect role for Stan?  if not then not sure if Ian Taylor has badges

Forward coach - Ideal for someone like Dean Saunders

Reserves - leave with Cowans based on results

at least gives us something else to discuss 

[AVH87]

Basing this on bookies favourite Pearson getting the gig and knowing if so his previous back room team would not be joining. What set up would you like

GK coach - Parkes has to go - no coincidence that Guzan went from FPOTS to clown with Bunn no better - wonder where Spinksy is nowadays?

Fitness coach - I would keep Gurverne (sp) we may be shit but we are a hell of a lot fitter than when we started the season

1st teams coach - Close the door Mr Black and the nonentity you brought in - I like the system that Little had previously with critical areas having their own  specialised coaches like a GK coach

Defending coach - Pearson should be ok with this

Midfield coach - maybe the perfect role for Stan?  if not then not sure if Ian Taylor has badges

Forward coach - Ideal for someone like Dean Saunders

Reserves - leave with Cowans based on results

at least gives us something else to discuss 

I heard somewhere that Duverne had left.

McDonald is coaching the reserves/U21s.

[PaulWinch again]

McDonald should already be gone.

[aj2k77]

Henrik Almstadt has a new job btw, in golf, head of player relations.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Just two months after leaving Aston Villa it was confirmed yesterday that Almstadt has now moved sports – to golf!

The European Tour confirmed yesterday that Almstadt has been appointed the director of player relations yesterday.

Almstadt stated:

“I am excited to join The European Tour and Keith Pelley’s management team at such a crucial stage of the Tour’s development.

“I’m passionate about developing sporting organisations, creating frameworks for high performance and working with individual athletes.

“This role is all about the players and I believe that much of my experience in football and business will be valuable for this post. I can’t wait to get started.”

[Hookeysmith]

Knew he must have been good at something

[Ian.]

Henrik Almstadt has a new job btw, in golf, head of player relations.

Four!


I get it now, that's why we lost by four so many times in the last few months.

[paulcomben]

2 machine gun emplacements, cattle prods for coaches & rationing at Bodymoor Heath may not be enough to motivate this squad.

[Villa in Denmark]

Robertson and Walford to look after training kit and equipment.
Culverhouse and Karsa to look after morale and team spirit.
Black to take care of motivation.
Keane in charge of discipline.
Wilkins to be the div everyone takes the piss out of.


What was that?

We're supposed to help them work out how to play together? You're having a laugh. That'll never catch on.

[supertom]

McDonald should already be gone.

Not sure about that. I know he was bloody awful in his caretaker games and his selections were woeful but as always he was thrust into a role he probably didn't particularly want to be doing. He does a good enough job with the U-21's and he should be left there to do it.

[Ger Regan]

McDonald should already be gone.

Not sure about that. I know he was bloody awful in his caretaker games and his selections were woeful but as always he was thrust into a role he probably didn't particularly want to be doing. He does a good enough job with the U-21's and he should be left there to do it.

Does he, though? I don't care if the underage teams go unbeaten throughout a season, if they don't progress to the first team then it's nothing but a failure.

To be honest, with a new owner and manager I wouldn't be overly-disappointed to see wholesale coaching changes at all levels.

[supertom]

McDonald should already be gone.

Not sure about that. I know he was bloody awful in his caretaker games and his selections were woeful but as always he was thrust into a role he probably didn't particularly want to be doing. He does a good enough job with the U-21's and he should be left there to do it.

Does he, though? I don't care if the underage teams go unbeaten throughout a season, if they don't progress to the first team then it's nothing but a failure.

To be honest, with a new owner and manager I wouldn't be overly-disappointed to see wholesale coaching changes at all levels.

Players have progressed to the first team though (and should really have been given even more opportunities).
Though I do agree that if the new board sees fit to do a complete clean sweep then I'm not adverse but I think our youth set up is one of the few positives. It's been our managers who have failed to fully utlitize the potential though, by wasting first team spots on complete toss like Bacuna when we have an academy that should, and has, been producing much better quality than a lot of what we've signed.

[brian green]

I would make all the backroom staff hand in their phones and anybody who has spoken to Tim Sherwood in the last three months should be dismissed.  Pining for Timmy and not getting behind his replacement was at the heart of our failure to fight for survival.

[cdbearsfan]

The most important thing is get rid of MacDonald. Never want to see him again after the sabotage he inflicted this season.

[brian green]

Spot on ceedee.  It was McDonald at Spurs who ran up the flag of defiance and made it acceptable to refuse to integrate the "foreign lot".