Steve Round

[Steve67]

Cracking read. I feel really confident with the two Steve's at the club. If it doesn't happen this season, I feel that we are only building to be even stronger, next.  I'm enjoying being a fan again!! Ta Amfy for the post.

[Nelly]

I really enjoyed reading that, thank you so much Amfy!

[garyshawsknee]

I echo what's been said Amfy, good work sir.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Many thanks amfy!

[eamonn]

I echo what's been said Amfy, good work sir.

Madam!

And yeah, great report. No better man/woman for the job.

[olaftab]

"Right Gabby we've peeled the onion and you need to leave the low-hanging fruit [pies] alone and start thinking in the box going forward."

You are absolutely Exec material for our place. Can you PDF you cv to me along with a covering one pager outlining your vision and mission ....or is it mission and vision🤔

[Old Kodjia]

I'm surprised as many as 5 were interviewed for the job.  Bruce was clear favourite all along and Round confirms this.

I can't for the life of me think of 5 realistic and/or available candidates that were worth interviewing once Bruce had confirmed interest.

[Matt C]

It sounds distinctly like we're getting our shit together.

[amfy]

Thanks all! I decided it was best to write it up quickly whilst I could still remember stuff.

Although I can be a bit of a sucker for club spiel tbh, I think how quickly I wanted to write it up, and how much concrete stuff was in there makes me feel that this actually was different to what has gone before. It was really refreshing to be at a meeting where just about everything wasn't prefaced by 'just between these four walls...' Or 'this needs not to go outside this room...' There were a couple of those, but it was really clear why. It's genuine openness I think - unless I now find I am banned from the inner echelons of Villa Park!

What I really liked was the amount of concrete tactical examples he could give to back up what he was saying about methodology, so we could actually visualise what he was saying in practice. This is what made it believable, but whilst I understood it at the time, I struggled to hold most of it in my head - although to be fair, I could probably talk most of it but not write it - but that's what happens when you send a girl I guess!

[exigo]

...The entire coaching team had a set piece meeting with him and the manager...

Great read Amfy. Especially this.
Maybe after all these years the players will learn how to keep possession from a throw-in.

[damon loves JT]

Thanks all! I decided it was best to write it up quickly whilst I could still remember stuff.

Although I can be a bit of a sucker for club spiel tbh, I think how quickly I wanted to write it up, and how much concrete stuff was in there makes me feel that this actually was different to what has gone before. It was really refreshing to be at a meeting where just about everything wasn't prefaced by 'just between these four walls...' Or 'this needs not to go outside this room...' There were a couple of those, but it was really clear why. It's genuine openness I think - unless I now find I am banned from the inner echelons of Villa Park!

What I really liked was the amount of concrete tactical examples he could give to back up what he was saying about methodology, so we could actually visualise what he was saying in practice. This is what made it believable, but whilst I understood it at the time, I struggled to hold most of it in my head - although to be fair, I could probably talk most of it but not write it - but that's what happens when you send a girl I guess!

I would be amazed if some of the `data' he talks about doesn't include what's said in places like this. Anything you were told on the record, I'm sure you were intended to spill.

We've moved on from the days when a successful football club was a single semi-autocratic individual with good judgement, like Ferguson or Shankly, and a small core of consiglieri who owe him personal loyalty. If we can make the DoF model work it can only be to our long-term advantage.

[frank]

Maybe after all these years the players will learn how to keep possession from a throw-in.

We haven't been able to do this in the 60+ years I've been supporting Villa!

But your report is very encouraging, Amfy. Many thanks for taking so much trouble

[ironmaidenmania]

Very good read. Thanks for the info. It is encouraging to hear stuff like this and now we hope that they follow through with it. I'm certainly more confident this year, although still doubt we can get promotion unless we hit a meg run of wins, but we'll be stronger and it is clear there is a plan. Hopefully January sees a couple of long term additions.

[Hookeysmith]

He talked about using data to study how other teams play, and feeding this into how we play. He explained how this fed into Baker's free kick  against Brighton, but there's no way I could translate what he said into words on here. The entire coaching team had a set piece meeting with him and the manager - coaches at all levels to brainstorm ideas and then practice them. We are starting to see the results.

The Baker free kick a great execution as was the delivery but our corners are still awful and our full back crossing even worse

[Toronto Villa]

He talked about using data to study how other teams play, and feeding this into how we play. He explained how this fed into Baker's free kick  against Brighton, but there's no way I could translate what he said into words on here. The entire coaching team had a set piece meeting with him and the manager - coaches at all levels to brainstorm ideas and then practice them. We are starting to see the results.

The Baker free kick a great execution as was the delivery but our corners are still awful and our full back crossing even worse

It's not going to fix itself overnight and will only be fixed by a consistent and dedicated coaching approach. That along with better coaches and better players.