Steve Round

[Neil Hawkes]

Thanks for that, very encouraging read.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Thanks, Amfy. An interesting read. I'm intrigued by what Round's definition of Villa's footballing philosophy. Interesting times.

[Bad English]

Sound Round round-up! Ta Amfy!

[not3bad]

His words about Villa being like a ship headed in the wrong direction for too long are almost exactly the same as I've thought of it.

[damon loves JT]

Thanks Amfy.

I'm not a big fan of middle management jargon and it makes my eyes glaze over. But whatever 'technique' somebody like Steve Round uses to make people feel confident and motivated, the only criterion is whether it works. It's like alternative medicine: I don't believe in it myself but if other people do, and that belief helps them get better, who am I to criticise.

[Hookeysmith]

Thanks Amfy.

I'm not a big fan of middle management jargon and it makes my eyes glaze over. But whatever 'technique' somebody like Steve Round uses to make people feel confident and motivated, the only criterion is whether it works. It's like alternative medicine: I don't believe in it myself but if other people do, and that belief helps them get better, who am I to criticise.

Well whatever they are doing is starting to show results

[Bad English]

"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."

[Billy Walker]

Thanks Amfy.  For the first time in a long, long while there seems to be something being built at Villa.  I actually keep forgetting we have Round in there as our DoF (- maybe that's because I had grown used to the Lerner-era sticking plaster structure of a first team manager and CEO running the whole operation.)  Onwards and upwards!

[Singapore Villa]

Cheers Amfy.  Sounds promising, but as others have said, results matter, so let's hope we continue as we have been the last 6 weeks or so.

[dcdavecollett]

Thanks a lot for this, Amfy.

This confirms the general impression that we're on the long road back.

[aj2k77]

Telling a few players some home truths needed to happen. All this ''great effort, played brilliant'' bullshit of the past few years hasn't done them any good at all and they've all almost to a man gone hugely backwards and seen a drop. How could they improve if they weren't being told what they were doing very badly.

[Nelson Lodge]

If my memory is correct Graham Taylor used the large ocean going ship analogy about the club way back, circa 1987.

[cheltenhamlion]

If my memory is correct Graham Taylor used the large ocean going ship analogy about the club way back, circa 1987.

Not quite. It was along the lines of if you are big you slide faster because you are big. You come back quicker because you are big as well if you can turn it around.

[Toronto Villa]

It all starts with a very engaged owner. Xia is proving that in everything he does, and it is filtering its way through the club with the appointments. The place was a disaster once Lerner lost interest and we stumbled from one manager to the next all of whom had no leadership to turn to. It all feels very different now and ultimately whether or not we are promoted this season or next we should have in place a very defined structure. That is very encouraging. Thanks Amfy. Very nice summary.

[amfy]

If my memory is correct Graham Taylor used the large ocean going ship analogy about the club way back, circa 1987.

Not quite. It was along the lines of if you are big you slide faster because you are big. You come back quicker because you are big as well if you can turn it around.

This was very much what he was trying to get at. A bit like the physical of big objects having greater momentum or something like that.