St. Valentine's Day massacre (The Post-Shambles thread) (WITH POLL)

[LeeB]

Should have offered wagner
The job.3 million his squad cost
Now 3rd in the league
But no we all know best
Bruce is a typical English manager fucking Dinosaur
Piss head, kebab eaters,gamblers, talk sport lovers
Will be asking for big Sam next

Do you do the social media for the club?

Our social media is ran by a bluenose.

I'm trying to work out what tune to sing it to.

There's 'My old Man' or Madness's 'Our House', but I reckon it would be better served shouted out over Marshall Jefferson's 'Move Your Body'

[Chris Jameson]

You can also get it to work with Should I Stay Or Should I Go. Needs a chorus.

[Ads]

I agree with you there, Ads. If one of your colleagues at work is underperforming, go and stand behind their seat and boo at them. I bet they don't get any better. The booing is part of the spiral of failure. It only makes it twist downwards quicker.

If anything booing makes you take less risks because it engenders fear in the players. The fewer risks you take, the more square balls we play or more we become static.

Lansbury seems immune to this mind which is why I'd like him 15 to 20 yards higher up the pitch.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

Doesn't all this go to say that it is not the manager, nor the team we should change.......but the crowd !?

[olaftab]

I agree with you there, Ads. If one of your colleagues at work is underperforming, go and stand behind their seat and boo at them. I bet they don't get any better. The booing is part of the spiral of failure. It only makes it twist downwards quicker.

If anything booing makes you take less risks because it engenders fear in the players. The fewer risks you take, the more square balls we play or more we become static.

Lansbury seems immune to this mind which is why I'd like him 15 to 20 yards higher up the pitch.

Frankly, with respect, that's load of bollocks analogies. Part of all of us paying money and giving up family time to go and watch the Villa is to be entertained. We are supposed to be watching professionals perform who are paid the sort of money we can only dream about. I never resort to booing but defend the right of those who choose to do so. I bet it was painful for lot of fans to shell out for two home matches within 4 days and witness awful awful performances.

[Ads]

I don't think there's necessarily a correlation between wages and the effects of a negative atmosphere. Singing pro-Villa songs at three options of your voice may not have any negligible effect. It won't make it worse though.

Booing does. It doesn't matter how much players earn, a chorus of white hanky's and whistles at the Bernabeu and suddenly very good players feel even more pressure.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

We all like to be entertained - with a positive outcome. But we know by now, surely, that can't and doesn't happen all the time.
We all want the exciting days of the MON era back....but that's not coming soon and our expectations should no longer be that if Man U or Chelski come next week, we'll give 'em a run for their money.
We now have to cut our cloth to suit and hope we can silence BarCode Park next Monday and do a trick or two in the matches that are yet to come.
We have to be ready to support these guys and if a bad atmosphere is created that is too negative for them to cope with.
Time for the Psycho, I say.

[cdbearsfan]

Norman Bates?

[BOB MANSFIELD]

Can't see us re-creating the same expanse with such a big shower, somehow !

[LeeB]

Norman Bates?

He'd slash the wage bill.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

.... wrote " suspense " no idea where expense came from.
Anyway, slash as you might, it would take a long time to get everyone !

[Jimbo]

I agree with you there, Ads. If one of your colleagues at work is underperforming, go and stand behind their seat and boo at them. I bet they don't get any better. The booing is part of the spiral of failure. It only makes it twist downwards quicker.

If anything booing makes you take less risks because it engenders fear in the players. The fewer risks you take, the more square balls we play or more we become static.

Lansbury seems immune to this mind which is why I'd like him 15 to 20 yards higher up the pitch.

Frankly, with respect, that's load of bollocks analogies. Part of all of us paying money and giving up family time to go and watch the Villa is to be entertained. We are supposed to be watching professionals perform who are paid the sort of money we can only dream about. I never resort to booing but defend the right of those who choose to do so. I bet it was painful for lot of fans to shell out for two home matches within 4 days and witness awful awful performances.

Nobody said it wasn't the right of supporters to boo. But it doesn't make a consistently struggling team perform better. There's clearly a deep-seated, ongoing problem at Villa Park that all the booing in the world won't fix.

[Chris Smith]

I agree with you there, Ads. If one of your colleagues at work is underperforming, go and stand behind their seat and boo at them. I bet they don't get any better. The booing is part of the spiral of failure. It only makes it twist downwards quicker.

If anything booing makes you take less risks because it engenders fear in the players. The fewer risks you take, the more square balls we play or more we become static.

Lansbury seems immune to this mind which is why I'd like him 15 to 20 yards higher up the pitch.

Frankly, with respect, that's load of bollocks analogies. Part of all of us paying money and giving up family time to go and watch the Villa is to be entertained. We are supposed to be watching professionals perform who are paid the sort of money we can only dream about. I never resort to booing but defend the right of those who choose to do so. I bet it was painful for lot of fans to shell out for two home matches within 4 days and witness awful awful performances.

Just because you have a right to something does not mean it is the right thing to do.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not a fan of booing but can understand why it happens. We've won 11 of our last 71 league games. Folks have spent a lot of time and money watching us during that time, patience isn't always going to be there.

[john2710]

Just seen a replay of the 'penalty' for the first time. Thought it was a really bad decision at the time. Seeing it again it borders on outrageous.

The only one in the ground who thought it was a penalty was the ref, only Barnsley player appealing was the fucker who slipped / dived. Never a penalty.

Hogan looks worryingly average.