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[brian green]

Our back up goalkeepers do not let us down.  It is the first choices making idiotic mistakes.

[Flin5tone]

We already have one.

Jed Steer is not Premier League standard, we should have replaced Tom Heaton with equal ability. With Martinez out of the Country so often for various reasons and no competition I think Martinez could be a problem ,he was very poor against West Ham

[Ad@m]

Mickey Mouse is keeping a manager who'd never, ever get you anywhere near the top 6. That's Brentford level.

I completely understand the apathy towards Gerrard given it's a bit of a gamble. But Dean Smith deserved to be fired. If his name wasn't Dean Smith and he wasn't an Aston Villa fan very few would want him still here. His record across almost 12 months was dreadful and much worse as a percentage of games lost when Jack dind't play.

Dean Smith did not deserve to be fired. At least not yet.

As for Gerrard, I can't believe the owners hooked Smith only to (possibly) hire him.  Surely there are better, proven options out there.

Disagree. 18 defeats in a calendar year is really poor.

It is, and for me the end of the Southampton game showed that Deano had ran out of ideas and his time was up.

But if the owners were going to pull the trigger they needed to have a plan that they'd be bringing in someone better.  If the answer's Gerrard I'm not sure they did.

[Chris Harte]

It is, and for me the end of the Southampton game showed that Deano had ran out of ideas and his time was up.

But if the owners were going to pull the trigger they needed to have a plan that they'd be bringing in someone better.  If the answer's Gerrard I'm not sure they did.

I totted the points total for 2021 as 39 from 35 games. granted not good but not relegation form either (although admittedly not far from it). Having lost his star player maybe he could have been cut some slack (even just a few more games), but then maybe I'm being over sentimental about having a Villa fan at the helm.

I agree with the above post that Gerrard doesn't smack of being a succession plan. You'd think with the amounts they've invested that the owners would periodically be planning for replacements in case of an emergency.

[cdbearsfan]

We already have one.

Jed Steer is not Premier League standard, we should have replaced Tom Heaton with equal ability. With Martinez out of the Country so often for various reasons and no competition I think Martinez could be a problem ,he was very poor against West Ham

Jed hasn't let us down and was a huge part of getting us promoted. You don't tend to attract world class players as back up goalkeeper. And Martinez is one of the best goalkeepers on the planet. Still, not like you to see the negative side.

[dave shelley]

We already have one.

Jed Steer is not Premier League standard, we should have replaced Tom Heaton with equal ability. With Martinez out of the Country so often for various reasons and no competition I think Martinez could be a problem ,he was very poor against West Ham

Tell me this F5Stone, which goalkeeper of equal standing to Heaton or someone of his ilk is going to rock up at Villa Park just to get the occasional game whenever Argentina come calling for Martinez?

[cdbearsfan]

Also worth pointing out that Tom Heaton has played zero minutes this season, so perhaps he's not the most important player in the world.

[Flin5tone]

Sergio Romero would have been ideal on a Free Transfer.

[LeeB]

Sergio Romero would have been ideal on a Free Transfer.

On what basis?

[danno]

Leaves Man Utd because of lack of playing time, joins Aston Villa as backup.
Hmmm...

[cdbearsfan]

Sergio Romero would have been ideal on a Free Transfer.

So you're moaning like fuck about us allowing a player deemed good enough to be Man U's third choice to leave (not that we had a choice), but think we should have signed a player released by Man U because they didn't even think he was good enough to do that?

If we had signed Romero and Steer had gone, you'd be moaning like fuck and saying we were mad to let Steer go.

Still, I don't know why I bother to engage as I'm clearly giving you the attention your trolling craves.

[Flin5tone]

Sergio Romero would have been ideal on a Free Transfer.

So you're moaning like fuck about us allowing a player deemed good enough to be Man U's third choice to leave (not that we had a choice), but think we should have signed a player released by Man U because they didn't even think he was good enough to do that?

If we had signed Romero and Steer had gone, you'd be moaning like fuck and saying we were mad to let Steer go.

Still, I don't know why I bother to engage as I'm clearly giving you the attention your trolling craves.

Not Trolling mate

Just think a Premier League club with European Ambitions should have 3 decent keepers

[Chris Harte]

Just think a Premier League club with European Ambitions should have 3 decent keepers

In an ideal world I'd agree with this. I'd have liked to have seen us hold on to Tom Heaton, but sadly that didn't happen.

[cdbearsfan]

Sergio Romero would have been ideal on a Free Transfer.

So you're moaning like fuck about us allowing a player deemed good enough to be Man U's third choice to leave (not that we had a choice), but think we should have signed a player released by Man U because they didn't even think he was good enough to do that?

If we had signed Romero and Steer had gone, you'd be moaning like fuck and saying we were mad to let Steer go.

Still, I don't know why I bother to engage as I'm clearly giving you the attention your trolling craves.

Not Trolling mate

Just think a Premier League club with European Ambitions should have 3 decent keepers

Manchester City's third choice goalkeeper is 94 year old Scott Carson. It's really not that big a deal.

[LeeB]

Carson's age doesn't matter because he's a hologram.