collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Next manager  (Read 44848 times)

Offline Risso

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 84820
  • Location: Leics
  • GM : 04.03.2025
Re: Next manager
« Reply #210 on: March 15, 2020, 12:56:11 PM »
My wife's family are all from Bolton and are Bolton supporters.  Allardyce is a hero in the town.

Online Dave P

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 14070
  • Location: The Ditch
  • GM : PCM
Re: Next manager
« Reply #211 on: March 15, 2020, 12:57:45 PM »
That was about 15 years ago and football has moved on massively. Even Pulis is more up to date and relevant then BS.

Offline Allan C

  • Member
  • Posts: 1280
Re: Next manager
« Reply #212 on: March 15, 2020, 01:43:25 PM »
My wife's family are all from Bolton and are Bolton supporters.  Allardyce is a hero in the town.
Each to their own I suppose. I guess there are people in Small Heath who deem Bruce a hero

Offline PeterWithesShin

  • Member
  • Posts: 67447
  • GM : 17.03.2015
Re: Next manager
« Reply #213 on: March 15, 2020, 01:50:20 PM »
He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.

Offline hilts_coolerking

  • Member
  • Posts: 14614
  • Location: Kennington
  • GM : 26.07.2021
Re: Next manager
« Reply #214 on: March 15, 2020, 01:54:34 PM »
I'd be more inclined to rubbish Allardyce and his style of football if we were wowing everyone with our modern, aesthetically pleasing and progressive style.  Or winning.

Offline ChicagoLion

  • Member
  • Posts: 22105
  • Location: Chicago
  • Literally
Re: Next manager
« Reply #215 on: March 15, 2020, 02:08:15 PM »
He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.
Davies was an excellent Centre forward

Online eamonn

  • Member
  • Posts: 29737
  • Location: Down to Worthing...and work there
  • GM : 26.07.2020
Re: Next manager
« Reply #216 on: March 15, 2020, 02:27:44 PM »
He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.

Do we really need to talk about Kevins?

Offline nigel

  • Member
  • Posts: 5324
Re: Next manager
« Reply #217 on: March 15, 2020, 07:13:21 PM »
I certainly don’t want DS to go. He’s learning, too, and think he’ll come back stronger.
However, if they did decide to look elsewhere I’d expect a Poccetino(?) type announcement

Offline villabear

  • Member
  • Posts: 1408
Re: Next manager
« Reply #218 on: March 15, 2020, 07:23:10 PM »
He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.
[/quote

Do we really need to talk about Kevins?

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
« Last Edit: March 15, 2020, 07:24:51 PM by villabear »

Offline Richard E

  • Member
  • Posts: 13028
  • Age: 53
  • Location: Tipton
  • This also will pass.
  • GM : 28.02.2019
Re: Next manager
« Reply #219 on: March 15, 2020, 07:46:01 PM »
Given how long it might be before there is any competitive football, we should probably be discussing which 15 year olds look like they might have the future potential to be great Villa managers.

Offline PaulTheVillan

  • Member
  • Posts: 23173
  • GM : 16.08.2022
Re: Next manager
« Reply #220 on: March 15, 2020, 07:55:10 PM »
Rafa Benitez

Offline Steve67

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 12233
  • Location: Down south now. Born in Aston.
  • GM : 01.12.2024
Re: Next manager
« Reply #221 on: March 15, 2020, 09:33:02 PM »
Rafa Benitez

Seconded. If he will work for Purslow.

Offline Brassneck

  • Member
  • Posts: 1753
Re: Next manager
« Reply #222 on: March 15, 2020, 09:36:44 PM »
Be ironic if we ended up with Rafa while Newcastle have Bruce.

If they continue with Bruce then there’s a good chance they’ll end up relegated again.

Offline ozzjim

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 29983
  • Location: Here.
  • GM : 30.08.2022
Re: Next manager
« Reply #223 on: March 15, 2020, 10:08:18 PM »
If it looks this week like the season will resume, we should be shaking Smiths hand, patting him on the back and replacing him with a manager that can actually organise a back 4 and team shape to not be walked through 20 times a game. If we were playing Arsenal 2003 football along with it fine, but we are playing fucking awfully. Rafa is the ideal either way, if he is a no, then I would give it to Sam for 10 games. Hate the man, but he would do the job. Trouble is, no one knows anything, and if the season is over, then our manager choice would be wider, but never more pivotal.

Offline Damo70

  • Member
  • Posts: 30877
Re: Next manager
« Reply #224 on: March 15, 2020, 10:29:19 PM »
Given how long it might be before there is any competitive football, we should probably be discussing which 15 year olds look like they might have the future potential to be great Villa managers.


A fifteen year old who is good at playing FIFA on the Playstation would probably do better then several of our former managers did.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal