Austin MacPhee

[john e]

Take a bath bow, son, Villa have scored more set piece goals this season than any other team in the league.

It's funny isn't it? People were wanting him out for being useless earlier in the season.

I didn’t think he’d last 5 minutes when Gerrard came in
Especially as he bought in a massive bunch of his own people at the time

but in fairness to SG he’s letting the fella show what he can do
he credited Austin with his work in one interview i saw after the Everton game

[Ian.]

Take a bath bow, son, Villa have scored more set piece goals this season than any other team in the league.

It's funny isn't it? People were wanting him out for being useless earlier in the season.

Well, when Matty Cash is running over to the opposite side of the pitch to dry the ball off with a towel and take the throw-in, I think people were right to question the wisdom of what we were doing.  Thankfully that seemed to stop around the same time that Deano left.

Absolutely. It seemed to be our number one tactic for a while. We went three at the back and went long. It seemed odd that we employed this fella and Smith seems to allow a massive shift in original football values.

[eamonn]

Are there any interviews out there of him? Looks like he should be in a Shane Meadows film, playing Paddy Considine's psychotic brother.

[johnc]

I always see him as henchman #4 in a Stephen Seagal flick

[Nev]

It's notable that those awful tactics have not been continued by Smith at Norwich. He never played it at Walsall, Brentford or with us until this bloke arrived. I was one of the most vocal critics of McPhee and I still maintain his influence was too great but you can only blame Smith for that, he was the boss.

The long ball, over aggressive, note passing, long ball shithousing has all but disappeared and one can only presume that Gerrard has a tighter grip on his staff. McPhee certainly isn't as prominent on the touchline either.

[Risso]

Are there any interviews out there of him? Looks like he should be in a Shane Meadows film, playing Paddy Considine's psychotic brother.

Any excuse:

[Beard82]

To be honest - I wanted shot of him when Dean went, cos I thought are set pieces became too bigger part of the game.

But, credit where its due - we have been better from attacking set plays since hes been here - I read somewhere that we have the second most Goals from set pieces - and given were not exactly banging them in from open play, they have been pretty important.

This clearly reasserts the golden law - I know nothing

[Risso]

To be honest - I wanted shot of him when Dean went, cos I thought are set pieces became too bigger part of the game.

But, credit where its due - we have been better from attacking set plays since hes been here - I read somewhere that we have the second most Goals from set pieces - and given were not exactly banging them in from open play, they have been pretty important.

This clearly reasserts the golden law - I know nothing

The bloke clearly has something about him, but I think Gerrard did the right thing and put him firmly back in his box for a while.

[OCD]

This season we had 2 coaches under Smith and Craig Shakespeare. Gerrard's brought in a coach load to supplement them. No wonder they're playing a smaller role.

[rjp]

He always reminds me of the train man from the matrix.

[OCD]

He always reminds me of the train man from the matrix.

So will I now!

[brontebilly]

Has the long throw stuff been knocked on the head? Can't recall any of it v Everton. Watkins it must be said was defending the front post well at set piece time.

[eamonn]

Are there any interviews out there of him? Looks like he should be in a Shane Meadows film, playing Paddy Considine's psychotic brother.

Any excuse:

Paddy's come out (not like that) the other day saying he's a musician first and foremost. Apparently his band have an album out soon if you want to support him...

[manic-road]

For a set piece expert we seem to be regressing, every time I see Luiz over the ball on a set piece I never think oh good this will be a good delivery. Obviously MacPhee works with the players all week at BH, Digne is meant to be a set piece expert so was expecting a bit more because we have had success earlier in the season.

[richtheholtender]

I think without actually naming names Gerrard was speaking about Austim when discussing staff improvement