Gerrard In or Out?

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It's eminently possible to lose 11 in a row when you grossly exaggerate the prowess of opposition, especially those who are about as good as you and even more so for those who are absolutely lamentable and have been all season.

Gerrard has already beaten Leicester, Palace and Norwich, but hey ho, they must all be amazing to be...about where we are or miles behind and adrift at the bottom.

Apart from Liverpool and Man City, the other 5 are games we have, we hold a good chance of winning on any given day.

[Sexual Ealing]

There is absolutely no chance whatsoever we are going to lose 11 games in a row.

Every Aston Villa squad in my time as a supporter: "hold my beer..."

[Beard82]

We’re not losing all 7 games - no chance. Even I at my most grumpy doesn’t think that. 

As ads says - it’s pretty much certain he gets backed heavily in the summer.

Gerrard will make his life a lot easier if he can find a way of winning 3 or 4 games as it will quieten twats like me and hopefully look more appealing to our targets

I personally have gone from being excited by the summer window to nervous - as I have the nagging feeling that’s it’s not all that joined up and could end up being a mess like last summer.

A number of the touted signing seem unlikely - like Bisomma and Phillips, or gambles like Gomez and Surez

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

It's eminently possible to lose 11 in a row when you grossly exaggerate the prowess of opposition, especially those who are about as good as you and even more so for those who are absolutely lamentable and have been all season.

Gerrard has already beaten Leicester, Palace and Norwich, but hey ho, they must all be amazing to be...about where we are or miles behind and adrift at the bottom.

Apart from Liverpool and Man City, the other 5 are games we have, we hold a good chance of winning on any given day.

We'll end up beating one of those two, and losing both times to Burnley. It's the Villa way!

[Beard82]

It's eminently possible to lose 11 in a row when you grossly exaggerate the prowess of opposition, especially those who are about as good as you and even more so for those who are absolutely lamentable and have been all season.

Gerrard has already beaten Leicester, Palace and Norwich, but hey ho, they must all be amazing to be...about where we are or miles behind and adrift at the bottom.

Apart from Liverpool and Man City, the other 5 are games we have, we hold a good chance of winning on any given day.

We'll end up beating one of those two, and losing both times to Burnley. It's the Villa way!

I have the nagging thought we’ll beat Liverpool and lose to Man City - giving Joe the title and everyone non villa the headline of Gerrard blowing the title for Liverpool again

[Scott Nielsen]

The club seem set to bet the farm on another big overhaul of the squad this summer that the new structure with a DoF was meant to prevent.

What is Lange's role exactly? What does Sporting Director at Villa mean - is it a traditional DoF role or is he, ultimately, just responsible for transfer suggestions & assessments?

[ChicagoLion]

It's eminently possible to lose 11 in a row when you grossly exaggerate the prowess of opposition, especially those who are about as good as you and even more so for those who are absolutely lamentable and have been all season.

Gerrard has already beaten Leicester, Palace and Norwich, but hey ho, they must all be amazing to be...about where we are or miles behind and adrift at the bottom.

Apart from Liverpool and Man City, the other 5 are games we have, we hold a good chance of winning on any given day.

We'll end up beating one of those two, and losing both times to Burnley. It's the Villa way!

I have the nagging thought we’ll beat Liverpool and lose to Man City - giving Joe the title and everyone non villa the headline of Gerrard blowing the title for Liverpool again

or it could go down to the wire and a nil nil draw at Citeh gives Redscouse the title. The line up Cash House Mings Chambers Konsa Young Nakamba + 3 more to run about a bit.

[Ger Regan]

I think it's too soon for the knives out, although i remain to be convinced by him. Will be interesting to see what we look like with a strong summer of transfer activity.

The area that i do have a lot of concern about is SG's apparent focus on "passion". The whole "i lost an leg in verdun and have 16 pins in my hip, didn't do me any harm" schtick is outdated, and I really don't want us to turn into a dirty team. At best we are starting to be reckless in challenges, cash's against doherty as an example, if that was Mee against us i can just imagine what the reaction would be like.

[ez]

In. I say that because he's here now and he's not been here long. Not because of anything I've seen on the pitch.

[gpbarr]

By May 15th, Gerrard will have been manager for 27 games (that’s 70% of the season), and had one transfer window where he was backed by the owners (PC and his wages, Digne, Chambers).

I have seen very little in anything that has happened to suggest one more transfer window will put us back on track under his management. If anything, the individual standards have dropped and the PPG is slightly worse than under Smith (in PL).

The most damning of all is his constant “we will make changes” statements that then turn out to be bullshit. If he feels he can’t because the squad is so poor don’t fucking say it! Else do what you say man and change it up! As many others have said, the brutal reality is that at the moment, about the only thing to admire is the press conferences - after that the cupboard runs bare.

[Walmley_Villa]

Massive pressure on Purslow - SG is a Purslow appointment, knows him from Liverpool days, high profile name....he won't be sacked any time soon and expect the Board driven by Purslow to back him heavily in the Summer.

[Nelly]

I wasn't enthused by Gerrard's appointment, especially for Smith, who had done great things for the club. I wouldn't say I want Gerrard out but I certainly expected to see a little more organisation and basic tactics from our team. Especially considering how many coaches we have and how highly rated they supposedly are.

As it is, our defence look awful, our midfield can be non-existent and our strikers are just lost. For me, a top manager would be able to bring out more from what he has available and the solution shouldn't just be to buy another team. So a worried "in" from me, purely on the principle of wanting to give him a fair shake of the stick.

[robbo1874]

Massive pressure on Purslow - SG is a Purslow appointment, knows him from Liverpool days, high profile name....he won't be sacked any time soon and expect the Board driven by Purslow to back him heavily in the Summer.

might be wrong with this, but I thought Purslow was calling it a day at the end of this season?

[Risso]

That was just Twitter rumours.

[brontebilly]

The club seem set to bet the farm on another big overhaul of the squad this summer that the new structure with a DoF was meant to prevent.

What is Lange's role exactly? What does Sporting Director at Villa mean - is it a traditional DoF role or is he, ultimately, just responsible for transfer suggestions & assessments?

No idea on the job spec but I would have thought a more traditional DoF role. Surely should be responsible for ensuring at all levels our teams play a certain way, coaches all buy into it, scouting/recruitment is aligned, manage player contracts etc. Should prevent a situation like what happened us after MON left and minimising the power of the "head coach". Fair enough there might be a certain readjustment needed with a new coach  comes in but there's something definitely amiss currently.

Is anyone following Wolves reasonably closely? Bruno Lage didn't torch the playbook when he took over did he? Worked with existing players improving them and maybe a few odd signings.