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Offline eamonn

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9285 on: May 29, 2024, 03:50:21 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9286 on: May 29, 2024, 03:57:18 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.


Yes he said he had to own what happened but it was the players who were below par🤔

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9287 on: May 29, 2024, 08:24:16 PM »
It just serves to highlight what a good thing we have now.
Nah! I don't need to think about Fistface in order to appreciate Unai. It's like going out with Gillian Anderson then going home and having a tug over Amy Turtle. ;-)

Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9288 on: May 29, 2024, 08:28:45 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.

He managed to reach a level of toxicity that it took Lambert 5 times as long to hit.

His managerial competence is shown by where he's coaching, at this stage of his career.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9289 on: May 29, 2024, 08:30:43 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.
Can't take him seriously. Absolute buffoon.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9290 on: May 29, 2024, 09:53:13 PM »
It just serves to highlight what a good thing we have now.
Nah! I don't need to think about Fistface in order to appreciate Unai. It's like going out with Gillian Anderson then going home and having a tug over Amy Turtle. ;-)
You may need to explain Amy Turtle for the young uns!🤣

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9291 on: May 29, 2024, 09:59:55 PM »
He should study how unai is if he really believes that nonsense

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9292 on: May 29, 2024, 10:04:48 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.

He managed to reach a level of toxicity that it took Lambert 5 times as long to hit.

His managerial competence is shown by where he's coaching, at this stage of his career.

He’s in the group of great players but useless managers
Lampard, Bruce, Gerrard, B Charlton, Shearer to name but a few

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9293 on: May 29, 2024, 10:05:44 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.

He managed to reach a level of toxicity that it took Lambert 5 times as long to hit.

His managerial competence is shown by where he's coaching, at this stage of his career.

He’s in the group of great players but useless managers
Lampard, Bruce, Gerrard, B Charlton, Shearer to name but a few
Bryan Robson.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9294 on: May 29, 2024, 10:10:17 PM »
It just serves to highlight what a good thing we have now.
Nah! I don't need to think about Fistface in order to appreciate Unai. It's like going out with Gillian Anderson then going home and having a tug over Amy Turtle. ;-)
You may need to explain Amy Turtle for the young uns!🤣
I remember the others. There was Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9295 on: May 29, 2024, 10:26:59 PM »
April O'Neil always looked quite fetching in that yellow jumpsuit in the Turtles series.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9296 on: May 29, 2024, 10:30:13 PM »
Gerrard has just given an interview to the Telegraph. Believes his own performance at the Villa was decent.

Twat

(Gerrard not eamonn)
« Last Edit: May 29, 2024, 10:48:07 PM by Meanwood Villa »

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9297 on: May 29, 2024, 10:40:06 PM »
McGinn was Bruce’s only redeeming feature

He did take us to within 90 mins of a return to the PL before McGinn joined. We would have gone straight back down, mind. He was a decent appointment at the time, exposing the fraud that was Ross McCormack was when our recovery from free fall started. Should take more credit for getting Grealish back on track too

Everyone likes Deano but it's small margins really. Gets us up via the playoffs (I'm not sure we played all that much better v Derby than we did v Fulham the previous year). Should that team in our first season back have been anywhere near a relegation battle to the final day? (Grealish, McGinn, Mings et al). Some disastrous signings like Jota and Drinkwater and tactically we were a rabble really for a lot of that season.

Gerrard despite a good start always seemed a very bad mistake and so it proved. It's been a mad 7 years since McCormack-gate!

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9298 on: May 29, 2024, 10:46:14 PM »
I'm no Dean Smith fanatic, but how many consecutive wins did he string together?

Not that small margins.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #9299 on: May 29, 2024, 11:11:34 PM »
McGinn was Bruce’s only redeeming feature

He did take us to within 90 mins of a return to the PL before McGinn joined. We would have gone straight back down, mind. He was a decent appointment at the time, exposing the fraud that was Ross McCormack was when our recovery from free fall started. Should take more credit for getting Grealish back on track too

Everyone likes Deano but it's small margins really. Gets us up via the playoffs (I'm not sure we played all that much better v Derby than we did v Fulham the previous year). Should that team in our first season back have been anywhere near a relegation battle to the final day? (Grealish, McGinn, Mings et al). Some disastrous signings like Jota and Drinkwater and tactically we were a rabble really for a lot of that season.

Gerrard despite a good start always seemed a very bad mistake and so it proved. It's been a mad 7 years since McCormack-gate!

Sigh.

We came up via play offs and had no time to plan. Not knowing if Grealish would stay. Not knowing for sure if McGinn, Mings, AEG and Taylor could hack it at this level over a season.

Signed Engels and Konsa and Trezeguet and I can't recall if we thought any of them were yet of the standard required.

Star signing Wesley and Experienced GK Heaton were crocked in the same game. We had no choice but to pad out the squad who else was available other than Raina and Drinkbollocks?

Oh and then the season was on hold for what 10-12 weeks after we got mauled.

We finished the season strong and stayed up ahead of 2 teams who has been in top league for longer than us.

 


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