[Archived] Premier League 2015/16 Thread

[Norbert Rassragr]

Hopefully Pearson or a competent manager won't take over, as it would really damage their career. Villa are not the club for an ambitious person as their relegation has been coming for years, and the board are all resigning.

[Doug]

I really hope Big Sam turns the Geordies over today.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Remi Grade set to be sack as Villa manager

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3501237/Aston-Villa-set-sack-Remi-Garde-48-hours-following-sixth-successive-league-defeat-Swansea.html

Ideally for us they need to make another daft appointment.

[chaddyrovers]

I can see Bruce or Moyes taking over there at Villa.

Some rumours on Twitter and comments from Stan Collymore about Bruce being interest in the Villa.

So I wonder if Bruce is unhappy at Hull?

[Baz]

Remi Grade set to be sack as Villa manager

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3501237/Aston-Villa-set-sack-Remi-Garde-48-hours-following-sixth-successive-league-defeat-Swansea.html

Pointless to sack Garde now.

Although McLaren is out of a job......

[chaddyrovers]

Pointless to sack Garde now.

Although McLaren is out of a job......

According to their article I posted before that he has lost the dressing room.

tbh, Garde was the wrong appointment and the behind the scenes structure was wrong aswell. That's why the new chairman Steve Hollis has been making changes and get rid of their old structure like Tom Fox, etc and the transfer committee structure doesn't work.

[Stuart]

Makes no sense for Bruce to go to Villa unless Hull miss out on promotion.

Plus he's ex Brum so that wouldn't endear him to the Villa fans.

[LewisF]

1-0 Sunderland at half time. Defoe volley on 44 mins

[Gav]

Having just watched a Tyne-Wear derby that lacked any sort of quality for large parts of the game it just goes to show how far away from the Premier league our current side is. I don't think we have one player that would have started that game today, both Sunderland and Newcastle have better players in every position and both teams would have beaten us easily today in my opinion.

I've read recently that 15/20m will give Lambert a good crack at getting us up, that maybe so, but I think I'll need another 50/60m to keep us there!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Having just watched a Tyne-Wear derby that lacked any sort of quality for large parts of the game it just goes to show how far away from the Premier league our current side is. I don't think we have one player that would have started that game today, both Sunderland and Newcastle have better players in every position and both teams would have beaten us easily today in my opinion.

I've read recently that 15/20m will give Lambert a good crack at getting us up, that maybe so, but I think I'll need another 50/60m to keep us there!

Mm, I take your point but Swansea, Bournemouth, Watford, Palace weren't bursting with star players when they went up.

[donnermeat]

Newcastle's season is a culmination of their poor transfer policy over the last few years. Likewise Aston Villa.

[Stuart]

Nice to see United being treated like mere mortals these days and being refused a nailed on penalty. I expect the ref wouldn't have bottled it had it been in front of the Stretford end of course but still nice to see.

[LewisF]

For the goal though, Rashford was just like "see ya later Demichelis"

[donnermeat]

City better hope Komapny and Otamendi are fit for the next round of the Champions League, can you imagine Zlatan against these two?!

[LewisF]

And I've not seen much of them, and I don't know whether or not they're fit, but aren't Zabaleta and Kolarov surely a better bet than Sagna and Clichy.

The two centre halves playing today I do not rate at all

[chaddyrovers]

Newcastle's season is a culmination of their poor transfer policy over the last few years. Likewise Aston Villa.

Exactly.

Newcastle had a MD and Chief Scout choosing the players while head coach was there to coach them.

According Sherwood and other media reports Ive heard and read Villa had a transfer committee choosing the players last summer. On that Committee was their CEO, chief Scout, sporting director, owner and Sherwood. But Sherwood only got a couple of the signings he wanted like Gestede. But most of the signings were made by others on the committee.

[Commondore]

Having just watched a Tyne-Wear derby that lacked any sort of quality for large parts of the game it just goes to show how far away from the Premier league our current side is. I don't think we have one player that would have started that game today, both Sunderland and Newcastle have better players in every position and both teams would have beaten us easily today in my opinion.

I've read recently that 15/20m will give Lambert a good crack at getting us up, that maybe so, but I think I'll need another 50/60m to keep us there!

I don't think we're in that situation just yet. Look at clubs like Bournemouth, West Brom, Watford, or even Leicester. They're all having decent to great seasons without massive investment in their squads. Management, tactics and attitude still goes a long way, even in cash-bloated PL.

[Veevs]

I don't think we're in that situation just yet. Look at clubs like Bournemouth, West Brom, Watford, or even Leicester. They're all having decent to great seasons without massive investment in their squads. Management, tactics and attitude still goes a long way, even in cash-bloated PL.

Could not agree more, there are plenty of examples at every extreme out there at the moment, you only need to look at a few years back to see big shifts in the teams. Even now there are plenty of teams in the championship and premier league that have not spent but seen success and visa versa. Just five years ago who would of predicted Wigan/Blackpool et al being where they are.. or Southampton, Bournemouth, Swansea, Palace, Leicester, Watford and co being where they are.

There are plenty of factors that make a winning team, a bit of luck (e.g. Leicester landed the fortune of catching so many so called big clubs in transition or decline), good management and tactics, the right investment.. etc etc.

[47er]

Leicester's form is surely the result of good coaching. If you think back to the early years of the Premier League, every team tried to play "continental football" ie keep possession for minutes on end, build from the back, don't release the ball unless its certain to reach a team-mate etc.

It never got as boring as Milan-Juventus derbies but it was too technical and tedious. Probably, as with the World Cup, managers thought this was the only way to play foreign opposition. 90+% of the "action" took place 15 yards either side of the halfway line and 20 players were crammed into it!

Leicester are a breath of fresh air. I have never in my life seen players work so hard to make space and enable breaks at high speed. It makes defensive football redundant!

One-touch football at rapid pace is the key to Leicester's success and its breath-taking to watch. And they shoot on sight. I can remember whole games used to go by with barely a shot in anger! Other clubs, even Bournemouth, are trying to emulate them. That's made the Premier League more attractive to watch than it has ever been, imo of course.

We have so far to go to reach that standard.

[Gav]

I don't think we're in that situation just yet. Look at clubs like Bournemouth, West Brom, Watford, or even Leicester. They're all having decent to great seasons without massive investment in their squads. Management, tactics and attitude still goes a long way, even in cash-bloated PL.

Yes it's a good point about coaching and attitude but if you look at the current crop of players on the books we're closer to league one than the Premiership.

Years of cost cutting and dumbing down means the only way we'll get near the promised land is with serious investment in my opinion, the vast majority of the current crop are simply not good enough.

[DE.]

Yes it's a good point about coaching and attitude but if you look at the current crop of players on the books we're closer to league one than the Premiership.

Years of cost cutting and dumbing down means the only way we'll get near the promised land is with serious investment in my opinion, the vast majority of the current crop are simply not good enough.

Couldn't agree more. You'd be hard pressed to find a (non-loan) player at the club who has the mental, physical and technical attributes necessary to sustain a push for the playoffs, let alone automatic promotion. We practically need upgrades in every position on the park, largely thanks to our gormless owners who have systematically downgraded the team from day one until we've ended up in this pathetic position.

[Husky]

Hopefully Pearson or a competent manager won't take over, as it would really damage their career. Villa are not the club for an ambitious person as their relegation has been coming for years, and the board are all resigning.

What's our Gaz up to?

[Tom]

Every fan with a love for the 'real' game wants Leicester to win the league, and the WORST commentator is David Pleat and his cringeworthy telephone voice

Robbie Savage if we are including colour commentators is the absolute scraping of the barrel, I struggle to watch a game if he is commentating and I loved him as a player for us.

[ABBEY]

Sav is good I think . Tells it how he sees it wether it's right or wrong . Another apart from ones mentioned is collimore , is there a more big headed know it all and patronising pond life of a person than him ?

Merson ha

[rigger]

Jamie Carraghers voice tends to grate a little.