Demitri_C Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 1 hour ago, Genie said: Lets just hold our horses shall we. They say you're only as good as your last game, and we were shit in that, and in almost all of the games that preceded it. RDM needs to turn transfer fees into results which is not easy. I'll define a better team as one that wins more games. It really does not take much to be better than last season genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 We fans need to be patient. Last season, we started off with concerns at how the previous season ended and uneasy with the way Sherwood managed. We were pretty much excited about the big turnaround in staff but also aware that we had lost two or three of our best players and replaced them with largely unknown names who were new to English football. This season, we have a completely new management team but the kind of player turnaround. However, we must also remember that we haven't lost our best players this season, we have pretty much got rid of the rubbish and replaced them with players who nearly all have experience of the league we are in and have done well in it before. We need to give the management team time to get things working the way they want. It's a season with 8 more league games so let's give the guys enough time to work their magic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 1 hour ago, villarocker said: We fans need to be patient. Last season, we started off with concerns at how the previous season ended and uneasy with the way Sherwood managed. We were pretty much excited about the big turnaround in staff but also aware that we had lost two or three of our best players and replaced them with largely unknown names who were new to English football. This season, we have a completely new management team but the kind of player turnaround. However, we must also remember that we haven't lost our best players this season, we have pretty much got rid of the rubbish and replaced them with players who nearly all have experience of the league we are in and have done well in it before. We need to give the management team time to get things working the way they want. It's a season with 8 more league games so let's give the guys enough time to work their magic. How much time though ? As you say we have a team, expensively assembled by championship standards - bursting with experience at this level. Sure one or two will take a while to hit peak and fully settle. But if they start not settle in any great numbers - or we are still only eeeking the odd home win come November - Questions need to be asked. Yes it takes time - but :- not that much time we go on only winning 1 game in six - promotion will quickly slip from our grasp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 January will be interesting when potentially a third of our starting line up could be missing for a month to play in the ACON. Hope RDM has a contigency plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted August 31, 2016 Moderator Share Posted August 31, 2016 1 minute ago, pacbuddies said: January will be interesting when potentially a third of our starting line up could be missing for a month to play in the ACON. Hope RDM has a contigency plan. Sure he does. Buy more strikers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post One For The Road Posted August 31, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2016 Now that we have spent as much as we have, the pressure is on for RDM to turn us into a side pushing for promotion. It won't be instant but as @hippo says above, we can't afford for it to take too long to come together. The money we have spent, and on players who know this league well, should be a recipe for automatic promotion if he can get them playing. If not then RDM will surely pay with his job. Let's see what the next couple of months brings. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BOF Posted August 31, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2016 I just came in here to say pretty much the same thing @One For The Road. It is quite rare that a manager experiences a transfer window quite like the one we've just seen. You would think, looking in from the outside, that he has been given there or thereabouts everything he could have wanted from the powers that be. He has no excuses now and nor will he want any. He'll know himself that he has been given the platform required and the tools to do the job. Now there are pitfalls with that kind of turnover too as we know, but yes the expectation from everyone now will be that promotion is the goal and the playoffs is the absolute minimum that this team and squad should achieve. Over to you Roberto. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 I think how is when the dust settles and he has to form the new Villa. I wish him the best of luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptureJames Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Roberto & Co - over to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) I've been mostly impressed by his analysis of what we need where. Needs to time get the new group playing well and I hope people don't expect it to click right away. To have managed to identify and sign close to a whole starting XI, with the quality (and qualities) those players possess, is pretty remarkable. I desperately hope the fans have patience over the next month or so as I feel we have a real chance of promotion now. Bob and Tone could have saved the sinking ship in one window. Edited August 31, 2016 by a m ole 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) He has to deliver this season it is as simple as that for me now. He has been backed massively and if we don't now have one of the best three squads in this league then the finger will inevitably be pointed at him. Edited August 31, 2016 by markavfc40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Pressure? What Pressure? no excuses now RDM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 14 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: He has to deliver this season it is as simple as that for me now. He has been backed massively and if we don't now have one of the best three squads in this league then the finger will inevitably be pointed at him. Yes I agree, with the money he has spent, anything less than top 6 is failure. I know things have changed but even Oneill didn't get this type of backing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Come on Bobby. We are with you. Let's obliterate this league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 except MON 3rd season under Lerner I cant think of another Villa manager backed so much and even then considering our division I think this is even better backing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Whilst I agree that come the end of the season, assuming we don't have some rotten luck with injuries, we should be in the mix, at the same time we need to be patient. It doesn't matter how much it has cost to assemble the team, they do still need time to gel, to learn the managers philosophy and evolve together. Let's wait a couple of months at least before we bring out the knives if things don't go so well at the beginning. With that said, over to you Roberto. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 My head is telling me to be realistic and to expect a transition time as the players gel, the tactics from management sink in and our new style of play forms. My heart is saying we have potentially one of the best teams in the league by some distance, that natural talent should show results from the outset. Just a shame a few mistakes early in the season has put added pressure on the team because we have less points than we should've but on the flip side we may have not brought as many players if we done so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electronicmaji Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I don't think RDM is the right coach for these players but time will tell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_007 Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 32 minutes ago, electronicmaji said: I don't think RDM is the right coach for these players but time will tell. He isn't right for the players he's signed himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Now's the time to get behind the team and be positive, we're not going to win every game in this league regardless of how much money we spent. We've got rid of the majority of the neg heads in the squad, it's now time for the fans to play their part. The new players deserve our backing even when things don't go well. We need to rebuild our reputation as the 12th man, not get on their backs straight away. It's going to be hard for some people, 6 years of disappointment and crap football has taken its toll. But that's not the fault of the new players. Let's back them, properly, until the end of the season and make Villa Park a fortress again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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