Smirking_Saint

Really ?! Care to put money on our impending doom ?

Corrected it for you

This Though for me it was just a bad day at the office, very bad indeed obviously Lets not delude ourselves, we are easily safe though, I hope I never see us play like that again though. Uncreative, passing was terrible, Lukaku battered us, Lambert who ? Mayuka looked poor again. And to top it all of two red cards. Utter utter tripe Were they all on the pish last night ? Taken their foot of the gas ? Not surprising we see Alps' return

3 players ? Your an idiot by the way

Yeah but the way he went for it was rediculous. We looked like a team today that had nothing to play for, lethargic lazy passing and little movement Lukaku was dominant, Lambert did nothing Ramirez and fox stupid

TBF you made your mind up day one

Def red again

Plenty would want a player of his talent. Maybe he will have some fans who appreciate him and players around him that understand him He wont go though

Red cards looked spot on, no idea what Ramirez thought he was doing. Ramirez has beautiful controlled running but his passing has been poor. Lambert has done naff all today

Oh Alps has turned up after how ever how long Who would have thought ?!

Chelsea fans are indeed *****s but Benitez is equally a c8ck in my mind, I dont really rate him that much either. For all the crap that gets bandied around by scousers about how good he is I honestly think he started the rot there. He is a decent cup manager, would be a v good int manager IMO but for me has never proven he can cut it in league competition Id take Uefa BTW but a top four finish is cash and CL so there we go

Good game, I enjoyed it Just couldnt get a grip of that midfield, you had three in there which made it hard and all of them decent players Remind me next time not to have a skinfull the night before aswell

You couldnt cope with me soft lad

You deffo need to pad it out a bit, chuck a few more names in, talk about the weather a bit, what your drinking and that fat tom from the 2nd Dunes managed to get hold of some porn

Less of the nobbing please Crabbers

Thats Wellers daughter ?!?!! Woooaaahh I love that man a tad more now

Basically it was like kelvin said, having done coaching for what was at the time a reasonably large organisation locally, and also having seen how some of the other guys coach aswell. Basically any new ideas that I had, were met with not intrigue and acceptance but complete ignorance to what I 'thought' I could achieve. I coached under 5's, under 10's and under 13's. the problem with the younger age groups is that there is no tactical awareness, they all congregate around the ball, now you cant really sit a 4 yr old down and talk tactics so there are other ways to teach them without them knowing it etc. Continentally as a group they believe in developing a player as they grow, I cant remember the age ranges but basically you teach balance, try to start getting them used to both feet as much as you can and get them to process passing at target based objects. Then its technique with a bit of tactics, you dont want to train positional play yet, that is noticed as they grow and hopefully natural fall into their roles. They say, and I agree that first touch and technique is learnt but 14, no real advances will occur after that and any real talent depends, for me, on first touch etc. Then you move up, positional play etc deeper tactical awareness. That is basically what I remember, my head is filled by other crap these days, its a shame I enjoyed coaching.

Lol

Its litte wonder that they are developing such young talent if they are embracing new techniques like this. Simply saying 'waste of money' or 'whats wrong with how we do it now' is so reminiscent of how we coach English kids. When I was 18 and first got my badges I did a 'lot' of reading up about french, dutch, german etc coaching trchniques and took some philosophies and ideas to my then head coach. He wasnt having any of it and still wanted the kids to run around cones and kick balls in a goal. It got to a point he partnered me up with one of his v old coaches to ensure I coached 'that way' It was part of the reason I quit (that and the knee injury) Worth noting that my time with Saints they had started to embrace and look at new tech back then too which was refreshing.

I for one have singled out Lambert to potentially be a player who we look at replacing in the summer, and for me Benteke would be a player to look at. Now, The9 has gone a little OTT. Lamberts contribution has been phenominal, and Ill put my hands up and say I was one of those that said he may not have been the man for us in the NPC. I was wrong. Im not so sure that The9 is being so unreasonable though. For me if we can get a better player in any position we currently have Ill be a happy man. And of course there are better options than Lambert out there

Fair enough IMO

Im going to walk around in facepaint allday and Im contemplating hijacking a bulldog Other than that nothing special

I have my clubs match ball if you need it, its pretty decent. What are we doing kit wise ? Bring our own shorts n socks ? Whos bringing the oranges ?

Its hard to tell true ability TBH from this Villa team as they are so poor of form. Delph could potentially look half decent in a decent team. Lowton is raw, westwood could be ok, baker... Maybe, Benteke reminds me of a young Didier and Weimann is decent. The rest v poor, even their 'experienced head' in Vlaar is pretty useless IMO. Guzan has had an admirable season though TBF to him