Having been told I am wrong regarding AVB I am seriously wondering how that claim can be made.
Ok I conceed that at the moment its difficult to criticise him because we are in a strong position in the premier league BUT lets look at a few things shall we.
Last season we were in a lot stronger position and failed miserably.
So far this season, taking away the utd away game, we have not beaten anybody that we should not have. We have beaten the bottom teams, which we should and we have beaten the likes of Swansea at home.
We have won one game against a team from the top 7 and that was the already mentioned utd game.
Other than that we have faced 3 other teams that are vying for a top 4 place and we have lost all three of those games. We have also dropped points against far lesser teams than us players wise and also suffered a bad defeat in the league cup against a team that got slammed next round by Aston Villa.
I may not be prepared to criticise AVB at the moment but can somebody please explain why some posters already consider him a "success" when we have only won games that we should have done so far. As I said take utd away out of the equation, where by the way we rode our luck big time, every other strong test we have faced we have failed in.
I hardly think that makes me wrong when in my opinion, AVB is no better than Harry and my case was always I wanted BETTER not an equivalent.
So come on convince me with facts that AVB is the manager for THFC.
Lets have a sensible debate on AVB
posted on 7/1/13
Grand.. see you didnt reply to my comments..
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To be honest mate it was late and I was knackered so went to bed
posted on 7/1/13
Why so many deletions Grandspur?
posted on 7/1/13
Genius :
JPB by default.
My stuff for not being "on topic" .
posted on 7/1/13
my stuff was deleted for demonstrating that what he had written was complete tosh.
posted on 7/1/13
AVB out
posted on 7/1/13
RDBD/Lions
posted on 7/1/13
Threw away games against Everton Arsenal Chelsea and man city after leading in all 4 games and we are still 3rd
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To be fair I dont think the manager can be blamed for most of them, maybe the city game he got it wrong but woolwich was mainly down to the stupidity of Ade and the ch avs played well at our place.
If anyone can come on here and say week by week we are not improving and looking stronger then i would suggest your not watching us play much
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I wont deny we look a harder team to beat for sure
early season we were having about 350 passes a game, thats up to over 500 now and we are keeping the ball better, creating lots of chances and only team in prem league to have scored in every away game
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I dont think we are creating anywhere near as many chances as last season but then we look a lot less likely to concede which you have to accept unless you want to go gung ho like we did at times last season
All the players seem to be very happy and improving
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Walker ?
Freekicks , corners etc have been much better
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The only corner I remember us scoring from was Sunderland and that was an own goal.
If anyone is not enjoying us being in 3rd against teams who have spent millions more than us then i dont really know what will make you happy
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I did say exactly the same a few days ago on another article
I truely believe if we keep these players and add a couple of top quality signings we can challenge for the title in the next few yrs
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I think thats a step to far until such time as we can make an effort financially to compete at that level, its new stadium or bust on that front
AVB is hopfully here for the long term to build a successful team and to keep judging him every 5 minutes is poor form in my view
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This is modern day football so dont think he wont walk away if a better offer comes in and all managers and players are constantly judged, you do it after every game as does every fan
Get behind him and the team and enjoy the good times that are sure to come
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I always get behind the team that does not mean I have to look at them thru rose tinted glasses
Happy now weare
posted on 7/1/13
Secondly there is no denying your previous anti AVB stance. You say you're not criticising him but you still hope he proves you wrong.. those statements create conflict.
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Of course I dont want to be proved right that would mean we have an awful season ffs
posted on 7/1/13
Well there was some sensible debate shame some of the kids felt the need to stick their oar in which obviously dragged things down to schoolboy level
posted on 7/1/13
Oi!!!!!!!! wheres my post gone eh Grand
I was only joking by the way you old tart