Would We Have Gone Down Under Gerrard?

[kippaxvilla2]

Newcastle away was a classic.  He sulked in the dugout and was almost saying ‘why are these twats nowhere near as good as I was?’

[Percy McCarthy]

He’s not a tactician, he had nothing to say to affect the game and he knew it. What Gerrard and Emery see when they’re watching football is a million miles apart.

[SoccerHQ]

Newcastle away was a classic.  He sulked in the dugout and was almost saying ‘why are these twats nowhere near as good as I was?’

I remember after the match aswell he slagged the team off and said there would be changes after the performance.

Was a grand total of one change for the Watford game which we again lost 1-0 and performance remained inept so that was the first red flag to me we weren't going to do anything under him.

[edgysatsuma89]

Newcastle away was a classic.  He sulked in the dugout and was almost saying ‘why are these twats nowhere near as good as I was?’

I remember after the match aswell he slagged the team off and said there would be changes after the performance.

Was a grand total of one change for the Watford game which we again lost 1-0 and performance remained inept so that was the first red flag to me we weren't going to do anything under him.

That made me laugh, gave it the big'un about changes and then barely did anything different. Chancer.

[Matt C]

He was too busy trying to look folks in the eye.

[VILLA MOLE]

Lets not forget the promise of a full pre season under his belt  to see his true managerial brilliance, we became worse 

[Dogtanian]

Lets not forget the promise of a full pre season under his belt  to see his true managerial brilliance, we became worse

To be fair, the pre-season was as good as it got under his reign!

[john e]

His tactical awareness and formations were not great, but I’m not convinced that was his biggest problem
Somehow somewhere he just lost the players, I mean the stuff with Mings was truly pathetic

They just ended up not liking him not believing in him, his man management was awful and that’s what did for him more than anything else I reckon

[Percy McCarthy]

Lets not forget the promise of a full pre season under his belt  to see his true managerial brilliance, we became worse

To be fair, the pre-season was as good as it got under his reign!

I wasn’t impressed by the pre-season.

A good start.
A really good performance v Man U in the FA Cup.
The three game run v Southampton, Brighton and Leeds.

That’s it.

[Dogtanian]

I wasn't impressed, but I enjoyed it! Certainly more than I did once Bournemouth away kicked off.

[Villan82]

The two games against Man U in January 2022 showed me there was something there. Then we played some great stuff against Leeds x2 and Southampton.

I was badly wrong. We were absolute garbage for most of the rest of his tenure.

I also regret that because of him  there were doubts emerging about some of the players. Thankfully Unai came and and has showed us that the players actually were capable of challenging (and getting) Europe.

[not3bad]

I was expecting a real show against Bournemouth. In way I suppose I got what I expected, but it was a horror show.

[Exeter 77]

I didn't think I would dislike a Villa manager as much as David O'Leary but Gerrard runs him very close.

[Ian.]

After his comments last summer regarding Mings, it put him in the O’Leary category for me.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

You can make certain comparisons between Gerrard and O'Leary. But in terms of disreputable and untrustworthy human character traits O'Leary still wins hands down ahead of anybody else.