| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 21:23 - Nov 7 with 5108 views | Heisenberg |
Let’s hope Ralph remembers how the club have stuck by him despite the two 9 nils and long runs with poor results . I do get a sense he recognises this but Villa are a big club with wealthy owners. Personally I think he will stay and won’t leave mid season. With the Howe deal at Newcastle apparently stalling and the Norwich job available could be an interesting few weeks. |  |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 21:35 - Nov 7 with 5071 views | SaintNick |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 21:23 - Nov 7 by Heisenberg |
Let’s hope Ralph remembers how the club have stuck by him despite the two 9 nils and long runs with poor results . I do get a sense he recognises this but Villa are a big club with wealthy owners. Personally I think he will stay and won’t leave mid season. With the Howe deal at Newcastle apparently stalling and the Norwich job available could be an interesting few weeks. |
Howe probably holding out for the Villa job, its nearer his home |  |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 22:00 - Nov 7 with 5032 views | kingslandstand1 |
As if either would want to leave where they are now with projects still ongoing! |  | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 22:10 - Nov 7 with 5016 views | saintwizzler |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 21:23 - Nov 7 by Heisenberg |
Let’s hope Ralph remembers how the club have stuck by him despite the two 9 nils and long runs with poor results . I do get a sense he recognises this but Villa are a big club with wealthy owners. Personally I think he will stay and won’t leave mid season. With the Howe deal at Newcastle apparently stalling and the Norwich job available could be an interesting few weeks. |
Correct.
Hassenhuttl has broken the wrong records at the club.
The club have stuck by him.
I personally wouldn’t mind if he left if I knew the club would go for a decent replacement.
Unfortunately I can’t see that so I hope he stays. |  |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 22:18 - Nov 7 with 4991 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
It's a shoe-in for Howe at Villa.
I imagine Norwich couldn't afford Nuno so he'll end up at Newcastle ... Steve Bruce to Norwich.
It feels like a proper manager revolving circus this year. Boring and predictable with no new talent appearing. |  |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 22:58 - Nov 7 with 4926 views | Butty101 |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 22:18 - Nov 7 by Gennaro_Contaldo |
It's a shoe-in for Howe at Villa.
I imagine Norwich couldn't afford Nuno so he'll end up at Newcastle ... Steve Bruce to Norwich.
It feels like a proper manager revolving circus this year. Boring and predictable with no new talent appearing. |
Looks like Rodgers is off to Man U . I would of thought Leicester would be a better fit for Ralph |  |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:07 - Nov 7 with 4921 views | pjt50 |
Odds are shortening with the bookies — currently 8/1. If he did go I'd wish him well. He'd leave us in a much better state than when he joined.
Shame to rip up the playbook though. |  |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:19 - Nov 7 with 4902 views | Bicester_North |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:07 - Nov 7 by pjt50 |
Odds are shortening with the bookies — currently 8/1. If he did go I'd wish him well. He'd leave us in a much better state than when he joined.
Shame to rip up the playbook though. |
Not having a go but I wonder why you would wish someone well who goes to a premier league rival for more money?
I’m hoping it’s all bollocks and he has no intention of leaving but it’s like the Ings situation, if he does well it’s at Saints’ expense. I’d rather anyone that leaves us for another PL club has a disastrous time. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:33 - Nov 7 with 4891 views | pjt50 |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:19 - Nov 7 by Bicester_North |
Not having a go but I wonder why you would wish someone well who goes to a premier league rival for more money?
I’m hoping it’s all bollocks and he has no intention of leaving but it’s like the Ings situation, if he does well it’s at Saints’ expense. I’d rather anyone that leaves us for another PL club has a disastrous time. |
For the same old reason. At the end of the day most of us would move on for a better opportunity.
I know we've stuck by him during some tough times but the events of the past week have shown there's precious little loyalty around in the PL.
I'd draw the line at Ings, though, mainly for the way he went about it. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:56 - Nov 7 with 4869 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 23:07 - Nov 7 by pjt50 |
Odds are shortening with the bookies — currently 8/1. If he did go I'd wish him well. He'd leave us in a much better state than when he joined.
Shame to rip up the playbook though. |
Pretty sure Hassenhuttl won't be leaving Saints just yet - unless they WANT him to leave and Howe is stalling on Newcastle for that reason. Ugh. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 07:50 - Nov 8 with 4728 views | MattFinish |
Ralph has done miracles with a squad that most managers would get relegated with. If he did decide to go it would be due jointly to the lack of backing from the owners and the continual criticism from the bed wetters every time he loses or draws a game |  | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 08:15 - Nov 8 with 4696 views | Heisenberg |
Lack of backing from the owners ? Any other club would have sacked a manager after two 9 nil humiliations. Can’t imagine Villas owners or indeed there fans putting up with a Villa 0 Leicester 9 result. After all as Ings said they are a top 4 club. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 09:29 - Nov 8 with 4621 views | Butty101 |
Im not Ralphs biggest fan and think he has had a very mixed time with us and lucky to still be here.
We are either in hot form or really bad form. There never seems to be an inbetwreen. When football paused due to covid, saints were on a shocking run and looking over their shoulder. The game paused and allowed us to reset and stay up. Whos to say Ralph would have turned that round with out the pause.
If Villa are looking to go to the "next level", im not sure what Ralph has done to suggest hes the man for them. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 09:57 - Nov 8 with 4597 views | solent_toffee |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 09:29 - Nov 8 by Butty101 |
Im not Ralphs biggest fan and think he has had a very mixed time with us and lucky to still be here.
We are either in hot form or really bad form. There never seems to be an inbetwreen. When football paused due to covid, saints were on a shocking run and looking over their shoulder. The game paused and allowed us to reset and stay up. Whos to say Ralph would have turned that round with out the pause.
If Villa are looking to go to the "next level", im not sure what Ralph has done to suggest hes the man for them. |
Totally agree, it was only a few weeks ago when he was getting stick on here and in the current managerial climate I think he’s lucky to still be in a job at Saints so it’s rather fanciful to suggest he’s being eyed up by other clubs after winning a couple of games. | | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 10:09 - Nov 8 with 4584 views | saintwizzler |
Lampard or Gerrard before Ralphie. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 11:18 - Nov 8 with 4526 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 07:50 - Nov 8 by MattFinish |
Ralph has done miracles with a squad that most managers would get relegated with. If he did decide to go it would be due jointly to the lack of backing from the owners and the continual criticism from the bed wetters every time he loses or draws a game |
You could be right re the owner's lack of backing based on what Ralph has previously said, but somehow I wouldn't have thought he reads comments on forum's such as this to let that worry him!
After all, everyone on here could do a better job than Ralph at some time or other apparently  | | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 14:00 - Nov 8 with 4426 views | saint901 |
At the end of the day, managers, like players, are professional. They get paid to do the job and whilst some may have a soft spot for particular clubs (executives, fans, organisation, etc), they will go if they get a better offer.
Loyalty is not usually high on their list of reasons for turning down a better offer.
For managers, those reasons may be a bigger fund for players, vision of the owners, ability to direct/control transfers.
Expecting managers (or players) to stay just because the club has "stood by them" over poor results is bound to end in disappointment. | | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 14:12 - Nov 8 with 4407 views | Kennington |
Well RH has done a good job keeping us up, it’s hard to forgive two 9-nils. It’s surely unheard of for a manager to survive two of those. As a few comments above if we can find a half decent replacement I won’t lose too much sleep over him leaving. But it’s not a great time as he’s got us playing arguably best in a long while. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 15:05 - Nov 8 with 4339 views | Sadoldgit |
I have no idea if he would be tempted to leave or not, but other jobs have become available and he is still here. I get the feeling that both him and the club have signed up to a long term project and both are on the same page. Of course he will leave at some point but I really don’t think that will be any time soon. |  | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 15:39 - Nov 8 with 4298 views | MattFinish |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 08:15 - Nov 8 by Heisenberg |
Lack of backing from the owners ? Any other club would have sacked a manager after two 9 nil humiliations. Can’t imagine Villas owners or indeed there fans putting up with a Villa 0 Leicester 9 result. After all as Ings said they are a top 4 club. |
So you think the owners have financially backed him? | | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 15:51 - Nov 8 with 4272 views | A1079 |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 15:05 - Nov 8 by Sadoldgit |
I have no idea if he would be tempted to leave or not, but other jobs have become available and he is still here. I get the feeling that both him and the club have signed up to a long term project and both are on the same page. Of course he will leave at some point but I really don’t think that will be any time soon. |
The likely reason that Ralph is still with us after last seasons disastrous run of results that nearly got us relegated is that in the case of the club it would probably have been financially too expensive and then finding someone else which would not have been cheap and in the case of Ralph - why would he leave of his own accord when being dismissed would get a large pay off and secondly, his reputation has been somewhat scarred with the two 9-0 results and the either we do really well or we collapse record of his tenure at Saints.
I find him being considered for Villa fanciful to be honest. Just can't see it. If he had taken us to a European spot may be but for the reasons above Ralph is probably grateful he has a club that has stuck with him (for whatever reason) and a set of fans that have not got on his back at all. This season is showing some promising signs and some lessons learned but I will judge him over a whole season. If we can get through it with consistent results and no collapse and no embarrassing results then that will be progress (I am not expecting us to get a European spot). | | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 15:52 - Nov 8 with 4271 views | Heisenberg |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 15:39 - Nov 8 by MattFinish |
So you think the owners have financially backed him? |
Not financially I would agree. But they could have sacked him after the poor results and 9-0 humiliations. I think it’s commendable they didn’t by the way and hope Ralph remembers it if Villa come knocking. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 16:09 - Nov 8 with 4241 views | I_would |
Why would Villa want Ralph? Do they want to average 15th? Do they want several negative stat records? Do they want to pay £20m release clause?
He's not going anywhere same as WP. | |
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| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 16:24 - Nov 8 with 4205 views | KriSaint |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 16:09 - Nov 8 by I_would |
Why would Villa want Ralph? Do they want to average 15th? Do they want several negative stat records? Do they want to pay £20m release clause?
He's not going anywhere same as WP. |
I agree that he is not going anywhere. With his comments on Villas interest in JWP it would be morally disgusting.
20 million release clause.., seriously? | | | |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 17:19 - Nov 8 with 4136 views | Sadoldgit |
| Aston Villa Target Hasenhuttl And Steven Gerrard To Replace Dean Smith on 16:09 - Nov 8 by I_would |
Why would Villa want Ralph? Do they want to average 15th? Do they want several negative stat records? Do they want to pay £20m release clause?
He's not going anywhere same as WP. |
Because he is a good manager? | | | |
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