THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Then both parties will be happy. He can fuck off, and we'll be glad he's fucked off.

Wow. He's the true marmite.

So far (without counting) it looks like 70% hate, 30% love.

I'm upping the love count. Those of you that don't get it, don't get it. Sergio Busquets would have looked like dogshit in our team last season.

Neilson wasn’t me being revisionist, it was the temerity to say that, actually, the facts say that you were mostly wrong. Was anything I said inaccurate?

You have confirmation bias. That’s where one gets a preferred idea in their mind, only listens to those of the same opinion, and closes to anything that doesn’t agree with it - even if it is clear, factual evidence.

Good player, poorly managed. What was left back all about?

That is, until Micciche’s last few games, when he finally realised what Cisse could do. He must have told him to cut out the risky stuff around our box, and Cisse did pretty well. The change was noticeable, my mate spotted it first, and one of the few things I’d give Dan credit for.

I also noticed 3CR started highlighting his every mistake above the many the rest made, blaming him for things that weren’t his fault, and ignoring anything good he did. To fit their narrative, which they’d go on and on about all afternoon.

Much like Tshibola, not that I am defending Tshibola, but he was nowhere near as bad as you’d think if you only heard the games on 3CR.

By contrast Brittain got a very easy ride in the second half of the season with some of the howlers he committed. Not that I am attacking Brittain. Like Cisse, he was playing in an incoherent team with mixed messages and no idea how to collectively change things. But Brittain’s narrative is different.

3CR really need to be more professional. I used to listen to them while watching from Club Red, but I had to stop.

Yip, I agree.
And, regarding Tshibola, it sounds like Kilmarnock fans were impressed by him and want him back.

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/05/15/kilmarnock-fans-want-aston-villas-aaron-tshibola-back/

I know I'm pushing my luck and risk getting slated for this, but I wouldn't at all be upset if we re-signed him. (*Bertie ducks for cover while trying to justify his absurd statement.*).
He has a lot of positive attributes and should have been a good signing for us in league one.
He'd be an even better signing for league two.
It didn't work out last season, but everything went wrong with the club last year, on and off the pitch. I think it would be different for him next season.
However, it sounds like he had a much more enjoyable spell at Kilmarnock, so if he's loaned out again I imagine he'd go back there.
*Bertie pokes his head up to check if all is clear.*

Yip, I agree.
And, regarding Tshibola, it sounds like Kilmarnock fans were impressed by him and want him back.

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/05/15/kilmarnock-fans-want-aston-villas-aaron-tshibola-back/

I know I'm pushing my luck and risk getting slated for this, but I wouldn't at all be upset if we re-signed him. (*Bertie ducks for cover while trying to justify his absurd statement.*).
He has a lot of positive attributes and should have been a good signing for us in league one.
He'd be an even better signing for league two.
It didn't work out last season, but everything went wrong with the club last year, on and off the pitch. I think it would be different for him next season.
However, it sounds like he had a much more enjoyable spell at Kilmarnock, so if he's loaned out again I imagine he'd go back there.
*Bertie pokes his head up to check if all is clear.*

This incident with Walsh highlights exactly why so many of our fans think Cisse is useless yet managers/scouts of clubs such as Blackburn and Leeds have shown an interest in him.
Walsh made a pass forward to Cisse and then stopped running. Cisse controlled the ball, turned around and passed it to space on his left into which he assumed Walsh had run. The ball went out of touch and Cisse got hell from the crowd, but had he been playing alongside players who could read the game better and made more effort, it would have been an excellent pass.
At Blackburn or Leeds he would be playing alongside better players and could do well for them.
Regarding Cisse's attitude; we have been lacking leadership on the pitch for years and Cisse has tried more than anyone to gee up both players and the crowd. When Brittain made a dreadful mistake that cost us a goal in one of our last games, Cisse was tho only player who tried to help console the young lad. That is not an attitude to be criticized.
Most fans seem to think Cisse is no good for us, he could well be thinking we are no good for him.