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The John Terry Appreciation Thread

startedwithglenn said:
A bad start for Villa and JT will be player-manager before Xmas. All the ingredients are there, volatile league, highly ambitious high profile senior player determined to be a manager, a seemingly nutjob of a chairman who would probably jump at the chance of having someone so high profile as manager......
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I just don't see JT as a manager, i think fans think romantically more than logically when they call him a potential future manager. All the interviews i have seen from him and all the times he talks about football i have never felt he could be a manager one day, he's a bit Ray Wilkins like one track minded in his thoughts for me (the Robbie Savage rant as funny as it was was a serious red flag for me). Lampard is the one who has the potential to be a top class manager.

 
Argo said:
I just don't see JT as a manager, i think fans think romantically more than logically when they call him a potential future manager. All the interviews i have seen from him and all the times he talks about football i have never felt he could be a manager one day, he's a bit Ray Wilkins like one track minded in his thoughts for me (the Robbie Savage rant as funny as it was was a serious red flag for me). Lampard is the one who has the potential to be a top class manager.
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He will 100% be a manager, will he be a successful one is the question.

He's been making notes on training sessions since he was like 25.

I think you are doing him a massive disservice, he has a fantastic footballing brain as evidenced by his positional play at both ends of the pitch.

 
startedwithglenn said:
He will 100% be a manager, will he be a successful one is the question.

He's been making notes on training sessions since he was like 25.

I think you are doing him a massive disservice, he has a fantastic footballing brain as evidenced by his positional play at both ends of the pitch.
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It's one thing doing it on the pitch and doing it management. Im sure the likes of Iain Dowie and John Carver weren't twiddling their thumbs in their 20's but that hasn't helped them.

I'd love nothing more than to be proved wrong, but i just don't get the manager vibe with JT.

 
Ffs JT been in the midlands for 2 months and looks like a zombie already what have they done to our man...??

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JT is probably a little out of his comfort zone after so long at the bridge, hope he does well for them. 1-1 v Hull, not the worst result.

 
Has anyone been watching JT or villa? It still seems strange without him around and there has been literally no talk of him. 

 
only way i've been keeping up with him is via Instagram.  He's bummed to be injured, but he posted a load of pics of him watching Chelsea at the weekend.

 
Anyone keeping track of our main man? Had a quick peek on a villa forum and they seem to love him (obviously).

 
CFCholland said:
Anyone keeping track of our main man? Had a quick peek on a villa forum and they seem to love him (obviously).
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From what I understand he’s had a very solid season.

He’s better than a Championship level player, even at his age. Apparently approached his time with Villa with typical JT gusto. 

 
ForeverCarefree said:
From what I understand he’s had a very solid season.

He’s better than a Championship level player, even at his age. Apparently approached his time with Villa with typical JT gusto. 
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I've heard a few Villa fans praising him on radio phone-ins - saying you can see why he spent so long at the top as he's class and so devoted every time he goes out on he pitch.

A few have mentioned that at times he does get embarrassed my pacy attackers but you would expect that now to be fair - happened in his last season or two for us. 

 
We really miss his leadership this year. We've got a young side and really could have used him in the background.

 
I think he need to hang up his boots and come home. For purely selfish reasons. 

 
One of my friends is a villa fan and is very impressed. He says that he can't believe how good a "footballer" he is and that he is technically underrated as a ball playing cb because he had the style of a typical lion hearted Englishman. He is a big fan favourite from what I've heard 

 
Steve Bruce has done with John Terry what Brian Clough did with Dave Mackay in Derby - get a huge character in, who albeit past his prime will give the squad a reference point both tactically, mentally and physically. A stroke of genius from Bruce, who will probably get rewarded with a promotion come May.

 
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zolawannabe25 said:
One of my friends is a villa fan and is very impressed. He says that he can't believe how good a "footballer" he is and that he is technically underrated as a ball playing cb because he had the style of a typical lion hearted Englishman. He is a big fan favourite from what I've heard 
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Throughout his time with us, a lot of us would point out how underrated he was on the ball. Terry wasn't just brilliant at defending for us, he had much more to his game. The only thing Terry never had was pace, that was his only weakness, but it rarely felt like a weakness because he was so good with his positioning and reading of the game.

 
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