Another reason to send Mcleish packing, his continued presence is creating divisions in the Aston Villa family.
Manager's negativity affects fans...
Gabby is being used to pull on the heart strings of the fans for sure. The piss take is he had said he didn't hear it only 10 days ago... As for home support, McLeish has had a walk in the park. I was amazed that during the Swansea or QPR games there were not some real anti McLeish chants going on, but I think Fulham get ahead this weekend and he is in for it, and unlike Houllier who had supporters, I think McLeish will get most of the ground singing at him. He needs to wake up and realise how much the fans don't want him. We're not fickle, he is shit.
Quote from: ozzjim on March 08, 2012, 06:39:39 PMGabby is being used to pull on the heart strings of the fans for sure. The piss take is he had said he didn't hear it only 10 days ago... As for home support, McLeish has had a walk in the park. I was amazed that during the Swansea or QPR games there were not some real anti McLeish chants going on, but I think Fulham get ahead this weekend and he is in for it, and unlike Houllier who had supporters, I think McLeish will get most of the ground singing at him. He needs to wake up and realise how much the fans don't want him. We're not fickle, he is shit. I agree; the next two home games will see the place turn on him if it isn't a decent performance/result - are we allowed to boo in the Upper Trinity?
I think Gabby has been put up to this.I also think that McLeish has had a very easy time. 'Fans hate McLeish' is just the lazy journalism the papers fill their pages with.I would go so far as to say that it is the duty of every loyal Villa fan to give the manager, the owner and the board plenty of criticism.Why do I say that? I will tell you.Decisions were made at the highest level in the club to allow O'Neill to present himself to the world of football and beyond as being terribly wronged by Aston Villa. Not a single word of defence was made public by the club. That was the first refusal by the board and the owner to place any value on the feelings and the sensitivities of the fans.The second instance was the appointment of an old man with health problems who openly preferred his ties to Liverpool to ties with Aston Villa. Houllier was the board's man. No thought at all was given to the fact that the fans could not get on with him and that the Frenchman did not care.The third instance was the appointment at very considerable expense the failed manager of our bitterest rivals. I do not suppose anybody in authority at Villa Park ever even gave a second thought to the supporters' feelings and even if they did the answer would have come back "We run the club, not the fans. If they don't like it they can lump it."The fourth instance of disregard for the fans is the totally deliberate pursuit of percentage, safety first football. I do not suppose for one minute that anybody on the board has ever given a second thought to giving the fans value for the money they pay to get to and to watch Villa games.The fifth instance of disregard for the feelings of the fans has been the selling of our best players. Big offer comes in, player goes out. Not the slightest consideration is given to the fact that most of us would prefer to watch James Milner in a Villa shirt than Charles N'Zogbia.Five glaring instances which illustrate the mind set of those who run Aston Villa that the fans' feelings are of no consequence whatever.The only time fans start to be considered to have any importance are the circumstances Rangers find themselves in. When everything else has gone there are still the fans. They will still be there.That is what is wrong with Gabby's statement. The fans are the ones who have to do all the pain, not the players. I am genuinely surprised that Gabby allowed himself to be used to criticize the fans.
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