McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec

[Diablo]

Talking about his time with us apparently and the need to go abroad and re-invent himself as a coach (as Steve Mclaren did) judging by this clip. Should be interesting...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30332273

[eamonn]

A good man, Lambert kind of is too but I'd trust Alec more. Must feel bemused at the leeway his successor has gotten compared to him.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Nice bloke who I would gladly buy a beer for. I was happy to see him go though. Honestly I hated seeing Villa play 4-5-1 like that.

I am not really enjoying seeing how we play nowadays either though.

[hilts_coolerking]

Talking about his time with us apparently and the need to go abroad and re-invent himself as a coach (as Steve Mclaren did) judging by this clip.

That should read "...the need to go abroad and re-invent himself: as a coach"

[silhillvilla]

I have no axe to grind with Eck. Again a very respecting man who always talked the club and the fans up rather than the opposite. I've not heard him slag the club since he left either and whilst his football wasn't great I have respect for him and a degree of sympathy. I wish him well wherever he ends up.

[Legion]

A decent man who really did care about us. As I've said before, though, he was the wrong man, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.

[hilts_coolerking]

Well-meaning duffers aren't going to get us anywhere.  I'd rather be sat here in 10 years saying, "x was a total knobhead but you can't argue with two FA Cups and a season of Champions League football."

[supertom]

He almost seems somewhat gung ho as a manager compared to Lambert at the moment. Almost.

[rob_bridge]

Disastrous appointment.  No other way to dress it up.

What I don't understand is the complete lack of self awareness he had in taking the job. I suspect the recompense helped.

[peter w]

A decent man who really did care about us. As I've said before, though, he was the wrong man, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.

and crap at his job.

[garyshawsknee]

Yep, nice guy and all of that, given an impossible task, but watching the team he set out on that Monday night at Spurs, is still one of the most depressing things I've seen as a Villa fan, and that includes the years since.

[tomd2103]

Disastrous appointment.  No other way to dress it up.

What I don't understand is the complete lack of self awareness he had in taking the job. I suspect the recompense helped.

Got nothing personal against the man, but his appointment has got to be right up there as one of the worst decisions made in the club's 140 years. 

[Pete3206]

Disastrous appointment.  No other way to dress it up.

What I don't understand is the complete lack of self awareness he had in taking the job. I suspect the recompense helped.

He knew exactly what he was doing. Get passed the first year of hell and raise his profile significantly or, get the sack and cash in handsomely. He was out of his depth, but he was no mug. The mugs were all in the boardroom.

[chazvilla]

garyshawsknee - totally agree, that Spurs Monday night game was incredibly depressing. The only bright spark that night,was seeing that Villa fan in a wheelchair make it half way towards where McLeish was,  to give him some words of advice i'd imagine.

[martin o`who??]

I still feel to this day that the Bolton game was a major turning point for me as a fan, it was the night a i started to fall out of love with football.