Hou's job is safe!
Joke of a board im of to watch kidderminster harriers this weekend by the looks of it
BREAKING NEWS: HOULLIER IS SAFE.....INNIT[/b]
BREAKING NEWS: JOL SEEN AT BHX[/b]
Thats made me laugh for the first time today.
Hou's job is safe!
Joke of a board im of to watch kidderminster harriers this weekend by the looks of it
£14 a ticket at Kiddie
It's a difficult one isn't it? Get rid of him and lose the transfer window with no guarantee of improvement, or keep him and back him in the window and hope for the best.
Failing that, maybe it won't be so bad.
New away days, new adventures and with a bit of luck we might get re-acquainted with that big pot that Dennis Mortimer last picked up in the old First Division.
Ok randy that's your decision - now get some players in who give a toss about Aston villa unlike the shambles that played last night- this club is really in a mess- gates dropping, a chairman who never speaks , a manager who seingly is past it amd a squad of players who are very poor and that's being kind.
I wonder if owen coyle will be our new graham Taylor saviour in the summer?
Failing that, maybe it won't be so bad.
New away days, new adventures and with a bit of luck we might get re-acquainted with that big pot that Dennis Mortimer last picked up in the old First Division.
20,000 gates, multiple sponsors on shirts and trips to Millwall, Cardiff and Leeds - magic...
WILL HE JUST FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !! ITS MAKING BE BLOODY ANGRY NOW !!! I guess the only way we can get the message accross is to vote with our feet ??
this is the first time in 21 years of been a villa fan that i dont want to go down there anymore while that c*** is in charge.. couldnt give a shit if we win or loose. that is what that tosser has done to me.... so depressed
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Code for "Sleepwalking to relegation"
Hou's job is safe!Looks like we are fucked then...
No it's ok! Cos we have signed Kyle Walker! Disgraceful.
His job is safe because it will cost a fortune to sack him 4 months into a contract. Someone will have to remind me, but was it 3 years? Brilliant, just brilliant whoever negotiated that.
If he keeps us up this season, I still want someone else in the summer. But I can guess what will happen.
exactly how can the same players who played at chelsea show such lack of effort and attitude last night! the players clearly do not want to play for him and he cant motivate them - trobled times indeed at b6!
Why is Walker that bad?
Not seen him play in a Villa shirt so I wondered where your knowledge of him comes from ?
His job is safe because it will cost a fortune to sack him 4 months into a contract. Someone will have to remind me, but was it 3 years? Brilliant, just brilliant whoever negotiated that.
If he keeps us up this season, I still want someone else in the summer. But I can guess what will happen.
I'm not a fan of his but what sort of signals would it send out to appoint a manager on a one year contract? Once the board picked their man they had to give him the stability of a longer deal.
quote]Houllier said after Wednesday's defeat: "I spoke to Paul Faulkner and he was very supportive.
"I don't doubt Randy Lerner's firm support and determination. We are in this together for better or worse.
His job is safe because it will cost a fortune to sack him 4 months into a contract. Someone will have to remind me, but was it 3 years? Brilliant, just brilliant whoever negotiated that.Randy should pay for this mistake before it costs him and us a damn sight more...
If he keeps us up this season, I still want someone else in the summer. But I can guess what will happen.
Sack Houllier, and then what?
A top manager would certainly be suspicious of joining a club who treats a well-respected (in the game) manager so shabbily.
Sack Houllier, and then what?
A top manager would certainly be suspicious of joining a club who treats a well-respected (in the game) manager so shabbily.
What utter, utter nonsense.
Did Spurs struggle to appoint a top manager after they sacked Ramos? Have Man City had any such problems? Chelsea? Bolton? Top managers want three things. A decent club to work at, money to spend and a chance to enhance their reputation. If you think they give a stuff about who came before them you're sorely mistaken.
And how would sacking him be treating him shabbily anyway. Houllier has been a complete and utter dismal failure. The football has been largely terrible, the results even worse, and he's pissed off a large section of the players and the supporters. It's hard to imagine how he could have performed any worse than he has.
Today starts the mental preparation for life in the Championship.
Hopefully we get lucky, and a few of the sides around us plummet.
Failing that, maybe it won't be so bad.
New away days, new adventures and with a bit of luck we might get re-acquainted with that big pot that Dennis Mortimer last picked up in the old First Division.
No it's ok! Cos we have signed Kyle Walker! Disgraceful.
Why is Walker that bad?
Not seen him play in a Villa shirt so I wondered where your knowledge of him comes from ?
No it's ok! Cos we have signed Kyle Walker! Disgraceful.
Why is Walker that bad?
Not seen him play in a Villa shirt so I wondered where your knowledge of him comes from ?
My point is that our predicament requires more than Spurs' reserve team players coming in. Where are the marquee signings? The big names? Ther ones that everyone expected as being different to those that MON would have signed? I'm sorry but no matter what you may think about this lad he is not going to lift the club/fans one bit.
Why does this thread have 4 pages? The club has said he's safe so he's safe. Lets work out how we can get out of this mess with the existing management.
Today starts the mental preparation for life in the Championship.
Hopefully we get lucky, and a few of the sides around us plummet.
Failing that, maybe it won't be so bad.
New away days, new adventures and with a bit of luck we might get re-acquainted with that big pot that Dennis Mortimer last picked up in the old First Division.
Getting relegated is not an option. Please tell me, Kevin, that this is tongue-in-cheek? If the fans start getting this losing, defeatist attitude with the best part of half a season to play for then that's a large part of Aston Villa on the slide. All of us have to step up, be positive and get the club winning again. This is our one hundredth year of top flight football! Relegation is NOT happening! It's time for us all to draw a line in the sand, dig deep and scrap our way out of this. We need seven wins: we can get them.
GH style of play
Right then. The club have backed the manager, like it or not, that isn't going to change now. We have to support them, because if we don't then we have no chance of staying up.Ding! Is the right answer.
Let's see what 1 point out of 6 against SHA and Man. City will do to the board.
Right then. The club have backed the manager, like it or not, that isn't going to change now. We have to support them, because if we don't then we have no chance of staying up.Ding! Is the right answer.
When MON went my initial reaction was that we would retreat into midtable wilderness for the next 5/10 years.
When Hou was appointed I was of the same opinion.
By November I predicted we'd be in the bottom 3 come the New Year.
Today I think it is a case of when we go down, not if.
I hope I'm wrong and the owner is right.
Sack Houllier, and then what?
A top manager would certainly be suspicious of joining a club who treats a well-respected (in the game) manager so shabbily.
What utter, utter nonsense.
Did Spurs struggle to appoint a top manager after they sacked Ramos? Have Man City had any such problems? Chelsea? Bolton? Top managers want three things. A decent club to work at, money to spend and a chance to enhance their reputation. If you think they give a stuff about who came before them you're sorely mistaken.
Can someone explain to me why; last night before Heskey was sent off the Holte End was singing 'Gerald Houlliers claret and blue army, 10 minutes later after Heskey had been sent off and Sunderland scored with a 25 yard shot through a crowd of players, they were singing, 'Your'e going to get sacked in the morning'?
No it's ok! Cos we have signed Kyle Walker! Disgraceful.
Why is Walker that bad?
Not seen him play in a Villa shirt so I wondered where your knowledge of him comes from ?
My point is that our predicament requires more than Spurs' reserve team players coming in. Where are the marquee signings? The big names? Ther ones that everyone expected as being different to those that MON would have signed? I'm sorry but no matter what you may think about this lad he is not going to lift the club/fans one bit.
It's January 6th for Christ's sake.
Yes it is and we have just lost yet another game. On January 5th I might add. Your point being? If GH has not already realised that we are in the shit and identified the players to get us out of it then we are screwed. If he has then why were they not lined up for Jan 1,2,3 etc? I remember him saying last month that we won't buy anyone til after Sheff Utd. WHY? So we can lose another game in the mean time? Well it worked.
Can someone explain to me why; last night before Heskey was sent off the Holte End was singing 'Gerald Houlliers claret and blue army, 10 minutes later after Heskey had been sent off and Sunderland scored with a 25 yard shot through a crowd of players, they were singing, 'Your'e going to get sacked in the morning'?
I've not seen any statement come out of VP saying they're backing him. Sky say they've had one, but they've not said off whom, unless anyone can point me in the right direction, via a link.SSN reprted that GH said he had met with Faulkner this morning and told his job was safe
I've not seen any statement come out of VP saying they're backing him. Sky say they've had one, but they've not said off whom, unless anyone can point me in the right direction, via a link.SSN reprted that GH said he had met with Faulkner this morning and told his job was safe
Look at the bright side, after transfer windows our new manager will have a better team to work with than GH when he arrived. If we got rid of deadwood, add decent foreign talents and more experience from our young guns.
I hope Randy Lerner got a plan with reduced income.
I would just keep GH to work behind the scene and get Jol in to coach the team. He could keep improving our scouting network, facilities and develop the academy even further.
At the end of the day the buck stops with the players. If Wolves can keep a clean sheet against Chelski and we make 3 mistakes and concede 3 then they must have better players than us or their players were trying harder than ours?
I know the GH doesn't always get the tactics right but if the players didn't make 3 vital errors we probably would of won. Same for yesterday if we took our chances most likely the same.
Yes he should of made subs earlier and switched Young/Gabby after h/t
Of course we'll win few games coming up the key thing is 'will we win enough teams around us keep winning too?
One thing that I noticed from the interview GH did after the match last night when asked about his position was the smile he had on his face when he said that the owner backed him and that is all that matters - almost as if he was saying the fans can go forth as they have no say in the matter.
Hope his arrogance show he is determined to put things right rather than openly saying fuck you to the fans.
Interesting article from Neil Moxley at the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1344710/The-Midlander-Much-Houllier-soap-opera-Villa-really-slide-trapdoor.html
im off the bookies to put some money on us going down.. that will ease the blow a little......
im off the bookies to put some money on us going down.. that will ease the blow a little......
I did that on the 6th November. Laid down a tenner at 33/1.
Don't want it to happen but am fearing the worse.
Didn't like numbskull when he was at Liverpool.
Didn't want numbskull when he joined Villa.
And I certainly don't want the numbskull here now.
Interesting article from Neil Moxley at the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1344710/The-Midlander-Much-Houllier-soap-opera-Villa-really-slide-trapdoor.html
im off the bookies to put some money on us going down.. that will ease the blow a little......
I did that on the 6th November. Laid down a tenner at 33/1.
Don't want it to happen but am fearing the worse.
Didn't like numbskull when he was at Liverpool.
Didn't want numbskull when he joined Villa.
And I certainly don't want the numbskull here now.
so thats you and Risso got money on Villa to go down,
anyone else ?
im off the bookies to put some money on us going down.. that will ease the blow a little......
I did that on the 6th November. Laid down a tenner at 33/1.
Don't want it to happen but am fearing the worse.
Didn't like numbskull when he was at Liverpool.
Didn't want numbskull when he joined Villa.
And I certainly don't want the numbskull here now.
so thats you and Risso got money on Villa to go down,
anyone else ?
If more of our shots had gone in, and more of the opposition's shots had been saved, we'd certainly be higher up the league, can't argue with that. You are Gerard Houllier and I claim my £5.
You are "Franksey", "Rego" or the so-called Villa fan from WM's breakfast show and I claim mine!If more of our shots had gone in, and more of the opposition's shots had been saved, we'd certainly be higher up the league, can't argue with that. You are Gerard Houllier and I claim my £5.
I'm so glad that Randy and the board are running our club rather than the majority of lynch-mob minded, Radio WM presenter soundalikes (you know, the ones who thought it was a "blessing" when the club captain suffered an injury earlier in the season) that have been posting here.
For a proportion (I believe a minority) of the crowd to respond to conceding a goal that was due mainly to us being reduced to playing 10 against 11 (when it clearly should have been 10 v 10) with chants of "you're getting sacked in the morning" was truly incredible. Had that shot hit the post, had Heskey's chance that hit the bar gone in etc. etc. then many of the same sheep-like idiots would have been going home smiling.
We frequently bemoan the lack of success football-wise in this area - I think we get what a minority of the support (those who form their opinions from "Franksey", "Rego" and other assorted Radio WM know-nothings) deserve and, indeed, help to come to pass.
I also considered the future of the season ticket I've had in the same seat in the Lower Holte since the stand was built (my support goes back to 1964 not just 1990!). However, the reason was that I couldn't bear the thought of being on the same side as these "unsupporters" who do not know how to back their team when they need it. Then I realised that most people around me shared my opinion - and probably don't post on here!
No doubt I'll get a warning from a moderator for slanging you all, especially as this only my 5th post!!!
I'm so glad that Randy and the board are running our club rather than the majority of lynch-mob minded, Radio WM presenter soundalikes (you know, the ones who thought it was a "blessing" when the club captain suffered an injury earlier in the season) that have been posting here.
For a proportion (I believe a minority) of the crowd to respond to conceding a goal that was due mainly to us being reduced to playing 10 against 11 (when it clearly should have been 10 v 10) with chants of "you're getting sacked in the morning" was truly incredible. Had that shot hit the post, had Heskey's chance that hit the bar gone in etc. etc. then many of the same sheep-like idiots would have been going home smiling.
We frequently bemoan the lack of success football-wise in this area - I think we get what a minority of the support (those who form their opinions from "Franksey", "Rego" and other assorted Radio WM know-nothings) deserve and, indeed, help to come to pass.
I also considered the future of the season ticket I've had in the same seat in the Lower Holte since the stand was built (my support goes back to 1964 not just 1990!). However, the reason was that I couldn't bear the thought of being on the same side as these "unsupporters" who do not know how to back their team when they need it. Then I realised that most people around me shared my opinion - and probably don't post on here!
No doubt I'll get a warning from a moderator for slanging you all, especially as this only my 5th post!!!
Haven't read the posts sorry but all I will say is this: If we aren't sacking him, then back him with a decent amount to get us out of this fcuking mess. Relegation would cost us a damn sight more than we'll spend so we have to act otherwise we are in the shit.
I wouldn't have dreamed of publicly abusing the players or managers of my club! Passion and youth do not excuse brainless actions that make problems worse!!
All down to youthful ignorance then, TimTheVillain? I rest my case - I'm so glad we're owned and managed by mature people who know how to hold their nerve when dealing with difficulties brought about by a temperamental quitter walking out 5 days before the season started, leaving bewildered and disillusioned players behind him.and bloody good fun it was away at Bristol Bournemouth Fulham Brighton Orient Walsall Oxford thse are just the ones i remember, you would have been hung if you said anything against the club in those days
When I was 18 I was going to away matches in the old second division. When I was 14 to 16 I was going to away matches in the old third division, using money earned on a paper round to pay my fair on the train. I wouldn't have dreamed of publicly abusing the players or managers of my club! Passion and youth do not excuse brainless actions that make problems worse!!
Being entitled to do something does not always make it a bright thing to do, Small Rodent. For example, you could buy a new car and then set fire to it because it needed a new set of tyres!
Can't say i think his job is safe. If we're doing as badly at the end of this month he'll be gone. Randy is giving him as much time as possible to turn things around to avoid sacking him and having us join the likes of Newcastle and Blackburn as national laughing stocks. February will be the tipping point as a new coach could still have a decent punt at keeping us up.
Can't say i think his job is safe. If we're doing as badly at the end of this month he'll be gone. Randy is giving him as much time as possible to turn things around to avoid sacking him and having us join the likes of Newcastle and Blackburn as national laughing stocks. February will be the tipping point as a new coach could still have a decent punt at keeping us up.
He'd better hope it doesn't come to that. Rightly or wrongly, if Houllier gets sacked in February, whether we stay up or go down, it's going to look an awful lot like he's attempted to go another transfer window without dipping into his pockets.
Not lost a derby match yet...
Not lost a derby match yet...
I'm so glad that Randy and the board are running our club rather than the majority of lynch-mob minded, Radio WM presenter soundalikes (you know, the ones who thought it was a "blessing" when the club captain suffered an injury earlier in the season) that have been posting here.
For a proportion (I believe a minority) of the crowd to respond to conceding a goal that was due mainly to us being reduced to playing 10 against 11 (when it clearly should have been 10 v 10) with chants of "you're getting sacked in the morning" was truly incredible. Had that shot hit the post, had Heskey's chance that hit the bar gone in etc. etc. then many of the same sheep-like idiots would have been going home smiling.
We frequently bemoan the lack of success football-wise in this area - I think we get what a minority of the support (those who form their opinions from "Franksey", "Rego" and other assorted Radio WM know-nothings) deserve and, indeed, help to come to pass.
I also considered the future of the season ticket I've had in the same seat in the Lower Holte since the stand was built (my support goes back to 1964 not just 1990!). However, the reason was that I couldn't bear the thought of being on the same side as these "unsupporters" who do not know how to back their team when they need it. Then I realised that most people around me shared my opinion - and probably don't post on here!
No doubt I'll get a warning from a moderator for slanging you all, especially as this only my 5th post!!!
I saw Houllier on Match of the day and he said if we had won they would have been chanting my name!!I was chanting his name on the final whistle, although I did add 'FUCK OFF' at the front of it.
When I was 18 I was going to away matches in the old second division. When I was 14 to 16 I was going to away matches in the old third division, using money earned on a paper round to pay my fair on the train. !!