Gerard Houllier

[olaftab]

Yes BE that was so obvious however the sad thing is Randy didn't see that and still hired him. He has no hunger left in him. He is only here to "keep close" to his love   Liverpool!

[Bad English]

I also confess to breaking a pencil when Houllier touched the Anfield sign with his knob..

[olaftab]

I was tutting audibly when Houllier tried to get sabbatical leave from the French Football Federation (whose committee told him to fuck off) to manage the Villa (FFS!). Some thought it was 'sensible'of him. I thought it was a pisstake,typical of the scheming weeble.

Was that actually true? If it is....fuck me.

It is true and public knowledge but if you don't mind I won't accept your offer!

[Joel]

Speaking for myself, I am disturbed enough by Houllier's effect on the team to want him well shot of the club but, in the absence of any real candidate to replace him*, what can we do but cross fingers, touch wood and clutch our lucky rabbit's feet?

After the Man City the poll on the other thread was something like 80/20 against. Since then the grown ups have voted and it's now at around 60/40. If results improve and we make a couple of decent signings  see no reason why that shouldn't shift again.

I've lifted the above quote from another thread - hope you don't mind Chris but it does make me wonder who the grownups voted for this time. Did you change your mind? At 120-27 in favour of the sack it's quite a swing...





* Sam Allardyce doesn't count as we'd be stuck with him for at least three years - no way he'd do the short term contract thing.

[Chris Smith]

Joel, still think we need to stick with it. I was encouraged by Sunday but then worried by his seeming inability to change things when needed last night. If you,d asked me straight after the game I would have voted string him up.

[Joel]

Yeah I reckon that pretty much sums it up for me. Don't think the next few weeks are going to be a lot of fun though.

[Risso]

He's averaging less than a point a game.  You don't have to be a maths genius to see what the outcome of that will be if it continues.

[Joel]

Yep, it's pretty obvious what will happen if it continues. But... who's gonna make it better? What if the replacement doesn't gel, doesn't have that new manager effect? I could be wrong but I seem to remember reading that statistically, replacing the manager mid-season doesn't augur well for results. After the possible "honeymoon period" results have statistically tended to drop off.

I'm not saying that would happen, but if it did then any potential improvement from the (admittedly so far invisible) work GH has done with the team could be lost and we'd still be plummeting.

Just sayin' like.

[JUAN PABLO]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/07/gerard-houllier-aston-villa-crisis

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

We have gotta roll with him. And so has Lerner with funding .......

[brontebilly]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/07/gerard-houllier-aston-villa-crisis

Good leadership shown by our captain there. Pretty obvious that there is mutiny behind the scenes if Petrov is coming out publicly criticising the manager. Carew's antics this season have been a disgrace but we need him. He has been our top scorer for the last three seasons and to let him go to another relegation candidate would be mind numbingly stupid. Houllier and himself need to put their differences to one side and let him start at the weekend. It was at this stage last season that his year kicked off with a hat trick against Reading. Maybe he can do it again.

[WikiVilla]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/07/gerard-houllier-aston-villa-crisis

How incredibly sad that it's come to this.

Houllier simply has to go, get KMac in now to steady the ship with Sid and Tony Mc in support.

We need Carew back asap to lead the line

[Risso]

We have our top scorer from last season completely frozen out, and our second top scorer playing on the wing.

Remind me again when things are going to get better under Houllier.  14 points from 16 games is beyond humiliating.

[KevinGage]

Moxley is a c*** so I take what he has to say with a pinch of salt. Far more pro-Small Heath so no doubt has an agenda against Villa

Regardless of whether you agree with the above article or not, he's got no agenda against Villa and has consistently written constructive, thoughtful stuff about us.

I'd be more dismissive if stuff like that were written by Oliver "Oh, Martin, you're so swoony" Holt or James "Hatchet" Nursey.

seems to me he is spot on, GH comes across as one of those guys you meet in business circles, once held a decent position and still holds a belief that he still has it, thinks that experience can replace energy, dosent understand that the world has moved on- in short a has been

Agree 100%

[sheldon nose]

Do you think houllier will survive the sack if we turn you over at st andrews in ten days time?