O'Neill Rejects west ham interest!

[Irish villain]

Amazing of true.

He will probably keep 'em up though.

[ozzjim]

Oh this will be fascinating won't it. I give him till April, but certainly not past the summer. And the pay off will be huge. As if West Ham could be anymore the media darlings too.

They will stay up though. If they can score goals at home.

[supertom]

Unfortunately, I fully expect West Ham to survive now. They've got just about enough quality to stay up, and O Neill will give them a boost. In fact I think they'll probably finish higher than ourselves now sadly. As long as they don't finish 17th, I don't care!

[Dave P]

I hope it gives them a boost enough to get to Wembley in the league cup !!

How on earth will MON get on with that board God only knows.

[Ian.]

And as for finishing 6th, since when was that so great and such a fantastic achievement? My grandfather who, granted, watched Villa when they were the best team in the land with Arsenal, would turn in his grave to think we ever finished as low as sixth!!! I wasn't brought up as a Villa fan to ever think 6th was good enough...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/table/default.stm

Work in progress, lets see at the end of the season. Next season will be much better I'm sure.

Lets not forget MON left us at a time which was not good for this football club. He should have gone last May when we all thought it was going to happen. We may have seen a whole different outlook now.
A manager could have come in, had a chance to see who was willing to play his way, shipped some out shipped some in.

MON and the tits in charge of West Ham deserve each other.

[richard moore]

And as for finishing 6th, since when was that so great and such a fantastic achievement? My grandfather who, granted, watched Villa when they were the best team in the land with Arsenal, would turn in his grave to think we ever finished as low as sixth!!! I wasn't brought up as a Villa fan to ever think 6th was good enough...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/table/default.stm

Sunderland, Bolton, Newcastle and Blackpool occupying 6th to 10th. Thanks for proving my point at how crap you can be and still in the upper echelons of the league! What a load of average rubbish, seven points ahead of us, two games difference.

How the hell can you compare finishing 6th 3 years in a row (with a progressively better points tally) to Bolton "occupying" 6th place half way through the season?  You really do not want to give any credit to O'Neill do you?  What would you say if a Spurs fan or a Blues fan took the piss out of the Villa?  I guess they wouldn't have to if you are going to constantly undermine our recent achievements.

As I said, I don't attach any great excitement to finishing 6th for the last three seasons. I'm far more disappointed we didn't finish higher given the money we spent. Sixth is just the head of a very, very long tail of mediocrity in the premier league and for me, in all honesty, that is all we ever were. I managed to forget that sometimes when I was at games and to think we were the dogs you know what, but the feeling was always there and what's more, most of my friends who have no axe to grind with the Villa, thought the same. Only my opinion mind you, no need to get so steamed up about it, best we move on as no point in boring people on here!!!!

[Nev]

And as for finishing 6th, since when was that so great and such a fantastic achievement? My grandfather who, granted, watched Villa when they were the best team in the land with Arsenal, would turn in his grave to think we ever finished as low as sixth!!! I wasn't brought up as a Villa fan to ever think 6th was good enough...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/table/default.stm

Sunderland, Bolton, Newcastle and Blackpool occupying 6th to 10th. Thanks for proving my point at how crap you can be and still in the upper echelons of the league! What a load of average rubbish, seven points ahead of us, two games difference.

How the hell can you compare finishing 6th 3 years in a row (with a progressively better points tally) to Bolton "occupying" 6th place half way through the season?  You really do not want to give any credit to O'Neill do you?  What would you say if a Spurs fan or a Blues fan took the piss out of the Villa?  I guess they wouldn't have to if you are going to constantly undermine our recent achievements.

Giving credit to MON doesn't fit the picture of a "devious c**t" perpetrated on here day after day. The posts on here remind me of a jilted girlfriend, full of bitterness and recrimination, unable to face up to the truth and inventing a fantasty upon which to pour forth all the hatred boiling up inside and to claim that the relationship was crap in the first place.

[pmk1981]

Lol he will be gone by this time next year due to interference fronthe board. Lack of funds and board interference. He won't stand for that.  I would love them to sack him though before he walks away

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Have their board got some incoming finance into the club to offer?

He's a cheque book manager, so i'll be amazed if he's gone there knowing he has very little to spend.

[boboonthecorner]

MON did a decent job at Villa, he wasted a hell of a lot of money though. I think it is bad news for us though as whatever anybody thinks he gets the best out of average players(and then walking away) and has made a career from it.

[Chris Smith]

So much petty spite on this thread. It's a very good appointment for them.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

So much petty spite on this thread. It's a very good appointment for them.

You're right Chris, we shouldn't be like that to him.
It's not as if he ever did us any wrong.

[richard moore]

So much petty spite on this thread. It's a very good appointment for them.

I would say 'it may be' Chris. And, you are probably right. In the short-term I think though. Which is perhaps all they want and who can blame them. However, none of us can say how it will pan out for sure...

[ozzjim]

Ah he is gone Chris, you can admit that he had faults now surely?

[Holtenderinthesky]

And as for finishing 6th, since when was that so great and such a fantastic achievement? My grandfather who, granted, watched Villa when they were the best team in the land with Arsenal, would turn in his grave to think we ever finished as low as sixth!!! I wasn't brought up as a Villa fan to ever think 6th was good enough...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/table/default.stm

Sunderland, Bolton, Newcastle and Blackpool occupying 6th to 10th. Thanks for proving my point at how crap you can be and still in the upper echelons of the league! What a load of average rubbish, seven points ahead of us, two games difference.

How the hell can you compare finishing 6th 3 years in a row (with a progressively better points tally) to Bolton "occupying" 6th place half way through the season?  You really do not want to give any credit to O'Neill do you?  What would you say if a Spurs fan or a Blues fan took the piss out of the Villa?  I guess they wouldn't have to if you are going to constantly undermine our recent achievements.

As I said, I don't attach any great excitement to finishing 6th for the last three seasons. I'm far more disappointed we didn't finish higher given the money we spent. Sixth is just the head of a very, very long tail of mediocrity in the premier league and for me, in all honesty, that is all we ever were. I managed to forget that sometimes when I was at games and to think we were the dogs you know what, but the feeling was always there and what's more, most of my friends who have no axe to grind with the Villa, thought the same. Only my opinion mind you, no need to get so steamed up about it, best we move on as no point in boring people on here!!!!

We increased our points total every year that MON was in charge, did you not enjoy that at least?  6th place happened to be the best of the rest as opposed to "the end of a long tail of mediocrity" and we were improving year on year.  When you get to the level of being the best team outside the Champions League places (Man City don't count cos their money is ridiculous) it get's harder and harder to progress, yet we did, not in league places but in points and that is all you can ask.