Still no apology from the club!

[not3bad]

Houllier apologises!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8362600/Gerard-Houllier-says-sorry-to-Aston-Villa-supporters-for-FA-Cup-selection-fiasco.html

[Risso]

"I know what I am doing."

You don't know your arse from your elbow would be a more accurate appraisal of your managerial abilities.

[TheSandman]

That article seems to start with it's middle.

[Bad English]

Gérard Houllier says sorry to Aston Villa fans over weakened side

More in the Gurniaud.

[villa `cross the mersey]

FFS Bolton away - a cup final- The bloke is a word removed.

Had not got the guts to tell the fans before they travelled - then refund them you Cnut  !!!!

His ramblings are getting ever more bizzare - get rid after the Liverpool game or better still at half time !!!!

Will get the biggest cheer of the season.

[Bad English]

"Bolton is a difficult travel"

Sarunyu to the thread please.

[Pete3206]

Dekuip well said.

[joe_c]

Apologising makes him look even more foolish I think. A very bad move.

[TheSandman]

He cannot win though.

If he doesn't apologise he looks like he doesn't give a fuck and is stubborn but if he does he looks, as you say, foolish.

Though, it would be the absolute best case scenario if he didn't have to apologise for gaffes like this or his behaviour against Liverpool.

[KevinGage]

The thing about it is you would envisage he should be sharp enough to not keep on getting into these kind of pickles in the first place.

Does anyone really need to be told that returning to Anfield like some tourist and saying the things he did post-game would be a bad move? Same with picking an uncompetitive side against Citeh in our biggest game of the season.

He's a apologised and fair play to him, I suppose. Takes a big man and all that. But is this going to be the way of it? He keeps on making monumental phuck ups, but wait, it's OK, he's acknowledged it now and that particular phuck up won't happen again. It will be a different type of one next time.

[dave.woodhall]

our biggest game of the season.

This is the crux of the matter. To us it is, but we're becoming a minority.

[eastie]

Just thinking where we are in the 5 th year of randys reign- league position similar now to when he arrived, in a relegation battle, many fans split over the the manager, best players leaving each summer in recent years, crowds starting to drop worryingly and record amount of debt revealed- it's hardly the great dream many of us envisaged is it really?

[WikiVilla]

Difficult travel ? M60, M62, M61, part of a piss
Come on lets funeral Bolton and we'll be on for top 6 finale

[Mister E]

When Hou came to B6 as manager, several Liverpool fans said to me that he is a v conservative / cautious / defensive manager. Given the apparent need to conserve funds and in the likely absence of massive funding during the next close-season other than that geenrated from sales, he has clearly decided that he cannot afford to dally with the drop from  the P'ship.
He therefore, bravely IMHO, set up a team for Wednesday's game to preserve the key players for the next league game and so doing put at risk the result of Wednesday's game. Massively.
In doing so he has potentially undermined the confidence of players like Bradley and Herd; he has massively pumped up the expectations for the Bolton game putting enormous pressure on Young, Downing, NRC et al. And he has further alienated the fans.

I'm disappointed that he's apologised: he should have the courage of his decisions to defend them. I'm disappointed we went with the approach we did on Wednesday - I think the tie was there to win and the potential upsides were very attractive. It saddens me that he sees a trip to Bolton as a "cup final" - Bolton are good but come on FFS!

But ...
 ... we may well find that Hou is the man for the current circumstances and I'd still give  him the Summer to sort stuff out.

There; I've said it.

[Jimbo]

Just out of interest, how many more times, do you think, will Houllier have to apologise to us this season? I'll go for two.