Sack the Manager?

[PaulTheVillan]

one man who is available and would unite the dressing room...Martin Laursen

admittedly no experience but a class act who could do the job for Aston Villa

- in my opinion.

Sounds similar to Newcastle appointing Alan Shearer a couple of seasons ago.

[Zhong Yi]

agreed.

whilst unlikely it may happen, it would be a breath of fresh air and also a management direction the Villa haven't taken before. Quite possibly ML has a bit more nous than Shearer as well, having played in Serie A

[eastie]

Martin laursen - no way! Why not get Paul McGrath and Alan mcinally and spinksy too?

We need an experienced man who can motivate and inspire and has managed in these situations not a great ex player with no experience.

[VillaAlways]

 If we are relegated how about nicking Gus Poyet from Brighton.He's done a great job there

[frank]

I think season ticket renewals under houllier would be really poor .

They normally start selling season tickets for the new season in April, perhaps earlier. I can't see many people renewing until we know which division we're in

[PaulTheVillan]

I'll renew. If we go down then surely the club need our support more than ever. Shame it doesn't actually work like that though.

[Zhong Yi]

Martin laursen - no way! Why not get Paul McGrath and Alan mcinally and spinksy too?

We need an experienced man who can motivate and inspire and has managed in these situations not a great ex player with no experience.

agreed there, although a burst would work as well. Shock the football world! It has happened before!

As for your points, I think many a Villan would embrace McGrath actually! Nigel Spink ... he was managing non-league a few years ago right? McInally? Actually there were reports around the time Brian Little went that he wanted the job!

As for Laursen...guess I am just a fan of the guy (for his efforts to the AV cause) and giving him the job, well it would lift the club and the guy is probably going to manage at some point anyway.

[PaulTheVillan]

IF Randy is going to sack Lerner then surely it has to be today.

[PaulTheVillan]

Simon Grayson?

[Mr Diggles]

We all laugh when the fans of teams like Newcastle and liverpool get their heartrates up and declare their wish for a manager to be sacked. I know it's not based on a whim, and some people on this board have said they never wanted Houllier, but the problem is (for them) he is the manager and Lerner simply will not sack him, at least not until the summer.

We need to grow some balls (as do the players). We do still have 8 matches left this season, a season where any team has shown itself capable of pulling off surprising wins. I firmly believe that in the course of those 8 games we will pick up the 9-10 points that will ensure we finish at least 17th. Yes he hasn't done a great job so far, and I too believe there are better managers out there, but there is no emergency just yet.

The media portrayed our purchase of Bent as a desperate action which we all found pretty insulting. Sacking Houllier now would be exactly that and would achieve nothing. There is literally no advantage in further chaos and upheaval in the short time we have left this season.

[PaulTheVillan]

Decent post Diggles.

Just struggling to see where the 10 points will come from?

Some of the games 'look easy' on paper. But they're the ones we struggle to deliver in.

[Mr Diggles]

I don't think the BBC predictor thing works well this season either. Predicitng results has been a fool's job this year. I thought the run of games we had after Manchester United would see us comfortably in the top half of the table. So, despite how poor the team looked on Saturday and in the recent past, I still think we can get the necessary points. We simply have to.

[WikiVilla]

On the back of Saturday, I no longer know what to think. For me, Saturday was a new low under Houllier and the worst home performance I've seen since DOLs last season

[dazzyg]

Houliier must go now as he has no backbone, no charisma, no man management skills neither does McAllister. Why on earth do we have to keep this man in charge ? HE IS NOW SAYING THE FANS ARE HAVING A GO AT HIM, too right we are, we pay good money to watch this rubbish. Season tickets cost alot of money (£510) doesn't grow on trees Gerard.

[UsualSuspect]

Decent post Diggles.

Just struggling to see where the 10 points will come from?

Some of the games 'look easy' on paper. But they're the ones we struggle to deliver in.

Bang on

Look at the last 5 games which were easy on paper

Fulham - Drew
Blackpool - Drew
Blackburn - won
Bolton - Lost
Wolves - Lost

I cant see us getting any points away from home and if we are very lucky 7 at home so I think we will be relying on other teams being shitter than us.

I think the longer that clueless French twat is in charge the slide will just go on and on and silly as it sounds I blame a big chunk of our shit form of his playing AY in the hole as for me it just gives us a terrible shape and doesn't bring Bent into the game enough