Sack the Manager?

[Concrete John]

Do something drastic. Sack him, bring in Curbishley or Allardyce and go back to basics to stay up, the risk being that next season will be mediocre and the standard of player that Houllier appears to be able to attract is unlikely to be the same under them.

If we did that I would hope and expect it to be a short term appointment so the drawback you mention wouldn't really be there.

IF we do it, and I'm on record as saying I disagree with the idea, I'd offer Big Sam his weekly wages at Blackburn plus a £1m bonus to keep us up.

[Greg N'Ash]

i fear for our young players if Allardyce came in. Someone like Albrighton, he's not going to have future in one of his teams. In fact most of 'em won't

[Villafirst]

If Lerner has given GH the vote of confidence, he's as clueless as the Manager! Houllier has even come out in the press today and defended his subs on Saturday. He's totally and utterly out of touch. He even said ''I do know what I'm doing''!! So playing a rookie Aussie midfielder who's about 5'10'' at the back instead of 6'3'' Baker who he shipped out to Left back is clever selection? Bent was crying out for some one to partner him upfront - so Gabby comes on as a winger! Pires is not the player for a hard-bitten derby - NRC is!
We are well on our way to playing the likes of Preston, Cardiff and Millwall next season. The club are just an embarassment under GH. HOULLIER OUT NOW!!!

[Ads]

Sack him in May after he's kept us up.

The we undertake a purge to rid the club of him, Dunne, Collins, both Youngs, Beye, Warnock, Friedel, the current coaching staff and Carew.

Sell them, sack them, shoot them- it makes no difference.

[oodman]

The bloke is an @rsehole

Even the media have turned on him now,  all over talk sport they were saying it is time to go blah blah blah

One of the news reports said he believes that villa and houllier will part company very shortly…. Don’t know what that means or just his guess

I agree why Warnock has been overlooked because this season he has been awful !! and I mean awful

He has gave away so many presious goals and free kicks at silly times of the game and in critical positions and has cost us goals in every game he played in

Beye hasn’t been given a fair crack and he is a decent right back and does a good job when he plays unless he plays at left back

Houllier has no idea what he is doing

Get rid now and get Macdonald and Cowans in ASAP

If he stays in charge we are going down !!

I didn’t believe it but after watching Saturdays game and seeing players attitude and body language it reminds me of Cloughy and Leeds

He just has no idea

[eastie]

Greg , we are talking big Sam for 8 games only , not long term- he keeps us up, enhances his reputation and gets a £1m bonus - we stay up and appoint coyle , moyes, Hughes or whoever.


Don't tell me Sam would turn down £1m for a few days work.

[Greg N'Ash]

there's no way lerner would appoint Big Sam, let him keep us up and then get someone else in. For a start he's opening himself up to all sorts of trouble if he got a new guy in who had a bad start. it would be about 5 games before people would be coming out the woodwork asking why he didn't keep Big Sam - a fair proportion of our fans have no interest in how we win games, just that we win them

[alanclare]

Sack him and get who?

Just what I was going to say. We've had enough of a manager who disappears just when we need a bit of stability.

[hawkeye]

Allardice would be a disaster, i think it has to be an internal appointment, its the only way i see the club bonding

[eastie]

Forget kevmac- he was woeful as a caretaker , there's no one in the club to take over for 8 games.

[SteveD]

We already seem to have had a vote of no confidence - by the players on the pitch. It is all about motivation now and bottle and I see so many teams around us who have it in spades. We're simply feeble. Houllier seems to be ripping apart team spirit or failing to control malcontents (depending on your view) off the pitch while failing to make the best of what is still a half-decent squad on the pitch.

The alleged "style of play" under Houllier: Ineffective and disorganised; possession in the centre circle dressed up as Barca-like, but he has destroyed two seasons of defensive meanness and his team create little - the £18m lone striker looking for scraps again. On Saturday, it wasn't even "tippy tappy" just "tippy," as we gave away the ball so much. And for the purists, looking to the future, this "style" (but not substance) would be even more redundant in the Championship, where we would be the team every club wants to beat.

Unless there is a huge improvement at Everton I can't see how Lerner can afford to stick with him, whatever the alternative.

[WikiVilla]

You can see why Lerner will keep him in place, as when we do go down, him and Faulkner can simply point the finger at houllier and axe him then, possibly without a pay out ? Depends how his contract is drafted ?

[Merv]

So playing a rookie Aussie midfielder who's about 5'10'' at the back instead of 6'3'' Baker who he shipped out to Left back is clever selection?

That, for me, really got me in a panic. And then to take Baker off after half an hour to bring Delph on so he could get forward more... fair enough to do that, but then why not take Herd off and move Baker to CB alongside Cuellar?

And to think, O'Neill playing Cuellar at RB used to stress me out. GH has taken 'tactics' to a new level - I thought it would be a strength of his, now I'm not so sure.

[London Villan]

I thought he took him off because he was being murdered and out played. Looked like that from where we were anyway.

[pauliewalnuts]

So playing a rookie Aussie midfielder who's about 5'10'' at the back instead of 6'3'' Baker who he shipped out to Left back is clever selection?

That, for me, really got me in a panic. And then to take Baker off after half an hour to bring Delph on so he could get forward more... fair enough to do that, but then why not take Herd off and move Baker to CB alongside Cuellar?

And to think, O'Neill playing Cuellar at RB used to stress me out. GH has taken 'tactics' to a new level - I thought it would be a strength of his, now I'm not so sure.

Also, it does seem a bit strange that Eric Lichaj has had his loan at Leeds extended.