Official - Houllier leaves by mutual consent (p.28)

[Legion]

what are you saying malcolm ? is your point that the story has been leaked by the press before the board released the news?

Partly.

Yet again, as with Mon leaving, his tribunal, Houlliers illness, our club management has and is handling the media poorly.

Damn. I try my hardest to ignore most of your moronic outpourings but this one is quite spectacular even by your low, low standards. Care to explain?

Chris, please remember that this is Heroes and Villains, where even idiots are allowed their opinions.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

what are you saying malcolm ? is your point that the story has been leaked by the press before the board released the news?

Partly.

Yet again, as with Mon leaving, his tribunal, Houlliers illness, our club management has and is handling the media poorly.

I am sorry you find the running of AVFC slightly less than perfect in your terms. I think this is a case of we can always find lots of faults with our own club as that is the one we follow and take in every little bit of news, rumour, opinion etc. Compared with some of the absolutely crazy things done by crazy people at many other clubs over the years, I think in comparison we can hold up our club as nearly always being a model of proper efficiency, sensible decision making, and an ability to deal with PR and the media in a reasonable way. 

[cdbearsfan]

what are you saying malcolm ? is your point that the story has been leaked by the press before the board released the news?

Partly.

Yet again, as with Mon leaving, his tribunal, Houlliers illness, our club management has and is handling the media poorly.

Damn. I try my hardest to ignore most of your moronic outpourings but this one is quite spectacular even by your low, low standards. Care to explain?

Chris, please remember that this is Heroes and Villains, where even idiots are allowed their opinions.

I like cake.

[pablopicasso_10]

my choice would be martin jol...

out of work, a good manager who plays good football, knows how to play the media, has good european knowledge, got a pretty average spuds side to the brink of champs league and laid the foundations for redknobb to actually get there (albeit with the dip of ramos which made redknobb look better than he is), knows the english game, and i think would be a fantastic appointment...

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

So has he gone or not?

Houllier or sfx412 ?

[TheEgo]

what are you saying malcolm ? is your point that the story has been leaked by the press before the board released the news?

Partly.

Yet again, as with Mon leaving, his tribunal, Houlliers illness, our club management has and is handling the media poorly.

Are you for real?

Once again, attention seeking I feel.

[Clampy]

my choice would be martin jol...

out of work, a good manager who plays good football, knows how to play the media, has good european knowledge, got a pretty average spuds side to the brink of champs league and laid the foundations for redknobb to actually get there (albeit with the dip of ramos which made redknobb look better than he is), knows the english game, and i think would be a fantastic appointment...

Am i right in thinking he took Bent to Tottenham? That in itself would be a good start, not that any other manager coming in would kick him out the door. I think Jol would be a nice fit for us. If he brought in Chris Houghton to work with the defence, it could work very well.

[Chris Jameson]

Chris, please remember that this is Heroes and Villains, where even idiots are allowed their opinions.

Of course, sorry Legion. It's a valuable service H&V offers in that it prevents people being bored shitless at bus stops, in chip shops etc by the incoherent ramblings of the local 'characters' and attention seekers.

[mazrimsbruv]

The training facilities at Villa were given the twice over a couple of weeks back and were unexpectedly viewed more recently by someone who raised a few eyebrows.

Roger Moore?

[PaulWinch again]

Thanks for getting us through this period GH, good luck for the future and many healthy years.

[SashasGrandad]

The training facilities at Villa were given the twice over a couple of weeks back and were unexpectedly viewed more recently by someone who raised a few eyebrows.

Roger Moore?

John Inman?

[Concrete John]

my choice would be martin jol...

out of work, a good manager who plays good football, knows how to play the media, has good european knowledge, got a pretty average spuds side to the brink of champs league and laid the foundations for redknobb to actually get there (albeit with the dip of ramos which made redknobb look better than he is), knows the english game, and i think would be a fantastic appointment...

My first choice is David Moyes, but Jol was someone I thought we should have gone in heavily for when martin left and remains a good choice.

[CJ]

my choice would be martin jol...

out of work, a good manager who plays good football, knows how to play the media, has good european knowledge, got a pretty average spuds side to the brink of champs league and laid the foundations for redknobb to actually get there (albeit with the dip of ramos which made redknobb look better than he is), knows the english game, and i think would be a fantastic appointment...

Am i right in thinking he took Bent to Tottenham? That in itself would be a good start, not that any other manager coming in would kick him out the door. I think Jol would be a nice fit for us. If he brought in Chris Houghton to work with the defence, it could work very well.

Good shout - Jol plus Hughton would do it for me

[pauliewalnuts]

The training facilities at Villa were given the twice over a couple of weeks back and were unexpectedly viewed more recently by someone who raised a few eyebrows.

Roger Moore?

John Inman?

Sir Dennis Healey?

[Concrete John]

3.  They now have a whole summer to find someone and none of the excuses of bad timing from last season can be used.  Big challenge for the board.

They dont have the whole summer though. It is imperative that we get a new manager in quickly. If they act as slowly as they did last time, the new manager will have less time to make signings and the players at the club will grow more and more restless at the uncertainty.

Maybe.

But it's certainly a better time to go recruiting than 5 days before the start of the season.  Could be wrong, but I believe they get back for pre-season on 7th July, so with most transfer deals not happening before then anyway I'm quite relaxed about it time wise.  If they get back and no knew manager is in place then I think I'll start to panic!