Alex McLeish confirmed as manager

[QBVILLA]

IMO Love for your football club should be as unconditional as the love for your wife.
If you disagree about something in your marriage and you let it fester then then the marriage is doomed. It's the same when it comes to loving the club, they might do something that you disagree with but you need to accept that a mistake may have been made and no amount of personal abuse or vitriol is going to change things. All it does is make things very uncomfortable for the rest of the 'family', and some of those 'family' members may leave because they don't like the poisonous atmosphere.
In other words any of you thinking of turning up at Villa Park just to show your displeasure at what has happened will do more to help empty the stadium than any appointment the board makes.
Now is the time for the club and fans to pull together for the sake of Aston Villa. Or will you only be satisfied when the only people left are the bitter ones?

Great analogy.However,if you're replacing the wife you wouldn't go and get your next door neighbours missus who has failed at her wifey duties.You'd want the one from out of town with the big knockers

[enigma]

Sorry, but I don't buy this bullshit about him having the bollocks to take us on. If it goes tits up he still trousers a few million so what's he got to lose?

No one else would have paid him as much as we are. We're the biggest club he'll get to manage from here on in. Taking the job on when it was offered was a no brainer. Nothing to do with courage.

[Fergal]

IMO Love for your football club should be as unconditional as the love for your wife.

It is.
But I don't think my wife will unexpectedly flip me over and take me up the Khyber with a strap-on.

You are expecting it then?

[eastie]

Appalling from Lerner and Faulkner. An absolute disgrace from everyone involved in this shambolic appointment process.

I have nothing against Mcleish, now that hes here. I just don't think he's even remotely worthy of this magnificent club.

shame on you -go and wash your mouth out with soap!

only joking django , i hope by eck he proves you wrong.

[Lee]

Paul Faulkner, chief executive of Aston Villa, said: "We believe we have appointed the right man for the job.

"Unquestionably, Alex meets the criteria we set out at the beginning of our search which was based on proven Premier League experience, leadership, a hard-working ethic and, most importantly, a shared vision for Aston Villa.

Interesting to see no mention of "success" in the criteria they set out.

Not McLeish's fault and i wish him all the best. It isn't him who deserves the stick, it is the board.

Amen to that.

Best of luck Alex, you're gonna need it

[not3bad]

IMO Love for your football club should be as unconditional as the love for your wife.

What's the equivalent of making them sleep on the couch?

[midgeavfc]

Absolutely pefect statement, sums up what I think anyway..

Alex

I think you are a decent man (having spoke to you several times) and have always been respectful of our club even when you were associated with the undead.

I admire you as you must have bollocks the size of a horse to have done what you done

You obviously wanted the job to go through all this shit to get here - now its yours please take care of it and do listen to what has been said

We cannot demand success, we cannot demand trophies but we can demand that we do not start every game thinking a 0-0 would be a good result.

I for one will accept that you probably was fighting for your life at the dog shit and with limited resources had to grind out the results where you can

this is the biggest club you will ever manage and i am sure you have seen from our set up a light year away from what you have been used to. so now you have it look after it

If you think the response to your appointment was rough - god help you if you try to play like the dog shit did

welcome and i really hope you do well

[mazrimsbruv]

Congratulations Randy.

You've just turned us from a top 6 club to the next Leeds United* in one fell swoop.



* May be interchanged with Notts Forest, Sheffield Wednesday etc

[Rip Van We Go Again]

IMO Love for your football club should be as unconditional as the love for your wife.
If you disagree about something in your marriage and you let it fester then then the marriage is doomed. It's the same when it comes to loving the club, they might do something that you disagree with but you need to accept that a mistake may have been made and no amount of personal abuse or vitriol is going to change things. All it does is make things very uncomfortable for the rest of the 'family', and some of those 'family' members may leave because they don't like the poisonous atmosphere.
In other words any of you thinking of turning up at Villa Park just to show your displeasure at what has happened will do more to help empty the stadium than any appointment the board makes.
Now is the time for the club and fans to pull together for the sake of Aston Villa. Or will you only be satisfied when the only people left are the bitter ones?

Great analogy.However,if you're replacing the wife you wouldn't go and get your next door neighbours missus who has failed at her wifey duties.You'd want the one from out of town with the big knockers

I think this is the managerial equivalent of having Kate McCann as your new wife.
She'll go wandering off and somebody will creep into your house and make off with those youngsters by the name of Darren Bent and Stewart Downing.

[garyfouroaks]

This isn't about McLeish as erstwhile Bluenose, is it?

It's about a club who only a year ago had notched up three consecutive 6th places with a highly regarded manager who had brought bright English talent to the club - good players, mostly ( Harewood excepted).

I forgive the Board last season, MON, whom I supported , left us in the shit. But this summer we had rescued some respectability from the season and had the cream of talent available this time, Ancellotti, Benitez, Hughes, Rijkaard etc.I don't care who was your personal favourite, there were some good names out there.

And who do we end up with?

The Lerner/MON dream is over, Everton style mediocrity stares us in the face, or worse. Perhaps that is all there ever was, but we did have hope - now that is gone.

I am sure that McLeish will "do a job". It could all melt down into relegation, more likely  a Stoke mentality "We're safe" hooray, with 40 points by March.

That is has come to this....................................

[garyshawsknee]

I'm still a bit dazed,I feel like Bishop Brennan after Father Ted kicked him up the arse. In a day or two ill snap out of it shouting ' He did appoint Mccleish...LERNER..'

Ha ha.
I've now got a vision of you running across the Villa Park pitch with an oversize cape bellowing out behind you.

I'll use a banner from the other day!

[VillaAlways]

http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,565039
The Blosers opinion

[Summers]

Sky still saying we've paid them 2m. Wonder if it's true.

[dave.woodhall]

Sky still saying we've paid them 2m. Wonder if it's true.

No. We've given them Stephen Ireland instead.

[QBVILLA]

IMO Love for your football club should be as unconditional as the love for your wife.
If you disagree about something in your marriage and you let it fester then then the marriage is doomed. It's the same when it comes to loving the club, they might do something that you disagree with but you need to accept that a mistake may have been made and no amount of personal abuse or vitriol is going to change things. All it does is make things very uncomfortable for the rest of the 'family', and some of those 'family' members may leave because they don't like the poisonous atmosphere.
In other words any of you thinking of turning up at Villa Park just to show your displeasure at what has happened will do more to help empty the stadium than any appointment the board makes.
Now is the time for the club and fans to pull together for the sake of Aston Villa. Or will you only be satisfied when the only people left are the bitter ones?

Great analogy.However,if you're replacing the wife you wouldn't go and get your next door neighbours missus who has failed at her wifey duties.You'd want the one from out of town with the big knockers

I think this is the managerial equivalent of having Kate McCann as your new wife.
She'll go wandering off and somebody will creep into your house and make off with those youngsters by the name of Darren Bent and Stewart Downing.

Fecking hell!