Poll: Are you going to give Alex McLeish a chance to prove himself?

[bam2000]

Bite your tounge and give him a chance. We, as a set of fans have to back the manager and team. No matter who, no matter what! We have been a bunch of moaners for a long time now and where has it got us? Time to focus our energy on getting behind the team in every minute of every game. We are the 12th man, but when we are booing we are the 12th man for the opposition!

[Damo70]

He's not a prat like Barry Fry who will come out with a load of crap to get the supporters on his side but I suspect he will throw in some considered and genuine comments at 'The most eagerly awaited press conference of all time' which will make us warm to him more.

[Greg N'Ash]

Most pointless poll evoh. Doesn't matter how you voted, it will turn nasty the first bad result. Get to christmas and we're dragging along the bottom all hell will break loose

[Rigadon]

Most pointless poll evoh. Doesn't matter how you voted, it will turn nasty the first bad result. Get to christmas and we're dragging along the bottom all hell will break loose

That's the spirit Greg

[TopDeck113]

He will get my support, but anticipate my patience won't be what it was under, for example, GT MkII.

If things aren't going well come late Autumn, I would imagine that life in the dugout will become very uncomfortable.

[Toronto Villa]

Most pointless poll evoh. Doesn't matter how you voted, it will turn nasty the first bad result. Get to christmas and we're dragging along the bottom all hell will break loose

It's just a shame greg that there are people who will be thinking the same way as you. It really doesn't have to be that way after 1 bad result. Good to see you are preparing yourself accordingly.

[olaftab]

I give him till Xmas and by than he needs to have at least  30 points on board from 20 games. That is now too hard.

[Mark H]

Got to back him now - pointless and self destructive not to

[Salsa Party Animal]

I expect 114 points by the end of season with 38 clean sheet

[Greg N'Ash]

I'm not thinking that way Toronto, it's just how its going to go. Already we're battoning down the hatches, rallying around the club and its gone from anger to general disgruntlement but as soon as the season starts the gloves will come off. I'm praying for a miracle and we somehow find ourselves chasing a CL place all season because if we're not - Houllier got 5 months, if that, before the knives were out.  Mcliesh may get a first half of the opening game.

[PeterWithe]

Most were vehemently against his appointment a few short days ago, is it so strange that those strong feelings haven't yet subsided and he might have to actually do something to prove us wrong rather than mouth some well worn platitudes?

[andyaston]

Yes, we should give the man a chance. Hes our manager now lets see what he can do.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Most pointless poll evoh. Doesn't matter how you voted, it will turn nasty the first bad result. Get to christmas and we're dragging along the bottom all hell will break loose

FFS Greg, he's the Villa manager now, support him. Saint Gerrard de Houllier has gone and ain't coming back. Get over it!


(snigger)

[brian green]

Thank God for gregnash.   A voice of sanity in the asylum.

Greg, I agree with every word you say and thank you for saying it.

[hilts_coolerking]

Do you know for a fact that is how his teams in Scotland played? Or did he, perhaps, change his methods to suit the situation when he was managing a small club in England?

Perhaps when playing against the also-rans in Scotland he found it easier to be more expansive.  But that was the league in which Stilian Petrov was a free-scoring midfielder.  So if you're expecting vibrant, incisive flair football Chris I think you're going to be in for a huge disappointment. 

If Lerner appointed McLeish with the same expectation then it's an even more barking decision than it already was.

Under McLeish SHA played desperately shite football.  You know that, I know that, hell even the Noses knew that.  And despite playing a system designed to forego entertainment for mere survival, they still got relegated twice.  If he knew a better way to play, no doubt he would have played it.

Given the pressure that he'll be under from the word go, I don't believe for a moment that he's going to try anything other than risk-free, safety-first football.