McLeish meets fans - notes from MM...

[dave shelley]

For all the people on here who can't accept that Alex McCleish is now manager of Aston Villa can I ask you to imagine this scenario? If, you are a single man and you meet a woman with two failed marriages behind her for whatever reason and she is everything you are looking for in a wife.  Would you a) give her a chance and marry her because all of what went before was nothing to do with you, or b) walk away and never know what she could have done for you.  If the answer is (a) then that is what Randy Lerner has done. Simple logic to me.  Waits now for deluge of amateur psycholgists to tell me football has nothing to do with marriage!

[midnite]

An historically bad appointment. Nothing he has said in these laughable PR exercises has changed my mind.

Quite amazing how people are prepared to brush over his two relegation's. 

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas if it means getting in a proper manager with a vision. Not a 4-4-2 hoofball merchant.

Mcleish plays percentage football, this isn't going to get us where we want to be. Not an opinion but a fact.

Ok, so say you get your wish. It's christmas and we're in the bottom three and now managerless. Who would you bring in? bearing in mind that Houghton is now at the blues so he is out the running. Which manager with vision would want to come to a club that has had 6 different people in charge in less than 18 months and is seriously in contention to be playing championship football the following year. Losing the top players like Bent, and struggling to find replacements since the whole club will look like it's in free fall and imploding with a baord that doesnt know it's arse from it's elbow. The London bias, villa hating media will all be spouting "i told you so." and saying we should of done everything we could of to hold onto their loveable, can do no wrong man in MON.

Na, for me, i would rather hope McLeish can do good here, prove the doubters wrong and show that there is more to him as a manager. He has potential and its time he showed it.

[Greg N'Ash]

Its all gonna come down to results i'm afraid. Get us up the top by Christmas and he may win over some of the doubters. Dragging along the bottom and it will be a car crash.

No middle ground then?
Basically you want us to be doing something we haven't done since Gregory took us top for a short while years ago or it's protest time again?

look the support turned against GH after 4 months with his record and no blose history. Do you really think AM will get even that leeway?

[Mike Jeffries]

An historically bad appointment. Nothing he has said in these laughable PR exercises has changed my mind.

Quite amazing how people are prepared to brush over his two relegation's. 

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas if it means getting in a proper manager with a vision. Not a 4-4-2 hoofball merchant.

Mcleish plays percentage football, this isn't going to get us where we want to be. Not an opinion but a fact.

Blimey you can see into the future as well (Er..... Something can't be a fact if it hasn't happened).  I don't "think" he's the man to get us where we'd like to be, but he is the man whose the manager so I'd like to be proved wrong.  I'd also rather put my hand up and be wrong about him than us have a shitty start to the season, it's kinda being a supporter - you know wanting your team to win matches.

But then this is the point isn't it, what the Villa actually do on the pitch is secondary to being "Proved right" for some folks.     

[The Situation]

It's all good saying you can't polish a turd, but wasn't he working on a smaller budget which meant he had to rely more on his managerial abilities rather than spending lots of money? He outspent Small Heath's rivals dwelling at the bottom and still got them relegated.

[Dave Cooper please]

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas

I've restrained myself, and I will apologise in advance, and I'm happy to accept the admonishment of the moderators and will understand if this gets deleted and I get a warning....

You are a cunt.

[asgpaul]

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas if it means getting in a proper manager with a vision. Not a 4-4-2 hoofball merchant.

As a Villa supporter, I hope our new manager does well.  I didn't want McLeish but now he's installed I will back him 100% - speaking for myself, I don't want to be anywhere near the relegation zone, I don't want dour defensive football at VP, but McLeish has stated his intent to play good attacking football, surely we should be hoping he delivers....not fail..!!

[McleishOUT]

If we're not in the top 4 by xmas then he would have failed. He has a much shorter rope than another manager would have and rightly so.

For those feeling sorry for him and licking  the ginger pubes from his backside may I remind you he has doubled his salary and on paper should have never been given a chance like this. Many more worthy candidates. That said I don't blame him for taking the gig, he'd have been mad not to. He must have thought all his Christmases had come at once when he go the phonecall from Randy.

[Greg N'Ash]

It's all good saying you can't polish a turd, but wasn't he working on a smaller budget which meant he had to rely more on his managerial abilities rather than spending lots of money? He outspent Small Heath's rivals dwelling at the bottom and still got them relegated.

yep, he was hardly on blackpool's budget

[Dave]

For those feeling sorry for him and licking  the ginger pubes from his backside

You seem to have very unusual reproductive organs.

[The Situation]

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas

I've restrained myself, and I will apologise in advance, and I'm happy to accept the admonishment of the moderators and will understand if this gets deleted and I get a warning....

You are a cunt.

A warning? People have been banned for far less.

You're as bad as him, calling him a c**t? Grow up please.

[Dave Cooper please]

Do you have pubes in your backside?

[Dave Cooper please]

You're as bad as him, calling him a c**t? Grow up please.

No.

[McleishOUT]

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas

I've restrained myself, and I will apologise in advance, and I'm happy to accept the admonishment of the moderators and will understand if this gets deleted and I get a warning....

You are a cunt.

And you know nothing about football.

I hope this helps.

[avfcpg]

I'll be quite happy to be in or near the relegation zone at xmas

I've restrained myself, and I will apologise in advance, and I'm happy to accept the admonishment of the moderators and will understand if this gets deleted and I get a warning....

You are a cunt.

A warning? People have been banned for far less.

You're as bad as him, calling him a c**t? Grow up please.

It was quite funny though...I laughed anyway..