Mirror: How Alex McLeish is winning over the haters at Aston Villa

[dave.woodhall]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

[taylorsworkrate]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

[Toronto Villa]

He's come over as very humble indeed in every press conference and interview he's done. I agree, he seems to be very comfortable in the job already and there's a steely determination about him, and it's filtering it's way through to the players. I said somewhere else that the Luke Young interview was for me, very telling about the new order. He's always been quite blunt, and you could see that the players have reacted well to McLeish. It's as if McLeish isn't doing us a favour by being here. It's quite the opposite and he feels very priviledged to be our manager.

[dave.woodhall]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

That's exactly it. The last three were doing us a favour and Sir Graham II was a different entity to his first incarnation, but McLeish 'gets' the club. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

[taylorsworkrate]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

That's exactly it. The last three were doing us a favour and Sir Graham II was a different entity to his first incarnation, but McLeish 'gets' the club. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

Good point, the club has historically had a strong Scottish influence, especially when doing well.  Hopefully thats an omen.

[PaulTheVillan]

I've got a funny feeling about the McLeish appointment, I actually think it's going to work.

[Olneythelonely]

Me too. I don't know why though, it just feels right somehow.

[PaulTheVillan]

Me too. I don't know why though, it just feels right somehow.

I think he's the man to improve the togetherness, professionalism & defence.

All the things that were poor last season.

[garyshawsknee]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

That's exactly it. The last three were doing us a favour and Sir Graham II was a different entity to his first incarnation, but McLeish 'gets' the club. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

Good point, the club has historically had a strong Scottish influence, especially when doing well.  Hopefully thats an omen.

Hopefully more McGregor than McNeil.

[taylorsworkrate]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

That's exactly it. The last three were doing us a favour and Sir Graham II was a different entity to his first incarnation, but McLeish 'gets' the club. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

Good point, the club has historically had a strong Scottish influence, especially when doing well.  Hopefully thats an omen.

Hopefully more McGregor than McNeil.

Damn you, I was clinging to something there.

[Clampy]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

That's exactly it. The last three were doing us a favour and Sir Graham II was a different entity to his first incarnation, but McLeish 'gets' the club. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

Although the way he walked left a bitter taste in the mouth for many, i think MON appreciated where he was. I think he 'got it' to an extent. It felt right for a time, it's just a shame he ruined it.

Mccleish does seem to have a 'i can't believe my luck' aura about him, i think he would have even come here on the same money he was on at Blues.

[dave.woodhall]

This is the job by which McLeish will be judged. everywhere else has been either "only Scotland" or that fucking circus. He's got no excuses here, and equally no "but it's only." He does well, he'll be regarded as a good manager. He does badly it'll be the Championship next stop. 

[PaulTheVillan]

This is the job by which McLeish will be judged. everywhere else has been either "only Scotland" or that fucking circus. He's got no excuses here, and equally no "but it's only." He does well, he'll be regarded as a good manager. He does badly it'll be the Championship next stop. 

or Scotland.

[KevinGage]

If nothing else this is the first time for some time we have a manager who actually wants to be here.

I think i'd want to be somewhere that is willing to double my salary , although Mcleish does seem to understand the privilege of managing our club.

That's exactly it. The last three were doing us a favour and Sir Graham II was a different entity to his first incarnation, but McLeish 'gets' the club. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

Wasn't it hookysmith on another thread who said he'd been shown around the place on one of his first visits to VP as B-lose manager and was bowled over? Though you would be, I suppose if you're comparing VP to that weird collection of sheds at the back of a railway track in Bordesley.

I don't doubt his hunger to prove a few doubters wrong. I don't doubt that he's grateful to get a job as big as this so soon after taking the B-lose down. But I do have doubts about his aptitude for the job -though as others have pointed out, his track record taken as a whole isn't completely without merit.

[Somniloquism]

This is the job by which McLeish will be judged. everywhere else has been either "only Scotland" or that fucking circus. He's got no excuses here, and equally no "but it's only." He does well, he'll be regarded as a good manager. He does badly it'll be the Championship next stop.

Hopefully you mean his next job after us and not where the club will end up.