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Author Topic: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?  (Read 193417 times)

Offline brian green

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #195 on: January 04, 2012, 09:26:49 AM »
Can anyone join in his verbal handbags?   I think the scum from Bordesley Green got off very lightly when we dubbed them Bluenoses likewise the Red Filth from the Theatre Of Inyourdreams when we call them Manyoofans.

I think Alex McLeish was very much the wrong man for the job but he was chosen for economic reasons not football reasons.   He is a decent man and a respectable man but I cannot ever see him in all truth scaling the heights of the Premiership.

However, because he was chosen for economic reasons and those economic reasons harden with every game, he is a t Villa Park for a long time.   He is the Villa manager so I endure what I have to endure and that includes the manager for the sake of my club. 

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #196 on: January 04, 2012, 09:28:13 AM »
all the LFC fans at my work place are cursing downing as i currently type this message - Hilarious!  Me and my bro wind up my my cousin and say that LFC got him on the cheap! 

Anyway, regarding Eck, on twitter last night, someone called AVFCMysteryMan tweeted saying that Eck will quit the villa this morning.  I certainly do not believe this but wondered if anyone also heard this "most likely" made up rumour?

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #197 on: January 04, 2012, 09:33:43 AM »
all the LFC fans at my work place are cursing downing as i currently type this message - Hilarious!  Me and my bro wind up my my cousin and say that LFC got him on the cheap! 

Anyway, regarding Eck, on twitter last night, someone called AVFCMysteryMan tweeted saying that Eck will quit the villa this morning.  I certainly do not believe this but wondered if anyone also heard this "most likely" made up rumour?
Please be true.  Millions believe in the baby jesus so I am going to believe this for a few hours.

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #198 on: January 04, 2012, 09:47:11 AM »
all the LFC fans at my work place are cursing downing as i currently type this message - Hilarious!  Me and my bro wind up my my cousin and say that LFC got him on the cheap! 

Anyway, regarding Eck, on twitter last night, someone called AVFCMysteryMan tweeted saying that Eck will quit the villa this morning.  I certainly do not believe this but wondered if anyone also heard this "most likely" made up rumour?
Please be true.  Millions believe in the baby jesus so I am going to believe this for a few hours.
AM may be many things, but I don't believe he's a quitter. In fact he's the exact opposite to MON in character.
Just another load of bollox from Twatter

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #199 on: January 04, 2012, 10:07:47 AM »
still makes me laugh when people talk about us losing are best twp players, admittedly Young was a super player who we cant replace straight away, but Downing ?

in the pub watching Liverpool last night, packed out with Liverpool fans, absolutley hated Downing, they were going mad at the useless article, far worse than any stick we give our players, at times it was almost violent abuse, LOL

 the bloke is the biggest waste of 20 mill ever, i know we didnt reinvest so it makes it all academic, but to talk about Downing as though he would make any difference to our current team is rubbish, he would be totally invisable in our team this year, he had no bottle anyways, he would be of no use at all.

Downing scored 7 goals in the league last season, plus assisted in a fair few as well.  N'Zogbia hasn't scored yet.  There's the difference.

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #200 on: January 04, 2012, 10:08:47 AM »
all the LFC fans at my work place are cursing downing as i currently type this message - Hilarious!  Me and my bro wind up my my cousin and say that LFC got him on the cheap! 

Anyway, regarding Eck, on twitter last night, someone called AVFCMysteryMan tweeted saying that Eck will quit the villa this morning.  I certainly do not believe this but wondered if anyone also heard this "most likely" made up rumour?
Please be true.  Millions believe in the baby jesus so I am going to believe this for a few hours.
AM may be many things, but I don't believe he's a quitter. In fact he's the exact opposite to MON in character.
Just another load of bollox from Twatter

AVFCMYsteryMan is the fake Mysteryman, who makes things up for a laugh.  Not that the real Mysterman is any more accurate.

Offline Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #201 on: January 04, 2012, 10:18:09 AM »
Thankyou for the glowing comments fellow villa fans........ we all have our own opinion and I just happen to be one of the many fans who want McLeish out. Why do some fans think the sun shines out of his arse? The man is taking us to an all time low why cant some fans see it. I was at Chelsea we won ok lets get over it Chelsea are not the team they were. Swansea played us off the pitch with seven changes to  their previous game. They had not won an away game all season they play us and win. Mcleish got small heath relegated are we next?

Is this a telegram?

Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #202 on: January 04, 2012, 10:23:22 AM »
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Downing scored 7 goals in the league last season, plus assisted in a fair few as well.  N'Zogbia hasn't scored yet.  There's the difference

Charlie scored 9 league goals last season for Wigan.


And he's scored as many as Downing has this season in 5 fewer games.

There's very little difference

Except that Downing is a grasping twat

Offline supertommykN'iba

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #203 on: January 04, 2012, 10:24:45 AM »
If I'm proven wrong, I'm proven wrong, but I think he is building something good at VP.

Based on what exactly?

Based on the fact he wants to be at the club, the Football can be extremely good to watch at times (admittedly at others it is appalling) and the fact that he is blooding our youngsters in the right way.

I think a lot of it is just positive feeling I have for some reason. I could well be proved wrong, I'd rather not be, but I can see us doing something pretty good this season. Position doesn't say that at the moment, but optimism is a fantastic thing.

Offline Rick_avfc

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #204 on: January 04, 2012, 10:25:14 AM »
all the LFC fans at my work place are cursing downing as i currently type this message - Hilarious!  Me and my bro wind up my my cousin and say that LFC got him on the cheap! 

Anyway, regarding Eck, on twitter last night, someone called AVFCMysteryMan tweeted saying that Eck will quit the villa this morning.  I certainly do not believe this but wondered if anyone also heard this "most likely" made up rumour?
Please be true.  Millions believe in the baby jesus so I am going to believe this for a few hours.
AM may be many things, but I don't believe he's a quitter. In fact he's the exact opposite to MON in character.
Just another load of bollox from Twatter

AVFCMYsteryMan is the fake Mysteryman, who makes things up for a laugh.  Not that the real Mysterman is any more accurate.

Thought as much hence why i didnt believe it and could never imagine Eck leaving on his own accord.

Offline VillaAlways

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #205 on: January 04, 2012, 10:35:59 AM »
Downing has had 0 assists At least CNZ has managed maybe 2??

Offline Rick_avfc

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #206 on: January 04, 2012, 10:46:25 AM »
Downing cost more that CNZ and should be delivering the goods for LFC considering they have a 10ft giant in the box for him to aim at

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #207 on: January 04, 2012, 10:54:08 AM »
Downing has had 0 assists At least CNZ has managed maybe 2??

He'll get more as well.  By the end of this season we'll all be agreeing N'Zogbia is much better than Downing ever was.

Offline Risso

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #208 on: January 04, 2012, 11:10:35 AM »
Downing cost more that CNZ and should be delivering the goods for LFC considering they have a 10ft giant in the box for him to aim at

I couldn't give a stuff what Downing is or isn't doing at Liverpool.  The fact is that other than two or three half decent games, N'Zogbia has delivered diddly squat in a Villa shirt so far.

Offline not3bad

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Re: Are We Alex McLeish's Claret & Blue Army Now?
« Reply #209 on: January 04, 2012, 11:14:53 AM »
Downing cost more that CNZ and should be delivering the goods for LFC considering they have a 10ft giant in the box for him to aim at

I couldn't give a stuff what Downing is or isn't doing at Liverpool. 

However if you want to make anything like a fair comparison you have to take it into account.  Downing should be finding it far easier in that Liverpool side than N'Zog has it at Villa.  Heck, many people would argue that Villa under Mcliesh have only been trying to play football since the Arsenal match.  How is N'Zog supposed to do anything with the ball being hoofed over his head most of the time?

 


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