Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread

[villadelph]

an excellent game plan now involves going for a 0-0 result.. exciting times ahead!

[Jockey Randall]

I've always backed the manager and thought he seemed to be realising that playing this way was not the way forward but I'm seriously worried after that today, and that post match interview was a disgrace. In what way was that gameplan excellent?

[Stu]

Unbelievable Mcleish just sad that "the game plan was excellent" and he went on to say that we were unlucky.

Stumped when asked how he was going to turn it around.

There's a fucking shock.

[pauliewalnuts]

Did he really say that?

[eastie]

Mcleish has made himself look a joke with his ludicrous comments when interviewed - what an embarrassment - god help us if the manager thinks those things- we are doomed !

[Summers]

When asked "should you have gone for it earlier" the response was "No, we would have been ripped apart!"

..Did he honestly say that?

Yep. Just watched it. It beggars belief.

I'm speechless.

McLeish OUT.

[PeterWithe]

To be fair to him, and its fucking hard after watching more of the turgid shit he serves up at £30 a pop, he did say that home performances had been particularly poor.

I just have no confidence he knows how to make them better, particularly as that was Keanes last game for us at home.

[villadelph]

Odds Randy actually watched the game / cares?

[Toronto Villa]

Did he really say that?

Imagine everything he shouldn't have said after that game and then accept that he did.

[Apyadg]

Odds Randy actually watched the game / cares?

About the same as you currently residing on the moon.

[PaulWinch again]

Did he really say that?

Imagine everything he shouldn't have said after that game and then accept that he did.

Yep I was genuinely staggered, he has to go.

[hawkeye]

it actually beggars belief that he made those comments, but he did.

He might as well have stuck 2 fingers up his nose and gone Ga Ga GA Ga Bla Bla Ga Ga Bla

[kippaxvilla2]

Let's just clear up some myths as well.

The 3-2 win at Wolves is put into context when you see how easily them tossers beat them today.
The 2-2 home draw against QPR is put into context when you see that Wolves beat them at their place and now Blackburn have turned them over.
The 2-1 defeat at Newcastle is put into context based on how dire they were yesterday.

[TonyD]

There is one positive about today.   For the few still on the fence, the penny has dropped.  His days are now numbered.   Randy's football knowledge maybe less than that of a senile Tibetian monk but he cannot risk the financial consequences of relegation.   

Well done to all those that took the time to protets against this clown.   They should be applauded and not ridiculed.

[AVFCRob]

As people are saying his view is that if we'd have started more positively then we would have been ripped apart. Is that the ripped apart that Everton and Sunderland suffered Alex?

He seems to have convinced himself that AVFC cannot compete with the big boys because we don't have the means. I remember him saying something similar about Birmingham in relation to Villa on the day that we beat his Blues 5-1. It seems that this is his footballing truth.

Well, I'm glad that nobody has told Paul Lambert, David Moyes or Brendan Rodgers this because they clearly would all be in the bottom 6 by now on this reckoning

Money is important, evidently, but these three managers prove that if you have belief and a vision of how to play and a positive attitude to go with it then you can overcome financial disadvantages. Alex McLeish is stuck in a mental straightjacket that he will never get out of. He lacks the vision to take this club forward. Christ, he lacks the vision to even keep this club stood still. Let's end this failed appointment now before it leads to relegation, if not this year, then next.