AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[old man villa fan]

Well Mr McLeish I would just like to thank you for the season we have just experienced.  I have become more and more depressed as the season has gone on.  I do not know why really as I thought when you were appointed that it could end this way, although not quite as bad.

Everybody said you were one of football's nice guys and you seemed to talk a good game.  So why have I become so depressed?  It is that you have turned on everybody that has supported you and blamed them for your failings.  In your interviews you have made one statement after another that did not match what I have seen during the season.  Over the last month your statements have out done your previous comments to the point where you are just coming out with utter garbage.  To say that the fans were against the players today when it was clear to all that the were singing about you, you must be living in a world of your own.

When the chips are down you only think about one person and that is yourself.  Do me and every other Villa fan a favour and go now.

[VillaAlways]

Faulkner should have been waiting in the wings to sack him immediately after that game but I forgot he's away on 'business' til Monday I honestly believe we have the most utterly gutless,spineless board in the whole football league

[Diablo]

Have we got a day and time confirmed for this meeting?

Tuesday, I think.

Cheers Legion. The eager anticipation I'm feeling takes me back to my childhood, I can see it clearly Christmas day 1977.

[Summers]

Lambert for Villa!

he will be at the boggies by wednesday

That job is Hughton's.

[bones.]

Who gives a fuck what Birmingham City supporters think?  They can barely string a proper sentence together!  Just get this idiot sacked, away from our club, take his club car back and burn it. He has no future at Villa.  Don't bottle it Lerner, sack him.

can I have his car please, burning it seems a bit of a waste.

Of course you can sir.  He won't be needing it will he? I apologise for my wastefulness.

thank you, your very kind.

[Toronto Villa]

Faulkner should have been waiting in the wings to sack him immediately after that game but I forgot he's away on 'business' til Monday I honestly believe we have the most utterly gutless,spineless board in the whole football league

What if that business was ironing out the final details of McLeish's severance?

[mikeb1982]

It is a tricky one, this.

On one hand, I think "there's just no way they could possibly be so stupid / blind / stubborn to leave this bloke in the job, no way", and there's total unanimity on this on here.

However, then there's the fact that when his name was first mentioned last summer, we were all - all - thinking "there's just no way they would be so wilfully stupid as to even think about giving McLeish the job".

So, in conclusion, I can well imagine them being stupid enough to keep hin on.

On the bright side, if Randy rings Sir Alex up tonight to canvas his opinion, he's not going to take his call.

I have been dreading this outcome since the 'vote of confidence' after Bolton. Me and the missus were talking about it and as she's not from the West Midlands she doesn't see the local press and the rumours. She asked me if there were any clues as to whether he was going to get the heave-ho and I have to admit, I have seen nothing that suggests his sacking is nailed-on.

I'm choosing to believe that the vote of confidence was a message the board had to put out in the circumstances and doesn't really count...

Anyway, don't these things usually turn out to be the kiss of death?

[silhillvilla]

Why would lambert take a sideways move to WBA

[bertlambshank]

Have we got a day and time confirmed for this meeting?

Tuesday, I think.

Cheers Legion. The eager anticipation I'm feeling takes me back to my childhood, I can see it clearly Christmas day 1977.

Eastie will be throwing one out watching Sky Sports News all day.

[ozzjim]

Why would lambert take a sideways move to WBA

As opposed to a downward move to Villa...

[VillaAlways]

Faulkner should have been waiting in the wings to sack him immediately after that game but I forgot he's away on 'business' til Monday I honestly believe we have the most utterly gutless,spineless board in the whole football league

What if that business was ironing out the final details of McLeish's severance?

Then I would be ecstatic and eat every single word I've written Worringly Faulkner was defending Mcleish to the hilt after the Bolton loss basically saying that he had had so much to put up with and had not complained

I'm not holding my breath, the man hasn't a clue

[pauliewalnuts]

Eastie will be throwing one out watching Sky Sports News all day.

You say that as if he wouldn't be watching SSN all day anyway.

[Toronto Villa]

Eastie will be throwing one out watching Sky Sports News all day.

You say that as if he wouldn't be watching SSN all day anyway.

Yeh, but he'll have two televisions on the go, and will have multiple boxes of tissues to keep up with the yellow ticker.

[old man villa fan]

Faulkner should have been waiting in the wings to sack him immediately after that game but I forgot he's away on 'business' til Monday I honestly believe we have the most utterly gutless,spineless board in the whole football league

What if that business was ironing out the final details of McLeish's severance?

For the Owner and CEO to not be at the last match of the season and away on business, it surely must have been club business.  I do not imagine they were discussing a pay rise for the manager.

I believe the wheels are already in motion for replacing McLeish.

[Toronto Villa]

One can only hope that they've seen enough already and didn't need to be at the game. I really hope it is all academic and next weeks meeting is very short and very sweet for us.