AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Rick_avfc]

Damien Commoli being mentioned as DoF?  Nots ure about that.  Clearly messed up at Liverpool.  Ive always said i would have liked to see Gerrard Houllier as DoF.

[Mazrim]

DoF is the absolute right way to go for us.
We've all complained about there being no footballing nous on the board. Well here's the solution.

Get a man of pedigree in and then let him assist in finding the new manager. A good manager should have no issues with it and if they do, well, I dont want any more tyrants who want to do it all anyway.
Continuity is the key. Managers come and go. We need stability and long term planning.

Villa is a very attractive job to most managers and having a director who can assist them should not be a problem.

[j66acd]

Who's up for a big party in the North Stand car park? Will tomorrow be declared as a bank holiday?

[tomd2103]

Any odds on Bob Bradley???

Hopefully not.  I spent some time in America during his time as their national coach and the general feeling amongst Americans who followed football was that he is absolutely useless.  I feared the worst when he was previously  mentioned for the Villa job

[Chris_Jephcott]

Forget the victory parade in Manchester, we shall have our own at the Holte! Let it be done!

[switters]

Why appoint a DoF now and risk alienating potential managerial candidates who may not fancy working under such a structure?

It makes a lot more sense than appointing one after we get a manager - new manager much better off coming in with the structure already in place, so if we're going to get one, now is most definitely the time to do so. DoF tends to fail when they are appointed above a manager who is already in place.

There was some talk of Comolli previously, though that might well have just been 2+2=5 due to him being sacked by Liverpool.

[Concrete John]

Are we now gonna get all those ridiculous Facebook/Twitter groups that popped up this season taking credit for him going in a truely repulsive manner?

[Mazrim]

Damien Commoli being mentioned as DoF?  Nots ure about that.  Clearly messed up at Liverpool.

Says who? Or is he the fall guy for Dalglish, which I think is much more likely?

[PaulWinch again]

Are we now gonna get all those ridiculous Facebook/Twitter groups that popped up this season taking credit for him going in a truely repulsive manner?

Yes lots of 'we told you so' bollocks. When they fail to realise that noone wanted him hired, but the vast majority wanted to give him a chance. Unfortunately he couldn't take that chance.

[DerHammer]

SSN statement in a few minutes

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Villa is a very attractive job to most managers....

Not any more - facebook groups/bedsheets/half page ads in the local paper? This is when all the protesting comes back to bite us on the arse.

[Holte132]

He's gone!

[villajk]

He's gone

[CJ]

NOW ON THE OS. YYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSS

[clogger]

Breakingnews Sky- he's gone