AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[tarzansbrother]

Di Canio comes with a massive amount of baggage as well.

These Italians have so many suits, designer shoes, macintoshes, scarves, shirts and ties it all has to go into Luis Vitton.... 

Italians using French designers? I think not.

He has done wonders at lowly Swindon, great player and a character who wants to see and play great football. We currently got a bent nosed ..............

[ez]

An Aston Villa manager playing for a 0-0 at the bottom team should be sacked on the spot.

Unacceptable dross that was.

True. Coward tactics against Man City was bad but against Wigan as well...

[Villanation]

Stevie Coppell:

Still one of the top listed LMA managers and up until he took over for a short spell at Bristol City was bang on for the England Job.

"To other causes Coppell had no problem bending his back. At 28, he put behind him the trauma of a career-busting knee injury to take over as manager at Crystal Palace.
He stayed for 10 straight years, during which he steered Palace to their highest finish in football's upper tier, third, and in 1990 took Manchester United to a replay in the FA Cup final.
The inaugural season of the Premier League in 1992/93 coincided with the cyclical decline of the lesser club. Palace were relegated, prompting Coppell's resignation, but not to the detriment of his standing in the game, and he wastalked about as a candidate for the England post.
Successful cameos at Brentford and Brighton post-Manchester apocalypse led to his appointment at Reading in 2003. The alchemy returned with Coppell taking Reading into football's highest echelon on the back of a points haul, 106, that is a record in the English game.
Reading finished a point shy of European qualification in their first Premier League season, a feat which earned Coppell the manager of the year award from his peers and more significantly, the endorsement of Sir Alex Ferguson.
Despite his remarkable achievements at Reading and Palace, it is the dramatic volte face for which Coppell will be most readily remembered, and speared.
Coppell graduated with a degree in economic history 35 years ago while banging up and down the right flank at United. On the other wing was Gordon Hill, who balanced Coppell's intellectual contribution to Old Trafford life with impressions of Norman Wisdom.

[silhillvilla]

you can tell he's lost the dressing room, the way Ireland and Zog were whispering to each other during the sideline walm ups

Felt sorry for Baker, he warmed up for about 75 mins without getting a run

[Aston Manor]

I actually think Curbishley could do the job but want Lambert. I wouldn't be too disappointed to take the manager from McLeish's ex-employers either.

[Villanation]

you can tell he's lost the dressing room, the way Ireland and Zog were whispering to each other during the sideline walm ups

Felt sorry for Baker, he warmed up for about 75 mins without getting a run

After warming up for 75mins he would have had to substituted for someone else to warm up in his place  .....don't you just love McLiesh.

[tarzansbrother]

I don't want anybody who takes pleasure in giving a facist salute managing us.

O'Neill was a bad enough ego maniac, Di Canio would make him look like a shrinking violet.

Let's stick with Mcliesh then.

[wombat]

Di Canio comes with a massive amount of baggage as well.

These Italians have so many suits, designer shoes, macintoshes, scarves, shirts and ties it all has to go into Luis Vitton.... 

Italians using French designers? I think not.

oh ar$e! I best stop coveting that man bag as i'm far from worthy..

[wombat]

I would be pleased to see the back of McLeish, alas though I see a couple of problems 1) the compo the board would have to pay to get shot added to the compo they paid to get him in! would make it unpalatable for them if they don't think we are going to go down this year plus the ego of admitting they have dropped a major bollock and then 2) who in their right mind of the people the fans would ideally like to see in charge would really want the job knowing the fact they are going to have naff all to spend and we are in a worse situation than when we appointment McLeish and we couldn't get who we wanted then.

That said I like a good lynching so 1) and 2) certainly shouldn't stop it from happening!

[Holte End Stylist]

to paraphrase Paul Weller....he has no solutions ,,,,better get used to it!!!!!!!!

i voted yes

[Villanation]

I would be pleased to see the back of McLeish, alas though I see a couple of problems 1) the compo the board would have to pay to get shot added to the compo they paid to get him in! would make it unpalatable for them if they don't think we are going to go down this year plus the ego of admitting they have dropped a major bollock and then 2) who in their right mind of the people the fans would ideally like to see in charge would really want the job knowing the fact they are going to have naff all to spend and we are in a worse situation than when we appointment McLeish and we couldn't get who we wanted then.

That said I like a good lynching so 1) and 2) certainly shouldn't stop it from happening!

And 3: The way the amount of fans that are now starting to boycott games, plus another season finishing lower plus the fact we could get relagated will cost a lot more than getting rid of McLiesh.

Revenue is draining from the club at all ends.

[wombat]

I would be pleased to see the back of McLeish, alas though I see a couple of problems 1) the compo the board would have to pay to get shot added to the compo they paid to get him in! would make it unpalatable for them if they don't think we are going to go down this year plus the ego of admitting they have dropped a major bollock and then 2) who in their right mind of the people the fans would ideally like to see in charge would really want the job knowing the fact they are going to have naff all to spend and we are in a worse situation than when we appointment McLeish and we couldn't get who we wanted then.

That said I like a good lynching so 1) and 2) certainly shouldn't stop it from happening!

And 3: The way the amount of fans that are now starting to boycott games, plus another season finishing lower plus the fact we could get relagated will cost a lot more than getting rid of McLiesh.

Revenue is draining from the club at all ends.

True... Somebody on the board needs to do the maths (well they'd probably call it math) and see how it adds up, then it's trigger pulling time assuming it tips in the get rid favour. They certainly won't get anymore of my money whilst the current situation remains. I could have gone to Wigan today, but was on call I could have got someone to cover but I would have lost £80 on call for the day, plus the petrol and ticket going would have cost me going on for £150. A few years back i'd have considered it, and no doubt probably gone for it. They way things currently are though it's don't take a rocket scientist to work out it wasn't worth it!

[ozzjim]

Curbishley from on an 18 month contract makes a lot of sense for where we are at. He can at least organise a side.

The clown in charge has to go, and soon.

[Jimmy Smash]

Sack him and ask KMac and GC very nicely to get us through to the end of the season. They surely couldn't do a worse job, and they must have a better relationship with the players than The Oaf. He's lost everybody... the players... the fans. We could start with a clean slate in the summer and approach one manager (Lambert maybe?). Incidentally, anyone know which players' contracts are up this year. Heskey for sure... but which others?

[NeilH]

You know what really scares me. Despite everything we can clearly see, I honestly believe that Faulkner thinks that things are okay and is telling Lerner so.

He's doing this for two reason, (1) he honestly still believe that McLeish is the man for the job or  (2) he realises he's made a massive fu**king error and is covering his arse by lying to an absentee owner.