AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Ozzjim]

I think the next 2-3 home games are going to be bad if we go behind. The screw has certainly turned on here.

[PaulWinch again]

It is remarkable, really.

He doesn't send them out to not attack, apparently. So, how does he explain performances like Tottenham away, where he hits on the magic idea of effectively playing six defenders? And that was far from the only game where we've seen such a lack of ambition.

It's absolutely fucking pathetic.

This bloke is stifling the life out of this club.

That he is, the black cloud over the club is getting more and more formidable.

[HalesowenVilla]

As much as i dont want to see mcleish managing us next season his latest interview is preety worrying. we can not afford at this stage of the season to have unrest. it seems he's lost the backing of the players and he's on his prayer mat to the fans. i think now it has hit him what a massive job he's taken on.all that aside we need to get behind the team for the remaining games and get those points on the board

[Legion]

Fcuk him. I support Aston Villa, not the current manager. I want us to do well regardless.

[Ian.]

As much as i dont want to see mcleish managing us next season his latest interview is preety worrying. we can not afford at this stage of the season to have unrest. it seems he's lost the backing of the players and he's on his prayer mat to the fans. i think now it has hit him what a massive job he's taken on.all that aside we need to get behind the team for the remaining games and get those points on the board

Sorry what interview was this? I must have missed it, where is it saying about losing the players backing?

[HalesowenVilla]

His latest press conference. he's not going to come out and say he's lost the dressing room. but what he says sounds like a desperate man holding on for his life not a man capable of getting us out the mess he's got us in

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

There seemed an air of desperation in the interview that I haven't sensed from him before. I cannot believe thats just due to the crowd reaction at Wigan or fansite polls showing 80% plus wanting him out at the moment. Has something from above been said to him ?

[HalesowenVilla]

I wonder if his trip to america was more than a look round the nfl

[Ozzjim]

He has a win percentage of 23% in the league. That is bloody awful. If something has not been said to him from above then I would be amazed.

[SoccerHQ]

McLeish started off talking a good game and it was good to hear a manager actually being pleased to be in charge for us for once but the last few weeks the soundites have become very O'drearyesque.

To me, if the team keep on playing the same boring way despite his claims, then that indicates the training sessions aren't good enough and we aren't working on our weaknesses. So aswell as McLeish I'm looking at Peter Grant here aswell.

I'm trying to think back but I'm sure at Scotland McLeish had Roy Aitken and Andy Watson (bald guy) as his assistants. Watson went with him to SHA and along the line Grant turned up.

I always wondered how come Watson didn't come with him here? Was it one of the conditions SHA set out? I don't even know if he's still at SHA?

I don't know if the football would've been better as a result but by all accounts Andy Watson is a highly rated coach....and Peter Grant isn't. Had a similar win record to McLeish at Norwich.

[SoccerHQ]

O.k just checked....Peter Grant was appointed first team coach of SHA in July 2010....opps.

And Andy Watson has been McLeish's assistant at Hibs, Motherwell, Rangers, Scotland, SHA but not here. He's still at SHA as assistant apparently so SHA must have put a clause in the compensation deal banning us from poaching him aswell.

[paul_e]

He has a win percentage of 23% in the league. That is bloody awful. If something has not been said to him from above then I would be amazed.

His overall win% as a premier league manager (including a season where he somehow got blues to 9th) is 25% (with the leftover evenly split between draws and defeats), so what we're getting is only marginally worse than his record suggested was likely.

[olaftab]

The pressure is building upon McLeish and that's not not for our club. The only way he will get sacked is if we get relegated. I don't want that and I don't think we will . So I am afraid we have him for at least another season. That would be another two years wasted in the history of Aston Villa.

[villadelph]

SHOW YOUR FACE RANDY LERNER, YOU COWARD.

[Mazrim]

SHOW YOUR FACE RANDY LERNER, YOU COWARD.

Steady on.