AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[PaulWinch again]

In all seriousness, I cannot see us getting over 40 points, which would leave us most seasons up shit creek, but will be safe this as the current bottom 3 have quite difficult run ins, and will likely go down. With the squad we have that is not just bad, it is a performance management issue, and in any other place of work would be grounds for dismissal on simply not doing his job properly!

Surely he will be got rid of come the summer. Worst manager in the history of the club for me. And the nice guy stuff is just trying to dress it up and make people feel better inside about having a completely useless manager in charge.

Agreed sadly I think our owner is too clueless to pull the trigger. It's been said earlier Faulkner said that Europe was an aim, so surely this is season has been evidence of gross incompetency and Mcleish has to be fired.

[JUAN PABLO]

I admit it I wanted Houllier gone from this point last season.

However not for one second did I imagine his replacement would be McLeish.

If I'd know that would be the case, I'd have been happy for Houllier to be given another season providing his health had been o.k.

Same here , he had the worse injuries I had ever known at Villa to be fair and a lot of baggage at the club he was trying to get rid  , and I always remember that Manure game with the kids and thought, thats how I want to see Villa play.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah in hindsight I don't think anyone would want Houllier gone with what has followed since. However in fairness I doubt anyone could believe how truly moronic our board could be.

[Legion]

I think I was in a minority of actually liking him and thinking he would do well for us in the future.

[Fergal]

I would sack AM now and appoint Gary McAllister

[JUAN PABLO]

It was the Man City game for me with Houlier , other than that I just wanted him to sort the team out and get rid of all the journeyman .

[PaulWinch again]

I think I was in a minority of actually liking him and thinking he would do well for us in the future.

Same here.

[Toronto Villa]

I think I was in a minority of actually liking him and thinking he would do well for us in the future.

we were definitely in the minority. His record after January was very respectable indeed. I still think we'd have lost Downing, and Young was going either way, but the types of replacements would have been creative and imaginative.

[GarTomas]

It was the Man City game for me with Houlier , other than that I just wanted him to sort the team out and get rid of all the journeyman .

Although with some of the comments AM has come out with this season he seems to be of the same opinion.

GH at least had the decency to come out and give it straight.

[SoccerHQ]

Another thing I admit I was wrong on was criticising Houllier for his treatment of the defence. At the time the defence still had a lot of goodwill in the bank from the previous season and I thought he was wrong to banish Warnock and Dunne for periods of the season. He was completely right.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Houllier was a bad choice, but we wouldn't be in the shit we're in now if he was still here.

[PaulWinch again]

Mcleish did what we did against Citeh under Houllier virtually every week.

[JUAN PABLO]

Houlier needed another season and  he would have signed some good footballers and the football would have been so much better ,  but most fans thought we could get somebody better in , they were living in cuckoo land to believe that.

[JUAN PABLO]

Mcleish did what we did against Citeh under Houllier virtually every week.

spot on , it hurt me once last season , it has hurt me about 20 times this season .

[Mister E]

I was prepared to give GHou the benefit of the doubt - particularly after the final third.

I think RL / PF took fright when GHou and GMac presented their plans for 2011-12 and they'd earmarked a significant number of removals (which would probably have precipated extra payouts or write-offs).