AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[ktvillan]

Good on whoever wrote the letter. It may get ignored it may not, at least he's trying to do something and making his feelings, which appear to reflect the feelings of many supporters,  known.  And the more people that make their feelings known, the more difficult it will be for Lerner, Faulkner and McLeish to ignore them.   The majority of supporters seem to have realised that he is a hopelessly inadequate manager (although most of us already knew before he arrived) but perhaps the powers that be need to have the blatantly obvious pointed out to them.

[brian green]

There is a famous line from a Cole Porter lyric "the words I love you till the day I die, the self deception that believes the lie".

Perhaps Faulkner and Lerner in their naivety do believe that McLeish is a good manager.
Perhaps they follow Villa through the media more than any other way and they have swallowed the media lie that the fans hate McLeish because he came across the city.   The lie that he is a competent manager who has had bad luck with injuries disliked by large numbers of Villa supporters for purely tribal reasons.

Perhaps they think they are right and the vast majority of us are wrong.   Perhaps it is we who are being tolerated not the manager.

[Rico]

I've posted this before, so if Eck is still in charge at the start of the season do we back him or jeer him. Seems to me that whatever option we as fans take, we lose. If he stays we're stuck with his anti football, and if we give him stick we're not exactly helping the team. I think the only option if he is still in charge at the start of the season is a boycott. It's a tough call because I just don't know what we can do to get rid of him. Short term pain, long term gain?

[john e]

i would love to be a bookie with some of you guys around,
 anyone who thinks we are 50/50 to go down is barmy, we are no where near that, i think the bookies have us around 1-10 on to stay up,
we are in a far better position than any team below us, to just keep banging on about how doomed we are is stupidity.
i bet if you take the worst 7 games we have played at any point in the season gives us enough points to stay up

[midnite]

Perhaps they think they are right and the vast majority of us are wrong.   Perhaps it is we who are being tolerated not the manager.

I get that feeling too

[villadelph]

Perhaps they think they are right and the vast majority of us are wrong.   Perhaps it is we who are being tolerated not the manager.

I get that feeling too

The original quote: Post of the Day.

[JUAN PABLO]

I know a lot of you on here hate talksport or talkshite or whatever you want to call it but apparently McTwat was on the Keys and Gray show so wondered if anyone heard him on there and if so, what he said?

he said something like the form recently has not been as bad as people have made out ...            I choked on my biscuit

[JUAN PABLO]

We've turned into the new stoke. No one likes our brand of football... And we now even score from long throw ins

How have we ? we don't score from set pieces 

[Legion]

Collins v Chelsea?

[pauliewalnuts]

Collins v Chelsea?

Throw in.

Is a throw in a set piece? Guess so. It's also Stoketastic.

[JUAN PABLO]

OK Ill give you one but you get what I mean .      corners etc

[JUAN PABLO]

Must admit Stoke sometimes never have a shot on target in a match , so maybe we do.

[Vanilla]

Must admit Stoke sometimes never have a shot on target in a match , so maybe we do.

I remember a H&V match summary of a game against Bolton from about 98 which said they had 1 shot and scored 3 goals.

Teams tend to have that kind of shot to goal ratio against us. 

[Monty]

Talkshite interview with The Sexists this afternoon. Words to the effect of "well we're in trouble because we're having to play youngsters, but don't worry the experienced players are coming back". What message does that send to the youngsters, who watch the seniors fuck up game after game all season, to then be told it's their fault and those self-same seniors are automatic picks ahead of them?

Also going along, as prompted, with (obviously his mates) the Sexists' suggestion that he's disliked because of the Blues connection, whereas, as we know, about 0.5% of Villa fans really care about that, if that. Everything he's ever said just screams "not right for Villa" at best and "just not good enough" at worst.

[Legion]

Is there a new word filter?