AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[hawkeye]

I think writing to RL is a better idea.

[Clampy]

Not at this moment, no. You're not going to get a new manager, or at least not the right choice, so we'd have have Kev Mac until the end of the season and I don't think he wants to be in charge. 

I wonder how much this influences the continued employment of McLeish.

I was thinking this earlier, you both have a point.

I doubt Kevin Mac would want the pressure of keeping us up which is a shame because i'd be a lot more confident if it were him in charge.

[villadelph]

The letter was far far too personal and if anything would probably make Mcleish want to carry on rather than quit.

I agree.

The man is making £2mil a year, he's not going to f'ing quit. Are you serious?!

[Toronto Villa]

Collins v Chelsea?

Throw in.

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

Right now I'll take any goal for us, however they come. At the end of the season when we look back and realise we got the required points from goals off deflected arses and tits, from corners, throw ins or via Shay Given directly I'll take it.

[villadelph]

Collins v Chelsea?

Throw in.

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

Right now I'll take any goal for us, however they come. At the end of the season when we look back and realise we got the required points from goals off deflected arses and tits, from corners, throw ins or via Shay Given directly I'll take it.

hell, I'll take whatever shot we can get.

let alone a goal..

[TheSandman]

I think writing to RL is a better idea.

Writing to any of them is a waste of paper and ink. Straight into the waste paper basket and if you're lucky they might get Edna the secretary to mail you out some kind of auto reply.

[Walmley_Villa]

You need to forge Fergy's signature to get noticed!

[ROBBO]

I wonder how Lerner feels about his appointment now? i am not one of those that think he will remain with us should we be relegated. At the start of the season he said he wanted to equal or better last seasons position and i imagine that's what he would have said to Lerner, considering the financial loss the owner is looking at he must be as alarmed as much as the rest of us at our predicament.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I think writing to RL is a better idea.

Writing to any of them is a waste of paper and ink. Straight into the waste paper basket and if you're lucky they might get Edna the secretary to mail you out some kind of auto reply.

I reckon even the complimentary ones go straight in the bin, the only Manager I recall with the good grace to answer a letter was Sir Graham.

[Mazrim]

Well, with something like £1m a league place it will already have cost Randy millions. Far more than the compensation paid to Blose. A reasonable team with a vaguely competent manager could quite easily finish in the top 8 this season.

[JUAN PABLO]

Mazrim , spot on .     

[VillaAlways]

Randys doing the team talks himself now
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2721750,00.html

[Merv]

Yep. Say we finish 15th this season, that's six places and around £6m lower than last season. Calculate the drop in gate revenue, look at the forecasted season ticket renewals and sales... my estimation is that we've taken a decent hit on those incomes.

[ktvillan]

Leaked from a source in Manchester, possibly not genuine:

1st April 2012

Dear R,

I hope this finds you well.   I’m writing because, in between my toils and troubles at the top end of the table and in Europe, I couldn’t help noticing the predicament your club currently finds itself in, and the discontent among the fan base.   I have to confess to some pangs of guilt when I see how things have panned out for you.  In mitigation, when, a year ago today, you asked me to suggest a manager who could do a job of shifting out the deadwood, developing the young players,  playing some decent football and maintaining a decent Premier League position, all on a limited budget,  I never in a million years thought you would take the suggestion seriously, given the date and all that.  Perhaps you Americans don’t do April fool’s day, I don’t know.   I really never gave it a second thought, until, to my immense surprise, not to say horror,  I heard you’d not only followed through on the suggestion but had paid a fools ransom to do so.   I knew you and wee Paulie were a bit naïve in the ways of football, but fuck me what were you thinking?  How I LOLled.   I decided to keep quiet and hope for a miracle,  but now feel it’s time to fess up.  Alec’s a decent chap in many ways, but as a manager, well really, you fell for that one hook, line and plonker didn’t you.   It’s not too late to do something to rescue the situation, and I’m sure my old buddy Steve McLaren would relish a return to the PL, and failing that I hear the surprising news that Gary Megson has recently become available again.*

If you need any further advice I’d be only too happy to provide it. Best make it another day though Eh.

All the best

SAF

* Please check the date at the top of this letter before you do anything else stupid.

[JUAN PABLO]

Be nice if Randy Lerner actually went to a game and could see with his own eyes what a mess we have become.