AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[curiousorange]

Nigel Adkins anyone?

Yes. However, as his team may very well be about to pass us on their way to the big time, there's more chance of finding out my late grandmother was Pope John Paul II.

[rob_bridge]

Nigel Adkins anyone?

Yep but he will  turn us down. MON - sometimes attractive, often effective. Houllier occasionally attractive, ineffective. McLeish, never attractive, ineffective.

Why would Adkins spoil his reputation taking Villa job, Martinez didnt and didn't.

[jembob]

I just want him to go. Terrible football, negative tactics, doesn't even try against the bigger teams, or against Spurs, talks down our chances and attempts to lower our expectations. Well I've had it. Fuck off McLeish, just fuck off.

This.

X 2

X 3

X4 from me and X5 from Mrs Jembob

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I can only assume he is the sort of arsehole that gets into a good post like in a good deal of professions - by being good at one aspect of the job but shit at everything else and so gets the big job by being shit.
He is helping to cut costs. Nothing else.
RL doesn't seem to see the bigger picture of going down and losing out in the long term.
Whatever happens to Villa AM will have pocketed at least a couple of million and can retire in comfort. Meanwhile.....
Cnut!

[claret and blue blood]

This is getting very tense can you imagine us ever winning against man Utd at home ? QP R's investment in players and a manager are now looking very good while our owner sat on his hands I think WE have to just pray but when you look at what has happened at this club this season I really do fear the worst .

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Nigel Adkins anyone?

Yep but he will  turn us down. MON - sometimes attractive, often effective. Houllier occasionally attractive, ineffective. McLeish, never attractive, ineffective.

Why would Adkins spoil his reputation taking Villa job, Martinez didnt and didn't.

I know there is a real depression around the club and us supporters at the moment but let us not lose faith and think that this current gloom defines us. We ARE a big club. Just because we been dished up shit recently does not mean a good manager will not look at us and think "hey, I could do something there. Aston Villa are a sleeping giant and I can wake them up".

If anything a good young manager like Adkins in this instance would have less pressure on him if he was to follow Alex McShitey. What would he or anyone else have to lose?

It'll just come down to if Randy and Faulkner have the ability and bravery to find someone like that.
 

[TonyD]

The fact that Blues had 3 more points at this stage of the season is a real worry.  Jesus.

[Percy McCarthy]

It's only relevant in relation to the bottom three though.

[claret and blue blood]

We have to hope the players collectively decide to fight their way out of this themselves. If they succeed we as fans must make it impossible for the club to continue to employ this monstrously bad "manager". People (including myself ) scorned the protestors a few weeks ago but I really wish we'd all protested now!

[TonyD]

I will now finally accept that RL is not going to sack AM this season.
It boils my piss, the useless owner of OUR club.

So I think we need to get behind the team and the kids and pray they can keep us up.

If we are safe with a couple of games to go - then really give AM and RL some fakin stick at the games.  BIG TIME.

[Irish villain]

We must galvinise now for the home stretch. This will go to the wire.

[Dave Clark Five]

Has the needle stuck?

[Clampy]

Has the needle stuck?

Yes, he's still a crap manager.

[N'ZMAV]

We have to hope the players collectively decide to fight their way out of this themselves. If they succeed we as fans must make it impossible for the club to continue to employ this monstrously bad "manager". People (including myself ) scorned the protestors a few weeks ago but I really wish we'd all protested now!

The players should be deciding to fight right from the first whistle of the season, which, most of them haven't been.

[villasjf]

I saw Gerald Ratner give a keynote speech recently and the content related to how he managed to completely screw up his business with a handful of appaling decisions. It was quite amusing to hear him talk so candidly about his idiotic mistakes but a couple of things struck me at the time that could relate to Villa. Firstly he said that he had taken advice from the wrong people. Secondly he said that a couple of decisions were so stupid that his colleagues didn't question him about them because they were convinced he knew things which they didn't which made it a good decision.

Is Lerner the new Ratner?

sometimes these guys think because they have made money elsewhere they can turn there hand to anything without any

experience of that business , oh dear

Its his dads money he is playing with isn't it?