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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3285 on: April 12, 2012, 04:22:02 PM »
Former Aston Villa star Paul Mortimer.

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3286 on: April 12, 2012, 04:24:16 PM »
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Former Aston Villa ace Najwan Ghrayib

The best left back John Gregory had ever seen in his entire life.

We're talking pre Warnock here

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3287 on: April 12, 2012, 04:27:45 PM »
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Former Aston Villa ace Najwan Ghrayib

The best left back John Gregory had ever seen in his entire life.

We're talking pre Warnock here

In fairness to Gregory, I think it was Ross MacLaren that was drooling over Ghrayib!

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3288 on: April 12, 2012, 04:30:15 PM »
Former Villa marksman Gustavo Bartelt  :)
Former Villa stopper Vaclav Drobny  ;D

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3289 on: April 12, 2012, 04:31:22 PM »
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Former Aston Villa ace Najwan Ghrayib

The best left back John Gregory had ever seen in his entire life.

We're talking pre Warnock here

In fairness to Gregory, I think it was Ross MacLaren that was drooling over Ghrayib!

When Gregory worked in Israel, Ghrayib was his Assistant Manager.

Completely irrelevant but a fact nontheless, fact fans.

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3290 on: April 12, 2012, 06:46:07 PM »
The point above re his contract - surely clubs legal teams are into some kind of PBR type contracts, with the incentives of increased payments/ break clauses if there is not performance to match expectation, that don't cost the club money?

Offline Dante Lavelli

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3291 on: April 12, 2012, 06:50:28 PM »
PBR = Pre Big Ron?

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3292 on: April 12, 2012, 06:52:02 PM »
Payment by results... apologies - work speak spilling into H&V

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3293 on: April 12, 2012, 07:00:59 PM »
Payment by results... apologies - work speak spilling into H&V

The club *should* have expected a degree of backlash and therefore you’d hope that they’d have covered their arses with the sort of contract you describe, after all McLeish was getting an over all payrise having relegated a team so his position of negotiation was not great.

Furthermore, the quotes at the time suggested that the club expected us to be much better than 15th, so he might be on rocky ground. 

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3294 on: April 12, 2012, 08:29:42 PM »
Great letter. Made me smile.

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3295 on: April 12, 2012, 08:33:29 PM »
I remember the paper planes. Great fun.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3296 on: April 12, 2012, 08:35:56 PM »
I remember the paper planes. Great fun.

Cov home wasn't it? Most entertaining thing about the evening was the Holte cheering as a plane got nearer and nearer to the pitch.

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3297 on: April 12, 2012, 08:37:41 PM »
I normally hate these kinds of letters, but he's really not wrong is he? Following Villa shouldn't make me not really give a shit. And most of the time it makes me feel that way. Helpless almost. I hate that.

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3298 on: April 12, 2012, 08:38:39 PM »
I thought it was a bit later than Coventry.

I'm sure I can remember roaring one on that somebody had chucked nearly to the eighteen yard line.

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Re: The Future of Alex McLeish?
« Reply #3299 on: April 12, 2012, 08:43:26 PM »
I normally hate these kinds of letters, but he's really not wrong is he? Following Villa shouldn't make me not really give a shit. And most of the time it makes me feel that way. Helpless almost. I hate that.

It is totally different to that other one. That one stank of self importance and self righteousness.

This one is witty and well written. And also far more likely to make Randy to think, were he to read it.

 


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