AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[tomd2103]

I remember chatting with friends at the time of his appointment and saying that I hoped we would not get in a relegation battle, as he on both occasions he took Blues down he just simply did not know what to do to arrest the slide.  Although we all took great delight in it, The Blues should not have gone down on either occasion with the team they had and my mind goes back to the the time we beat them 5-1 and just how demoralised and disinterested their players looked on that day in what was a massive game for them.  I have just looked up the report of that game and McLeish's post match comments were, ""We were on the end of a bruising from a really good Villa side.  You have to say that Villa's agenda is totally different to ours - the bottom line is that they are a better team".  Sound familiar? 

 

[danlanza]

Aston Villa: Alex McLeish - Should he stay or should he go?
By Mat KendrickApr 25 2012Comments (23) Recommend (5)

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Alex McLeish - Should he stay or should he go?
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76.8%

Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish ran the gauntlet of unprecedented levels of hostility from the Villa Park faithful as the Claret and Blues were plunged into a relegation crisis on Tuesday night.

Angry fans called for Mcleish to be sacked and jeered the manager after the 2-1 defeat to Bolton left Villa three points above the drop-zone.

The club face three crucial games to secure their Premier League status, the Birmingham Mail is asking should Alex McLeish stay or go?


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Score: 1 Name withheld
12:45 PM on 25/4/2012
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Score: 9 wazzman
12:45 PM on 25/4/2012
Pity so many blue noses will affect the true % of us who want the man to go and go NOW. How he had the nerve to clap the fans at the end of that result belies belief. The man has no class no dignity or integrity and NO support from IMO 100% true AVFC fans. If he stays then We stay AWAY. It is not where you came from but where you are taking US.
Leave now and take that other imbecile with you P Grant. A real pair of prize *******
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Score: 4 timbailey
12:46 PM on 25/4/2012
many have shown their displeasure in watching his sytle of football by not putting bum's on seats recently. we "the royal we" should not have gave this man the job. aston villa have always played attractive football and we require a manager that allows this club to do so but if we do get relegated it will require a lot of money and restructuring to bring this club back to it rightful place top six premier league
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Score: 5 Woodchip63
12:50 PM on 25/4/2012
AT LAST!!! I have been asking for this pole to be posted for months now Mat, you have finally decided to do it. Now the board and the Ginger one will realise just how unpopular he is and up to now the figures dont lie I hope Lerner and Faulkner take note that their empire will crumble around them if they dont dismiss the Ginger one and Grant TODAY.
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Score: 8 Phillip5150
12:54 PM on 25/4/2012
Id like to know who is saying stay? Alex, are you out there?

He is a disgrace & a fraud of a manager. Sack him now & let KMAC take charge & give us some dignity.
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Score: -6 stanharland
12:55 PM on 25/4/2012
Excellent Work Agent Mcleish...

Mission almost accomplished, Stay focused , Strong ,
& we wish you Good Luck , Gods Speed ,
& a successful return directly into the NPower .
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Score: -4 Ryan23
1:02 PM on 25/4/2012
what is even funnier about all of this is that McLeish won Blues a trophy and Villa haven't won anything for 16 years, and Villa paid £3 million to take him off Blues hands!
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Score: 6 forevaavillan1
1:03 PM on 25/4/2012
He should of never have become Villa manager never mind should he go! I don't know of one Villa fan who wants to see this Man and his hopo remain at VP.

Off you go now Mcleish and take your baggage with you.
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Score: 1 BradleyBoy
1:16 PM on 25/4/2012
Although the stay figure is gradually reducing, I don't believe the figures for a minute. Granted there may be a few bluenoses voting to muddy the waters but even 5% wanting him to stay is unbelievable. Which begs the question, does the Evening Mail have a hidden agenda to keep McLeish in the job? I seem to remember back to last season, the Liverpool Echo (Evening Mail sister paper) were instrumental in removing Roy Hodgson! What's so different about Birmingham? VTID
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Score: 3 derk
1:17 PM on 25/4/2012
Do we really need a poll to know whatt we have all been saying for months, if it isn't 100% in favour then I suspect blue noses are voting along Mc Muppets family,
and friends, oh yes and his bank manager & accountant
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Score: 4 Tim
1:30 PM on 25/4/2012
Can we have a similar poll for Lerner?
 
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Score: 1 terrygibson59
1:33 PM on 25/4/2012
It is not only a case of should he go? It is also a case of should the owner & his bunch of half wits go with him?
They had the audacity to bring him to this club so they should do the decent thing GO with him. I have not darkened the turnstiles of Villa Park since our monday night capitulation to Tottenham back in Nov. I swore then that while McLeish was in charge I would not be back. It has killed me to see the destruction of my beloved football team but that is what has happened. We deserve to go down as Wolves apart, we are the worst team in the premier league by a country mile. Get out NOW Mr McLeish & let Kevin Macdonald see if he can rescue something out of this dire mess
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Score: 0 upthevilla90
1:40 PM on 25/4/2012
hoping we can stay up allbeit by other teams losing around us cause i cant see another 3 points for us this season then it would be sensible if we got rid of him in the summer i dont see anyone whos gonna improve this team in the last three games jus look at what happened to wolves
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Score: 0 duck
1:41 PM on 25/4/2012
Sacking is to good for him a rope is what's needed
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Score: 1 wembley57er
1:44 PM on 25/4/2012
I dont care where he came from and I gave him a chance. The result a shambles. Players played when out of form, in the wrong positions, just because HE bought them, and finally no tactics apparent nor passionate leadership shown!

After over 60 years of active support, enough is enough. The club rang me last week, as one of their longest holding season ticket holders, they asked am I renewing - my reply, if McClown stays, I go! I go to enjoy my football, not to be depressed week after week.
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Score: 0 MattyP
1:49 PM on 25/4/2012
As I said on another page....if we have to accept relegation in order to rid us of this clueless idiot and his cronies....then so be it.
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Score: 0 Cleef68
1:54 PM on 25/4/2012
A stupid question really. Still, I've put my tuppence worth in seeing as they were asking for it.

His position is now untenable. He will never win the Villa fans over. He has been given a whole season and failed.


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Fuck me!War And Peace isn't that long!All the same,interesting stuff.

[David_Nab]

When the fans were protesting at McLeish's appointment outside Villa Park a friend of mine (with no interest in football)
was attending a corporate event in the Holte Suite.
He was told by one of the Villa Management.
"The fans can protest all they like. We dont care what they want.  Mcleish is coming here as a business decision and  that's the end of it."

Haha and it has  worked out so well ,how many millions will they lose in reegation .idiots

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I'm in a strange emotional state at the moment, somewhere between rage and resignation. I'm fuming at what Mcleish through Lerner is doing to the club, but I'm resigned to the fact that Lerner is completely clueless and pig headed and won't back down after making a massive mistake. I'm desperate for the club to turn it round, but I also want Lerner to suffer for his ignorance. It's a very strange feeling.

From the moment Bolton scored their second goal, I slumped in my seat, I was totally resigned to the fact that we were too clueless to engineer an equaliser and the reversion to hoof ball was ineffective and quite pathetic.
My mate next to me was raging but at that point i'd had all positivity sucked out of me through McLeish's footballing hex.

[boboonthecorner]

My worry is that Lerner and Faulkner with carry on with AM because they do not have the capability or appetite to go through another manager search.

In recent years I've never known two more clueless ****** than Lerner and Faulkner, the only chance this club has of surviving in The Championship next season is if he sells up and takes his chubby little lapdog with him.

[Ron Manager]

My worry is that Lerner and Faulkner with carry on with AM because they do not have the capability or appetite to go through another manager search.

I think that's just about the shape of it. Or maybe Randy read Children Of The Revolution, and thought he'd kick off a glorious revolution of his own from the third division?

Great that means we will have Tommy Doc as manager once again!!

[James]

I wonder what Macron are thinking now that their 'flagship English club' looks like being in the second tier next season! I suppose they'll be hoping that the kit stealers come up to save them some face. Jesus wept!

[itbrvilla]

When the fans were protesting at McLeish's appointment outside Villa Park a friend of mine (with no interest in football)
was attending a corporate event in the Holte Suite.
He was told by one of the Villa Management.
"The fans can protest all they like. We dont care what they want.  Mcleish is coming here as a business decision and  that's the end of it."

Haha and it has  worked out so well ,how many millions will they lose in reegation .idiots

They wont loose anything as it'll no doubt be lumbered on the club.

[itbrvilla]

My worry is that Lerner and Faulkner with carry on with AM because they do not have the capability or appetite to go through another manager search.

In recent years I've never known two more clueless c***s than Lerner and Faulkner, the only chance this club has of surviving in The Championship next season is if he sells up and takes his chubby little lapdog with him.

I remember getting lampooned by many on here not so long ago for jokingly saying something like 'I could do a better job'.

[Rick_avfc]

My worry is that Lerner and Faulkner with carry on with AM because they do not have the capability or appetite to go through another manager search.

In recent years I've never known two more clueless c***s than Lerner and Faulkner, the only chance this club has of surviving in The Championship next season is if he sells up and takes his chubby little lapdog with him.

I remember getting lampooned by many on here not so long ago for jokingly saying something like 'I could do a better job'.

I remember getting funny comments after I said Sunderland WILL finish above us when MON took over.  Oh how right was I!?

[PaulWinch again]

When the fans were protesting at McLeish's appointment outside Villa Park a friend of mine (with no interest in football)
was attending a corporate event in the Holte Suite.
He was told by one of the Villa Management.
"The fans can protest all they like. We dont care what they want.  Mcleish is coming here as a business decision and  that's the end of it."

Haha and it has  worked out so well ,how many millions will they lose in reegation .idiots

If that story is true, then they're not only incompetent they're also masochistic. Idiots.

[Holte L2]

When the fans were protesting at McLeish's appointment outside Villa Park a friend of mine (with no interest in football)
was attending a corporate event in the Holte Suite.
He was told by one of the Villa Management.
"The fans can protest all they like. We dont care what they want.  Mcleish is coming here as a business decision and  that's the end of it."

Haha and it has  worked out so well ,how many millions will they lose in reegation .idiots

If that story is true, then they're not only incompetent they're also masochistic. Idiots.

If that's true, I'm really tempted to give up my West Brom and Norwich tickets and not renew my season ticket until they've gone.

Sickening how they can treat us like this!

[mr underhill]

he's nailed on to stay if we get relegated, no least because Lerner's investment will take a severe financial hit, irrespective of parachute payments and selling the top earners we don't want, should someone be fool enough to want them. Why add to your financial woes by then sacking his gingerness and forking out compo? It only makes financial sense to axe him if we stay up. I think its pointless looking for a footballing rationale in anything the board do, everything is driven by money.

[PaulWinch again]

What's funny is fans are always criticised, patronised and told they wouldn't have a clue about what it takes to manage a football club. Well I'm pretty sure the vast majority said Mcleish would be a terrible appointment(even if we gave him a chance) and sure enough he's turned out to be a disaster. If anything we underestimated how bad he would be. So in this case the fans were clearly right and the board/media do not have a  bloody clue what they're talking about.

[Brian Taylor]

Who pays their wages and what do we pay them for? This is The VILLA!! Our Villa!