AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[ozzjim]

Like I said when I read it earlier, that statement is as close to gone in 3 games as you could get.

[TheEgo]

Also it's quite obvious how they have distanced themselves as much as possible from McCleish. It's massively impersonal. They've gone from "Alex" this "Alex" that, to "our manager" most telling, read the statement when he was first appointed and contrast it with this, he's a dead man walking......thing is are a we the same as a club?

[PeterWithesShin]

Doing his job is one thing, not being honest about the club you support to get people to ring up is another. I'm not sure i could do it.

I've heard him say on air several times that he supports Wolves. Is that what you mean ?

I've always had him down as a Villa fan and like i said earlier, he has a collumn in the match day programme. Besides, listen to him when we score and he goes beserk.

Didn't act like a Villa fan when he stood in front of the Holte arms out wide goading us after scoring for Racist FC. Or when he scored at VP for Forest.

Can anyone imagine Knight or Taylor doing the same if they'd scored against Villa at VP?

[john e]

Doing his job is one thing, not being honest about the club you support to get people to ring up is another. I'm not sure i could do it.

I've heard him say on air several times that he supports Wolves. Is that what you mean ?

he supports Villa, he was in the Holte end last night, he's always said this when talking about the Villa

and the reason he isnt giving Mcleish a load of grief is because he touted Alex big time before he got the job, and when he got it SVC said he would be great for Villa, i think he now realises he was wrong, but doesnt want to seem hypocritical

[PeterWithesShin]

Being in the Holte doesn't mean squat. There's some small heath bint banging on how she was in the Holte last night and how much she loved it.

Loved us losing I should add.

[VILLA MOLE]

Being in the Holte doesn't mean squat. There's some small heath bint banging no how she was in the Holte last night and how much she loved it.

he trys just a bit too hard to make out he is a Villa fan

[DesBremner]

I think he's already as good as gone. 

That's what the Guardian thinks too

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sSX0vvtsVYAcPSkOd_cicLg/view.m?id=15&gid=football/2012/apr/25/aston-villa-fans-alex-mcleish&cat=sport

Hallelujah
3 bluenoses have text me this link as well and they agree with it
Lets hope the 'Board' read the Granduid

[john e]

Being in the Holte doesn't mean squat. There's some small heath bint banging no how she was in the Holte last night and how much she loved it.

he trys just a bit too hard to make out he is a Villa fan

yeah, cus its great supporting Villa at the moment isnt it ?
lets pretend to support the Villa then i can ride the glory train to all those trophies,

[PeterWithesShin]

Being in the Holte doesn't mean squat. There's some small heath bint banging no how she was in the Holte last night and how much she loved it.

he trys just a bit too hard to make out he is a Villa fan

yeah, cus its great supporting Villa at the moment isnt it ?
lets pretend to support the Villa then i can ride the glory train to all those trophies,

As i've said before, if he's such a lifelong Villa fan why did he goad the Holte when scoring for Racist FC?

And can you imagine Ian Taylor doing that if he'd scored against us?

[charlie]

If, and its a huge if, he is bright enough to clock the 3 game vote, then surely the dignified way is to walk now, claim constructive and bugger off....... or is that too wishful a bit of thinking. Gordon n Kev    may well keep us up!!!

[James]

If, and its a huge if, he is bright enough to clock the 3 game vote, then surely the dignified way is to walk now, claim constructive and bugger off....... or is that too wishful a bit of thinking. Gordon n Kev    may well keep us up!!!

He's not bright enough. If he was he'd have resigned some time ago to avoid having his name linked to yet another relegation. Now his best bet for his own self-esteem is to try and make it not happen, but whether he can or not .....

[PaulWinch again]

To be fair I'm not sure I'd resign from a 3 year contract just for a bit of dignity.

[pauliewalnuts]

To be fair I'm not sure I'd resign from a 3 year contract just for a bit of dignity.

Too right.

When was the last time a top flight manager really actually resigned? They never do.

[Californian Villain]

As i've said before, if he's such a lifelong Villa fan why did he goad the Holte when scoring for Racist FC?

And can you imagine Ian Taylor doing that if he'd scored against us?

He's a life long Wolves fan*. When he originally came to Villa it was put about that he was a Villa fan, and these days he shows some affection for the club.

(*he used to play footy on the streets of Cannock in a Wolves shirt....as he described in detail on his 606 debut...that was before he got canned for dogging).

[Mr Diggles]

Pat Murphy suggested that the key so far as Lerner is concerned is to get through these next 3 games and then build in the summer through stability. The inference was that Lerner does not want to admit he made a mistake, thinks sticking with his man will reap rewards in the future (like with Man U and Ferguson all those years ago) and has seemingly bought all the excuses McLeish has been selling all season.

I don't think it as cut and dried that McLeish will go in the summer, relegation or survival.