AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Vanilla]

You get the feeling the club hired the manager in the same way you would hire a dodgy cowboy builder i.e. you aren't 100% sure how to do the job yourself, but you've heard about a builder who's a friend of a friend of a friend, who's supposed be able to do a half decent job on a limited budget. However, even though you start to hear concerns about him from other friends, you bite the bullet and give him the job to do.

After three weeks you realise you should have listened to the warnings when the wall he's knocked down has given you an en suite to the garden.

[Irish villain]

May have been said earlier but the Guardian are now speculating that McL is on the slide toward redundancy - McLeish's days look numbered

*like* but team first now. UTV.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

You get the feeling the club hired the manager in the same way you would hire a dodgy cowboy builder i.e. you aren't 100% sure how to do the job yourself, but you've heard about a builder who's a friend of a friend of a friend, who's supposed be able to do a half decent job on a limited budget. However, even though you start to hear concerns about him from other friends, you bite the bullet and give him the job to do.

After three weeks you realise you should have listened to the warnings when the wall he's knocked down has given you an en suite to the garden.

I still maintain Vanilla, that it was his charming and sociable behaviour after the 5-1 mauling against us that led them to believe he the man for them.

By all accounts the board were very impressed with his attitude that day.

[Legion]

Yes, he was very complimentary and magnanimous in defeat. I almost felt sorry for him.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yes, he was very complimentery and magnanimous in defeat. I almost felt sorry for him.

Same here. And then we found out the reality.

[Toronto Villa]

Yes, he was very complimentery and magnanimous in defeat. I almost felt sorry for him.

how fucking ace was that day? wow, we've gone down so sharply since the optimism created by that battering. I still have that gane recorded and still love the bit where Mellberg comes off and gets a standing ovation from the Holte. Brilliant.

[Legion]

Turn the sound OFF:

[KevinGage]

I lost my last shred of sympathy for McLeish on Tuesday when he said we conceded soft goals. We've been conceding soft goals all season long, I saw stats today claiming we're the only team not to score from a corner and have the joint highest record of conceding from corners. All season this has been going on and with three games to go he states the blindingly obvious, didn't he notice before?

He should not have a future here, he had a chance and has blown it by not being able to get the basics right.

I was particularly impressed with his observation that the Davies substitution at half time changed the game in their favour.  Just a shame that this Eureka moment came to him 30 minutes after the game had finished, and he didn't do anything to actually redress the balance during the match.

[Tom Sawyer]

Did we miss our Alan Pardew in Gary McAllister? Once Houllier was out of the way we suddenly started getting results. Arsenal and 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' away...  proven PL manager... bags of experience... obviously the player took to him. A missed opportunities to be sure. Oh... and he steered us from the drop zone to above half way in 5 or 6 games.

[mr woo]

No Tom, the only thing 'proven' about Gary McAllister, was that he was proven to be a shit manager. I suspect the improvement in form was more due to the lift t players get when a manager they dislike pisses off out the road.

I'd also be fairly sure that improvement would pan out to be temporary only.

[Tom Sawyer]

Okay... Coolio. I guess we'll never know. He dragged us up by our bootlaces though last season that's for sure. Think about it.

[PeterWithe]

Can I get a coolio.

[PeterWithesShin]

Can I get a coolio.

He came into the bookshop I worked at a few years ago.

[PeterWithe]

Tom Sawyer? Was he doing a signing, I thought he was dead, or was that exagerated.

[Tom Sawyer]

Can I get a coolio.

He came into the bookshop I worked at a few years ago.

Wa he as coolio as he comes across?