AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[PeterWithe]

Alex has had a very easy ride, shite like this really gets on my wick.

[villajk]

Stan collymore saying one caller agrees with him that the atmosphere at virtually all games this season has been corrosive.

[KevinGage]

Stan also reckons Villa fans wanted O'Neill sacked after nearly finishing 4th.

Stan talks bollocks.

[pauliewalnuts]

Stan collymore saying one caller agrees with him that the atmosphere at virtually all games this season has been corrosive.

Collymore really is talking some shite on this issue.

[N'ZMAV]

Villa Park's atmosphere is awful. Has been for a long while.

[tarzansbrother]

Stan collymore saying one caller agrees with him that the atmosphere at virtually all games this season has been corrosive.

Sometimes Collymore really talks rubbish. Anyone can turn up for one game and sing all game making out they support the club thru thick and thin. Oh you did that against Bolton didn't you Stan.

[PeterWithe]

Woman beating aside, I like Stan but at times he doesn't half sail with the tide, McLeish has had an easier ride than GH did. The atmosphere at Vp has really been one of boredom and thats no-one fault but his.

[pauliewalnuts]

Villa Park's atmosphere is awful. Has been for a long while.

He's not saying it's awful, though, he's saying it is corrosive, ie hostile towards the manager.

[N'ZMAV]

Stan also reckons Villa fans wanted O'Neill sacked after nearly finishing 4th.

Stan talks bollocks.

I don't think a lot of fans wanted MON sacked, but we all knew that he was papering over a lot of widening cracks... expensively...

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Villa Park's atmosphere is awful. Has been for a long while.

He's not saying it's awful, though, he's saying it is corrosive, ie hostile towards the manager.

Simply not true, prior to the Bolton game he was getting an amazingly easy ride.
Another ex-player who is totally out of touch.

[Toronto Villa]

Obviously I'm not able to be there but what I can tell from far away it seems just very tense than corrosive. There's the obvious controversy over his arrival, but I believe that had we simply played better football and won more games at home eventually he'd have gotten to the point of being afforded the same time as almos any other manager. The Arsenal home game provides evidence of that. Most level headed yet passionate Villa fans simply want to be entertained and as the season went on McLeish became the man everyone feared he would and the football followed suit. I believed that with better players he'd open up. I was wrong, and even if you took injuries as part of the equation the team have gotten to the point of looking lost and devoid of confidence before kick off. It's not all been McLeish's fault but a very large chunk of it lies at his door.

[KevinGage]

Woman beating aside, I like Stan but at times he doesn't half sail with the tide, McLeish has had an easier ride than GH did. The atmosphere at Vp has really been one of boredom and thats no-one fault but his.

Bingo.

But Stan wouldn't know that, as that's probably the first time our very own 'man of the terraces' has been in the Holte for a while. Possibly ever.

[N'ZMAV]

Villa Park's atmosphere is awful. Has been for a long while.

He's not saying it's awful, though, he's saying it is corrosive, ie hostile towards the manager.

Simply not true, prior to the Bolton game he was getting an amazingly easy ride.
Another ex-player who is totally out of touch.

He was getting away with it long before he should have been.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Woman beating aside, I like Stan but at times he doesn't half sail with the tide, McLeish has had an easier ride than GH did. The atmosphere at Vp has really been one of boredom and thats no-one fault but his.

The atmosphere has been tense and uncomfortable at best.
We'd all have been happier if AM had proved our worst fears wrong, but he hasn't.
He has set the team up in a poor way for most of the season and the team (and us!) are paying for it.
Stan should know that and that it's foolish to try to gloss over it by having a go at the fans.
Perhaps he's good mates with AM.

[Monty]

Obviously I'm not able to be there but what I can tell from far away it seems just very tense than corrosive. There's the obvious controversy over his arrival, but I believe that had we simply played better football and won more games at home eventually he'd have gotten to the point of being afforded the same time as almos any other manager. The Arsenal home game provides evidence of that. Most level headed yet passionate Villa fans simply want to be entertained and as the season went on McLeish became the man everyone feared he would and the football followed suit. I believed that with better players he'd open up. I was wrong, and even if you took injuries as part of the equation the team have gotten to the point of looking lost and devoid of confidence before kick off. It's not all been McLeish's fault but a very large chunk of it lies at his door.

Right on the money.