AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[OzVilla]

"I have taken a lot of weight on my shoulders this season. I was happy to take pressure off the players.
"I am not going to next season though. They better get their finger out."

Just imagine what the players must think when they read this - I know what i'd be thinking and it's not lets give everything for the Boss next year.

Seriously, can anybody imagine the likes of Siralex coming out with this kind of thing.

He's a plan for you AML.  How about you get rid of the players you think didn't do enough last season and replace them with those that you think will. 

Build a culture, a winning mentality based on a high level of professionalism  and determination to succeed.  In short it's also known as strong man management - maybe you should think about trying it sometime.

What the feck are we paying this reported 2 mill a year for exactly - FFS Randy, you might aswell give me the job.  Atleast we'd be saying the right things, we'd never accept defeat prior to a game, everyone at the Club would take pride in representing Aston Villa and it would'nt take us 6 months to work out how to defend a fecking corner!!

And i'd accept at 50% pay cut.

[Concrete John]

I've never "hated" McLeish and I'm embarrassed about some of the offensive drivel posted on this site, but if he does have any honour it is surely time for him to fall on his sword.

I think it'll happen and be announced as 'mutual consent' with him getting a lump sum, but not the whole balance of his contract.

[NeilH]

You know its Randy’s club at the end of the day, as he’s the sole proprietor. He can choose to do what he likes with his club, including keeping McLeish against all evidence to the contrary. Having said all that, in one of the few interviews he gave, Randy mentioned that he was but a temporary curator of a long and venerable institution; perhaps he needs to be reminded of that interview every single time he airs towards keeping McLeish in employment at B6.

[VillaAlways]

http://mobile.avfc.co.uk/default.aspx?s=news-display&aid=2763265

I may be grasping at straws but in this article Clark just constantly refers to the effort of the players and not once refers to the manager.

I am grasping at straws aren't I?

[richard moore]

"I have taken a lot of weight on my shoulders this season. I was happy to take pressure off the players.
"I am not going to next season though. They better get their finger out."

Just imagine what the players must think when they read this - I know what i'd be thinking and it's not lets give everything for the Boss next year.

Seriously, can anybody imagine the likes of Siralex coming out with this kind of thing.

He's a plan for you AML.  How about you get rid of the players you think didn't do enough last season and replace them with those that you think will. 

Build a culture, a winning mentality based on a high level of professionalism  and determination to succeed.  In short it's also known as strong man management - maybe you should think about trying it sometime.

What the feck are we paying this reported 2 mill a year for exactly - FFS Randy, you might aswell give me the job.  Atleast we'd be saying the right things, we'd never accept defeat prior to a game, everyone at the Club would take pride in representing Aston Villa and it would'nt take us 6 months to work out how to defend a fecking corner!!

And i'd accept at 50% pay cut.

Can I be your first team coach and see if I can introduce the novel idea of players making themselves available when we have a throw in?

[frank]

Can I be your first team coach and see if I can introduce the novel idea of players making themselves available when we have a throw in?

What are you like on corners and free kicks, Richard?

[OzVilla]

Can I be your first team coach and see if I can introduce the novel idea of players making themselves available when we have a throw in?

What are you like on corners and free kicks, Richard?

Don't worry about that. i'm on defending set pieces - and we mark man to man not this zonal shit. 

We know we're on a budget so we'll play with attacking full backs that overlap and deliver good crosses (a must of ANY modern full back) and we'll have some no nonsense hard bastards who intimidate forwards and eat them for breakfast.  Anyone who plays us knows they're in for a hard game.   

Richard is working on player movement when we don't have the ball and restarts (as SGT calls them).

Anyone fancy taking on creativity and forward thinking options as it woukd appear the Club hasn't employed anybody in this role for quite some time?

Anyone want to put there hands up for working with the forwards

[Lowendbehold]

I woul;d have thought he would be a shoe in for Wolves.  Not much money, but he will probably get them back up at the first time of trying.

[JUAN PABLO]

Can we just score from a corner ;(

[Brian Taylor]

Fuggit..Wigan above us! I never thought I'd see the day. Then there have many days I hoped I'd never see again.
email off to Randy, signed 'disgusted of Deritend'
Jazus McL, Martinez has done the job; why can't you?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I see Kean at Blackburn is saying similar things to McLeish.
'Plan for next season', 'new players' Blah, blah, blah.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I woul;d have thought he would be a shoe in for Wolves.  Not much money, but he will probably get them back up at the first time of trying.

I reckon Coventry would be about his level,  I can't see the Doghead supporters accepting him.

[Rick_avfc]

I see Kean at Blackburn is saying similar things to McLeish.
'Plan for next season', 'new players' Blah, blah, blah.

They are both as bad as each other!  neother of them deserve to keep their jobs.  Mcleish got the blouse relegated twice and almost got us relegated but we have to thank the teams below us for being so crap.  Kean almost took them down last season and was given a 2nd chance only for them to be relegated.  I hope RL is looking on and thinking that Eck doesn't deserve a 2nd chance

[Vanilla]

"I have taken a lot of weight on my shoulders this season. I was happy to take pressure off the players.
"I am not going to next season though. They better get their finger out."

Just imagine what the players must think when they read this - I know what i'd be thinking and it's not lets give everything for the Boss next year.

Seriously, can anybody imagine the likes of Siralex coming out with this kind of thing.

He's a plan for you AML.  How about you get rid of the players you think didn't do enough last season and replace them with those that you think will. 

Build a culture, a winning mentality based on a high level of professionalism  and determination to succeed.  In short it's also known as strong man management - maybe you should think about trying it sometime.

What the feck are we paying this reported 2 mill a year for exactly - FFS Randy, you might aswell give me the job.  Atleast we'd be saying the right things, we'd never accept defeat prior to a game, everyone at the Club would take pride in representing Aston Villa and it would'nt take us 6 months to work out how to defend a fecking corner!!

And i'd accept at 50% pay cut.

The fact he took an international striker like Darren Bent and turned him into the footballing equivalent of a walking statue is one of the worst parts about his tenure. Yes you could say well he Bent should track back etc etc . . . hobnobs!!

He is a goal scorer and needs to be fed the ball in the right places. The way the manager seemed to see him as some sort of luxury is shocking.

[ozzjim]

"I have taken a lot of weight on my shoulders this season. I was happy to take pressure off the players.
"I am not going to next season though. They better get their finger out."

Just imagine what the players must think when they read this - I know what i'd be thinking and it's not lets give everything for the Boss next year.

Seriously, can anybody imagine the likes of Siralex coming out with this kind of thing.

He's a plan for you AML.  How about you get rid of the players you think didn't do enough last season and replace them with those that you think will. 

Build a culture, a winning mentality based on a high level of professionalism  and determination to succeed.  In short it's also known as strong man management - maybe you should think about trying it sometime.

What the feck are we paying this reported 2 mill a year for exactly - FFS Randy, you might aswell give me the job.  Atleast we'd be saying the right things, we'd never accept defeat prior to a game, everyone at the Club would take pride in representing Aston Villa and it would'nt take us 6 months to work out how to defend a fecking corner!!

And i'd accept at 50% pay cut.

The fact he took an international striker like Darren Bent and turned him into the footballing equivalent of a walking statue is one of the worst parts about his tenure. Yes you could say well he Bent should track back etc etc . . . hobnobs!!

He is a goal scorer and needs to be fed the ball in the right places. The way the manager seemed to see him as some sort of luxury is shocking.

More worrying for me, is that Bent looks like he is doing bugger all but in some games - Liverpool at home and another around that time away, he ran as far as anyone else on the field, so it was never a lack of effort, just a complete lack of support or ability behind him to get him into the positions we saw the season before him thrive from. I maintain, our biggest loss in the close season was Walker. Young and Downing going was a blow, but Walker gave us a totally different dimension, and we miss that terribly, he also had the ability to find Bent making runs from the back.