AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[danlanza]

How many excuses do we need to hear about this shit? Fuck me, it must be our fault that we have had this shit season not the twat who is payed 2 fucking million a year to do the job. I get it now, we are all c..ts and he is a member of the football illuminati! Mainstream media drivel and pish!

[mike]

I wonder if this is the warchest meeting.

Your just winding us all up now arn't you?

Dcf on a wind up?  Never!

We never found out what AM told him to make him so optimistic about the Tottenham game. Obviously AM said to him, 'don't worry, we'll get a lucky deflected goal, then Danny Rose will have a head rush and get sent off, and we'll cling on for a draw despite them battering us'.

[Monty]

A few of the national papers are making excuses for AM. Apparently for most of the season we have had a side full of players barely out of the youth team.

Lichaj and Herd 23, Bannan, Albrighton and Clark 22.
1980/81 Cowans 22, Gibson 21, Williams 20, Shaw 19.

And amongst the players who missed a 'large chunk' of the season is Shay Given apparently.

It's a damn good point. They're not kids - give them the responsibility and some training from the Swansea textbook and they could form the basis of a damn good side.

Also, of course, those few games (around New Year, I believe? I could be wrong) after Given got injured and Guzan came in - and played so well that many on here thought it was harsh to drop him. In fact, that was classic McLeish: players not picked on form, but on reputation. The way he does down the younger players (not kids, but they are younger) is positively criminal.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Fuck me, it must be our fault that we have had this shit season not the twat who is payed 2 fucking million a year to do the job. I get it now, we are all c..ts and he is a member of the football illuminati! Mainstream media drivel and pish!

The fans havent done their job this season. What happens if someone doesn't do their job ? You get rid.
Thats why 10,000 of them wont be there next season.

[john e]

Tommy Doc was alright.   For those of you too young to remember him imagine BFR without a sense of humour.

Holloway is the closest to them now, but people dont like that sort of manager anymore, they would rather someone more circumspect

[Mazrim]

I'd love another BFR but Holloway isn't that. He's a nauseating twat who thinks he's a lot more witty than he actually is.
However, he is one of 7 billion people more suited to the Villa job than McLeish.

[Dave Clark Five]

I wonder if this is the warchest meeting.

Your just winding us all up now arn't you?

Dcf on a wind up?  Never!

We never found out what AM told him to make him so optimistic about the Tottenham
 game. Obviously AM said to him, 'don't worry, we'll get a lucky deflected goal, then Danny Rose will have a head rush and get sent off, and we'll cling on for a draw despite them battering us'.

Nothing lucky about that goal.

[Big Dick Edwards]

Stan james make martinez favourite for the villa job with lambert and neil lennon 2nd and 3rd in the betting at present.

Have I missed something? Why would a man who refused even an interview last season be favourite for the same job?

[Dave]

Remind me of the "large chunk" that Given missed?

The bit of the season that coincided with our best defensive performances.

[ozzjim]

Remind me of the "large chunk" that Given missed?

The bit of the season that coincided with our best defensive performances.

It would appear this is a myth because Given is the best keeper ever that has single handedly kept us up.

[eastie]

Remind me of the "large chunk" that Given missed?

The bit of the season that coincided with our best defensive performances.

Guzan has certainly improved but i still much prefer given in goal.

[Monty]

Remind me of the "large chunk" that Given missed?

The bit of the season that coincided with our best defensive performances.

It would appear this is a myth because Given is the best keeper ever that has single handedly kept us up.

It's true. Imagine if we lost him, Petrov, Bent and Dunne at the same time. No wonder we played so badly away at Spurs, at home to Man City etc.

[Brian Taylor]

Stan james make martinez favourite for the villa job with lambert and neil lennon 2nd and 3rd in the betting at present.

Have I missed something? Why would a man who refused even an interview last season be favourite for the same job?

Odds going out on Curbs..12-1 now.
Quique Flores into 14's from 16-1.
Roy Keane is suddenly down from 20-1 to 14-1
Jurgen Klinsmann gets honorary mention in from 25's to 20-1.
But with Mick McCarthy at a steady 12-1 who knows what?

[Ron Manager]

By a country mile the worst manager I've seen in charge at Villa (though I'm too young to remember the likes of Docherty, McNeill and Turner which is a big qualification). 

If he was 30 years younger I would have The Doc back tomorrow. He would tell everybody we are the biggest club in the land, 40,000 plus every game, 20,000 on wash day, have us top of the league by the turn of the year and relegated by Easter. Never a dull moment.

and so would I. The Doc was nobodys fool. He would tell any player he was the greatest in the world and to go out and prove it. He gave the newspapers quotes Arry Boy wouldnt even think about in his dreams and to sum him up he was bluudy exciting!!  Even now at the age of 84 he would take on a kid like Fergie in verbal sparring and win by a mile.

Doug and The Doc in their pomp...What a double act!!

[claret and blue blood]

had to laugh at a guy's comment on Vital Villa that he's so angry now at the possiblity he might be staying that sackings not good enough for him any more, he needs to be deported!
By the way as someone who was 13 at the time I can vividly remember Tommy Docherty's transformation of an absolutely dead in the water decaying club playing in front of 14,000 fans into a galvanised team who had 65,000 for a friendly and we all realised then what a special club Aston Villa is.