AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[claret and blue blood]

He's doing us a favour-hanging himself with these comments,unless Randy can't read or understand English?

[OCD]

He thinks if Darren Bent had been fit for those 19 games, he would have scored at least 4 or 5 goals? That alone says how negative he is.

[exigo]

frankly if he got 2% i'd be surprised. 0.2% maybe

I thought it was just Dave behind him?

If McCleish is still here next year, attendances will drop enough to make Dave the 2%.

[pauliewalnuts]

If he does stay, I'll be lumping a decent sum of money on us going down next season.

[brian green]

One very important thing we have to bear in mind is that when he does go everything in the garden is not going to be rosy.   That is not to make excuses for him.   My opinion from the day he was appointed was and is that he is not the right man for the job.   However, we cannot be blind to the fact that too many players who have turned out for the first team in matches last season have not been good enough.

The senior players, for one reason or another - laziness, living in the comfort zone, being too old, being too fat, being too undisciplined or just plain old fashioned not talented enough - are the ones who have to bear as much responsibility for an utterly disgraceful season as the manager does.   It is true that we have some promising younger players - Herd, Gardner, Lichaj, Clark, Weimann, Baker,  but that is all they are, players with promise.

When McLeish goes, better quality players must be brought in and the malingerers shipped out.

Because our board are incompetent and our owner naive I think the crunch is much more likely to come next January than in the summer and that will make it very much more difficult but our board have previous for doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.

If this is McLeish's last game with us today I shall be happy but nor properly happy until I see some quality inside the Villa shirts next season.

[Mazrim]

Nah, when he goes flowers will blossom, people will sing and dance and laugh again, the sun will split the preternatural darkness and feral children will emerge from bunkers blinking at the sky.

[Dave Clark Five]

frankly if he got 2% i'd be surprised. 0.2% maybe

I thought it was just Dave behind him?

If McCleish is still here next year, attendances will drop enough to make Dave the 2%.

I know of another with tolerance in the Holte Upper.

[Legion]

Me?

[ez]

"People expect us higher up the table. This is not the Aston Villa team of 1982 (when they won the European Cup) and people have to realise that."

It sounds like he is asking to be sacked coming out with statements like that, he has no respect for the history and honour of our club let alone any ideas how to improve on it.

Surely today must be the last time he's let loose with our club and he gets his reward, by email perhaps?

I remember McLeish himself saying we should be higher up the table and we were not 16th then.

[danlanza]

"People expect us higher up the table. This is not the Aston Villa team of 1982 (when they won the European Cup) and people have to realise that."

It sounds like he is asking to be sacked coming out with statements like that, he has no respect for the history and honour of our club let alone any ideas how to improve on it.

Surely today must be the last time he's let loose with our club and he gets his reward, by email perhaps?

I remember McLeish himself saying we should be higher up the table and we were not 16th then.

That is up there with the worst statements made by that moron!

[PaulWinch again]

Every day he makes it worse, just fuck off Alex your an embarrassment to yourself and the club. There genuinely is no reason to keep him in charge, not one.

[mr underhill]

McLeish has more chance of engineering success at Villa than I have of wishing myself into a snowball and becoming Frosty the Snowman's bell end. Let's pray that next week we can draw a line under him as a fleeting aberration in our club's (mostly) illustrious history.

[Risso]

frankly if he got 2% i'd be surprised. 0.2% maybe

I thought it was just Dave behind him?

If McCleish is still here next year, attendances will drop enough to make Dave the 2%.

I know of another with tolerance in the Holte Upper.

That end of season awards dinner must have been really special to make you abandon all reason.

[Steve R]

One very important thing we have to bear in mind is that when he does go everything in the garden is not going to be rosy.   That is not to make excuses for him.   My opinion from the day he was appointed was and is that he is not the right man for the job.   However, we cannot be blind to the fact that too many players who have turned out for the first team in matches last season have not been good enough.

The senior players, for one reason or another - laziness, living in the comfort zone, being too old, being too fat, being too undisciplined or just plain old fashioned not talented enough - are the ones who have to bear as much responsibility for an utterly disgraceful season as the manager does.   It is true that we have some promising younger players - Herd, Gardner, Lichaj, Clark, Weimann, Baker,  but that is all they are, players with promise.

When McLeish goes, better quality players must be brought in and the malingerers shipped out.

Because our board are incompetent and our owner naive I think the crunch is much more likely to come next January than in the summer and that will make it very much more difficult but our board have previous for doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.

If this is McLeish's last game with us today I shall be happy but nor properly happy until I see some quality inside the Villa shirts next season.

I couldn't agree more. It isn't just an issue of footballing ability, it is attitude.

With the possible exception of Shay Given, who seems very professional in his outlook, there has to be a question mark against   just about all the senior players - and maybe a couple of the younger ones too - as to whether they have the mentality and attitude to be part of Villa's future.

Whoever gets the job has far more on his (or her!) plate than  topping up a depleted squad or finding replacements for those that are leaving.

The current team may not be 1981 standard, but the current manager is no Graham Taylor either.

[dorsetvilla]

It's been a long time since I haven't been at the last game of the season, either homer or away. I really wish I could be at Norwich today, just to make my feelings known to AM and his terrible reign as Villa manger. I'm sure the 2500 Villa fans in attendance will let him have it big time, now that we are safe. Surely this has to be his last game in charge!   UTV