AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[VILLA MOLE]

"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.

seething about the 82 comment , so itswin the europen cup or this , twit

[LeeB]

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.

Spot on again Brian, and it was clearly the issue last summer but it's an expensive issue so the board skirted around it and employed someone who was grateful for the job and wouldn't demand change.

[Matt Collins]

"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.

seething about the 82 comment , so itswin the europen cup or this , twit

Agreed. No season in the 20 year EPL history has been 81-82, but they've all been better than this one!

[VILLA MOLE]

"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.

seething about the 82 comment , so itswin the europen cup or this , twit

Agreed. No season in the 20 year EPL history has been 81-82, but they've all been better than this one!

Yes why mention it at all ffs. why not say we all expect and want better than this and we will we endeavor to do so next season .  I wouldnt buy it but it would be more diplomatic the twank

[exigo]

Randy called when he got the word
He said "I suppose you've heard -
About Alex".
Well I rushed to the Holte End
And looked outside
But I could hardly believe my eyes
As his big limousine rolled up
Into Alex's drive...

Oh I know just why he's leaving
Don't care where he's gonna go
There are so many reasons
But I just don't want to know
'Cos for thirty eight matches
I've been living in fear of Alex
Alex, who the f*** is Alex?

Thirty eight matches just waiting for a chance
To tell him how I'm hurting at every f***ing glance
Now I can finally get used to not living in fear of Alex
Alex, who the f*** is Alex?

Randy called back, asked how I felt
He said "I know how to help -
Get over Alex".
He said "Now Alex is gone,
But I'm still here,
You know I've been waiting
for thirty eight matches"
And the big limousine disappeared

Oh I know just why he's leaving
Don't care where he's gonna go
There are so many reasons
But I just don't want to know
'Cos for thirty eight matches
I've been living in fear of Alex
Alex, who the f*** is Alex?

Thirty eight matches just waiting for a chance
To tell him how I'm hurting at every f***ing glance
Now I can finally get used to not living in fear of Alex
Alex, who the f*** is Alex?

[Walmley_Villa]

There must be something going behind the seems if it is true that  McLeish said no decision on Heskey and Carlos had been made yet the players know?? Most odd.

[supertom]

I really, really hate this prick with a passion. I've never known someone so momumentally crap and out of their depth.
Come back O Leary! All is forgiven!

That's how bad it is.

[eastie]

Excellent exigo!

[PaulWinch again]

As I've said for weeks, I don't agree with the personal abuse.  I don't blame him for taking the Villa job, it was a great opportunity for him. However he clearly is not up to the task and must go.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

McLeish's future will involve spending a lot of time in his garden.

[supertom]

Don't ever want to wish harm upon anyone, so could someone just kidnap him, stuff him in a crate and dump him out in the North Pole with a big coat a drill, and a fishing rod. Give him a Husky too. Failing that, give him a Heskey. By the time he gets back, Randy will have had to have got a replacement.

[The Man With A Stick]

I wouldn't wish ill on anyone (except DOL, Paddy McGuinness or Bono) so I'm just hoping he takes a shine to Norfolk today and decides to retire down there.  He could buy a houseboat and go and live on the broads.

[PaulWinch again]

Bye bye, pathetic.

[LeeB]

0-1-2-1, Alex.

[pauliewalnuts]

Is he still here?