AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[curiousorange]

Faulkner should have been waiting in the wings to sack him immediately after that game but I forgot he's away on 'business' til Monday I honestly believe we have the most utterly gutless,spineless board in the whole football league

What if that business was ironing out the final details of McLeish's severance?

For the Owner and CEO to not be at the last match of the season and away on business, it surely must have been club business.  I do not imagine they were discussing a pay rise for the manager.

I believe the wheels are already in motion for replacing McLeish.

They were probably out buying him a 'Sorry you lost the match, you're still our football fwend' cake.

[pauliewalnuts]

One can only hope that they've seen enough already and didn't need to be at the game. I really hope it is all academic and next weeks meeting is very short and very sweet for us.

More than anything, I want to start enjoying watching Villa again.

I thought  last season was pretty grim in the main, but it had absolutely nothing, nothing on this year. Last season we were getting poor results and looking disorganised, but at least you had an idea what the manager wanted us to do, he just couldn't get us doing it.

This season, by comparison, makes last year look like 1980-81. Ultimately, we have a manager who has not got a single attacking bone in his body, who came here with a wretched reputation for poor results and terrible football, and carried on in that vein.

He's actually managed to get us to end the season on fewer points than Small Heath got last season, and despite him saying that's not the way his teams to say, the evidence says something totally different.

Just incredible. The people who got this man into our club need to hang their heads in shame, they really do.

[curiousorange]

One can only hope that they've seen enough already and didn't need to be at the game. I really hope it is all academic and next weeks meeting is very short and very sweet for us.

More than anything, I want to start enjoying watching Villa again.

Nail on head.

[bertlambshank]

One can only hope that they've seen enough already and didn't need to be at the game. I really hope it is all academic and next weeks meeting is very short and very sweet for us.

More than anything, I want to start enjoying watching Villa again.

Nail on head.

AVB would get the place rocking.I live in hope.

[SashasGrandad]

We want nails in the coffin

[PaulWinch again]

One can only hope that they've seen enough already and didn't need to be at the game. I really hope it is all academic and next weeks meeting is very short and very sweet for us.

More than anything, I want to start enjoying watching Villa again.

Nail on head.

There is only one decision that can be made now, even from our clueless board. There is no possibility of him staying.

[villainjock]

can i dedicate this tune to lerner and his fuckwit sidekick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OigFnuXL1NI

[Mazrim]

Why would lambert take a sideways move to WBA

As opposed to a downward move to Villa...

You don't honestly believe that guff do you?

[Risso]

Post match comments.  What a gigantic ****** that ginger bellend fuckwit really is:

"Alex McLeish spoke of his frustration after his team's 2-0 defeat to Norwich, insisting: "That was an unacceptable display."

It may have been the final day of the season but McLeish was already looking ahead to the start of the 2012-13 campaign, revealing change was needed in the playing staff to ensure a more fruitful coming term for the claret and blue troops.

He said: "It was flat. It was disappointing because over the past few weeks we have shown a bit of resilience to get us over the line.

"But that was an unacceptable performance in Aston Villa colours. I have to change that. There will be change.

"People will talk of an end of season mentality this afternoon but I can't accept that because I've been used to winning trophies and medals throughout my career both as a player and manager.

"I have not had the riches to spend on players that other managers would have liked but I believe I can turn Aston Villa around by changing things around and adding to the quality, bringing players in who will work their socks off for this club and for me.

"I can totally understand the frustration of the fans. I am the guy who carries the can for the performances.

"But I don't ask the players to make a 10 yard pass and not find the target, a team-mate. It's frustrating for me to watch that kind of stuff."

McLeish has vowed to build a winning mentality after two seasons of the team flirting with relegation from the top-flight.

He added: " It's up to me to turn the opinion around.

"I have to try and build a winning mentality at this club. It's two season now of flirting with relegation.

"We got in Darren Bent in January to get goals to stay up and we have still suffered the same kinds of problems this season, the lack of goals. The teams around us have all scored more.

"I think I can turn it around. I have done it before. I think in terms of the season you have to analyse it a bit more than just 'It's Aston Villa, they shouldn't be doing that.'

"We have problems. There are definite problems. I said at the start of the season that if we lost some senior players it could be a battle.

"I even said we could be in the bottom six or seven, maybe that was wishful thinking. Analysing the squad I thought that was a reality.

"I know we have still got to trade. The chairman has been clear. He's not going to throw in millions of pounds to bring giant names into the club.

"We still have to wheel and deal a little bit. But we certainly have to make some changes because two seasons in a row for Villa is not acceptable."

[PaulWinch again]

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH! fuck off Mcleish, nobody wants you at this club with the exception of maybe one fan.

[cdward]

He knows his time is up, every time he got off the bench he was booed today. Renditions of sack McLeish m'lord, sacked in the morning, f**k off McLeish the Villa is ours, and stand up if you hate McLeish, must have given him some idea that this silent majority is bollocks.

[curiousorange]

Post match comments.  What a gigantic c*** that ginger bellend fuckwit really is:

"Alex McLeish spoke of his frustration after his team's 2-0 defeat to Norwich, insisting: "That was an unacceptable display."

It may have been the final day of the season but McLeish was already looking ahead to the start of the 2012-13 campaign, revealing change was needed in the playing staff to ensure a more fruitful coming term for the claret and blue troops.

He said: "It was flat. It was disappointing because over the past few weeks we have shown a bit of resilience to get us over the line.

"But that was an unacceptable performance in Aston Villa colours. I have to change that. There will be change.

"People will talk of an end of season mentality this afternoon but I can't accept that because I've been used to winning trophies and medals throughout my career both as a player and manager.

"I have not had the riches to spend on players that other managers would have liked but I believe I can turn Aston Villa around by changing things around and adding to the quality, bringing players in who will work their socks off for this club and for me.

"I can totally understand the frustration of the fans. I am the guy who carries the can for the performances.

"But I don't ask the players to make a 10 yard pass and not find the target, a team-mate. It's frustrating for me to watch that kind of stuff."

McLeish has vowed to build a winning mentality after two seasons of the team flirting with relegation from the top-flight.

He added: " It's up to me to turn the opinion around.

"I have to try and build a winning mentality at this club. It's two season now of flirting with relegation.

"We got in Darren Bent in January to get goals to stay up and we have still suffered the same kinds of problems this season, the lack of goals. The teams around us have all scored more.

"I think I can turn it around. I have done it before. I think in terms of the season you have to analyse it a bit more than just 'It's Aston Villa, they shouldn't be doing that.'

"We have problems. There are definite problems. I said at the start of the season that if we lost some senior players it could be a battle.

"I even said we could be in the bottom six or seven, maybe that was wishful thinking. Analysing the squad I thought that was a reality.

"I know we have still got to trade. The chairman has been clear. He's not going to throw in millions of pounds to bring giant names into the club.

"We still have to wheel and deal a little bit. But we certainly have to make some changes because two seasons in a row for Villa is not acceptable."

"The Fool on the Hill, sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head, see the world spinning round"

[paulcomben]

That is shocking and also mistaken about which season Bent joined.

[Bowers]

I really can't begin to articulate how angry I am with respect to that statement.

[old man villa fan]

Post match comments.  What a gigantic c*** that ginger bellend fuckwit really is:

"Alex McLeish spoke of his frustration after his team's 2-0 defeat to Norwich, insisting: "That was an unacceptable display."

It may have been the final day of the season but McLeish was already looking ahead to the start of the 2012-13 campaign, revealing change was needed in the playing staff to ensure a more fruitful coming term for the claret and blue troops.

He said: "It was flat. It was disappointing because over the past few weeks we have shown a bit of resilience to get us over the line.

"But that was an unacceptable performance in Aston Villa colours. I have to change that. There will be change.

"People will talk of an end of season mentality this afternoon but I can't accept that because I've been used to winning trophies and medals throughout my career both as a player and manager.

"I have not had the riches to spend on players that other managers would have liked but I believe I can turn Aston Villa around by changing things around and adding to the quality, bringing players in who will work their socks off for this club and for me.

"I can totally understand the frustration of the fans. I am the guy who carries the can for the performances.

"But I don't ask the players to make a 10 yard pass and not find the target, a team-mate. It's frustrating for me to watch that kind of stuff."

McLeish has vowed to build a winning mentality after two seasons of the team flirting with relegation from the top-flight.

He added: " It's up to me to turn the opinion around.

"I have to try and build a winning mentality at this club. It's two season now of flirting with relegation.

"We got in Darren Bent in January to get goals to stay up and we have still suffered the same kinds of problems this season, the lack of goals. The teams around us have all scored more.

"I think I can turn it around. I have done it before. I think in terms of the season you have to analyse it a bit more than just 'It's Aston Villa, they shouldn't be doing that.'

"We have problems. There are definite problems. I said at the start of the season that if we lost some senior players it could be a battle.

"I even said we could be in the bottom six or seven, maybe that was wishful thinking. Analysing the squad I thought that was a reality.

"I know we have still got to trade. The chairman has been clear. He's not going to throw in millions of pounds to bring giant names into the club.

"We still have to wheel and deal a little bit. But we certainly have to make some changes because two seasons in a row for Villa is not acceptable."

Every interview he gives now is just deflecting criticism from his own performance.  Each interview he brings something else up to make his performance sound better.  This time it is bracketting last season with this season as being unacceptable.  I know last season was not brilliant but we were improving as the season went on after a horrendous run of injuries pre Christmas and you could see what Houllier was trying to achieve.