AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Dave Clark Five]

Owen Coyle?

[Lambert and Payne]

I'm glad the right things been done, but Randy is the one who should have done the firing, and for him not to be is a big dissapointment

I couldn't care less.  McLeish resigned by email last year, so at least he was shown more respect in a face to face meeting than he showed last summer.

Fair point, just wish he had been interested in it enough to get rid of him hinself

DC5 - Definitely

[eastie]

I see ranieri has expressed an interest in the villa job according to ssn- interesting option but lambert is the man id choose.

[Legion]

I'd go for Ranieri.

[villajk]

Should I open my bottle of chateauxneuf du pape, I wonder?

Did somebody mention wine?

[Summers]

I'd go for Ranieri.

Really Leeg? Over Lambert/etc?

[rob_bridge]

Gentlemen (and Ladies) Ive had 6hrs to digest this news and I think we are maybe getting a little over excited at this stage.
Mr McCleish has gone (with a nice cheque!) and Mr Lerner has issued a statement that uses for once the right words.

We seem to be expecting that nice Mr Lambert to be arriving at Villa Park tommorrow morning to sign on the dotted line.
But maybe he was putting feelers out to other big clubs yesterday. For all we know Mr Faulkner is on the phone to Fergie at this moment asking for specialist advice

"Och that Steve Keen at Blackburn hes a promising talent..and Scotch too boot"

Ooh thanks Sir Alex Ill tell Randy straight away!

With Aston Villa anything is possible and I still believe our next manager will be David Moyes

Moyes won't be manager though on behalf of Villa fans I return the compliment and insist Sir Fergie find a role for his genius accolyte Mr A McLeish at the Theatre of Shite

[Irish villain]

I see the official site is now pushing season tickets again!

[rob_bridge]

I'd go for Ranieri.

Really Leeg? Over Lambert/etc?

Ranieri has more sacks than Santa - no thanks

[Legion]

I'd go for Ranieri.

Really Leeg? Over Lambert/etc?

Why not?

[Summers]

I'd go for Ranieri.

Really Leeg? Over Lambert/etc?

Why not?

Failed to deliver in his last few jobs, I'd say. He's no slouch and the clubs on his resume are fantastic, but did he do enough at those jobs?

[cdbearsfan]

I'd go for Ranieri.

Really Leeg? Over Lambert/etc?

Why not?

He's too nice, I already told you!

[russon]

To give McLeish some credit, you have to say he managed to unite the entire Villa support by the finish

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd go for Ranieri.

Really Leeg? Over Lambert/etc?

Why not?

He rarely wins anything. 3 cups all in 90s despite managing clubs like Chelsea, Ath Madrid, Napoli, Valencia, Parma, Juventus, Roma, Inter.

[James]

I think we should be looking to do better than Martinez to be honest.  He hasn't set the world alight at Wigan (granted he got some unexpected results at the end of the season) but if Villa are planning on a relegation fight each season then Ok. We should be aiming for higher though.

I heard this same nonsense last summer.

Can people stop this elitist mentality and being all like "he's not good enough" "we deserve better". It's embarrassing. We aren't Real Madrid. We need to think outside the box. It's not necessarily about who is/isn't good enough, its about who is the right man for the job.

If Martinez isn't good enough than what have Rodgers or Lambert done in their first premier league season to show they're better? Lots of new promoted teams will have a good first season and the manager of that promoted team will get hyped up and then the following season things don't go so well and people wonder if it was all a fluke.

I'm not saying Martinez should be our new manager all I'm saying is that he should be carefully considered just like all potential candidates. I'm just sick of all this moaning.

When looking at Lambert, it's the fact that he's got Norwich back into the Prem from League 1 in 3 consecutive seasons.

Considering Martinez, his teams are shit, don't turn up until April, and turned us down last year.

His Swansea team weren't shit. He got them promoted. And his shit Wigan team has finished 5 points ahead of us.

Rodgers got Swans up, not Martinez, he was busy fighting relegation last year with Wigan. Oh, and Lambert's team finished 9 points above us without ever being involved in the relegation scrap. Not arguing btw, just posting the alternative viewpoint!

Martinez got Swansea promoted to the championship and it was Rodgers who became manager of a Martinez team.

Correct, and then Rodgers got them promoted to the Prem whilst Martinez danced with relegation last year, then finished higher than him while he diced with relegation again this year without ever having been in the battle. Your point?