Wigan Athletic v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[myf]

I suggest you study the history of teams in the bottom three with 12 games to play and see how many points on average they manage to accumulate over those last 12 games, the answer is not enough to take any of them past 35 points.

Quite. Its all shite at the minute but tired off the mass panic on here.

[Phil from the upper holte]

The board are responsible for McLeish's contract.   They agreed it.   If you employ a chimney sweep to remove your appendix don't be surprised if you come out of hospital with a brush sticking out of your arse.

Brian that is truly brilliant

[Phil from the upper holte]

Just got home.  Dire. 

Only saving grace is we didn't concede as I thought it was good odds that Wigan would nick one.

Oh, and McCleish has now got most of the away support calling for his head. Doesn't bode well for the remainder of the season.

A bloke on the coach this morning said if he loses the away support he's fucked. I think its happened

[andyh]

I suggest you study the history of teams in the bottom three with 12 games to play and see how many points on average they manage to accumulate over those last 12 games, the answer is not enough to take any of them past 35 points.

Quite. Its all shite at the minute but tired off the mass panic on here.

what exactly do you mean ?
Mass panic about the possibility of relegation, or mass panic about the total ineptitude of our manager and piss poor quality of our football ?
If you think people are only worried about relegation, then you cannot be more wrong.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I think I've gone from frustration to anger to despair, at one point I was sat there with my head in my hands, I just don't know what the answer is, he won't leave, they won't sack him were stuck with him, I just hope the players want to stay up enough.

[andyh]

Watching MOTD. You know things are bad when the Blackburn manager says how they are looking forward to playing the likes of 'Wolves, Wigan and Villa'.

[Greg N'Ash]

Not great was it. On the plus side we got our first clean sheet since boxing day with fat arse out the way. Hopefully that will give the defence a bit of confidence and we can build on it

[PeterWithe]

Very poor, fuck me we are boring. I just hope McLeish has the  self awareness to fall on his sword as hes lost the players and never had the fans.

Go now, please 

[GarTomas]

Just an observation:

The players deserve some credit as they're following the manager's orders to the letter.  It would be very easy for them to want to attack (especially against a side like wigan) yet they showed great discipline, especially at the end when arguably the game was there to be won.

I appreciate that's a bit or a weird compliment, but I have often blamed them for unprofessionalism whereas they're doing as they're instructed.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not....

[hulkamania]

Its hard enough to like Football in this day and age. But to try and like Football and Aston Villa right now is very difficult. What has happened to us? We have gone back 5 years in just 2 years! I can't take anymore. Mcleish, Faulkner and Randy must go. I've never felt such hate toward a manager or owner. I'm very very sad right now

[myf]

Mass panic in terms of "we need 6points from the next two games otherwise we're  fucked so sack him now"

[CJ]

Mass panic in terms of "we need 6points from the next two games otherwise we're  fucked so sack him now"

As has been mentioned already, it's not so much mass panic - it's more abject despair at the quality of football being dished up by McLeish with no prospect of it getting better. We're on a downward spiral. We might scrape by this season - but if he's still here I think we'll go down next season. He came with a record of poor football and relegation - he's living down to that reputation. That's why people including me want him gone

[JUAN PABLO]

I will read the thread in a minute .

Wigan were awful , they are going down and never coming back . We have better players on paper , yet they were better than  us , we are worse than an awful team who are going down .

yes it was AMC's perfect result 0 fooking 0 .   Who the fook gave him a return ticket to USA anyway .

Please get that *******  out of my club NOW!!!!!!

[Dave Clark Five]

There's no excuse for that and deserves all the abuse he gets when he's ruining our
club with horrible negative decisions.

No, he doesn't. He deserves criticism. He doesn't deserve abuse. You don't seem to
understand the difference.

Fans are entitled to vent their anger. You don't seem to understand freedom of
speech.

Congratulations, you've just proved my point.

Sorry, I'm gonna take what Ian Taylor says more seriously than you.

I very much doubt that Ian Taylor would think the same about the crap that you come out with.

[JUAN PABLO]

That today has done it for me. I have tried to support him and wanted him to do well for the Villa but after leaving Ireland and N'Zog on the bench against Wigan and then bringing that useless lump Heskey on i'm sorry that is just unbelievable.

I fear we are going down.

un fooking believable and to think he was in the paper this week telling N'zog to raise his game and then leaves him on the bench against his former club.