When will the bullet come?

[Clampy]

He should have gone after Wigan.

I had a few work people come up to me today giving me the old 'Ooh Mate, you're in the shit aye yer' type comments and i did my normal 'Nah we just need two more wins and we'll be fine' but for the first time, i was'nt convinced. I did'nt really believe it myself and it's a horrible feeling to have.

Anyone who's totally adamant that we'll be fine, well i admire your optimisim and if i'm being honest, deep down i think we will be but we're playing a very dangerous game putting our faith in a manager who could'nt even get his team to muster more than two shots on goal at Wigan and that was with a near full strength side (with added Keano). He could'nt get us the points when the pressure was off, so why is he suddenly going to do it now with half a side missing?

He needs to go.

[JUAN PABLO]

I reply to people with 'what you expect with that c*** as manager '

[The Left Side]

I voted that he is as safe as houses, Lerner is thinking of his bottom line.

[Steve67]

I've given up sticking up for Villa.  I have a twenty quid bet on that we won't go down.  An Arsenal fan offered, at the time I thought it was a no brainer.  Now it looks like I'll be visiting the ATM at the end of the season.  I hate having the piss taken out of my club. I live in a predominant Arsenal, Spurts and Man Yoo area.  Villa are thought of as shite because we have no plans and no real identity.  Anyone who talks to me ask me why we appointed McLeish.  The bullet cannot come soon enough.

[ez]

He should have gone after Wigan.

I had a few work people come up to me today giving me the old 'Ooh Mate, you're in the shit aye yer' type comments and i did my normal 'Nah we just need two more wins and we'll be fine' but for the first time, i was'nt convinced. I did'nt really believe it myself and it's a horrible feeling to have.

Anyone who's totally adamant that we'll be fine, well i admire your optimisim and if i'm being honest, deep down i think we will be but we're playing a very dangerous game putting our faith in a manager who could'nt even get his team to muster more than two shots on goal at Wigan and that was with a near full strength side (with added Keano). He could'nt get us the points when the pressure was off, so why is he suddenly going to do it now with half a side missing?

He needs to go.

I thought he should have gone after the Wigan game too. Now i can't see it happening until the end of the season at the earliest. Randy has rolled the dice by not acting when he could have.

It still shocks me that he was appointed and shocks me again that he's still in the job.

[john e]

I've given up sticking up for Villa.  I have a twenty quid bet on that we won't go down.  An Arsenal fan offered, at the time I thought it was a no brainer.  Now it looks like I'll be visiting the ATM at the end of the season.  I hate having the piss taken out of my club. I live in a predominant Arsenal, Spurts and Man Yoo area.  Villa are thought of as shite because we have no plans and no real identity.  Anyone who talks to me ask me why we appointed McLeish.  The bullet cannot come soon enough.

if i could get even money on villa staying up i'd put 10k on it

[TheSandman]

i cant believe over 77 % say he's as safe as houses, what are you guys watching and seeing, has Randy come out and backed him, no  as he given him the dreaded vote of convidence, no
he's done nothing

all the signs to me are not that he's getting instinting backing from the club, but they are just going through the motions, as though they know something we dont

he's either preparing to sell the club on, or he will do the right thing re AM and part ways before it gets any more serious.

some of us are reding the situation correctly, some of us will have egg on our face, i wonder which way it will all fall, its like a giant game of Cluedo.

Usually the vote of confidence immediately precedes the sack. The fact that he has yet to have it probably indicates the degree of his job security. I dearly hope you are right John. Most of us doubted that Houllier would be gone at this point last year but I just don't see it. The only hope I can see of him not being our manager next season is relegation (and I wouldn't exactly describe that as a hope).

[villadelph]

tomorrow!

[Big Dick Edwards]

I only think Randy will consider replacing the manager if we are relegated. Losing our place in the Premier League would be catastrophic for the club finances and the only way Randy could stop the drain of paying fans would be to galvanise the club with a bold new managerial appointment. Otherwise McLeish will be here next season.

[pauliewalnuts]

He might buy some second hand rods off ebay but that's your lot.

Nah, he'll witlessly spend the next few months just trying to piss it apart.

[ez]

I'm with John e on this.

I think the reason so many people think he's safe is this seemingly irrefutable 'fact' that his job for the season was to not get relegated.

I just don't see someone who in 5 previous seasons has only had 1 bottom half finish suddenly deciding that survival was all that we're playing for.

I agree keeping the wage bill down whilst we ran down contracts for a few of the overpaid wasters would've been part of it (and part that wouldn't appeal to many) but I just don't buy that the board went into the season thinking 15-17th would be acceptable.

You only have to look at comments from CK and PF about qualifying for europe to see that a relegation battle wasn't part of the equation.

This.
I can't believe Randy is not worried about our results and league position this season as long as we stay up.

[villa `cross the mersey]

"When will the bullet come?"

Tomorrow would not be soon enough

Like a previous poster I agree he should have gone after Wigan or Blackburn - had we have gone for wins in both of those games we would be safe now - instead he set us up not to lose and settled for a point each time - just not good enough.

As my article in H&V states I will not be renewing next season for numerous reasons - this appointment being the straw breaking this particular camels` back.

He will not resign, Lerner will not sack him.......  proud history , dim (or grim) future

[Sister of Top Cat]

someone actually threw a season ticket on the pitch at the end of the game.

And asked for it back at the final whistle!  We saw him trying to get it off one of the stewards.  The steward was reluctant to hand it over to him.

[Greg N'Ash]

Lerner and faulkner were just saying what they thought the fans wanted to hear. They're hardly going to admit they expect to do worse are they? But if you sell 5 players, buy 3, keep 15m of the proceeds and knock about 150k a week off the wage bill its hardly likely you'd expect to be doing better than last season is it?

[brian green]

The one constant through all our pain since O'Neill left is that the board can be relied upon to do the wrong thing at the wrong time.

He will stay regardless of whether we stay up or go down but a combination of bad season ticket sales and at best a stuttering start to the new season will force the owner's hand and he will be gone by Christmas of this year.