McLeish confident of avoiding the drop

[Legion]

Was it £5 million compensation we paid to the knuckledraggers for the pleasure of our current incumbent?

[Aston Manor]

When Alan Wright was released by Villa he said that when he left Bodymoor Heath for the last time he was in tears because he'd been at the club for 9 years. he was training with a club or two but nothing concrete. He then got a call from Rangers that they wanted him and for him to join them on their pre-season tour in Germany.

So, off he sets for Germany and his new career. He then receives a call en route that the manager, a certain Alex McLeish, has changed his mind. And that was that. No explanation, no call from the spineless manager.

So, the fact that he is a rubbish manager who specialises in relegations, he also treated a Villa stalwart like shit which is totally indefensible in my eyes.

[Dave]

Was it £5 million compensation we paid to the knuckledraggers for the pleasure of our current incumbent?

I don't think the figure has ever been made public.

[bertlambshank]

Or to put it another way,we have helped them in their cash crisis.It really was a stupid saga all round.I know Randy likes helping out charities but this one he should of left alone.

[levico]

I'm quite uplifted by this thread. I have come to terms with the fact thtat we are heading for relegation but there are fans who still don't think this will happen. Don't think I'll join in - despair is bearable it's the hope that gets you.

Now how do we get to The Valley again?

[VillaBobby]

I don't think relegation would be to bad.

For Lerner, The (Liar) sorry, Gerenal, " just think what he will do with a chairman who backs him" and the clueless Faulkner it will be painful, just like this season to me.

Bring on the Midlands derbies, Blackpool, Leeds, Milwall and Sheffileds away.

Hopefully we will lose a lot of the modern day moron fans and get the club back to what made us proud to be Aston Villa.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Was it £5 million compensation we paid to the knuckledraggers for the pleasure of our current incumbent?

Jesus H Christ on a skateboard.

[ozzjim]

it was mooted to be about 2 million. Anything was an insult to Villa fans though. Terrible day.

[olaftab]

Confident of avoiding relegation...well done Alex that would be some achievement.

[Damo70]

I reckon some of the people who would welcome or wouldn't mind relegation have forgotten how gut-wrenchingly, sickeningly horrible it feels. I loved the '87-'88 season and the away days especially but never forget how it felt after the Charlton and Sheffield Wednesday games.

[pauliewalnuts]

I reckon some of the people who would welcome or wouldn't mind relegation have forgotten how gut-wrenchingly, sickeningly horrible it feels. I loved the '87-'88 season and the away days especially but never forget how it felt after the Charlton and Sheffield Wednesday games.

I too had a great time in 87-88, away matches were ace.

The problem is that these days, if you're not in the PL, you don't exist. Those who think relegation wouldn't be too bad this year are just assuming we would come straight back up like Newcastle. There's no guarantee we would (especially with our clueless leadership).

As Leeds and Forest fans how it feels down there.

[pauliewalnuts]

it was mooted to be about 2 million. Anything was an insult to Villa fans though. Terrible day.

I genuinely still find it hard to believe he was appointed.

[Monty]

it was mooted to be about 2 million. Anything was an insult to Villa fans though. Terrible day.

I genuinely still find it hard to believe he was appointed.

I agree. The whole sequence of incompetence leading up to his appointment is so bafflingly stupid it's surreal, like it happened to someone else.

[Damo70]

Maybe we are all just having a year long dream/nightmare. Like when Bobby Ewing died in Dallas. Tomorrow morning Ron Saunders will step out of the shower to resume duties for the Liverpool game.

[Villanation]

Well there is a glimmer of hope, its being said that Lerner in the last few days got among the players and started to rally the troops saying the players must do there bit for Stan and the club.

All well and good but I've always thought that when a chairman starts getting in there and going around the manager, points out things are desperate and confidence in the manager is running short, I would say when a chairman as removed as Lerner has become gets in there things are pretty urgent.