Privately, do you hope we don't win tomorrow?

[Moorski]

My Son & at least 10/12 of his mates have stopped going to VP this season,how many more groups of fans are there like this? they still love the Villa but money is tight,If they Sack Mc Leish I think they will return as much as they can,If he stays then no chance.

[claret and blue blood]

As much as Carlos deserves a good send off to all those going tomorrow please make it FUCK OFF McLEISH DAY ,make it impossible for him to sit/stand in the dugout, how can they keep a manager whose own fans keep him away fom the pitch?

[paulcomben]

Stop worrying. Any normal team in such circumstances would play with freedom, pick youngsters and please fans, opponents and pundits alike. With Eck in charge, it will be a nervy tedious ineffectual mess-up and irritate all of the above. If Randy has one ounce of sense, AM is a goner.

[Lobsterboy]

I want us to win and win well. Same as every game.

[deanl123]

This thread is symptomatic of everything that is wrong in football today. I could honestly never want Villa to lose. I've supported Villa for 40+ years, and I remember a time when a fan supported their team no matter what. I remember a time where being badly beat at Villa Park was met by a very loud rendition of "We'll support you evermore" instead of the boos from the modern football fan. I remember supporting Billy McNeill, Graham Turner and Josef Venglos and singing their names long and loud, despite their lack of managerial talent!

Good luck tomorrow to Alex McCleish's Claret and Blue Army, and if he goes in the close season, so be it. Maybe I'll be supporting Graham Turner's Claret and Blue Army once again!

[Dave Clark Five]

This thread is symptomatic of everything that is wrong in football today. I could honestly never want Villa to lose. I've supported Villa for 40+ years, and I remember a time when a fan supported their team no matter what. I remember a time where being badly beat at Villa Park was met by a very loud rendition of "We'll support you evermore" instead of the boos from the modern football fan. I remember supporting
Billy McNeill, Graham Turner and Josef Venglos and singing their names long and loud, despite their lack of managerial talent!

Good luck tomorrow to Alex McCleish's Claret and Blue Army, and if he goes in the
close season, so be it. Maybe I'll be supporting Graham Turner's Claret and Blue Army once again!

Great post. A sensible voice among all the rabble rousing.

[Steve R]

...
Randy reminds me a bit of Tony Blair in terms of following his heart rather than his head. For Randy this is his equivalent of the moment Blair made the decision to go to war with Iraq without the UN resolution. Because he felt in his heart it was the right thing to do.
..

I doubt Tony Blair ever did anything because he thought it was right. He took us into conflict in Iraq because Bush told him to.

If you were to ask Obama, he would undoubtedly say that he couldn't understand how McLeish got the job in the first place.

We'll be managerless this time next week.

[Dave Cooper please]

NEVER wish Villa to lose, no matter what the consequence.

[timeoutbigbar]

NEVER wish Villa to lose, no matter what the consequence.

Exactily.  The success of Villa is more important then any player, manager or chairman.

[timeoutbigbar]

...
Randy reminds me a bit of Tony Blair in terms of following his heart rather than his head. For Randy this is his equivalent of the moment Blair made the decision to go to war with Iraq without the UN resolution. Because he felt in his heart it was the right thing to do.
..

I doubt Tony Blair ever did anything because he thought it was right. He took us into conflict in Iraq because Bush told him to.

If you were to ask Obama, he would undoubtedly say that he couldn't understand how McLeish got the job in the first place.

We'll be managerless this time next week.

I pray you're right.  I just can't help but feel that McLeish has met his target (keeping us in the league) and so has 'earned' himself another season in charge to assemble his own squad...god help us if I'm right.

[Thatcher at Downing St]

The way I see it, if the Norwich manager is THAT good and someone we want then I don't think we'll have to wish a loss on Villa to ensure that the Slayer-of-Hope gets pushed out the door.

Let's face it, if Lambert can't get his lads up to beat us for the last game of the season when they're at home, have nothing to lose and playing a Villa side who are now safe and being instructed by the most depressingly negative manager in the galaxy...well, he's not all that is he?

[villan from luton]

I kust hope my beloved Villa win and the nice but dim jock fecks off within 24 hours

[The Left Side]

I want us to win and win well. Same as every game.

This

[rutski]

I want us to win and win well. Same as every game.

This

seconded

[supertom]

I definitely want us to win.

But I don't think we will. In fact I think Norwich will have quite an easy game.