Why was McLeish sacked?

[rob_bridge]

I'd imagine if you factor in the wages of Given, Hutton, Jenas & N'Zogbia he spent far more than Lambert has.

10m in wages is that.

[Risso]

McLeish was shit and only thought short term.

Lambert is not shit and is thinking long term.
People just can't accept that when you pay the same wages as Wigan, you'll be competing with Wigan.
If we stay up this year, we will be alt stronger next year.

Fuck me, McLeish had Collins, Cuellar, Hutton & Warnock, are we all sure it was Lambert who decided he wouldn't keep and use them? I'm not.

Tell me why Lambert isn't shit please.

Impossible.  He's the shitiest shite manager we've ever had.

[neo_Villan]

Lambert is the worst Villa manager I have ever seen. I'm only 23, so not sure about worst in our history...but definitely the worst in my lifetime. How anybody can think he is anything other then shit is beyond me.

[Dave Clark Five]

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

[PaulWinch again]

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

He seemed a decent bloke, but he was a dismal failure as a manager at Villa Park however you decide to look at it.

[danlanza]

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

Agreed. Watched the program. So has been said by some who work for Villa, he was a great bloke, got to know everybody very quickly, wanted to be everybody's mate, just not ruthless enough.

[Dave Clark Five]

 

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

He seemed a decent bloke, but he was a dismal failure as a manager at Villa Park however you decide to look at it.

He was treated horrendously by the fans and given no support from Lerner.

[olaftab]

All that bad treatment left him with a few millions in his pocket when he left.

[Steve67]

Used by Villa, to get rid of the shit and some of the high earners. Never given a chance by us? No. But then again, the football was bloody awful.
The Villa owner knew TSM would love a crack at a big English club, yet he screwed it up, bought even more crack, failed to reach 40 points, quite rightly sacked. Nice man though.

[PaulWinch again]

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

He seemed a decent bloke, but he was a dismal failure as a manager at Villa Park however you decide to look at it.

He was treated horrendously by the fans and given no support from Lerner.

He was still a poor manager regardless.

[richard moore]

Lambert is the worst Villa manager I have ever seen. I'm only 23, so not sure about worst in our history...but definitely the worst in my lifetime. How anybody can think he is anything other then shit is beyond me.

I'm 52 and he's comfortably in the worst four I have seen. I completely concur with your last sentence. I've given up wondering why people can't see it and have resigned myself to knowing absolutely in my mind he's shit but realising everyone else thinks I'm wrong. I don't have a problem with that

[Dave]

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

He seemed a decent bloke, but he was a dismal failure as a manager at Villa Park however you decide to look at it.

He was treated horrendously by the fans and given no support from Lerner.

Generally treated well until half a dozen games before the end of a season when everyone expected a damp squib of relegation, when everyone got a bit upset by us losing to a shit Bolton side.

At least he was treated well by those who happened to drink at the same Friday night pub as he did.

He did seem to be a pleasant bloke though. Even though he was a shit football manager.

[pauliewalnuts]

McLeish on Sky Sports tonight. Obviously a football man of long standing. Just a pity he was treated so badly at Villa Park.

He seemed a decent bloke, but he was a dismal failure as a manager at Villa Park however you decide to look at it.

He was treated horrendously by the fans and given no support from Lerner.

Generally treated well until half a dozen games before the end of a season when everyone expected a damp squib of relegation, when everyone got a bit upset by us losing to a shit Bolton side.

At least he was treated well by those who happened to drink at the same Friday night pub as he did.

He did seem to be a pleasant bloke though. Even though he was a shit football manager.

I agree, he seemed a nice bloke, but this "treated horrendously by the fans" thing is utter nonsense, it really is.

He got plenty of support.

The vast majority of us would give him a go once he got the job. The only thing he could have done to make that support evaporate was revert to type and start playing like he had Blues playing, and that's exactly what he did. That is pretty much exactly the time the crowd turned on him.

He actually got longer than the manager before him did. We turned on Houllier much earlier than McLeish.

I've never been as embarased to be a Villa fan as i was at times under him with the way he sent us out. I genuinely couldn't give a flying fuck that he came from Small Heath. Had he been a decent manager rather than a byword for defensive negativity, the fact we'd taken him from them would have been a *bonus* not a stick to beat him with.

He wasn't, though, he was a horribly negative manager who blew his only chance at the big time.

I think to that team he sent out at White Hart Lane and I honestly get more embarrassed than I do when I think back to some of the severe beatings we took in the mid 80s.

The fact that there's only one single person on this forum who feels that McLeish was harshly treated says it all really.

[pauliewalnuts]

Used by Villa, to get rid of the shit and some of the high earners.

I don't agree with that for a second.

We gave him a three year contract. Why do that if the main purpose of employing him was to just move a few players on - something which he didn't even do. In fact, he did the opposite, and brought more high earning, shit players in.

[Dave]

The fact that there's only one single person on this forum who feels that McLeish was harshly treated says it all really.

To be fair, Dan seems to agree as well, so that's two people. But based on his conspiracy nonsense he does seem to be the suggestible type.