We're not fickle..

[Damo70]

I thought the TSM rumours were rubbish. I think I was on here when I heard on the TV he had quit Small Heath. I sent a text to a mate saying 'Oh shit'. His first reply was 'What?', quickly followed by 'Ah, I've heard now. Not looking good is it?'

[Jimbo]

When it happened, I remember sinking to my knees and screaming: "You maniacs. Oh, damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!"

Secretly, I'd always wanted to say that.

[Leighton]

I was in the bookies just two hours before it was announce that TSM had quit. I was placing £50 on David Moyes becoming the manager. A dead cert my ITK mate told me... bastard ITK. He knew sod all...

[pauliewalnuts]

I've just been reading the new manager thread from that period.

Here onwards

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=43650.5445

people saying no way will it be McLeish etc, then someone reports he's resigned, and it all snowballs.

Quote from Mazrim on that first page probably a good example of how unbelievable we all found it.

Its not bad news, its just a bookie's odds.
McLeish isnt going to be Villa manager any more than Barbara Streissand.

[cheltenhamlion]

I remember a PM exchange we had about that time Paulie.

It was McLeish resigning Sunday and I told you it was him.

It took people a week to believe it I think. In fact, Mysteryman was still arguing it was poppycock for days.

It took a long time to sink in. I also had Dave on the horn that afternoon going spare about how they could sell it.

I feel cold just thinking about it all to be honest. 

[phantom limb]

I still can't believe we appointed TSM, even now. I'm trying to forget that it actually happened, it still seems like some surreal nightmare of eternal nil-nils.

[peter w]

I remember a PM exchange we had about that time Paulie.

It was McLeish resigning Sunday and I told you it was him.

It took people a week to believe it I think. In fact, Mysteryman was still arguing it was poppycock for days.

It took a long time to sink in. I also had Dave on the horn that afternoon going spare about how they could sell it.

I feel cold just thinking about it all to be honest. 

Was Dave getting excited by it?

[ez]

A frustrating thing for me is after having good seasons and look on the brink of great things we change manager and nosedive down the table. Graham Taylor leaves us in second place then Venglos comes in and we are in a relegation battle. O'Neil left us in sixth place then Houlier comes in and we are in a relegation battle. We were hoping the new managers would take us the extra step and nothing of the sort happened.

[Ads]

No, he's a shit manager who plays shit football. I cant see that useless ginger c*** being put in charge at B6 though, thank the Lord.

Little did I know...

[Bad English]

Houllier. Left France for the Villa because he was dripping in egg after the French fiasco in South Africa. Used to stand on the Kop when he was a student, don't you know. Also France didn't qualify for USA 94 because of him, not Ginola. I refrain from calling him a wanker because he has had some health issues.

[eamonn]

Would you not embrace his experience of school-teaching and the Villa if he passed you by in the Perpignan mist?

[ciggiesnbeer]

The TSM hiring really was strange.

[supertom]

Looking back on that makes very interesting reading. I called it on Moyes eventually ending up at Utd. (puts hand up for a high five). For a few pages while there were rumours back then of him leaving Everton, many on here were clutching onto the hope that we were after Moyes to fill our Ginger haired manager shaped hole.
Funny to look back at that, having already basically ostracized Steve MacLaren as a possible manager here by bombarding the club with negative reaction, the closer it got to Eck being signed up becoming real, the more we suddenly started thinking that Schteeve might not have been all that bad. Ha ha. Funny old game football.
Strange that the club listened to us regarding MaClaren, but not Big Eck.
That summer was entirely embarrassing though. First rejected in our public pursuit of Martinez, then it became clear we were after Schteeve. The fans kicked up a stink and we changed tack. Mark Hughes quit Fulham, which hinted that it might be something to do with him. But we didn't go there, hinting that because he quit his club to join another, we didn't think he was the right man for the job.
Then McLeish quits his job (at our fierce local rivals he relegated twice and had playing the most fuck awful football), and we then sign him up.

I can only imagine that Randy lost a bet of some kind and as a forfeit had to make the worst decision in the history of humanity.

[dave.woodhall]

Please, please, please can the 'MacLaren didn't get the job because of the fans' reaction' theory be filed in the Myths Cabinet, between the Five Year Plan and Mcleish getting it because Randy wanted a manager we could hate instead of him.

[supertom]

Please, please, please can the 'MacLaren didn't get the job because of the fans' reaction' theory be filed in the Myths Cabinet, between the Five Year Plan and Mcleish getting it because Randy wanted a manager we could hate instead of him.

No because they're all true.