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Offline silhillvilla

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2014, 07:58:19 AM »
Blame the buffoonery of Lerner and Faulkner for the appointment not Eck .
Eck took the chance to manage villa and we cannot blame him for that.

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2014, 08:05:25 AM »
Blame the buffoonery of Lerner and Faulkner for the appointment not Eck .
Eck took the chance to manage villa and we cannot blame him for that.

Spot on - If I was offered the chance to manage the Blues for £1m I know I would take it and they would be relegated that season

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2014, 10:38:26 AM »
The problem with the appointment was that it said:

'Welcome to the small time Aston Villa'

Our stock was so low that this was seen as the most appropriate appointment. A complete joke and not a funny one at that.

I'm not sure if our wider credibility can recover for sometime. Certainly not while Lerner is here.


Offline Phil from the upper holte

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #18 on: December 05, 2014, 10:43:19 AM »
I still don't like he's name mentioned

Online Meanwood Villa

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2014, 12:34:40 PM »
Now we've been shit for a few years it would appear that some are re-appraising his time in charge. At the time it was the insanest managerial appointment certainly of our history, possibly in English football history. Just because we're no better now, it doesn't detract from the sheer WTF?? of that decision.

Offline Holte L2

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #20 on: December 05, 2014, 01:52:22 PM »
garyshawsknee - totally agree, that Spurs Monday night game was incredibly depressing. The only bright spark that night,was seeing that Villa fan in a wheelchair make it half way towards where McLeish was,  to give him some words of advice i'd imagine.

I was at that game.  I'd been dumped by an ex the day before too.  So it really was a depressing 24 hours

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #21 on: December 05, 2014, 02:08:56 PM »
The problem with the appointment was that it said:

'Welcome to the small time Aston Villa'

Our stock was so low that this was seen as the most appropriate appointment. A complete joke and not a funny one at that.

I'm not sure if our wider credibility can recover for sometime. Certainly not while Lerner is here.

Only Villa fans thought that though, nobody else cared.

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #22 on: December 05, 2014, 02:19:47 PM »
The problem with the appointment was that it said:

'Welcome to the small time Aston Villa'

Our stock was so low that this was seen as the most appropriate appointment. A complete joke and not a funny one at that.

I'm not sure if our wider credibility can recover for sometime. Certainly not while Lerner is here.

Only Villa fans thought that though, nobody else cared.

From speaking to people it seems to me they were a bit bemused, if they took any interest.  Much like we were.

Got nothing against Mcleish though. He gave it a go, it went disastrously wrong, he was fired.  End of story really.  End of the story as far as Villa are concerned anyway. For the future, I wish him well.

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #23 on: December 05, 2014, 03:16:46 PM »
The problem with the appointment was that it said:

'Welcome to the small time Aston Villa'

Our stock was so low that this was seen as the most appropriate appointment. A complete joke and not a funny one at that.

I'm not sure if our wider credibility can recover for sometime. Certainly not while Lerner is here.

Only Villa fans thought that though, nobody else cared.
No one else cared but were pretty much as gobsmacked and incredulous as we were!

Still find it hard at times to believe it ever happened.

Offline Bully2345

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #24 on: December 05, 2014, 03:22:52 PM »
He was appointed to deflect from the board as the cutbacks began. It bought Lerner et al a bit more time before questions really started to get asked of them as the fans were going to turn on McLeish first

Offline silhillvilla

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2014, 05:14:57 PM »
Part of me still thinks Lerner did it as "fuck you" to the fans after the public reaction/rejection of the Steve McLaren idea.

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #26 on: December 05, 2014, 05:24:01 PM »
Part of me still thinks Lerner did it as "fuck you" to the fans after the public reaction/rejection of the Steve McLaren idea.

Even though it's been explained about a hundred thousand times that such a reaction/rejection never took place?

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2014, 05:30:35 PM »
Part of me still thinks Lerner did it as "fuck you" to the fans after the public reaction/rejection of the Steve McLaren idea.

Even though it's been explained about a hundred thousand times that such a reaction/rejection never took place?

Didn't that rumour of the reaction/rejection come from McLaren himself though?

Offline silhillvilla

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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2014, 05:31:03 PM »
Part of me still thinks Lerner did it as "fuck you" to the fans after the public reaction/rejection of the Steve McLaren idea.

Even though it's been explained about a hundred thousand times that such a reaction/rejection never took place?
From the Meaning Evil at the time -

"But sources close to McClaren claim he has been told he would be "wasting his time" attending the meeting. The negative reaction of some Villa fans to McClaren being in contention for the post has been taken into consideration by Lerner."


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Re: McLeish Football Focus interview Sat 6th Dec
« Reply #29 on: December 05, 2014, 05:31:38 PM »
Part of me still thinks Lerner did it as "fuck you" to the fans after the public reaction/rejection of the Steve McLaren idea.

Even though it's been explained about a hundred thousand times that such a reaction/rejection never took place?

Didn't that rumour of the reaction/rejection come from McLaren himself though?

From a media friend of his, I believe.

 


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