AGM - Protest

[dave.woodhall]

Martinez or McLeish - that tells you all you need to know about the collective football knowledge of the custodians of the club at the time.

Steve McLaren was in their thinking at the time as well, wasn't he?

Talked himself out of it.

[Meanwood Villa]

It turned out badly of course but we all wanted Lambert and he was a prized asset at the time as hard as that is to believe now. That was a "right" appointment that went horribly wrong

McLeish still causes me to shake my head in sheer disbelief. Did that really happen?

[Ian.]

I wonder if we hadn't been so quick to dismiss Hughes what would have been. He's done a good job at Stoke and he might have got us stabilised during that first season after MON.

[hvkfa1]

What an eternal pity a few thousand more of you couldn't be arsed to join the anti Mcleish protest on the steps of the Holte.

Why? If those people were protesting at his shit football and the stupidity of flip flopping from Martinez to him I would have joined in.

They weren't though. What we instead git was some minor criminal damage and lots of shouting that we "don't want a nose".

It was embarrassing at the time and used as a stick to beat our entire support with throughout his tenure.

There was a protest at his appointment - you didn't have to agree with every protesters reason for being there. 

Everyone I spoke to that day was protesting the appointment of a poorly qualified manager, if small heath had been playing attractive structured football I wouldn't have been there - but they weren't - they were awful and the heathens were glad to see the back of him.

MON's departure gave Lerner a bloody nose and he's been taking it out on us ever since - the time to stand up to him was five years ago; and in our thousands we failed to do so.

Agreed, less than 1000 turned up to protest and that appointment was where the downward spiral really started. Instead fans just drifted away meekly, hoping things would improve and then they could return rather than being pro-active, reflected by gates of just 32 and 30 thousand for our first two home games that season, when the season before we'd averaged 37 thousand.

There was a bigger turnout to sing the bells are ringing

That was another fuck up. Everybody thought their effort would be played at Villa Park, instead of that other rubbish.

[tomd2103]

It turned out badly of course but we all wanted Lambert and he was a prized asset at the time as hard as that is to believe now. That was a "right" appointment that went horribly wrong

Yep, I wanted Lambert as well.  I felt he was the right appointment at the time, but the mistake they made was letting him flounder for too long.  All in hindsight now, but the terrible run we went on at the end of his second season along with the trouble with his coaches should have been the end of the road for him. 

[ChicagoLion]

It turned out badly of course but we all wanted Lambert and he was a prized asset at the time as hard as that is to believe now. That was a "right" appointment that went horribly wrong

McLeish still causes me to shake my head in sheer disbelief. Did that really happen?

I wish people would stop saying we all wanted Lambert, I didn't

[Dave Cooper please]

The only real way to protest is to not show up at a match. Most people seem convinced we're down anyway so it'll hardly have any morale effect on the players

I like this one because, as I never go anyway I can not go AND pretend I'm joining in with the protest.
Win / win.

[Dave Cooper please]

Sign this if you interested enough:

https://www.change.org/p/lerneroutrandy-lerner-and-his-administration-out-of-aston-villa-now

A petition urging Lerner to sell a club he is already trying to sell.
Marvellous.

[ciggiesnbeer]

It turned out badly of course but we all wanted Lambert and he was a prized asset at the time as hard as that is to believe now. That was a "right" appointment that went horribly wrong

McLeish still causes me to shake my head in sheer disbelief. Did that really happen?

I wish people would stop saying we all wanted Lambert, I didn't

Me either, I wanted Rodgers and had a brief fling with OGS. So to be fair to Lerner & the board my choices would have probably been just as poor.

To be extra fair I think Lamberts first season was promising.

[Durham58]

Sign this if you interested enough:

https://www.change.org/p/lerneroutrandy-lerner-and-his-administration-out-of-aston-villa-now

A petition urging Lerner to sell a club he is already trying to sell.
Marvellous.


If he really wanted to sell it , he could have done so.

[CT]

It turned out badly of course but we all wanted Lambert and he was a prized asset at the time as hard as that is to believe now. That was a "right" appointment that went horribly wrong

McLeish still causes me to shake my head in sheer disbelief. Did that really happen?

I wish people would stop saying we all wanted Lambert, I didn't

Me too. Although in saying that, I wasn't too downhearted at Lamberts appointment at the time.

I still can't get over how well he looks - I feel like protesting about my hard earned money going towards his laser eye surgery, while it was the supporters who needed eye surgery watching some of the horrific football his teams served up.

[LeeB]

Sign this if you interested enough:

https://www.change.org/p/lerneroutrandy-lerner-and-his-administration-out-of-aston-villa-now

A petition urging Lerner to sell a club he is already trying to sell.
Marvellous.


If he really wanted to sell it , he could have done so.

To whom? I want him gone but I've honestly had enough of grown adults that can't grasp a fairly simple fucking concept.

[itbrvilla]

It turned out badly of course but we all wanted Lambert and he was a prized asset at the time as hard as that is to believe now. That was a "right" appointment that went horribly wrong

McLeish still causes me to shake my head in sheer disbelief. Did that really happen?

I didn't.

[ez]

I wonder if we hadn't been so quick to dismiss Hughes what would have been. He's done a good job at Stoke and he might have got us stabilised during that first season after MON.

Agree totally. Every time the job has come up i hoped we'd get Hughes. I'm another who didn't want Lambert.

[Durham58]

Sign this if you interested enough:

https://www.change.org/p/lerneroutrandy-lerner-and-his-administration-out-of-aston-villa-now

A petition urging Lerner to sell a club he is already trying to sell.
Marvellous.


If he really wanted to sell it , he could have done so.

To whom? I want him gone but I've honestly had enough of grown adults that can't grasp a fairly simple fucking concept.

Sorry about that! What's the fairly simple concept?