Dr T has pulled the trigger

[VillaAlways]

Tom Ross just tweeted

People in the game telling me RDM has gone with announcement due within 24 hours. No conf yet from @avfcofficial

[Witton Warrior]

Tom Ross just tweeted

People in the game telling me RDM has gone with announcement due within 24 hours. No conf yet from @avfcofficial

Oh good.
I will muster more excitement when I see who replaces him and does a better job...

[brian green]

I pin my remaining hopes on the belief that Tony Xia does not buy into the fallacy that time in football is however much you need to achieve your objectives.  Football is a results driven business not a meritocracy where points are awarded for doing things the right way and deducted for doing them the wrong way

The reason we are where we are is not because our decisions have been too hasty, it is far more because they have not been made when they should have been.  Right across the board, players, managers, executives, owners.

[VinnieChase84]

Let's not kid ourselves. We are still a massive pull for someone, in work or not. Smith, Wagner, Rowett for example being given the chance of getting a team that includes our strike force available. Too tempting for anyone to turn down IMO.
We need to get this one right. We need instant impact and someone who can hit the ground running. Smith with his Villa connection reminds me of Gregory in a lot of ways. We all know the impact JG had when he came in.

[mr underhill]

get the right geezer in and the dog heads won't know what hit them.

[olaftab]

I am sorry but we are not a research organisation where people should be  very patient and mostly continue to work on failure  and once upon a blue moon a golden nugget may turn up. Football is more of a design of experiment. You have to think of something  do it and as soon as it's not working ditch it and get on to next DOE. As Brian said we have dilly dallied too long in the past and that's why we are no longer dining at the top table.

[KevinGage]

Tom Ross just tweeted

People in the game telling me RDM has gone with announcement due within 24 hours. No conf yet from @avfcofficial

People in the game telling him = he's read the Sunday papers.

[olaftab]

There's a lot of comments that RDM is a chancer, doesn't know what he's doing etc., yet the guy has won promotion from the championship and a Champions League trophy as manager, accolades i would suggest that indicate given the right circumstances, he must know how to do something right.

Yes no doubt he will succeed some where however his success and failures prior to Villa are there in equal measure and some might argue that mainly he has failed other than the promotion with Albion  that was his own doing. The CL win was more or less achieved by a very determined and very good Chelsea team with RDM acting as a figure head.

[Rudy65]

When RDM was appointed I was totally underwhelmed. An Albion fan I know spoke highly of him and having then scanned his Wiki page my intial reservations were overcome particualry when Clarke was appointed as well.

Having now look at RDM's record again in more detail I notice he lasted 18 months at WBA, 9 months at Chelsea and 7 months at Schalke. Hence he has no track record to speak of and when he get fired tomorrow we shouldnt really be surprised.

[PeterWithe]

There's a lot of comments that RDM is a chancer, doesn't know what he's doing etc., yet the guy has won promotion from the championship and a Champions League trophy as manager, accolades i would suggest that indicate given the right circumstances, he must know how to do something right.

Yes no doubt he will succeed some where however his success and failures prior to Villa are there in equal measure and some might argue that mainly he has failed other than the promotion with Albion  that was his own doing. The CL win was more or less achieved by a very determined and very good Chelsea team with RDM acting as a figure head.

And yet his thoughts on getting back into yesterday's game were to put every forward we had onto the field, surrender the midfield completely and hope our defenders would launch the ball forward and from there, hope for the best.

I was willing to give him more time as I hoped his brand of attacking football would work but the scales well and truly fell from my eyes yesterday. It really was brainless.

[Axl Rose]

Tom Ross just tweeted

People in the game telling me RDM has gone with announcement due within 24 hours. No conf yet from @avfcofficial

People in the game telling him = he's read the Sunday papers.

Crazy really. I thought he'd be given more time.

[Toronto Villa]

Tom Ross just tweeted

People in the game telling me RDM has gone with announcement due within 24 hours. No conf yet from @avfcofficial

People in the game telling him = he's read the Sunday papers.

Crazy really. I thought he'd be given more time.

If we were still playing well, creating chances and even blowing leads late in games then he might still be getting more time. But we've gone from games like Forest where we should have won by 3 or 4 goals but for some poor defending to playing really quite poorly at Barnsley to yesterday's hideous effort. It's getting worse and his tactics are now pure desperation and the comparable to stuff of late Lambert.

[brian green]

My knowledge of football is very limited.  It is a passion.  My other passion is horse racing.  With my very modest means I have only been able to own horses and shares of horses and make a profit by having no patience whatsoever with failure.  No chasing losses hoping things will change for the better.  They invariably change for the worse.  If we have to change Villa managers three times this season to avoid relegation, just do it.

[Nelly]

There's a lot of comments that RDM is a chancer, doesn't know what he's doing etc., yet the guy has won promotion from the championship and a Champions League trophy as manager, accolades i would suggest that indicate given the right circumstances, he must know how to do something right.

It's exactly this bit that scares me about RDM. If these aren't the right circumstances for him to be successful, why waste everyone's time?

I would have expected at least a small upturn in form, we have cleaned out the bad eggs from the dressing room, he's had a chance to bring in whomever he wanted, it's not unreasonable to expect a far better return. Managers have to earn the right to patience from the fans too. Show us you know what you're doing and generally we'll back you.

[Smoke]

I hate you say it but we need a manager with a big personality to take the helm here. we've had nothing but grey men since MON & Houllier.

A man motivator and a definitive style will give us a chance. no more steady eddy tacticians who tinker around. get everyone on the same hymn sheet.

more clichés needed at villa park.