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Very optimistic of you to think we will score

I am not worried about them calling for him, in fact I am praying Liverpool, or anybody for that matter, does call for him, but I get what your saying, who would want him.

At the time of posting this, 3 people voted that the manager had a very good performance, and in the sack or keep poll, 9 want him to stay, I have to ask the question, is this site being infiltrated by City fans ????

Purslow is wise enough to be able to avert blame away from himself. He could say he employed SG and trusted him to do a good job, but sadly SG let him down. There you are, took me 2 mins to thing that one up. I am sure Purslow has a dozen of those all lined and ready to go, all better than the one I came up with.

" wouldn't be experimenting too heavily or putting out a weakened side." So change the whole 10 outfield players then, I'm with you on that.

Sadly the people who decide if SG gets sacked dont read this forum, so I dont believe they are aware of the level of distain for SG.

You dont think the way we are playing is exceptional circumstances ????? Its not as though SG has only been useless this season, the muppet almost got us relegated last season, and your genius idea is give him more rope. The expression "give them more rope" only comes out when someone is failing badly, very rarely do they ever turn in around to the point of success, at best they may achieve survival. Is that all you want for Villa, survival.

Its called having passion for our club

What do you see in what SG is doing that is good for Villa

They are not better men than you, quite the opposite, they are like the blind leading the blind, or maybe they are just plain stubborn, you came to your decision based on common sense and logic.

Brilliant

I am shocked, when I voted it was at 3 to keep and 109 to sack, I didnt think Stevie lad had so many who want to keep him.

You say you havn't seen enough of him to judge him on his ability, I have followed him in as much as he was in my FF team for a couple of years, never did great, also I think he is nowhere near the skill level Villa should be aiming for. As for his age I know 26 is not old but I say he is on the way down based on his skill, he showed promise 2 or 3 years ago but his form dipped over the last 12 months.

SG is giving some thought to signing Bednarek ??? Just the thought of signing a player like Bednarek, who is on the way down not up, is short sighted. We should be looking to buy in players that would slot in to any top 10 team, where is the ambition in signing Benarek?

Well he hasn't managed it yet, so surely the law of averages has to come into effect eventually.

Maybe that's the problem, we should be worrying about dropping points from day 1 not playing catch up.

Sadly I fear more when we play teams we should beat. It shouldn't be that way, but I have no faith in SG, if his tactics were as good as his talk we would be a force in the premership, but the way Stevie has us playing leaves us looking like we can be undone as easy as an old cardigan. If we don't start getting results against teams like Palace we are going to be in another relegation battle. I know I sound pessimistic but I know we can win this game, come on the Villa.

The difference between managing Brighton and Villa is massive. I dont want to see Villa take another punt on who they pick and Potter has never never managed a club that carries the same preassure that the Villa job would have, again a good manager but un tested at a big club no depth of exreriance under that type of preassure. I also wonder if he could draw in big name players the same way Pooch could. I want our great club to do the sensible thing, take no chances, get a proven TOP mannager in, Pooch wont be available for long, and he certainly wont still be available after the world cup break.

Yes, good point, I agree

I dont think they are bad managers, but a lot of questions were asked of Arteta even by his own fans, and it took him a long time to start to get it right, too long in my view given the recources he had, also he has very little depth of experiance. The difference between managing Brighton and Villa is massive. I dont want to see Villa take another punt on who they pick and Potter has never never managed a club that carries the same preassure that the Villa job would have, again a good manager but un tested at a big club no depth of exreriance under that type of preassure. I also wonder if he could draw in big name players the same way Pooch could. I want our great club to do the sensible thing, take no chances, get a proven TOP mannager in, Pooch wont be available for long, and he certainly wont still be available after the world cup break.

Neither Potter, Arteta, or Moyes could make Villa great again. Do you want it to be that Villas best hope is to be a mid table floater every year, because I dont, I want to see European football. we need an experianced top class manager who knows how to manage a big club. There are 50+ managers in the English leagues who could have done the job SG did managing Rangers. It's like half the people here are happy to let Stevie practice on us until he gets the Pool job. It just aint good enough.

I can't understand how you can say that, you are contradicting your own reasoning, you give all the reasons why SG is useless, but then say "give him till January" We need to stop being soft, I have said this in a previous post "give a new manager enough time to achieve something this season, if SG had the ability to achieve something we would have seen some glimpse of it by now and we havn't." give him 5 games at best. "

I cant believe how many people are saying something along the lines of "give him more time" or "as least give him untill November". Every year many managers get sacked, ALMOST all of them were "given a bit of time to turn it around". Very few actually do turn it around, and almost none end up taking the club on to achieve great things. Usually, when a failing manager is replaced, by then the club is already in the bottom third or quarter of the table, in fact by Xmas, the fans of the bottom 5 clubs are nearly always screaming for a new manager. If thats where Villa are placed, how are we going to attract a top class manager if his first job is surviving relegation. The sensible thing is to make the job appealing, give a new manager enough time to achieve something this season, if SG had the ability to achieve something we would have seen some glimpse of it by now and we havn't.

Yes Benitez would have gotten more from the team, but all that shows is how useless SG has been, there are managers from 2 divisions below us who could have got more from the team than SG. The BEST Benitez could do is steady the ship, I want to see a manager who can make us great again, not someone who is just topping up their pension.

You are so right in what you have just said. My thoughts exactly.