windyhead

Amen. This talk of sacking him is insane. The ship needs to be steadied. New manager means culling off more players we've spent crazy money on, buying more crap players and a whole new settling down of players. Let's just stay up this season, and build a team that know how to play with each other (last night was full of players not knowing where to run, where players want the ball etc. etc.).

hang on a sec - Ellis had 30 years in the Chairman's seat - Randy has been in since 2006. Its a little bit unfair to say we achieved more under Ellis (especially as the two major achievements occurred in the 7 yr window when he wasnt chairman!).

I am generally anti most premiership managerial sackings as generally they happen too quickly and they are generally dictated a lot more by media pressure than performance BUT I feel that AM was sworn in because there were very few high(ish) profiles names going around when MON left and the season was just about to start. going back to trent and villausa - yes motivation is only part of management but its a massive (part especially at teams like Villa...). you do get people who's reading of the game is very good (Wenger has to be included here) but even Ferguson's tactical reading isnt that great - to me he is a testament of what can be achieved by motivation. Basically he's a terrifying $£@%$£@. I just cant see AM having that effect on a changing room of players who MIGHT be thinking Villa are midtable fodder so why play 101%...