TrentVilla Posted December 9, 2011 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2011 It is increasingly obvious as each week passes that McLeish is talking us down at every opportunity in a hope it will some how mask his quite shite performance. In YOUR opinion. Yeah obviously thats my opinion. ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 If Steven Davis or Craig Gardner find themselves employed by Villa this January I'm not setting foot in the ground until McLeish has left. Shame that. Both good players. Both average and not better than what we have IMO. I just hope our scouting network goes further than the UK. There are lots of good players in Europe willing to play in England that are better and cheaper than Steven Davis and Craig Gardner. OT but, out of interest, who do we have at the minute that would be better than Gardner in the no.10 role? I'm not sure Gardner is a nr.10 player (by that I assume you mean attacking midfielder/playmaker). More of workhorse with a good shot on him. Just a run of the mill Premier League midfielder. We do need a good attacking midfielder though because it seems Stephen Ireland is never going to make it here and I think it would help us if we at least would look abroad for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 I don't see Mcleish here long term.....barring a massive upturn in results....... I would say its 50/50 he lasts the season. Agreement will be reached and Hughes instated - all unveiled to our complete surprise..... It terms of the cost of sacking Mcleish - minimal compared to the outlay on Bent last winter. BTW - Hughes is favourite to be next villa manager ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irreverentad Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 I don't see Mcleish here long term.....barring a massive upturn in results....... I would say its 50/50 he lasts the season. Agreement will be reached and Hughes instated - all unveiled to our complete surprise..... It terms of the cost of sacking Mcleish - minimal compared to the outlay on Bent last winter. BTW - Hughes is favourite to be next villa manager ! Not a chance! Randy takes far too long to choose a manager for that situation to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Smetrov, I know it's almost Christmas but lay off the sherry son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 I don't see Mcleish here long term.....barring a massive upturn in results....... I would say its 50/50 he lasts the season. Agreement will be reached and Hughes instated - all unveiled to our complete surprise..... It terms of the cost of sacking Mcleish - minimal compared to the outlay on Bent last winter. BTW - Hughes is favourite to be next villa manager ! Not a chance! Randy takes far too long to choose a manager for that situation to happen.There isn't even a choice here. Hughes is by far the most obvious choice. He's impossible to ignore now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grievemeister Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 “We want to go to Bolton and win. There’s no guarantees that we’ll win, even if we play brilliantly. I respect your opinion but I have to disagree. He had the chance to win the fans over by playing good passing football and showing some ambition going forward. He has the creativity in midfield to do this and a £24 mill player who is a natural goalscorer. He stated before the season that he wants us to go out and play football. Nearly halfway into the season we havent witnessed anything that we are capable of. The only way he can win the fans over os by playing football. Not hoofing the ball in the air to the opposiiton!!!!! I read against Man Utd that we played 60% of our balls in the air? This is the type of football he is adopting. We dont even look capable of playing the ball to feet. I am genuinly worried for us this season. He only has himself to blame and I think underneath it all he knows it! I used to like him, but the more i read, the more i think he is an idiot! But the bloke can't win can he? If he says.... "We're going to go to Bolton rape them" and then we don't he looks like a clearing in the woods. If he says "Its a game we should win" its doing Coyle's teamtalk for him" if we don't win - he looks like a clearing in the woods. If he says "We don't want to lose" - he looks like a negative clearing in the woods. The expectations most of the supporters of this club are totally unrealistic with the financial position we are in. McLeish is in an impossible situation and has a degree of my sympathy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Smetrov, I know it's almost Christmas but lay off the sherry son. LOL - Im teetotal ! I know what youre saying - Randy stuck with Houllier through worse - so why would he sack AM ? I just have a hunch he will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Smetrov, I know it's almost Christmas but lay off the sherry son. LOL - Im teetotal ! I know what youre saying - Randy stuck with Houllier through worse - so why would he sack AM ? I just have a hunch he will.Randy stuck with Houllier through worse results, but I don't even remember the football being this bad and the fanbase being this united against the manager. Perhaps those two factors are what will force his hand if the bad results come as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 It is increasingly obvious as each week passes that McLeish is talking us down at every opportunity in a hope it will some how mask his quite shite performance. In YOUR opinion. In his opinion? NO shit Sherlock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellbydate Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 unless there is signs of vast improvement against bolton, i think the time has come to say, you had your chance, it wasn't made particularly easy but it's not going to work out, clear your desk. i've been very willing to give him the time of day (and quite rightly, imo) but it's not getting any better. i worry about how much more time and money we might waste sticking with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 He's probably a really lovely guy but my God he's a shit manager. I'd love to see what goes on and what work is done on the training pitch. How can we be in december and not one of us know actually the way McLeish has us set up or a starting 11 or a shape. It's been said before, direction. I don't know what our shape is, what our style is, who would play in our best X1, what signings we need to make, who those signings would be.I don't claim to be a footballing expert but I like to think when I'm watching a game, I know what's going on, what we are trying to do ...I don't see any of that under McLeish. Even underlined by the Dutch shite he came out with, who'd have said that? Absolutely crazy. Banging my head against the wall just at the thought that he's in charge. For **** sake, it depresses me. No results No performances No football No future. Sums it up for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 I know what out style is. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 "At the same time, we are getting some good performances - but I am looking for some outstanding performances." Good performances? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanvilla_1994 Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 The guy is absolutely clueless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyOne Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 I'm at the stage where I'm indifferent with the results now under AM. Last season I was majorly pissed off when we lost against Bolton away. This season even if we win it'll just a 'meh' reaction from me because we'll no doubt of probably scrapped it due to sheer luck. I think we'll lose against Bolton anyway. When they knocked us out in the Carling Cup we had about 8/11 of our starting players on the pitch against Bolton reserves. Yet they defeated us at home 2-0 very comfortably. And I'd say that because we didn't have a shot on target until the last 5 mins or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 McLeish is gonna block out the negative vibes...how can he run a team when he is barred from the stadium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 "At the same time, we are getting some good performances - but I am looking for some outstanding performances." Good performances? Really? He says the same thing every week about "outstanding performances". Talks bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyOne Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Nothing beats his laughable and embarassing positive spin of "We went right at Spurs" after being camped in our own half at WHL for 99% of the match. That's when you go hang on a minute. Something isn't right here. **** off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 He says we play like vintage Holland! The bloke is a joke on so many levels it is unreal. I think the whole McWank experiment has been some elaborate joke by Lerner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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