wiganvillain Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Yeah it was but that is very much the edited highlights it wasn't all good. Regardless he walked out on the club 5 days before the start of a season seemingly because he wasn't able to continue to spend money at the rate he had been for the previous years. Any respect I had for the man went out the window then. A post I can totally agree with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC1874 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 **** I miss MON. Winning at OT, Anfield, Emirates. That deadly 451 which won us 7 successive away games. Some thrilling 4-4 draws. Some amazing comebacks from 2 down, the Blues 5-1 (and winning every time we played them), Derby 6-0, THAT Everton game. Milner Downing and Young all in the same team, Blackburn 6-4, 2 wembley appearances. It was fun being a Villa fan then, sure we had some bad runs and defeats but you always thought the players were giving that bit more when he was in charge. He might have made some bad signings (many good as well) and screwed up a bit with wages, but to repeat myself. IT WAS FUN. Now it's hard to give a shit. 10 years with AM and we won't have a quarter of the stand out games we did in 4 under MON. I agree with all of that. We improved beyond recognition under him, and were a match for any team in a one off match. We improved our points every year for 4 years which is the one area Littlle, Gregory and Atkinson failed in keeping us where we were. He was stubborn and his attitude in Europe was a disgrace i thought. Some of his transfer decisions were dodgy, but others were inspired, and others were good solid transfers. He also manged to really get the most out of some players. When he took over Barry was a bit part player and left an £18m one, when he took over Gabby had played just a couple of first team games but was believed in and flourished, we bought Milner as a right midfielder and sold him as a centre midfielder who we would do anything to get back now I haven't got a clue why he really left, and whether or not the board were happy. I wouldn't want him back either as i just feel it wouldn't work now, i definitely think he is a much better manager than McLeish however, and we would be far better placed if he was still with us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 He didn't walk. Our idiotic board pretty much sacked him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 I've read that before on two other forums and someone was absolutely adamant that Lerner sacked him. Is there any proof to this? Ok, he was awarded compensation, but when the news was released it said he resigmed with immediate effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 As I said MON to Sunderland is a nightmare appointment for Lerner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cillit_Bouma Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 He didn't walk. Our idiotic board pretty much sacked him. Well if he would have offloaded all the shit he brought in and never played who were on £40k a week, then maybe he wouldn't have had to throw his toys out the cradle because he didn't get his own way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 As I said MON to Sunderland is a nightmare appointment for LernerWhy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Because if Sunderland who are 16th now do better than us and McLeish is as crap as we all know he is fingers will be pointed at the clueless owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 buy their best player and offer nice wages just to spite him. TROLLING FOOTBALL CLUB LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Sunderland are showing some ambition. They sack Steve Bruce . Look at the names they were linked to in their managerial search MON & Mark Hughes. Then look at our managerial search in summer which we had planety of time ;- McLaren , Martinez , McLeish :oops: Now Mark Hughes is a manager we deliberately ignored in the summer Why? So we could tap up a proven failure in Premiership manager , a manager who is perhaps the most negative manager ever to manage in top flight , a manager with less credentials than Gary Megson , a manager who was on brink of being sacked from bloody birmingham but we tapped up and paid compensation for anyhow. All hail McCrap and our idiotic board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 That's 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 buy their best player and offer nice wages just to spite him. TROLLING FOOTBALL CLUB LOL!It's a damn shame O'Quitter didn't take over at Sunderland this time last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Yeah it's getting pretty sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 buy their best player and offer nice wages just to spite him. TROLLING FOOTBALL CLUB LOL!It's a damn shame O'Quitter didn't take over at Sunderland this time last year. now THAT would have been h'hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 think he will fail myself. His choice of overpaid British rubbish could only get him so far at Villa but for every 3 rubbish players he signed a good one at Villa but he wont have finances for all this at Sunderland. Sessegnon be the first gone too foreign for MON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 think he will fail myself. His choice of overpaid British rubbish could only get him so far at Villa but for every 3 rubbish players he signed a good one at Villa but he wont have finances for all this at Sunderland. Sessegnon be the first gone too foreign for MON Too short as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 His biggest mistake was not getting rid of O'Neill 12 months earlier. Our position and the landscape in general would be a lot more favourable now had he done so. That 12 months extra damage has cost us dearly. That 12 month period where we got our highest points total in years, went into the 36th game of the season still in the race for 4th and got to a semi final and a final whilst also having the 4th best defence in the league. Yeah, shocking damage. Imagine a club like us having a shit 12 months like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 if mon walked in early summer then people wouldnt be so angry at him. but the way he left us at that time was just disgusting. how anyone can still talk positively about the man amazes it. i would rather have a fighter who love sthe club then a loser who walks when the going gets tough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 His biggest mistake was not getting rid of O'Neill 12 months earlier. Our position and the landscape in general would be a lot more favourable now had he done so. That 12 months extra damage has cost us dearly. That 12 month period where we got our highest points total in years, went into the 36th game of the season still in the race for 4th and got to a semi final and a final whilst also having the 4th best defence in the league. Yeah, shocking damage. Imagine a club like us having a shit 12 months like that. Yep that year that even MON himself knew he couldnt top, even with milner, that year that we hit the heights of utter shit in our reserves on huge wages, MON was on the slide, for all those amazing wins i can remember the shockingly poor home games too (and every march) i can remember the entire holte singing we want delfouneso on, playing carew every week despite his form being terrible things werent as rosy as people seem to remember, just the utter shitfest since makes it seem like it was, if it wasnt for the clown we have now i wouldnt take him back, wouldnt have had him over ged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbr600rr Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 no matter how you look at it, under mon aston villa were a better club on & off the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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