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Fed up now of people saying give him a chance etc. Go now before you ruin this great club
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apparently last weeks streaker had Mcleish out written on his back 
www.mcleishout.co.uk
www.mcleishout.co.uk
Haha hamster but mcleish is no laughing matter mate
Oh Dear...There is actually a website wanting him out LoL ...!!!
...!!!
Maybe Mcleish might go back to Rangers.......Or wait Rangers don't exsist anymore...Oh well he might have to stay then
McLeish is on course for his 3rd relegation in 4 years.
McLeish is an apprentice Ian Dowie, relegation a speciality.
He just clearly hates Birmingham, either that or he's an awful awful manager..
This poll and comments must surely spell doom for the clown?
http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2012/04/25/aston-villa-alex-mcleish-should-he-stay-or-should-he-go-97319-30835626/
Not a Villa fan, just mystified as to why he he's still there, never mind how he got the job in the first place.
http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2012/04/25/aston-villa-alex-mcleish-should-he-stay-or-should-he-go-97319-30835626/
Not a Villa fan, just mystified as to why he he's still there, never mind how he got the job in the first place.
you can't afford to get rid of him prep he's on a 3 year contract by then you'll be tearing it up round hereford and rochdale just like the good old days of the 70s.p.s if you need us to send anyone else over just drop us a line to small heath alliance and we will try our very best to help you.
Was speaking to a Villa fan this morning, shes had a season ticket for 40 years, she said she wont renew it next season if he is still in charge, apparantley only 5000 have renewed so far.
Ghostdog 25 Apr 12 15:12
Not a Villa fan, just mystified as to why he he's still there, never mind how he got the job in the first place.
Exactly this
Not a Villa fan, just mystified as to why he he's still there, never mind how he got the job in the first place.
Exactly this
Don't worry Villa fans . After getting rid of Dingle Mick and AVB we'll get him the sack on Saturday. Boing Boing 
he took birmingham down and then villa gave him a job on more money,makes you wonder how people like randy learner do so well in business
Looking at the remaining fixtures for the bottom sides, i think 3rd bottom will be around 37pts.
Villa might get 1 more point in their last 3 games giving them 37pts, however their goal difference is much better than everyone else below them so they might just survive.
However if they need to get more than 37pts to stay up they are probably down.
Villa might get 1 more point in their last 3 games giving them 37pts, however their goal difference is much better than everyone else below them so they might just survive.
However if they need to get more than 37pts to stay up they are probably down.
shocking appointment and players looked gone last night...played well for 60 mins but as soon as it went belly up nothing there....probably only need a point with their goal difference which as a rule Mac is usually good at getting....
After Villa have gone down I hear Mcleish will go to WBA to get all 4 big Midland teams in the Championship.
37 points may not be enough. Wigan have blackburn and wolves still to play.
QPR may get 4 points although they have 2 tough away games.
Hopefully we will be able to scrape two wins and get to 39.
QPR may get 4 points although they have 2 tough away games.
Hopefully we will be able to scrape two wins and get to 39.
GAZO
he took birmingham down and then villa gave him a job on more money,makes you wonder how people like randy learner do so well in business
He doesn't though. Flogged his old mans business for 1.5 billion and has manage to lose most of it.
Funnily enough, I don't blame Mcleish much for our nightmare. Everyone knows what you get with Mcleish.
I blame Lerner for appointing probably the least suitable manager in football, and O'Neil for spaffing 100 million on the likes of Sidwell, Davies, Harewood, Knight etc, etc.
he took birmingham down and then villa gave him a job on more money,makes you wonder how people like randy learner do so well in business
He doesn't though. Flogged his old mans business for 1.5 billion and has manage to lose most of it.
Funnily enough, I don't blame Mcleish much for our nightmare. Everyone knows what you get with Mcleish.
I blame Lerner for appointing probably the least suitable manager in football, and O'Neil for spaffing 100 million on the likes of Sidwell, Davies, Harewood, Knight etc, etc.
Mcleish was the only manager in scotland to get rangers third in the scots premier
lol, absolute worst manager ever seen, he wont be employable again after this.
Mcleish's record for Rangers was very good, better than Walter Smiths and **** Advocaat's - and he won more trophies than Martin O Neil when they went head to head for a few years.
MON isn't any good either. a grossly overrated manager whose teams play absolutely dire stuff
MCLEISH DESTROYED MARTIN O'NEILS 3-5-2 SYSTEM FORCING HIM TO GIVE IT UP AND WAS A GREAT SUCCESS AT RANGERS WITH HARDLY ANY MONEY.
SAYING THAT THE FOOTBALL WAS HORRIFIC TO WATCH WHICH HE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPORTED TO HIS ENGLISH TEAMS
SAYING THAT THE FOOTBALL WAS HORRIFIC TO WATCH WHICH HE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPORTED TO HIS ENGLISH TEAMS
I admit his brand of football isn't very pretty to watch, however it is normally very effective.
Great player, good guy and decent human being but a lousy manager.
GET THAT GINGER SCOTTISH ****ING **** OUT OF VILLA PARK NOW RANDY YOU DUMB ASS AMERICAN ****-WIT!
Aston Villa fans were right: Alex McLeish and club do not go together by Stuart James from The Guardian.
There is no point skirting the issue. Alex McLeish's position has become untenable and it is almost inconceivable to think that he will still be the Aston Villa manager at the start of next season, irrespective of what division the club are in. When "**** Off McLeish, the Villa is ours" and "Sack McLeish, my lord" rang around the stadium in the closing stages of Tuesday night's highly damaging 2-1 home defeat by Bolton Wanderers, it was the majority, not a noisy minority, singing in unison.
Villa fans never accepted McLeish in the first place and they want him out. Plain and simple. The brutal truth is that it is never going to work with McLeish in charge and anyone that still thinks otherwise is deluded. Randy Lerner, the Villa owner, and Paul Faulkner, the chief executive, must be able to see that now, even if they refused to believe that was the case when they made the extraordinary decision to appoint the Scot in the summer.
Extraordinary not because McLeish came from Villa's rivals, Birmingham City. Extraordinary because McLeish had just suffered his second relegation with Birmingham in three Premier League seasons. And extraordinary because he is synonymous with a brand of football that, to borrow the former Villa manager Graham Taylor's recent description, "looks [like] you are preparing a side not to lose".
This season has been abysmal and the statistics make for painful reading. Villa have won only seven league matches all season, the lowest in the division with the exception of already relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers. Only Wigan have scored fewer than the 19 goals Villa have managed in 18 home fixtures. McLeish's side have won only four league games at Villa Park and just one in the past five months, meaning that they are guaranteed to finish the season with the worst home record in the club's history.
Against that backdrop, it is little wonder that there is so much apathy surrounding the club. There were 10,000 empty seats inside Villa Park for the Bolton game, which has been a common theme this season. Villa's average attendance is 33,755, which is more than 6,000 down on the peak of four years ago and nine per cent down on last season, when Gérard Houllier's side flirted with relegation. Since August, only Blackburn Rovers have lost fans at a quicker rate than Villa. In fact more fans watched Villa in David O'Leary's last season, when the club finished 16th and supporters held up a banner that said: "We're not fickle, we just don't like you."
Lerner made a rare visit to Villa Park on Tuesday night and it must have been sobering and galling for the American to see first-hand evidence of just how far the club has fallen in such a short space of time. Two years ago today, Villa beat Birmingham City 1-0 to move level on points with fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with two games of the season remaining. On Saturday, they travel to West Bromwich Albion only three points clear of the relegation zone.
All of which means that Villa have gone from the verge of the Champions League to the brink of the Championship in the blink of an eye; a journey which must be particularly hard for Lerner to come to terms with when he looks at a balance sheet that shows he has pumped upwards of £200m (including £133m invested in return for shares) into a club that is underperforming on the pitch and haemorrhaging money off it. Villa posted a £54m loss for the year to 31 May 2011.
Indeed, it is difficult to know what the endgame is for an owner who is in charge of a club with no obvious purpose at the moment, other than to avoid the ignominy of relegation for the first time in 25 years. There are, admittedly, some mitigating circumstances for a woeful run that has seen Villa pick up only one victory from their last 13 league matches, not least the long-term absence of senior and influential players, such as the top scorer Darren Bent, the captain Stilian Petrov and the central defender Richard Dunne. Yet even with those players in the team, Villa were making hard work of things, grinding out the odd victory.
All of which strikes a chord with McLeish's time at Birmingham. Even in his best league season at St Andrew's, in 2009-10, when Birmingham came ninth place – their highest top-flight finish since 1959 – it was anything but pretty to watch, with McLeish's side scoring only 38 goals in as many games. Last season Birmingham scored only 37, less than a goal a game. This season Villa have scored 36 in 35 matches. In other words, a pattern is starting to emerge and it is one where entertaining football is absent.
There are other uncomfortable parallels to be drawn with last season, when Birmingham's campaign followed a broadly similar pattern to Villa's this term, as form fell away badly at a critical stage. Indeed, this time last year, Birmingham were 15th in the table, as is the case with Villa now, but had a four- rather than three-point cushion over the bottom three with three games remaining. Birmingham lost all three matches and went down.
A repeat of that form on the run-in and the chances are that Villa will suffer the same fate, leaving McLeish with three Premier League relegations on his CV. Lerner would surely be forced to intervene should that happen, although if common sense prevails both parties will agree at the end of the season to go their separate ways whether Villa survive or not. McLeish, after all, is not going to win this battle and Lerner has an investment to protect. As for the supporters, they just want to enjoy going to Villa Park again.
There is no point skirting the issue. Alex McLeish's position has become untenable and it is almost inconceivable to think that he will still be the Aston Villa manager at the start of next season, irrespective of what division the club are in. When "**** Off McLeish, the Villa is ours" and "Sack McLeish, my lord" rang around the stadium in the closing stages of Tuesday night's highly damaging 2-1 home defeat by Bolton Wanderers, it was the majority, not a noisy minority, singing in unison.
Villa fans never accepted McLeish in the first place and they want him out. Plain and simple. The brutal truth is that it is never going to work with McLeish in charge and anyone that still thinks otherwise is deluded. Randy Lerner, the Villa owner, and Paul Faulkner, the chief executive, must be able to see that now, even if they refused to believe that was the case when they made the extraordinary decision to appoint the Scot in the summer.
Extraordinary not because McLeish came from Villa's rivals, Birmingham City. Extraordinary because McLeish had just suffered his second relegation with Birmingham in three Premier League seasons. And extraordinary because he is synonymous with a brand of football that, to borrow the former Villa manager Graham Taylor's recent description, "looks [like] you are preparing a side not to lose".
This season has been abysmal and the statistics make for painful reading. Villa have won only seven league matches all season, the lowest in the division with the exception of already relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers. Only Wigan have scored fewer than the 19 goals Villa have managed in 18 home fixtures. McLeish's side have won only four league games at Villa Park and just one in the past five months, meaning that they are guaranteed to finish the season with the worst home record in the club's history.
Against that backdrop, it is little wonder that there is so much apathy surrounding the club. There were 10,000 empty seats inside Villa Park for the Bolton game, which has been a common theme this season. Villa's average attendance is 33,755, which is more than 6,000 down on the peak of four years ago and nine per cent down on last season, when Gérard Houllier's side flirted with relegation. Since August, only Blackburn Rovers have lost fans at a quicker rate than Villa. In fact more fans watched Villa in David O'Leary's last season, when the club finished 16th and supporters held up a banner that said: "We're not fickle, we just don't like you."
Lerner made a rare visit to Villa Park on Tuesday night and it must have been sobering and galling for the American to see first-hand evidence of just how far the club has fallen in such a short space of time. Two years ago today, Villa beat Birmingham City 1-0 to move level on points with fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with two games of the season remaining. On Saturday, they travel to West Bromwich Albion only three points clear of the relegation zone.
All of which means that Villa have gone from the verge of the Champions League to the brink of the Championship in the blink of an eye; a journey which must be particularly hard for Lerner to come to terms with when he looks at a balance sheet that shows he has pumped upwards of £200m (including £133m invested in return for shares) into a club that is underperforming on the pitch and haemorrhaging money off it. Villa posted a £54m loss for the year to 31 May 2011.
Indeed, it is difficult to know what the endgame is for an owner who is in charge of a club with no obvious purpose at the moment, other than to avoid the ignominy of relegation for the first time in 25 years. There are, admittedly, some mitigating circumstances for a woeful run that has seen Villa pick up only one victory from their last 13 league matches, not least the long-term absence of senior and influential players, such as the top scorer Darren Bent, the captain Stilian Petrov and the central defender Richard Dunne. Yet even with those players in the team, Villa were making hard work of things, grinding out the odd victory.
All of which strikes a chord with McLeish's time at Birmingham. Even in his best league season at St Andrew's, in 2009-10, when Birmingham came ninth place – their highest top-flight finish since 1959 – it was anything but pretty to watch, with McLeish's side scoring only 38 goals in as many games. Last season Birmingham scored only 37, less than a goal a game. This season Villa have scored 36 in 35 matches. In other words, a pattern is starting to emerge and it is one where entertaining football is absent.
There are other uncomfortable parallels to be drawn with last season, when Birmingham's campaign followed a broadly similar pattern to Villa's this term, as form fell away badly at a critical stage. Indeed, this time last year, Birmingham were 15th in the table, as is the case with Villa now, but had a four- rather than three-point cushion over the bottom three with three games remaining. Birmingham lost all three matches and went down.
A repeat of that form on the run-in and the chances are that Villa will suffer the same fate, leaving McLeish with three Premier League relegations on his CV. Lerner would surely be forced to intervene should that happen, although if common sense prevails both parties will agree at the end of the season to go their separate ways whether Villa survive or not. McLeish, after all, is not going to win this battle and Lerner has an investment to protect. As for the supporters, they just want to enjoy going to Villa Park again.
Hamster mate, he has to go! I'm not going back to villa park till he's gone. Their are thousand's of villa fans saying the same. GET THIS KNUT OUT OF OUR CLUB!
He's gone in 3 games time pretty sure that'll happen now regardless of our status. No point of getting rid atm see Wolves etc
will it be a full house for the now vital spurs game or 1000s of empty seats again ?
Doubt it will be a full-house but should be more than usual due to it being last home game and possible last premier league home game 36,000 - 37,000
Mass protests organised for that game mafeking, so you may see a few of the stay away fans come back for that game to riot! SACK MCLEISH MY LORD SACK MCLEISH!
Lose to the Albion. Sack him, and scrape a point. Manage Walsall next season and rescue Roger Johnson and Scott Dann from the Championship ? Happy days....
Bic Eck isn't a popular man in Birmingham. I have heard of being boo'd off but McLeish gets boo'd on.
When did Villa fans ever enjoy going to Villa park in the last decade?
The most middle of the road, boring club in the league.
Hopefully they go down, to give their fans and board a reality check
The most middle of the road, boring club in the league.
Hopefully they go down, to give their fans and board a reality check
He might be hopeless but who the fcuk bought the dross in and who with any pedigree is going to go to villa or for that matter any of the teams outside of the top 4/5 EPL "busted flush" methinks.
ttt Mass protests planned for sunday's game with Spurs!
three points for spurs mate. Get what you can on. Maybe have a saver on 0-0 as thats the best we can hope for.
MCLEISH OUT!!!! YOUR NOT WELCOME!!!
MCLEISH OUT!!!! YOUR NOT WELCOME!!!
he gone in the summer whatever happens surely ? and should be followed by lerner and the chief exec.
perhaps the most ridiculous managerial appointment ever
perhaps the most ridiculous managerial appointment ever
doubled his salary jumping ship
hire Judas
pieces of silver follow
hire Judas
pieces of silver follow
One big joke! I'm half expecting jeremy Beadle to come back from the dead and by running round VP with his camcorder!
haha HRH you going on sunday? I refuse to go while he's in charge
I'd rather stick the cost of a ticket on Spurs, maybe even unquoted on the correct score 
True! We will get smashed. I think things will get very nasty around VP on sunday. Have you seen all about the mcleish out day?
doubt that tbh. obviously mccleish will set out his stall for 0-0. even if we take the lead he won't change tactics and will still park the bus
I say smashed but not scoreline wise, just in all round play. The man is clueless
cac manager perfect for a cac side who's fairweather grizzling fans are so boring with their constant whinging,consider yourself lucky to still be in the prem,cos your side isnt worthy of the name.
>>>>>>>>>>>>. agrees with book .and they call us geordies deluded 
what a hoot ..hope they go down ......
what a hoot ..hope they go down ......
How can they be losing so much money?
They've got one of the smallest squads in the league with plenty of youngsters. Can't imagine the likes of Albrighton Bannan Herd Lichaj Gardner and Clark for instance are on high wages.
They've also sold Downing, Young and Milner in the last 2 seasons
They've got one of the smallest squads in the league with plenty of youngsters. Can't imagine the likes of Albrighton Bannan Herd Lichaj Gardner and Clark for instance are on high wages.
They've also sold Downing, Young and Milner in the last 2 seasons
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