Aston Villa supporters are being urged to attend a proposed pre-match protest against manager Alex McLeish ahead of Sunday's home clash with Manchester City.
A statement posted on the 'Vital Villa' (VV) fans' website claims the current record of six wins in 24 Barclays Premier League games is "relegation form." It also claims the Villa players are "seeming to be in open revolt" following Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Newcastle.
The statement reads: "We have played 24 games this season, we have won six! Is this good enough? No. This is relegation form. Alex McLeish is not the man to lead Aston Villa."
The statement added: "He had a full pre-season, was given £20million (approximately) to spend and has players of the calibre of Darren Bent, Gabby Agbonlahor and Stephen Ireland to work with (also the most promising batch of home-grown players produced in years).
"Despite all this, we find ourselves 13th in the table and without a home win since Bonfire Night (November 5). Now after the debacle of Sunday, with the players now seeming to be in open revolt, the future is looking very bleak indeed.
"We need to act now before it is too late and the unthinkable happens. If you support this, please join us 3pm on Sunday, Trinity Road Stand by the McGregor Statue. If you don't then please ignore this."
Some sections of supporters were unhappy when McLeish made the switch from local rivals Birmingham to replace Gerard Houllier last summer. But it remains to be seen whether there will be substantial tangible support for the proposed protest on Sunday.
Villa sold Ashley Young and Stewart Downing for a combined £35million to Manchester United and Liverpool respectively last summer. They spent around £17million in signing Charles N'Zogbia, Shay Given and Alan Hutton plus Jermaine Jenas on loan from Tottenham.
McLeish was aware of the constraints he was under and often admitted he has been instructed to reduce the "astronomical" wage bill by club owner Randy Lerner.
The former Rangers boss has also conceded this is a season of transition for the midlands club but remains convinced he is the right man at the helm to eventually revive Villa's fortunes.
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Protests are not the answer, the board should see the stats that we see and make decisions from there, you only have to look at Swansea to see what a bit of ambition and players who play for each other, for the shirt and for the fans can achieve.
I was never happy with installing McLeish, I've not enjoyed any of the games I have managed to watch this season and the record is so poor, the board need to admit this was a failed experiment and show some ambition in their next appointment.... and that should be sooner rather than later.
If I were you, Darren, I'd spend a bit less time clicking the thumbs-up and a bit more on the keyboard.
can man city put 3 past villa yes ,will the fan get the villa man the sack yes ,new coach to take the job the special one J.M GOOD LUCK
Any one have any theories who this retarded individual 'darren' is?
Or more accurately, if his mother had any other children that lived?
No good will come of this, the problems don't lie with one man, it goes right through the club from the owner to the players. None of us have the right to tell someone else how to spend their money, but as the situation stands Villa are also rans and it looks as though we must accept that, what I can't accept is the apparent lack of fight, these players should be doing better than they are, if they maintain they are doing their personal best then they can't be good enough, they can't have it both ways. Would any other manager get more out of them? if they could then wouldn't that suggest they are not giving 100% now? it could be tactics of course but when did Villa last have a top notch goal scorer? and more to the point when did they last have two good goal scorers? there is much wrong at this club at the moment I don't have the answers just opinions which anyone can agree or disagree with but I'm pretty sure that a silly protest at the weekend will solve nothing.
news flash, news flash, news flash, liverpool cat jumps ship from villa he is on his way to the fa he could take the england job villa are sick .
f.b has gone r.s.p ............ now for villa to sack the boss bring in the liverpool monday .......and you probalygraham the lost the plot one get a life
Well what i said in my last posting.The whole bloody lot from the top down should get out of villa park,and as for who the next manager should be how about Fabio had a good record with England like to see what he could do with a club team could not be worse than a haggis .
That's a belter, beckychadecase (#6). "Quality manager"? Give us one scrap of evidence. Go on, just one. And don't mention f*cking Rangers. A retarded chimp could win things with either of the two teams in that two-team pub league.
Why the need to protest, McLeish is signing his own resignation by his diabolical performance
How pathetic - whoever Darren is he has spent hours voting for his own pathetic posts and marking down others. Grow up and get a laife, Darren
news flash breaking news sky sports ...... liverpool cat gets cream lands villa managers job .......mondays news villa get stuffed cat napping against the top side man city
@DaveC - at last you've mentioned a name unlike all the moaners.
How about Sid Cowans? Everyone loves Sid.
Becky, Jane, what planet do you live on? season ticket holder to & i have to watch the pathetic pass back stye of football McLeish has installed in a team that used to be attacking under previuos managers. Not even Blues fans think this is a good manager and were happy to see th back of him. i'd have stuck with MacDonold if it was my choice
news flash liverpool cat takes charge of villa monday sky sports news flash cat is going to sign new players he is going to start from scratch
Having ignored everyone else's posts, Darren, you have then made an attempt at the world record for the longest sentence without punctuation and haven't made any suggestion as to who you would get to replace McLeish.
It's easy to be against everything and everyone but if you can't make a constructive suggestion, why bother?
news flash new boss for villa seen at livepool its a cat and the cat said he could get more wins than 6 from 24 games and he only wants feeding to get you goals
sack him 6 wins in 24 games you could have done this without a manager he has no idea what he is doing try to do this before you go down you need a quick fix now the board could do this before the man city match and by monday you would start again with some manager who can do the job turn up before the game and you might get rid of him he can go back to scotland should never come to manage in england no good put you young kids in against man city you might see you win you cant do worst look at you results give it try you got nothig to lose if you dont try you dont no if not you 94 pc going down if you go down we might not see you again but you should get more than 6 wins from 24 in that league or will you we will see happy days we wont miss you
No wonder Villa have been mediocre for such a long time. Martin O'Neill received only moderate support when he was there. Now they have another quality manager and the fans want rid of him because he arrived from Birmingham. Perhaps a spell in the Championship would do the club good.
Grow up Villa Fans. Support our team and manager. Its simple.
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