When Won't It Be Martin O'Neill's Fault?

In my opinion, O'neil AND lerner are to blame. O'Neil just basically showed what a tit he is and that he can only work with money, meaning he is a poor manager. He could of stuck out the season and worked with this squad and gotten us a top 6 finish but he threw his toys out the pram and tried to copy brian clough but he aint in his league the little muppet. Lerner has been a fantastic owner up until now and it seems to me asif he just is not interested and his goons faulkner and krulak may speak for him and say he is still interested but he is doing fack all to prove it and i wouldn't care if he got up and sold the club. It seems as if houllier is going to have minimal money to spend and we will be looking at loan moves and when that is happening we will be falling and falling down the table each month, year whatever. He was also the one who appointed Houllier and really i have gave him time but we are 15th, rumours of squad unhappy, not getting results and just annoying me with his tactics and selection so in all honesty there all muppets and we need investment in the squad for better players, a good manager who can give us good football (owen coyle) and get back to being a top 6 team.

You see where things like this fall down is when you get into the realms of Randy showing no sign of wanting to bother with us further given Houllier is a good wage and actually comes with a better career record than our former manager.

Houllier may not work out, and it isn't working out at the moment, but if Randy has decided he couldn't care less now (which I don't believe is the case) then there were far cheaper options out there than Houllier that would at least indicate it.

Blaming O'Neill seems like a cop-out. But what the fans might not quite be able to grasp is that perhaps it was no one's fault and that the project had just run its course, as they all do, and the club had reached a point where the fans expectations could not be met, within the financial restraints. The reset button has been pressed in the hope that expectations can be brought within reach. Blaming O'Neill is the usual mechanism for dealing with the reality-check, and it distracts everyone from the reality that no club has successfully broken the link between turnover and success, without taking on lethal amounts of debt. Lerner has the biggest job of all - increasing the turnover to that of a top-four side. Its not a glass-ceiling, its a class-ceiling, and we have just bumped out heads. Ouch!

.l feel sorry for randy . not only has he got villa heading to pits but also the browns. one would be bad but two. must say somethink about the guy. if l where him l get out of sports he could go broke

totally agree with this article. its a nonsense to blame O'Neill now. We have to ask questions of the board now. Do they really know what they are up to?

I would like to offer a few random views, you may infact treat it as an additional rant to the currently long list.... I am a final year season ticket holder in the Holte. I basically have fallen out of love - big time. Not with any small part, but the whole thing. The only anti MON i can say is that i have it on strong word that he tendered his resignation several times during his tenure – a couple of which were for incredibly pathetic disagreements, such as the club making players pay for mid term breaks…. Anyhow, make absolutely no mistake whatsoever, the actions of MON were calculated to hurt us to the n’th degree knowing wholeheartedly we had nowhere to go. For all the good he did in his time with our club, he should never be forgiven for what he did last summer. Most disturbingly, from what I can gather, the stories of MON departure parties in the dressing room were actually true….. That aside, how many of you actually looked forward to watching a MON’s Villa team…..? be honest….there was more entertainment in 90 mins than in an Eastenders omnibus…..you score 5, we’ll score 6……. Now to throw in my disappointment….Houllier has it all wrong! If I knew my football better than he, I would be a manager. I don’t, so im not. However, I can see one simple fact that he can’t. To play possession football you need players comfortable in possession. We officially don’t have that!!! We have players that want to beat their man and move the ball on – cut from a completely different cloth….One cannot become the other – impossible. Im tired of hearing that its MON’s team….It may be 60%, but MON didn’t play the youngsters…..Houllier has, thus its as much Houllier’s as it is MON’s team….. Houllier is here for a paycheck, nothing more, nothing less. And shockingly, fair play to him, if I could get his money from a bunch of mugs that didn’t see me coming, then I would. We have some fundamental issues to resolve at the club, starting from basic basics, and im reluctant to offer anymore of my hard earned cash to see some boys that earn more in a week than I do in a 2-3 years and treat us like we don’t matter….. WE PAY YOUR WAGES YOU SPOILT BRATS!!!! If you don’t want to wear our prestigious, beloved shirt, go play for small heath or some other bunch of clowns. Spurs was the final straw for me, transitional season or not, we were outplayed and outclassed by a club we have been historically far better than in the past 5-10yrs….. Progress, what progress…..