We won't go down, purely by default of the five teams below us somehow being even worse than we are. McLeish will ensure we draw our way to safety. How they thought appointing him could ever work is beyond me, he would have had to win a trophy, finish top 8 and play good football to win even a small amount of fans over, i.e. it was never going to happen. We don't expect to win every game but we do expect to at least try and win every game, anyone that watched us against Man City will have saw we set up for a 0-0 at home and didn't have a shot until the 90th minute. We only lost 1-0 but would you have accepted such a negative performance? We'd rather have a go and lose 2 or 3-0 than play for a 0-0 and surrender meekly. Yesterday we set up for a 0-0, at bloody Wigan. We actually made them look good and we looked scared to attack. We took 4000 fans and they were 'treated' to yet another garbage performance where we didn't even try to win. The away support turned on him big time which is always a tipping point. He brought Heskey on rather than Ireland or N'Zogbia which prompted the fans into 'You dont know what you're doing', he clearly doesn't. The final 20 minutes were played out to 'We want our Villa back', 'F*ck off McLeish the Villa is ours' and 'Sack McLeish my lord'. Everyone i know has said they didn't want us to score yesterday because McLeish and his ridiculous tactics would have been justified and it would have extended his stay, how bad is that? According to the media though our fans only don't like him because 'he came from Blues', what a load of cobblers.
I honestly think going down wouldn't be the worst thing at the moment, and i know a fair few Villa fans agree with me. Mcleish would leave, we'd be rid of the rubbish high wage earners like Dunne, Collins, Warnock etc, we'd actually win most weeks and be near the top of the league and might win something. I know a lot of fans would return if McLeish left even if we were in the Championship, me, my mates, my old man and all his mates for a start. We would take thousands away everywhere we went as it would be new grounds and new towns, visiting the same grounds every year is boring and our away days would be great fun taking over everywhere we went.
Good win yesterday by the way, glad to see overrated media darling mad Mart get a spanking.