Board must take its share of the blame - General C Krulak

[Stu]

I don't have access to the General's thread, so I don't know if this is being discussed there. Couldn't see a topic on this on the main board either: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/03/aston-villa-board-randy-lerner

He's absolutely right. While the management staff and the players have underperfomed badly, the people who put the management team in place have to take a serious look at their decision to appoint GH.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Not much to say really, except that picture makes Randy look like he's about to start singing 'West end girls.'

[Lucky Eddie]

A twenty year head start in the premiership era should see us on a completely different footballing level to all of our near neighbours.

It's hasn't, and successive boards have to be to blame.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

A twenty year head start in the premiership era should see us on a completely different footballing level to all of our near neighbours.

It's hasn't, and successive boards have to be to blame.

I agree.
The Blues have won a trophy this year, yet we've been potless for 15 years.

[pauliewalnuts]

A twenty year head start in the premiership era should see us on a completely different footballing level to all of our near neighbours.

It's hasn't, and successive boards have to be to blame.

I agree.
The Blues have won a trophy this year, yet we've been potless for 15 years.

That's a bit melodramatic, Fletcher-san.

Blues have won the league cup, but then again, Stoke City are one match from winning the FA Cup.  Middlesbrough, Blackburn and Leicester City have also all won the LC since we last did.

Blues fluked their way to the final via a succession of piss easy home draws and a lucky escape to get past us. They're still a piss pot shithouse club of no worthiness whatsoever.

[Mazrim]

Exactly.

[gerags]

I thought the General's thread was a closed forum.
Was this supplied to the press via the mods or was it 'leaked' ?

[pauliewalnuts]

I thought the General's thread was a closed forum.
Was this supplied to the press via the mods or was it 'leaked' ?

He posted the same on VillaSquawk

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I agree that the Blues are a going nowhere outfit of human excrement, but it's still rank incomptence on our part that they won a trophy, at our expense.

As Chris Smith said on another thread, O'Neill (and I hate him) would never have let their lot beat us in the League cup.

[darren woolley]

This season has been a disaster let's look forward to next season and make sure we don't make the same mistake next season. 

[Hopadop]

Not much to say really, except that picture makes Randy look like he's about to start singing 'West end girls.'

I love you
You paid for Bent

[Mazrim]

Excellent.

[Concrete John]

"I know fans want to discuss the path forward, which [is] to include our manager," he wrote. "Now is not the time to discuss our manager. He is suffering and does not need to be discussed on an open website. Right now all we want is for him to regain his health. He has gone through a tough medical issue and deserves our prayers and our hopes for recovery."

That hardly says "We expect him to be manager next season" to me!

The thing about a season like this is that you learn from it.  Randy & Co have had a pretty easy ride thus far as things have generally gone well for us, and that is largely due to them themselves, but this is one of the downs that comes with the ups every football club owner will encounter.  What I'd like to see them do is, should the expected happen, sit down and review their process for appointing the last manager and ask what they could have done better and see how most other clubs at our level would go about things.  Generally, a matter of being selfish and almost bullying in protecting our club and not caring how that may damage others.

[Mazrim]

Right now, and this is just my opinion, I dont think anybody close to the club expects Houllier to be back in the hot seat next season. I also think that whilst nothing will be said whilst Houllier is recovering, efforts to find our new manager have already begun and may have done a while ago, with Houllier moving upstairs.

[UsualSuspect]

With respect to GH the only moving upstairs he should be doing is when he goes to bed.

Too many incidents the season of being totally oblivious to the blindly obviously crowned by on the Friday after the FA Cup defeat when he said "I still don't understand what all the fuss was about"

Thanks for Bent but get your bags packed