WOW - Ron Saunders on AVTV next week

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News and picture posted on Twitter - failing miserably to post the picture here (its Ron in the Villa dressing room)

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3 part special - Will be discussing the title triumph, missing the EC final and Alec McCleish.

[Simon Ward]

Ron Saunders was our guest this afternoon. Watch out for our three-part special with him on AVTV next week. #avfc http://twitpic.com/5f6t2o

Try this

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Is it free yet, or do you have to wait for your 'welcome pack' with the season card?

[Brian Taylor]

There is some psychological game going on here..Ron back soliloquising on the lost years and McL becomes the realisation of his potential when lost in the wilderness.
Desperately trying to patch over the abyss that separates the two clubs and the wounded fans disappointment.
It will all go well if we just sit back and imagine the last 30 years never happened.
It is just a hearts and minds game now on Randy's part and the yanks are great at that..Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..the Alamo.
"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning"

[dave.woodhall]

There is some psychological game going on here..Ron back soliloquising on the lost years and McL becomes the realisation of his potential when lost in the wilderness.
Desperately trying to patch over the abyss that separates the two clubs and the wounded fans disappointment.
It will all go well if we just sit back and imagine the last 30 years never happened.
It is just a hearts and minds game now on Randy's part and the yanks are great at that..Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..the Alamo.
"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning"

So they didn't come round and ask you who they should appoint.

And we haven't been a cross between Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid since 1981.

Any chance you might give it a rest now?

[Brian Taylor]

I refuse to be happy with a kick up the arse.
I refuse to fall for some nostalgic trip down memory lane designed to appease the long suffering fanbase.
Do we deserve what we have been given or been given what we deserve?
Give what a rest?
I will not be happy until we come out of the shadows and put one across the Liverpool's and Man U and Real Madrid's of this world..again!
Is this an open forum for freedom of expression or a closed world of courtiers nuzzling up to the naked king?
Up the Villa! ..We will always be The Villa..we are more important than those who see fit to dictate to us for our greater good. We always will be because without us they are nothing!  I will stop before I get banned for being a lifetime fan!

[dave.woodhall]

What do we deserve? I'd love to know what's so special about the Villa that we in some way 'deserve' better than we get. We don't, no club does. We are what we are. You can talk about the past thirty years all you like but how many trophies did we win in that time? How many in the previous thirty? The thirty before that? How many times have you ever been asked who should be the manager? How many times has it happened at any other club?

And please stop the "You're going to ban me because I'm really independent and you're all part of the system" nonsense. We've had it before, it was childish then, and it's not improved.

[Brian Taylor]

Sense of humour failure I think..we get what we deserve then and make it a crime to want more.
Stalin was famous for his wicked smile.
I want More than I seem to getting; a lot more

We have to make do with what we are handed out then...Long live the King of franchised diluted shinola.
A seachange has taken place here.. We are a different entity now.
Villa the new home of neo-revivalist protestant asperationism..
the New Church of the second awakening of elvis the unconverted.

Hallelujah Lord..Hallelujah!..I's bin saved Lord.. I see it all clearly now like the blighted Damascene..take me to the river Lord; wash a me down!!


Up the Villa. 

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

He looks fit and well for 78 years.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

He looks fit and well for 78 years.

That's what I thought. Bloody delighted to him looking so good. Made my day.

[villasjf]

What a great team he had and what an acheivment with so few players, a true legend glad he looks so well.

[dave.woodhall]

A couple of years ago he was at Villa Park (he went a few times - not sure he does now) and got talking to Randy's son who told him that he played himself. A few days later he receives a list of instructions from Mr Saunders on how to train properly.

[eamonn]

Sense of humour failure I think..we get what we deserve then and make it a crime to want more.
Stalin was famous for his wicked smile.
I want More than I seem to getting; a lot more

We have to make do with what we are handed out then...Long live the King of franchised diluted shinola.
A seachange has taken place here.. We are a different entity now.
Villa the new home of neo-revivalist protestant asperationism..
the New Church of the second awakening of elvis the unconverted.

Hallelujah Lord..Hallelujah!..I's bin saved Lord.. I see it all clearly now like the blighted Damascene..take me to the river Lord; wash a me down!!


Up the Villa. 

John?........_(Mooney)

[cdbearsfan]

I like Brian's bizarre comparison of Randy Lerner with Stalin.

Looking forward to Martin O'Neill getting an ice pick that makes his ears burn.

[Toronto Villa]

A couple of years ago he was at Villa Park (he went a few times - not sure he does now) and got talking to Randy's son who told him that he played himself. A few days later he receives a list of instructions from Mr Saunders on how to train properly.

That is bloody ace. Think how you'd feel if a legendary football manager dropped you a few tips in the mail or in person? He better follow them. If it was good enough for Gary Shaw it should be good enough for Lerner Jr.