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Author Topic: Where is The General?  (Read 16800 times)

Offline saunders_heroes

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2012, 04:21:36 PM »
You have to say, that the manner and time of his departure makes it very hard to disagree that Fletch has a point.

He hasn't resigned as a director, either.

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/00046572

According to his official Twitter account he's definitely a "former" Villa director.
It must be true then.

It's his official account.

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #31 on: February 22, 2012, 04:22:54 PM »
You have to say, that the manner and time of his departure makes it very hard to disagree that Fletch has a point.

He hasn't resigned as a director, either.

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/00046572

According to his official Twitter account he's definitely a "former" Villa director.
It must be true then.

It's his official account.

I knew I'd read it somewhere.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #32 on: February 22, 2012, 04:24:36 PM »
That's more than fair enough Pelty, although it would have only taken a couple of minutes to do 1 last "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" type post.

I'm sure if the mods from this site decided it was time for the General to stop posting he'd have preferred a quick note rather than, for example, suddenly realising he had been banned/blocked from the site or whatever without a word.

Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2012, 04:26:23 PM »
You have to say, that the manner and time of his departure makes it very hard to disagree that Fletch has a point.

He hasn't resigned as a director, either.

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/00046572

According to his official Twitter account he's definitely a "former" Villa director.

He needs to have a word with someone, then, as according to Companies House, he still is (and the villa web site, too).

Offline glasses

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2012, 04:27:41 PM »
Is he still a NED? If he is, is he still taking a salary? I'd be genuinely interested to know, considering we are cutting costs.

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #35 on: February 22, 2012, 04:28:12 PM »
The General is still a director at Aston Villa Limited.

Unless the company have failed to declare his resignation.

I'd trust Companies House documents more than a twitter description.

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #36 on: February 22, 2012, 04:29:59 PM »
They probably didn't bother to change the details at Companies House.

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #37 on: February 22, 2012, 04:30:48 PM »
They probably didn't bother to change the details at Companies House.

That's pretty naughty then, and means he's still a director when, possibly, he doesn't think he is.

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #38 on: February 22, 2012, 04:31:32 PM »
Is he still a NED? If he is, is he still taking a salary? I'd be genuinely interested to know, considering we are cutting costs.

He has never been paid.

Offline glasses

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #39 on: February 22, 2012, 04:35:41 PM »
Perhaps I have made an assumption there then

Offline VillaBobby

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #40 on: February 22, 2012, 05:30:43 PM »
The General became president of a college in Birmingham, AL called (appropriately enough) Birmingham-Southern College. The previous president left the school's finances in an extremely precarious state and it takes all of the General's time just to manage this issue. This is no exaggeration as he has to travel to many different places, often 8-10 hour round trips by car, to speak to alumni groups and prospective students to encourage the former to give and the latter to attend. He enjoys it a great deal, but his time has become quite limited.

The timing of his departure had everything to do with this issue (he began his duties on 01 JUN 11), but it would also be fair to note that there was a certain recognition that the conversation had reached a point where it had become, from his perspective (and he was not alone, I daresay), comparatively unproductive and not the best use of his time given the exigencies of his current position. He is still on the board (as far as I know; I have not asked and he has not told me otherwise), pays extremely close attention to the Villa, and talks with Randy frequently.

He also has me bitching in his ear on a weekly basis, but that is a different matter altogether... :-)

Excuse my ignorance as I have been away from this site for a fair amount of time, but are you in contact with Mr Krulak?


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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #41 on: February 22, 2012, 05:31:38 PM »
The General became president of a college in Birmingham, AL called (appropriately enough) Birmingham-Southern College. The previous president left the school's finances in an extremely precarious state and it takes all of the General's time just to manage this issue. This is no exaggeration as he has to travel to many different places, often 8-10 hour round trips by car, to speak to alumni groups and prospective students to encourage the former to give and the latter to attend. He enjoys it a great deal, but his time has become quite limited.

The timing of his departure had everything to do with this issue (he began his duties on 01 JUN 11), but it would also be fair to note that there was a certain recognition that the conversation had reached a point where it had become, from his perspective (and he was not alone, I daresay), comparatively unproductive and not the best use of his time given the exigencies of his current position. He is still on the board (as far as I know; I have not asked and he has not told me otherwise), pays extremely close attention to the Villa, and talks with Randy frequently.

He also has me bitching in his ear on a weekly basis, but that is a different matter altogether... :-)

Excuse my ignorance as I have been away from this site for a fair amount of time, but are you in contact with Mr Krulak?



He's his son.

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #42 on: February 22, 2012, 06:20:36 PM »
Perhaps he's still officially a director, but he's put 'former' on his twitter account because he's not doing much directing. We've had a few like that over the years.

Offline Dazvillain

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #43 on: February 22, 2012, 06:41:27 PM »
He's still listed in programme as non executive director but i thought he had relinquished all links to concentrate on USA projects

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Re: Where is The General?
« Reply #44 on: February 22, 2012, 07:17:37 PM »
It sure as hell is a strange way to run a football club.

 


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