Badly run clubs eventually get relegated

[Fin Feds Dad]

This club is sleepwalking to Division 1 - shambles.

[Villadroid]

I must thank Pauliewalnuts because until he presented the evidence that Villa is a badly run club, I actually believed that it might be true.

You don't have to think too long, when presented with the examples he offers, to conclude that Villa are not a badly run club.

Certainly not brilliant but not bad by football's standards.

Once the examples of Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle are offered up, clubs which range from from the criminal to the ridiculous, Villa's minor failings are put into perspective.

The assumption that the only criterion of a well-run club is the avoidance of relegation at any price is seriously flawed.

For those who think entirely in terms of consuming the football product these things cannot matter, but for anyone who thinks they support a club, I am afraid they must.

So thanks Pauliewalnuts, you brought light to a gloomy night.
 

[dicedlam]

The money we've spent on compensating former managers alone is staggering.  How much we had to pay SHA for poaching TSM and then TSM himself for fucking him off is scandalous, especially when you consider there were only two, possibly, three men on the face of the earth who thought appointing him was a good idea.

The whole concept of having to *pay* Small Heath for the manager who had just got them relegated whilst playing the most nauseatingly sterile brand of football seen for years is just incredible, but yep, we did that.

This for me very much sums up the inept manner in which the senior management run the club.

[bertlambshank]

Minor failing's,dear God don't feed him.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

You'll never get some on here to accept we're a badly run club.

True.
But why?

[TopDeck113]

You'll never get some on here to accept we're a badly run club.

True.
But why?

God knows, because - and I have no pleasure in being right - some of us have been saying it for an awfully long time.

[TonyD]

Randy let MON spunk all the money of the holiday on the first couple of nights on cocktails and lap dancing.  We are now struggling to survive the rest of holiday on bottles of San Miguel cooling in the bath before the plane home.

[danlanza]

Randy let MON spunk all the money of the holiday on the first couple of nights on cocktails and lap dancing.  We are now struggling to survive the rest of holiday on bottles of San Miguel cooling in the bath before the plane home.

Fuck all wrong with a cold bath full of San Miguel

[Des Little]

Randy let MON spunk all the money of the holiday on the first couple of nights on cocktails and lap dancing.  We are now struggling to survive the rest of holiday on bottles of San Miguel cooling in the bath before the plane home.

Fuck all wrong with a cold bath full of San Miguel

We're minesweeping for lukewarm halves of Amstel

[bertlambshank]

Randy let MON spunk all the money of the holiday on the first couple of nights on cocktails and lap dancing.  We are now struggling to survive the rest of holiday on bottles of San Miguel cooling in the bath before the plane home.

Fuck all wrong with a cold bath full of San Miguel

We're minesweeping for lukewarm halves of Amstel

Skol skol skol skol skol skol skol skol skol.

[NeilH]

Jesus, I really picked the wrong month to decide to go tee total didn't I!!!

[Risso]

I must thank Pauliewalnuts because until he presented the evidence that Villa is a badly run club, I actually believed that it might be true.

You don't have to think too long, when presented with the examples he offers, to conclude that Villa are not a badly run club.

Certainly not brilliant but not bad by football's standards.

Once the examples of Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle are offered up, clubs which range from from the criminal to the ridiculous, Villa's minor failings are put into perspective.

The assumption that the only criterion of a well-run club is the avoidance of relegation at any price is seriously flawed.

For those who think entirely in terms of consuming the football product these things cannot matter, but for anyone who thinks they support a club, I am afraid they must.

So thanks Pauliewalnuts, you brought light to a gloomy night.
 

It's far from the only criteria.

How about four successive years of huge losses in the accounts?  Check
Selling all of the valuable assets of the company and replacing them with inferior replacements? Check
A falling and unhappy consumer base? Check
Likely to miss out on a huge increase in turnover as a result of getting relegated? Check
Poor customer relations and no apparent strategy for success? Check
A feeble and ineffective board led by somebody completely out of his depth? Check

[TonyD]

Randy let MON spunk all the money of the holiday on the first couple of nights on cocktails and lap dancing.  We are now struggling to survive the rest of holiday on bottles of San Miguel cooling in the bath before the plane home.

Fuck all wrong with a cold bath full of San Miguel

Full English in the afternoon, 12 bottles of Sami and 20 cheap bennies.  The cornerstone of every 80's holiday.

[David_Nab]

I doubt this is the first we will see of this view now , we are the biggest club in trouble now and the media are having a field day.

The fact is we spent more than Spurs net had a higher wage bill and look at us ..utter shambles.We sold Downing ,Milner and Young and wasted the cash we got in.The managerial appointments have been a disaster and I am starting to class Lambert in with that too.

[Trinitymiddle]

Even if we escape relegation this year, with Randy's grip on the purse strings, does anyone really believe that it we wont be battling relegation again next year? Its been like this for 3 seasons now, I'm getting tired of it, and if you take out the MON era, its been like it since midway through Gregory's reign as manager, give or take a season.