Quote from: rob_bridge on July 25, 2013, 08:39:57 PMThey must have been woefully short of alternatives, which doesn't surprise me one bit. Also isn't full time Chief Executive at Villa a full time role. The bloke's a Grade A plum. He has been out of his depth since Day 1. Nobody and I mean nobody with a sense of footballing ilk and sanity would have hired TSM.He was party to one mistake therefore he can't do anything right ever again. I don't know if you've noticed but things have improved a bit in the past two years.
They must have been woefully short of alternatives, which doesn't surprise me one bit. Also isn't full time Chief Executive at Villa a full time role. The bloke's a Grade A plum. He has been out of his depth since Day 1. Nobody and I mean nobody with a sense of footballing ilk and sanity would have hired TSM.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on July 25, 2013, 09:00:22 PMQuote from: rob_bridge on July 25, 2013, 08:39:57 PMThey must have been woefully short of alternatives, which doesn't surprise me one bit. Also isn't full time Chief Executive at Villa a full time role. The bloke's a Grade A plum. He has been out of his depth since Day 1. Nobody and I mean nobody with a sense of footballing ilk and sanity would have hired TSM.He was party to one mistake therefore he can't do anything right ever again. I don't know if you've noticed but things have improved a bit in the past two years.No way he got credit for binning TSM and replacing him quickly with a candidate which was supported by many fans.He has been party to huge mistake in no succession planning for when MON left despite several months of prior grumblings. Hiring a replacement without an actual available start date. I'd also it would be nice to know if the 2 independent medical experts he hired (as surely he would have) to check on the health of someone who had previous serious health concerns are still practicing. As for TSM, if you took that script to a film maker they would have turned it down as being too unbelieveable. Do the 2 years include August 2011 until May 2012 because that was far from an improvement? Also when you are starting at depths we have rarely plumetted to in the last 20 years then the only way was up, surely. They have improved in the last 4 months for definite (on and off the field) but I'll wait to see if that is sustained over the next few years. And then I'll happily modify my opinion if Mr Faulkner's FA networking/brown nosing can be demonstarted as contributing to the success.
Quote from: rob_bridge on July 25, 2013, 09:33:59 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on July 25, 2013, 09:00:22 PMQuote from: rob_bridge on July 25, 2013, 08:39:57 PMThey must have been woefully short of alternatives, which doesn't surprise me one bit. Also isn't full time Chief Executive at Villa a full time role. The bloke's a Grade A plum. He has been out of his depth since Day 1. Nobody and I mean nobody with a sense of footballing ilk and sanity would have hired TSM.He was party to one mistake therefore he can't do anything right ever again. I don't know if you've noticed but things have improved a bit in the past two years.No way he got credit for binning TSM and replacing him quickly with a candidate which was supported by many fans.He has been party to huge mistake in no succession planning for when MON left despite several months of prior grumblings. Hiring a replacement without an actual available start date. I'd also it would be nice to know if the 2 independent medical experts he hired (as surely he would have) to check on the health of someone who had previous serious health concerns are still practicing. As for TSM, if you took that script to a film maker they would have turned it down as being too unbelieveable. Do the 2 years include August 2011 until May 2012 because that was far from an improvement? Also when you are starting at depths we have rarely plumetted to in the last 20 years then the only way was up, surely. They have improved in the last 4 months for definite (on and off the field) but I'll wait to see if that is sustained over the next few years. And then I'll happily modify my opinion if Mr Faulkner's FA networking/brown nosing can be demonstarted as contributing to the success. Everything bad is his fault, everything good is down to someone else.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on July 25, 2013, 09:45:15 PMQuote from: rob_bridge on July 25, 2013, 09:33:59 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on July 25, 2013, 09:00:22 PMQuote from: rob_bridge on July 25, 2013, 08:39:57 PMThey must have been woefully short of alternatives, which doesn't surprise me one bit. Also isn't full time Chief Executive at Villa a full time role. The bloke's a Grade A plum. He has been out of his depth since Day 1. Nobody and I mean nobody with a sense of footballing ilk and sanity would have hired TSM.He was party to one mistake therefore he can't do anything right ever again. I don't know if you've noticed but things have improved a bit in the past two years.No way he got credit for binning TSM and replacing him quickly with a candidate which was supported by many fans.He has been party to huge mistake in no succession planning for when MON left despite several months of prior grumblings. Hiring a replacement without an actual available start date. I'd also it would be nice to know if the 2 independent medical experts he hired (as surely he would have) to check on the health of someone who had previous serious health concerns are still practicing. As for TSM, if you took that script to a film maker they would have turned it down as being too unbelieveable. Do the 2 years include August 2011 until May 2012 because that was far from an improvement? Also when you are starting at depths we have rarely plumetted to in the last 20 years then the only way was up, surely. They have improved in the last 4 months for definite (on and off the field) but I'll wait to see if that is sustained over the next few years. And then I'll happily modify my opinion if Mr Faulkner's FA networking/brown nosing can be demonstarted as contributing to the success. Everything bad is his fault, everything good is down to someone else.Except that is not what I wrote. I pointed out (some of) his shortcomings. Lerner takes a huge portion of the blame for things which went bad in the first place, Faulkner was not going to be the person who was going to be able put those things right because he was in no way qualified. And that is what I cited.If it transpires in the future there is documented evidence that PF advised RL to bin O'Neill prior to him doing one on us or to put in place a plan which could be actioned immediately in the event he left. If he vociferously (albeit internally) queried the health of The Reds' Greatest fan prior to him being hired and pleaded with RL to not hire TSM, then he would have done a much better job in the tranisitonal/recruitment arena than it appears currently. Albeit one where he was unable to influence his Boss effectively.
You can come up with all the excuses you like for Faulkner, it won't make him any less ginger.
Paul Faulkner is next up in our Live Chat series.Villa chief executive Faulkner will converse with fans online on Wednesday August 7, from 6.30pm-7.30pm.Faulkner has been a busy man this summer already, with six players - Leandro Bacuna, Jores Okore, Nicklas Helenius, Jed Steer, Antonio Luna and Aleksandar Tonev - all joining the club.He has also secured the new contracts of Christian Benteke, Andreas Weimann, Nathan Baker, Brad Guzan, Matt Lowton, Ciaran Clark, Ashley Westwood and Daniel Johnson.He has overseen the new home and away kits, the new commercial deals with Dafabet and Flannels and organised for Acorns to appear on youth tops this term.He has seen Villa impress in the BBC Price of Football rankings and EPPP Academy ratings and brought in Simone Farina to advise our youngest recruits on morals.As well as that, Faulkner has been appointed to the prestigious FA International Committee.Now is your chance to quiz the club's chief executive on a wide array of claret and blue issues.
They only reply to some of the questions. When Okore was on they didn't do either of mine.
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