Stanley Victor Collymore

[garyshawsknee]

He does get very defensive on social media and maybe should count to 100 before he posts and tweets, but he's not alone on that. I think it's good to have a Villa fan with a high profile media job. His views on our recent appointments at board and other levels have been spot on, doesn't sugar coat things like other ex players.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's a very passionate Villa fan like so many on here. I absolutely don't agree with all that he says and especially about how he has handled his position in the media vs the club/board. He obviously has a huge problem with the current board, but the way he has been public in his condemnation would make anyone who buys the club from Randy equally skeptical of engaging with him or not doing things as he would want.

That said a lot of what he says is right and we are all hurting in different ways. As for his hitting women. It's something that should never be glossed over.

Also it shouldn't be brought up as a tool to discredit everything he says either.

I never said it discredited what he says. I said he's a scumbag for doing it.

[Dave]

I've been sceptical of Collymore's credibility as a Villa fan since he was interviewed at his unveiling and mentioned "Villa won the European Cup in 1981".
Add that to some of the comments in his autobiography and makes his media persona as a rabid lifelong Villa fan a bit hard to stomach.

Why would anyone lie about being a Villa fan, really?

Maybe he's looking ahead to one day reaching the higher echelons of political office

Yeah right. He's a Villa fan, let's not pretend otherwise.

It was a joke.

[saunders_heroes]

He's a very passionate Villa fan like so many on here. I absolutely don't agree with all that he says and especially about how he has handled his position in the media vs the club/board. He obviously has a huge problem with the current board, but the way he has been public in his condemnation would make anyone who buys the club from Randy equally skeptical of engaging with him or not doing things as he would want.

That said a lot of what he says is right and we are all hurting in different ways. As for his hitting women. It's something that should never be glossed over.

Also it shouldn't be brought up as a tool to discredit everything he says either.

I never said it discredited what he says. I said he's a scumbag for doing it.

Good for you, but I don't think he's a scumbag. I think he's learned from his mistakes all those years ago and has been rehabilitated. I also don't think it has any relation to what he does for a living these days and it helps no one by continuing to bring it up whenever he speaks out about any subject.

[olaftab]

Yeah live and let live, he only hit a woman. Can't think why anyone finds that the actions of a scumbag.

And a foreign woman at that...so I also don't see a problem here.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's a very passionate Villa fan like so many on here. I absolutely don't agree with all that he says and especially about how he has handled his position in the media vs the club/board. He obviously has a huge problem with the current board, but the way he has been public in his condemnation would make anyone who buys the club from Randy equally skeptical of engaging with him or not doing things as he would want.

That said a lot of what he says is right and we are all hurting in different ways. As for his hitting women. It's something that should never be glossed over.

Also it shouldn't be brought up as a tool to discredit everything he says either.

I never said it discredited what he says. I said he's a scumbag for doing it.

Good for you, but I don't think he's a scumbag. I think he's learned from his mistakes all those years ago and has been rehabilitated. I also don't think it has any relation to what he does for a living these days and it helps no one by continuing to bring it up whenever he speaks out about any subject.

So we're agreed then, I never said it discredited what he says.

[saunders_heroes]

He's a very passionate Villa fan like so many on here. I absolutely don't agree with all that he says and especially about how he has handled his position in the media vs the club/board. He obviously has a huge problem with the current board, but the way he has been public in his condemnation would make anyone who buys the club from Randy equally skeptical of engaging with him or not doing things as he would want.

That said a lot of what he says is right and we are all hurting in different ways. As for his hitting women. It's something that should never be glossed over.

Also it shouldn't be brought up as a tool to discredit everything he says either.

I never said it discredited what he says. I said he's a scumbag for doing it.

Good for you, but I don't think he's a scumbag. I think he's learned from his mistakes all those years ago and has been rehabilitated. I also don't think it has any relation to what he does for a living these days and it helps no one by continuing to bring it up whenever he speaks out about any subject.

So we're agreed then, I never said it discredited what he says.

Why bring it up then?

[PeterWithesShin]

You brought up it discrediting him. My first comment was after you said live and live that he kicked a woman in the head. What exactly did I bring up?

[olaftab]

I was delighted when he joined us but what a waster he turned out be as a player.
Depression or not he destroyed Sir Brian's managerial career and ..... as for board appointment  yes get him in as he has made a good recovery and now is the highest profile ex player we have in football.

[SheffieldVillain]

What has Stan's experience of the game been that would qualify him to be on the board?

The others suggested - Little, Taylor, Stride etc all have experience within the decision making processes in football. Collymore has experience of working for a radio station.

What would be the point of appointing a 'Villa man' to the board to provide input in football related decisions and then appointing someone with no experience in this at all?

[saunders_heroes]

I was delighted when he joined us but what a waster he turned out be as a player.
Depression or not he destroyed Sir Brian's managerial career and ..... as for board appointment  yes get him in as he has made a good recovery and now is the highest profile ex player we have in football.

Collymore destroyed Little's managerial career, really?
Interesting.

[saunders_heroes]

What has Stan's experience of the game been that would qualify him to be on the board?

The others suggested - Little, Taylor, Stride etc all have experience within the decision making processes in football. Collymore has experience of working for a radio station.

What would be the point of appointing a 'Villa man' to the board to provide input in football related decisions and then appointing someone with no experience in this at all?

It's be said before on here but if we had a man on the board who understood football and Villa (perhaps someone like Stride) he may have talked sense into the muppet who decided it might be a good idea to employ the manager who had just relegated Small Heath just weeks earlier. It would have been worth it just for that alone.

[SheffieldVillain]

What has Stan's experience of the game been that would qualify him to be on the board?

The others suggested - Little, Taylor, Stride etc all have experience within the decision making processes in football. Collymore has experience of working for a radio station.

What would be the point of appointing a 'Villa man' to the board to provide input in football related decisions and then appointing someone with no experience in this at all?

It's be said before on here but if we had a man on the board who understood football and Villa (perhaps someone like Stride) he may have talked sense into the muppet who decided it might be a good idea to employ the manager who had just relegated Small Heath just weeks earlier. It would have been worth it just for that alone.

And what has been Stan's experience in football decision making, other than a player and radio commentator?

The 'someone like Stride' bit, fair enough, but to suggest Collymore as the much-discussed respected, experienced voice of football on the board is laughable in my view.

[saunders_heroes]

What has Stan's experience of the game been that would qualify him to be on the board?

The others suggested - Little, Taylor, Stride etc all have experience within the decision making processes in football. Collymore has experience of working for a radio station.

What would be the point of appointing a 'Villa man' to the board to provide input in football related decisions and then appointing someone with no experience in this at all?

It's be said before on here but if we had a man on the board who understood football and Villa (perhaps someone like Stride) he may have talked sense into the muppet who decided it might be a good idea to employ the manager who had just relegated Small Heath just weeks earlier. It would have been worth it just for that alone.

And what has been Stan's experience in football decision making, other than a player and radio commentator?

The 'someone like Stride' bit, fair enough, but to suggest Collymore as the much-discussed respected, experienced voice of football on the board is laughable in my view.

Hang on a second, I haven't called for Collymore to be on the board. I'd like to see someone on the board who knows about a Villa and football in general.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Didn't he write in his book that all Villa fans are Range Rover driving snobs from Worcester or Stafford?