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Author Topic: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble  (Read 22382 times)

Offline martin o`who??

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2016, 07:09:40 PM »
Sounds like Tony wants to make the ground bigger and use extra revenue to buy players. Doesn't sound too great does it. Walk before we can run perhaps?
Thats how I read it, to develop the ground and market it and generate any kind of Revenue stream will take years - and in the meantime he will need to finance us directly from his own pocket to a degree. The Chinese have a saying : "May you live in interesting times" - it is actually a veiled curse apparently, only time will tell if Doctor Xia is our blessing  - or our curse.

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2016, 07:11:17 PM »
no one can be as short sighted as lerner, can they??

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2016, 07:12:15 PM »
Well, I have to go now, Randy, because I'm due back on the planet Earth.

Offline Ron Manager

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2016, 07:13:04 PM »
I believe he is a little disconnected from the normal world that we have to live in. Would you trust someone who could come out with such utter bilge to get things right. I wonder if our new owners have an hidden agenda that does not involve Aston Villa FC.

In time we shall find out.

Offline DeKuip

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2016, 07:16:50 PM »
Aston Villa supporter Dekuip, aged over 50, posted this comment just days after watching his already relegated club lose again:
"After a lifetime of reading some of the tripe football journalists come up with I've quite enjoyed Randy's obscure ramblings."

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2016, 07:17:05 PM »
This is fascinating! He sounds like an elderly actor giving a speech after his last encore. He's got some fucking neck, I'll give him that! Does he think we're all going to go moisty-eyed at the thought of his bloody mosaic? How can he possibly presume to bow out gracefully after what's happened "on his watch"?

Unless... unless... There's a chance he genuinely believes he's departing as the thoughtful custodian he always said he was. That he really thinks he's "done his bit, but now it's time to move on", like the aged chairman of a south coast bowls club. I said the other week I felt sorry for him, now I honestly worry about his state of mind.

Offline HK Villan

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2016, 07:26:26 PM »
I really worry about his state of mind.

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2016, 07:27:08 PM »
Nurse, that funny Mr Lerner has been typing again and now he is standing at the window in his pyjamas waving his Todger and shouting bring me my shumanite.

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2016, 07:32:16 PM »
I think he did some admirable things, that his heart was in the right place but perhaps through a bad combination of naiivety and arrogance everything he did footballwise turned to death.

I don't hate the guy but there's no escaping that the statistically worst Villa team ever happened on his watch. Custodianship.

I still think had O'Neill invested better with the infinite money he had and then not flounced off in the manner he did, things really could have been different. That said, we should have had enough about us as an organisation to absord that hit, roll up sleeves and crack on. Instead we folded.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2016, 07:33:13 PM »
Fcuk off Lerner.

Offline passport1

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2016, 07:34:18 PM »
Take your money Lerner and never darken the Villa Park doors again. Gone and best forgotten .

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2016, 07:34:22 PM »
Strange that of all the off the pitch work he did do (and can be respected for ie Holte pub and mosaic) his 'narrative' makes no mention of Acorns which for me, was the one thing he could reflect on with honour.

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2016, 07:37:05 PM »
It does seem like something he wrote in a rush, a bit 'stream of consciousness'.

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #28 on: May 18, 2016, 07:41:04 PM »
If installing a mosaic (as nice as it is) is one of highlights of his tenure, then I think we are well rid.
I can't help feeling a tiny tinge of sympathy for the bloke, but ultimately he is the victim of his own failings.

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Re: Randy Lerner's Farewell ramble
« Reply #29 on: May 18, 2016, 07:43:00 PM »
I don't hate the bloke but he did massively bollocks everything up and that is what he will mainly be remembered for. I'm glad he's sold up and hopefully it's to the right people!

 


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