In terms of putting in the money, Randy has been incredible for us.What concerns me is the fact that for a while now we've been showing distinct signs of really rank disorganisation. Seeing the mess we are in now as some kind of conspiracy between the press and the bookies is laughable. The press wouldn't be taking the piss out of us now if there wasn't anything to take the piss out of in the first place.I thought they got dropped into an awful situation when O'Neill left, but really, these are the perfect circumstances in which to be finding a new manager, yet still we seem to have managed to waste the six weeks warning we had.The "we don't talk to the press" stance is fine in principle, but then why on earth have the general randomly dropping stuff on here and other forums which the press seize on? Why make it so hard on them in one sense, but so easy in another?I have no doubt that the board are good intentioned, but I think they have underestimated how cut throat and hypocritical the industry is (and quite frankly, if the flip side of being the industry nice guy is that we get nowhere, then there needs to be a rethink on that policy), and have been naive in thinking you can do all this without a big chunk of football knowledge on the board.The could fix a lot of this mess tomorrow if they wanted. They could get Steve Stride back in. They won't, though, and the club will suffer for it.
Big Ron played crap football?? What are you on about Sam?
Quote from: Lizz on June 13, 2011, 10:46:09 PMQuote from: The Left Side on June 13, 2011, 10:01:48 PMRandy is the best owner we have had and is a Villa man, we should not be questioning his committment to Villa, in my opinion!I understand where you're coming from, but opinions are subjective. I believe we should question, not necessarily for the sake of it [though that's sometimes justified to encourage debate], but definitely when it's warranted. Were you questioning Randy when he put £150 million into the team?
Quote from: The Left Side on June 13, 2011, 10:01:48 PMRandy is the best owner we have had and is a Villa man, we should not be questioning his committment to Villa, in my opinion!I understand where you're coming from, but opinions are subjective. I believe we should question, not necessarily for the sake of it [though that's sometimes justified to encourage debate], but definitely when it's warranted.
Randy is the best owner we have had and is a Villa man, we should not be questioning his committment to Villa, in my opinion!
Good owner but there are big problems somewhere. Allowing the general to tell everyone on facebook mccleash is made for us (if true) is also pretty amateur and unprofessional.
Randy Lerner is a good owner for an upper mid table club who can push for the top 6. He is not a good onwer for a club with champions league aspirations