Paul Faulkner interviewed on BRMB

[andyaston]

Good point above but, if they actually bought Adebeyor it would bump that amount toward the 80 million mark.

[olaftab]

Faulkner will never have an easier interview.  Pity there weren't a few difficult questions.  Faulkner was fed and then endorsed. Hardly investigative reporting was it. Very poor, but BRMB has it's audience of course.

and Tom  Ross wants to be  "respected " by the Club hierarchy  so he protects his credibility by sitting on the ineffective stool.

[dave.woodhall]

Faulkner will never have an easier interview.  Pity there weren't a few difficult questions.  Faulkner was fed and then endorsed. Hardly investigative reporting was it. Very poor, but BRMB has it's audience of course.

and Tom  Ross wants to be  "respected " by the Club hierarchy  so he protects his credibility by sitting on the ineffective stool.

What questions would you have asked?

[olaftab]

My one other gripe is the mindset "when Man Utd come calling there is little anyone can do" (which Tom Ross came up with and PF quietly agreed with.)  The culture at Villa Park, the mindset, has to be we are second to no other club.  When Man Utd come calling tell them to do one...even better, tell them to put the kettle on because WE are going to be calling around to them. 

Please Randy, PF and Villa: No more small-time thinking at Birmingham's major club.

This.

[Iago]

Faulkner will never have an easier interview.  Pity there weren't a few difficult questions.  Faulkner was fed and then endorsed. Hardly investigative reporting was it. Very poor, but BRMB has it's audience of course.

and Tom  Ross wants to be  "respected " by the Club hierarchy  so he protects his credibility by sitting on the ineffective stool.

Agreed. Journalists have to play politics with football clubs; they try not to upset them with tough and honest questions, especially local media.

Look at Randy's great hero SAF this week and the way he just walked out on a fair question.

[olaftab]

Faulkner will never have an easier interview.  Pity there weren't a few difficult questions.  Faulkner was fed and then endorsed. Hardly investigative reporting was it. Very poor, but BRMB has it's audience of course.

and Tom  Ross wants to be  "respected " by the Club hierarchy  so he protects his credibility by sitting on the ineffective stool.

What questions would you have asked?

Something a bit more intrusive  than "Paul me Tom I am a nice man don't forget me next time I ring  you for some tickets for my family and friends"  type of interview I have just heard.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The only thing wrong with the interview was that PF missed the opportunity to have a real dig at Downing.

It was an easy chance to share his frustration over the move with the fans. He was far too polite about the situation, even if he did in a round about way explain that Downing wanted out. Too much was left to read between the lines. Obviously it may not be his style to go about decapitating former players but it would have done a hell of a lot to bring the fans closer to the reason Downing was sold.

[dave.woodhall]

Faulkner will never have an easier interview.  Pity there weren't a few difficult questions.  Faulkner was fed and then endorsed. Hardly investigative reporting was it. Very poor, but BRMB has it's audience of course.

and Tom  Ross wants to be  "respected " by the Club hierarchy  so he protects his credibility by sitting on the ineffective stool.

What questions would you have asked?

Something a bit more intrusive  than "Paul me Tom I am a nice man don't forget me next time I ring  you for some tickets for my family and friends"  type of interview I have just heard.

In other words you don't know what you'd have asked, but you still want to complain about it.

[olaftab]

In other words you don't know what you'd have asked, but you still want to complain about it.

Yeah OK.

[Toronto Villa]

Faulkner's damned whatever he said or says. He said we want to challenge for Europe this season so he's mocked. If he'd have said that that wasn't a goal, he'd have been criticised for lacking ambition.

The interview wasn't meant to be Question Time. It was an interview done before a game, hardly an opportunity for Tom Ross to grill the bloke.

[VillaAlways]

Just on WM PF saying DB will not be going anywhere regardless of who may come in for him

[nigel]

Faulkner's damned whatever he said or says. He said we want to challenge for Europe this season so he's mocked. If he'd have said that that wasn't a goal, he'd have been criticised for lacking ambition.

The interview wasn't meant to be Question Time. It was an interview done before a game, hardly an opportunity for Tom Ross to grill the bloke.

Agree Toronto, as I said in an earlier post, I'd really like to know what some of these posters actally want.
They'd really have something to moan about if Randy said F**k it and sold up to someone like Doug!!

[Compass]

No, you're just happy because Paul Faulkner is telling you stuff you want to hear. He's a good PR guy I'll give him that.

But not once did he explain on how we're going to reach the Europa League. We're miles off under this management. We have one of the worst pass rate and possession as well we can't defend for toffee now. If he had given us an in depth view on how we're going to turn things around to bring us back to Europa league then that would have been taken more seriously over something like we're a big club and deserve to be there. Talk about clinging on false hope. Doesn't sound like good planning does it?

And I find it very funny how he's very confident on keeping Villa players considering we keep losing all the best ones. There's no doubt in my mind Bent will be off sometime in 2012.

[Fuse]

We have to stop selling our best players - full stop. If it means losing one on a Bosman then so be it. We took that stance with Barry and we all were proud we did it, unforutnately we didn;t stick to our guns.

Until we do that we will be 2nd rate to the best clubs.

Unforutnately apart from Gabby no-one else in our first team would interest a top club and before anyone says Darren Bent - I bet not one fo them would entertain a player who can't trap a ball.

[gaucho1966]

Shame the playing staff aren't as good as Spurs.