Time for Randy to go?

[TopDeck113]

I'm sitting at Old Trafford this afternoon watching the all too predictable defeat under the incompetence of McLeish, wondering whether we can scrape together the couple of victories that will prolong the agony of another season in the top flight under his "leadership" and knowing that next week will see many people getting hot under the collar about the return of one MON.  The thought - not for the first time in the last eighteen months or so - came to me: where did it all go wrong?

And not for the first time the answer that keeps coming back to me is it was when we all allowed Randy Lerner to pull the wool over our collective eyes that he was the best foreign owner there was and we were in the safe hands of someone whose sole interest was the best interests of AVFC. 

Now is probably not the time - we've got matches we have to win - but I've had it with an absentee landlord and his tweedle dumb and tweedle dee Chief Exec and managerial appointments.  For the sake of the future of our club, not just this season or next season, but for the next decade we need not to campaign for a change of manager but for a change of owner. 

I'll stick my head above the parapet: Lerner out!

[Tom Sawyer]

Lerner is the Gordon Brown of football.

[The Left Side]

It is time to shit or get off the pot.

[Des Little]

I admire your bravery for calling it, but I can't see it happening.  The very least we deserve, however, is a glimpse of the bloke at VP now and then as a sign that he gives a shit, because to all intents and purposes it doesn't look like he does.  Additionally, he could do with stepping from behind his ginger mouthpiece and saying a word or two as well.

Oh, and a tattoo on your ankle doesn't cut it either to be fair.

[Risso]

You're right, but expect a slew of "how many oil sheikhs are lining up to buy the club" type posts anyway.  The fact that all 14 of the clubs ahead of us aren't owned by arabs seemingly escaping some people.

[Chico Hamilton III]

The  ery least we deserve, however, is a glimpse of the bloke at VP now and then as a sign that he gives a shit, because to all intents and purposes it doesn't look like he does

I agree

Doug managed to drag his octagenarian self to Manchester today. Randy needs to realise his responsibilities or he can fuck right off and take his ginger gimp with him.

I feel like him and the General have taken us all for mugs.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I blame him too, he's worse than Doug, all the early promise has gone, only problem is who's goin to buy us?

[Irish villain]

I cannot believe it's taken this long for a thread like this. Lerner was starting to look like the 'Teflon owner', nothing seemed to stick to him.

I still have sympathy with McLeish. I want him out but he should never have been appointed in the first place. What a statement of ambition? Going to your relegated neighbours for a manager who has not proved himself at this level, then selling off your best players.

That so many villa fans have started looking back admiringly on the Ellis period speaks volumes. I won't call for Lerner out just yet, but he had better pull his socks up and clean up the mess that he has made of Aston Villa over the past 18 months.

[Dave]

You're right, but expect a slew of "how many oil sheikhs are lining up to buy the club" type posts anyway.  The fact that all 14 of the clubs ahead of us aren't owned by arabs seemingly escaping some people.

It doesn't need to be a sheik. But it does still need to be a friendly chap happy to throw £100m in to buy us and presumably more to do a better job than the current lot are.

Sheiks or not, there still aren't many people who are going to want to do that.

I'd rather Lerner stay and just start being a bit more sensible. Not that I'm holding my breath.

[Risso]

I don't think Lerner would get £100m.  Our net worth is less than when Ellis sold.

[john e]

You're right, but expect a slew of "how many oil sheikhs are lining up to buy the club" type posts anyway.  The fact that all 14 of the clubs ahead of us aren't owned by arabs seemingly escaping some people.

It doesn't need to be a sheik. But it does still need to be a friendly chap happy to throw £100m in to buy us and presumably more to do a better job than the current lot are.

Sheiks or not, there still aren't many people who are going to want to do that.

I'd rather Lerner stay and just start being a bit more sensible. Not that I'm holding my breath.

i agree,
 this whole sorry mess can be sorted out with the appointment of a new manager, who if they get it right can change the whole atmosphere at VP in no time

[TheSandman]

You're right, but expect a slew of "how many oil sheikhs are lining up to buy the club" type posts anyway.  The fact that all 14 of the clubs ahead of us aren't owned by arabs seemingly escaping some people.

It doesn't need to be a sheik. But it does still need to be a friendly chap happy to throw £100m in to buy us and presumably more to do a better job than the current lot are.

Sheiks or not, there still aren't many people who are going to want to do that.

I'd rather Lerner stay and just start being a bit more sensible. Not that I'm holding my breath.

i agree,
 this whole sorry mess can be sorted out with the appointment of a new manager, who if they get it right can change the whole atmosphere at VP in no time

This. I hold Lerner more culpable than McLeish but at the end of the day you have to hope that he can learn lessons from the McLeish debacle.

[danlanza]

You're right, but expect a slew of "how many oil sheikhs are lining up to buy the club" type posts anyway.  The fact that all 14 of the clubs ahead of us aren't owned by arabs seemingly escaping some people.

It doesn't need to be a sheik. But it does still need to be a friendly chap happy to throw £100m in to buy us and presumably more to do a better job than the current lot are.

Sheiks or not, there still aren't many people who are going to want to do that.

I'd rather Lerner stay and just start being a bit more sensible. Not that I'm holding my breath.

DONT HOLD YOUR BREATH TO LONG.

[dave.woodhall]

If he did go, would the next owner get the same abuse after one bad season?

[Des Little]

Proud History...seems a while ago now.  We need to find some direction again.