Randy Lerner

[Dave Clark Five]

Happy New Year, Greg.

[Dave Clark Five]

In reply to Greg, I did a bit of research. Pelty said this:
This was pathetic. MON needs to stop whinging about how hard life is and set about improving the team (and, concurrently, not wasting money on the wages of players that never sniff the pitch). If there were a sell-to-buy policy (which there is not), then he would only have himself to blame for the exorbitant wages spent on horrible players. The top wage earner at the club is Emile Heskey. Whose fault is that, I wonder? He has had plenty of money at his disposal and used it on a fair amount of garbage (not in total, of course, but his record in this is only so-so). He is fickle in his player selection and then, when he settles on a side, he runs it into the ground. Further, he has proved himself incapable of identifying talent outside of the country and thus is force to pay these higher wages; again, his fault. This whole moan would be laughable if it were not so infuriating.

I don't think any supporter could have put it better. Happy new year, Pelty.

[bertlambshank]

The problem with Pelty is you only here off him when things are shit,and instead of knocking the door,he kick's the fucker in.

[Dave Clark Five]

Is it a cry for help?

[bertlambshank]

Is it a cry for help?

probably.

[Dave Clark Five]

Is it a cry for help?

probably.

What can we do to help?

[PeterWithesShin]

I didn't know urban legends celebrated New Year!

[bertlambshank]

Is it a cry for help?

probably.

What can we do to help?u

A new year so I am gonna try and be nice.He doesn't listen so a bit of 'good cop' might work.

[Dave Clark Five]

I didn't know urban legends celebrated New Year!

Urban myths might do.

[PeterWithesShin]

Totally the wrong thread as well. I'm not pished honest!

[Dave Clark Five]

Is it a cry for help?

probably.

What can we do to help?u

A new year so I am gonna try and be nice.He doesn't listen so a bit of 'good cop' might work.

We might even tease his old man out of retirement, probably a day or two after beating Bradford is my guess.
'Hi Folks. I used to post here regularly, in fact I had my own column, and fought for 39 years in the US Army. Any chance of a League Cup Final ticket?'

[Dave Clark Five]

Totally the wrong thread as well. I'm not pished honest!

I'e only had four bottles of Oakham Inferno and a double scotch.

[bertlambshank]

The General gets his Birminghams mixed up,he would want a ticket for the Cotton Bowl.

[paul_e]

Lerner's major error was gambling on the wrong horse when he let Mon spend champions league money on players that proved insufficient to the task.  If we'd made the top 4 under MoN and done a decent job in the champions league, the wages issue would never have happened.  RL backed him that we were going to get there.  The 3rd 6th place showed clearly that he'd hit a wall but if Lerner had withdrawn the funds earlier would the fans have been lauding him for making the right decision, or deriding him as another Doug who nearly made it but then wimped out.

Everything since then has come from the fact that we gambled on making the champions league and failed, with the only other major error being that he thought TSM could come in and get us back to playing the way MoN did, thereby making use of the millions of pounds of players we had at the club who couldn't adapt to the GH methods.

Calls for him to sell are well wide of the mark as far as I'm concerned, and suggesting he's some terrible owner who's gone from mistake to mistake just doesn't fit my view of things at all.

[LeeB]

Lerner's major error was gambling on the wrong horse when he let Mon spend champions league money on players that proved insufficient to the task.  If we'd made the top 4 under MoN and done a decent job in the champions league, the wages issue would never have happened.  RL backed him that we were going to get there.  The 3rd 6th place showed clearly that he'd hit a wall but if Lerner had withdrawn the funds earlier would the fans have been lauding him for making the right decision, or deriding him as another Doug who nearly made it but then wimped out.

Everything since then has come from the fact that we gambled on making the champions league and failed, with the only other major error being that he thought TSM could come in and get us back to playing the way MoN did, thereby making use of the millions of pounds of players we had at the club who couldn't adapt to the GH methods.

Calls for him to sell are well wide of the mark as far as I'm concerned, and suggesting he's some terrible owner who's gone from mistake to mistake just doesn't fit my view of things at all.

That's how I see it.