E-mail from Paul Lambert.

[MarkM]

Can you imagine him saying/mumbling this?!
I guess he's more comfortable writing (or someone on his behalf is). Still, nice touch.

Yes. Marketing department.

As I have said on many occasions, Villa's head of marketing is the manager. He's also the head of ticket sales, customer relations and the commercial department.

That would be like putting a Production Manager incharge of all of the above, that structure does not and can not work long term.

[Ads]

I don't think Dave means literally in charge of those matters, but everything he does affects those departments massively one way or the other.

[MarkM]

I don't think Dave means literally in charge of those matters, but everything he does affects those departments massively one way or the other.

Agreed, but the Marketing Dept should be telling the rest of the company how it needs to operate to meet the demands of the market that it operates in, not the 'product dept' giving the company a product and then saying "Sell it!"

[Darlo Dave]

Blimey. That's confident with only a few games under his (our) belt.

But nice of him phone me. You didn't get one?

Just a phone call? He came round my house to read the email out loud. Brought a pizza for me too.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I wonder how many Out of Office replies he got? I bet his inbox went into meltdown.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Bit of a contrast from the last manager's email

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

What I don't understand is why he had to leave Nigeria in such a hurry. 
And why does he need my bank details? 

[Chico Hamilton III]

What I don't understand is why he had to leave Nigeria in such a hurry. 
And why does he need my bank details? 

And how does he know that I suffer from erectile disfuntion?

[Dave Cooper please]

What I don't understand is why he had to leave Nigeria in such a hurry. 
And why does he need my bank details? 

And how does he know that I suffer from erectile disfuntion?

Everyone knows you suffer from erectile dysfunction.

[stubbsyandy]

What I don't understand is why he had to leave Nigeria in such a hurry. 
And why does he need my bank details? 

And how does he know that I suffer from erectile disfuntion?

Everyone knows you suffer from erectile dysfunction.

Great banter!

[Pat McMahon]

What I don't understand is why he had to leave Nigeria in such a hurry. 
And why does he need my bank details? 

And how does he know that I suffer from erectile disfuntion?

He's seen you play. He thought you were Pele.

[darren woolley]

It's was nice of Paul to send us all a e mail nice one Paul.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

We're not fickle and we like you too.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think Dave means literally in charge of those matters, but everything he does affects those departments massively one way or the other.

Agreed, but the Marketing Dept should be telling the rest of the company how it needs to operate to meet the demands of the market that it operates in, not the 'product dept' giving the company a product and then saying "Sell it!"

Not anywhere I've worked it doesn't.

Lots of businesses are based around product first, and then the marketing department is brought in to sell it (although that's a very simplistic term).

[Toronto Villa]

It's very rare that a marketing department tells a selling organisation anything. The purpose of marketing should really be abut research and gathering unbiased opinion. It is then an internal sales job to executives who decide on the direction of an organisation based on that information. Marketing then creates a program based around that decision. They work with Advertising to sell that program to customers.