Culverhouse and Karsa suspended (Now both sacked: Reply #876)

[dave.woodhall]

Mornington Crescent!!!!!  Unless we are playing no diagonals or back crossing in the John Sleeuwenhoek rulebook.

Well, shame on you.

I don't know sometimes this website is like carrying Scholes to Newcastle.

Ah, I see what you're trying to do there - impose the Schleiffen Initiative, thrice removed. Unfortunately I believe that this was revoked at the Congress of Palermo, unless used in conjunction with the Hindenburg Variation. Unless I am very much mistaken, you have instead reprised the Romanov Adaptation. 

Dammit, I thought I might be able to slip the Kiev Ultimatum through on a football site... Sir you are too canny for me.  I shall return to delve into my A-Z and back issues of the "Life and Times of Saint Humphers de Little Town" and prepare a suitable riposte.

I await your next move with anticipation, sir, and hope it will be worthy of the foe. My assistant Samantha prefers a stiffer one

[eric woolban woolban]

Nick Hornby

[rob_bridge]

I've been painting doors (not a euphemism) all day, so had missed all this.

Have just worked through the 19 pages. A very amusing read at times.

Obviously, Lambert referring to "things going on behind the scenes" the other day was talking about this, and it is hard to see how he could still be here if his coaching team had just been binned without agreement, so he must be on-board with the decision.

A couple of things I don't  understand, though.

One is why, if it is true that Gabby and Delph were dropped for Fulham after standing up for Sid, did Lambert agree with that move being made, only to now support them getting the tin tack a week and a bit later?

The other is, if the problem is the way Karsa and Culverhouse treat other staff, how often does Lambert actually go to training for him not to have noticed and done something about this before?

I don't know what to think about this. On the one side, I am happy that something might now change. On the other, I find myself thinking what kind of an utter shambles must the club be at the moment to have to do something like this, whilst in this threatened position?

Oh, and Shay Given goes from being in the Bomb Squad to being on the coaching staff in one day. How nuts is that?

The latter may be a good form of nuts. Thought Shay was a great keeper at Newcastle (& Ireland) but not as good thereafter  culminating v Everton at home last season.

Hope he does a good job in the coaching staff and as he has worked at Newcastle, Cit-eh, Villa and Ireland in the last 20 years he should know the good, the bad and the really McLeish off bar heart

[silhillvilla]

Alan Hair Bear Sunderland

[kippaxvilla2]

Whatever hi-jinks and hugger-muggery has gone on this has been the best thread since the one about meeting footballers - for so many reasons I am now looking forward to Saturday again and shall alternately be  booing loudly and cheering wildly in equal but indiscriminate measure until removed from the Holte End by force

I have to say, I didn't know any of this had happened till early evening, so read this thread from page 1 forwards (it was 20 pages or so at that point) and, explosive news though it may have carried, the thing that struck me most was how funny it was.

That's why H&V is so ace. At the same time a thread is controversial, hopeful, desparing, very funny, and littered with shit puns.

Can't remember who said it, but I like the post that said 'something has obviously happened.'  Made me laugh.

[olaftab]

Agbon-Lahore Junction.

I hate to encourage this silliness but very good Monty.

[olaftab]

if it is to do with there performance then it would be a capability issue and suspension is not really appropriate.

Yes an improvement plan is required!

[kippaxvilla2]

Brian Little Aston

[SamTheMouse]

John Crewe.

[pauliewalnuts]

John Crewe.

*points a few pages back*

very good, but sadly, a snooze / lose situation (can't remember who did it first time).

[pauliewalnuts]

Samuel HS2

[German James]

Gary Shaw-ditch

[E I Adio]

In the real world you would suspend an employee pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing.

Suspension is usually reserved for cases of gross misconduct where whatever they have done is worthy of dismissal but you need to have a hearing to find out the details, and it is so bad that you cannot keep them on the premesis.

So as they were suspended it should be due to gross misconduct.

if it is to do with there performance then it would be a capability issue and suspension is not really appropriate.

but this is football and Villa so anything is possible

Suspension could well be the prelude to dismissal for gross misconduct, but there are other options available that do not result in dismissal for misbehaviour deemed lesser that gross misconduct. It depends on the results of the hearings, when those suspended will have the opportunity to defend themselves.

[Hillbilly]

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There's no railway station at Lyme Regis (sense of humour loss).
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[Dan England]

David Beckenham Junction