Randy Lerner - How will his reign be remembered?

[Ger Regan]

I do wonder what would have happened had MON not done his usual routine of getting any potential threat to his power (ie FitzGerald / Cunnah) removed.

As it stands, I'll remember him as being in it for the right reasons, but being completely out of his depth.

[andrew08]

I will remember him as a guy who had a go and didn't pull it off. Anyone who spends hundreds of millions on my club is alright by me. His full legacy will be defined eventually, like others have said, by who he sells to.

Had Dowd and MON performed better he probably wouldn't even be selling.

[rob_bridge]

Bit like ghostbusters 2 . Hugely anticipated, good start, poor middle ,crap ending

I never got past the first 30 mins thankfully.

Unlike with Randy's stewardship.

He does need to hand it over to someone who can think longer term and who can put in place an appropriate, forward looking football management and coaching team. It has been a long time since we had one.

[Ian.]

I'll remember him for the exciting times of the early days, allowing MON to bring in exciting players like Ashley Young, John Crew and Jamie Milner. I'll never forget us signing Darren Bent who saved us from a terrible season.

He's left us in a good state of affairs, he could of buggered off after the money dried up and we still had the massive burden of the MON signing frenzy. He stayed and made sure the last managers main aim was to balance the books. It ended in a poor state on the playing field, that's plainly obvious, however a new fresh regime could change things pretty quickly and push us up the table a wee bit and steady the ship. Then, maybe exciting times could be ahead again.

[Chipsticks]

The problem was him and Faulkner aren't really 'football' people and put all their trust and money in MON due to his reputation and immediate success.

In fairness to him he has made sure to stay with the club while we've reversed the horrible financial decisions, and now we're at a massive crossroads.

[Virgil Caine]

I was lucky to meet Mr Lerner and my impression of him then, as it is now, is that he has a good heart and integrity in abundance. I thank him for being genuine enough to care about stuff like Acorns, The Holte Pub and paying for coaches to Chelsea. I think he needed an experienced CEO to get the playing side right including recruitment of Managers and organising player contracts. So near, yet ultimately, so far.

[Bad English]

Villa Park Holte End Mosaic by Bad English, on Flickr

[silhillvilla]

There is no point really looking back and torturing ourselves with the "if only's"
If only he hadn't bought Heskey, if only Stoke hadn't equalised, if only we'd kept Barry Bannan etc etc.

[aj2k77]

The problem was him and Faulkner aren't really 'football' people and put all their trust and money in MON due to his reputation and immediate success.

In fairness to him he has made sure to stay with the club while we've reversed the horrible financial decisions, and now we're at a massive crossroads.

Probably why the cutbacks happened quick and we jumped from the £50k p/w transfers to the £15k p/w transfers, he had every intention by then of getting out and wanted to balance the books somewhat before he did?

[Phil from the upper holte]

I shall remember like the shunammite

I'm getting a shunammite tattoo on my ankle.

Fact.

How many people can say I've got one of those!?

[Phil from the upper holte]

Villa Park Holte End Mosaic by Bad English, on Flickr

THAT is a thing of beauty

[Phil from the upper holte]

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[Tugby Villain]

There have been many faux-pas under Randy's tenure but for me the biggest bollock dropped by far was when they started playing Chelsea fucking Dagger after we scored.  I still cannot believe somebony at the club thought that was a good idea. 

That is a freaky coincidence

Last night my Mrs was watching something on telly and they played that song. I turned around and said "I fucking hate that song". She said "me too".

I then started saying "I remember once at Villa Park, when we scored, and ...." at which point she shouted at me to shut up as she knew it was a football story.

When was this?  My memory is atrocious

[pauliewalnuts]

There have been many faux-pas under Randy's tenure but for me the biggest bollock dropped by far was when they started playing Chelsea fucking Dagger after we scored.  I still cannot believe somebony at the club thought that was a good idea. 

That is a freaky coincidence

Last night my Mrs was watching something on telly and they played that song. I turned around and said "I fucking hate that song". She said "me too".

I then started saying "I remember once at Villa Park, when we scored, and ...." at which point she shouted at me to shut up as she knew it was a football story.

When was this?  My memory is atrocious

A few years ago. Against Bolton, I think.

Scored, suddenly PA starts blaring out Chelsea Fucking Dagger.

Everyone around us stopped jumping up and down and stared at each other in disbelief.

it was when General Krulak still posted here. When he logged on on the Monday morning, there must have been 100 posts to him about making it stop.

It never happened again, thankfully.

[manic-road]

First three years he did well and the fans were looking forward to the bright future bit, but after that total garbage making poor decision after poor decision.