Goodbye Paul Faulkner.

[bob]

He's been trying to weedle his way into an FA job for years now. He knew we were working towards being in this shit situation ages ago. A man way out of his depth, without the heart to admit it to an ignorant and permissive boss.

Fuck off Faulkner, yer ginger ******.

[PaulWinch again]

Completely over the top and out of order.

[brian green]

I am with you Bob.

[bob]

Good luck to him. Thought he got undeserved stick on here. Why people think a Chief Executive is likely to be in charge of things like appointing managers and deciding how much transfer money we have to spend I don't know. It's obvious that the Chairman is likely to be making decisions like that. Who'd spend hundreds of millions on a club and not even want to decide who the manager was?

He got us the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in our history, the biggest kit manufacturer deal in our history and generally modernised the presentation of the club... so you can now read all about Villa on our official Chinese website if you want to, for instance.

Hopefully his departure indicates that a deal may be completed at some point before Christmas.

Serious LOL at this.

[bob]

Maybe they had a fall out? Thinking about it I can't believe a deal is imminent or why would Randy have bothered to make a statement yesterday?

That's what I don't get.

If Randy hadn't said anything yesterday, we'd now all be thinking a deal was imminent. He did, though, he said a deal wasn't done.

I suppose the only sensible thing would be that he knew this was coming - as he must have done, Faulkner won't just have quit this morning - and wanted to reassure people in advance.

A day in advance.

Don't panic!

[bob]

Let's hope we find a CEO with football experience.PF has found the right place to work at the FA.

There isn't going to be a new CEO, just someone now trying to do two jobs, when you'd think the CEO might have a fair bit of work on.

[Hoppo]

I don't believe he needs to be treated with contempt and ridiculed but I'm glad he has gone!
He always seemed out of his depth.
This Russell is just a jumped up accountant who has been behind all of the cut backs we are going through. Frying Pan into fire?
Its a decision at least hopefully the first of many.

[cdbearsfan]

Once he finished his GCSEs he was always going to move on.

Yeah, nobody under the age of fifty should be allowed to have a decent job.

Which of course is *exactly* what I meant.  Good grief.

That's how it reads. You were alleging that he couldn't do the job properly as he was too young. How else should I have read it?

[cheltenhamlion]

Sorry Bob, but is there any danger you can stop talking such cobblers? I have personally taken PF to task over many things and he was understandably a prickly bugger about it.

But he is not the devil incarnate he has been pitched as. There is plenty of blame to be apportioned at Villa in the last few years.

It would be unfair to give others share to him also. And plenty of them have a share in that blame.

[cdbearsfan]

Good luck to him. Thought he got undeserved stick on here. Why people think a Chief Executive is likely to be in charge of things like appointing managers and deciding how much transfer money we have to spend I don't know. It's obvious that the Chairman is likely to be making decisions like that. Who'd spend hundreds of millions on a club and not even want to decide who the manager was?

He got us the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in our history, the biggest kit manufacturer deal in our history and generally modernised the presentation of the club... so you can now read all about Villa on our official Chinese website if you want to, for instance.

Hopefully his departure indicates that a deal may be completed at some point before Christmas.

Serious LOL at this.

Really? I wasn't trying to be funny. I bet you like "Mrs Brown's Boys" if you laughed out loud at that.

[hilts_coolerking]

That's how it reads. You were alleging that he couldn't do the job properly as he was too young. How else should I have read it?

How I intended it: a flippant remark about his youthful appearance.  So calm down and lighten up.

[hilts_coolerking]

It would be unfair to give others share to him also. And plenty of them have a share in that blame.

Care to name names?

[Mister E]

He's been trying to weedle his way into an FA job for years now. He knew we were working towards being in this shit situation ages ago. A man way out of his depth, without the heart to admit it to an ignorant and permissive boss.

Fuck off Faulkner, yer ginger c***.

Completely foundless.
Nobody goes to work to do a bad job and - even if he were out of depth, and I'm not sure whether he was - if he was poor it was because of his boss.
As for the FA, they probably couldn't afford him. What role is he going to be paid to do?

[bob]

Wouldn't you be tempted to move on from your job if your long term future wasn't guaranteed and a chance to further your career came along?

Yeah, you're right and I don't disagree that PF would be silly not to look after his own interests. I'm just approaching this as a Supporter, and how I see his legacy. For me, he's overseen some of the strangest decisions in the club's recent history (the change of strategy from Houllier to McLeish still baffles me) and whether or not these decisions were made above his head, he was still in the chair and seen to be supporting them.

This is spot on. It's one thing considering the decisions an individual is faced with and agreeing that one might be best for them, but we are Villa fans and we want someone to actually give a shit about Villa. That's what we would do. That's what some clubs have got. And that's what equals success.

Look at Faulkner's spell at Villa. He is 100% in the top 10 biggest knobheads ever to have worked for us.

[bob]

Good luck to him. Thought he got undeserved stick on here. Why people think a Chief Executive is likely to be in charge of things like appointing managers and deciding how much transfer money we have to spend I don't know. It's obvious that the Chairman is likely to be making decisions like that. Who'd spend hundreds of millions on a club and not even want to decide who the manager was?

He got us the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in our history, the biggest kit manufacturer deal in our history and generally modernised the presentation of the club... so you can now read all about Villa on our official Chinese website if you want to, for instance.

Hopefully his departure indicates that a deal may be completed at some point before Christmas.

Serious LOL at this.

Really? I wasn't trying to be funny. I bet you like "Mrs Brown's Boys" if you laughed out loud at that.

But that show has no similarities to your post.