Randy Lerner

[Jimbo]

I'd imagine we'll be stuck with Lerner until such time as he can get the club promoted, competing and making money in the upper half of the Premier League. I wouldn't advise holding your breath.

[Bad English]

From 'Nicky Nash' on our FB Page:

Aston Villa will remain, our pride and passion will not die, we will urge those boys in claret and blue on until the last devastating second. We will rise from the ashes and we will never turn our backs...  but we are Villa and we never say die.

Except when we need some chips and curry sauce 25 minutes into the first half. Or when "beating the traffic" 15 minutes from the end. Or sitting there, numb, in shock at how shit we are. ;-)

[ChicagoLion]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

[Witton Warrior]

It matters not one jot what we do, don't do, say or sing - my mate reckoned you could immolate yourself in the centre circle and it would be reported back to Lerner as a freak weather incident. Nor, unfortunately, will it make any difference whatsoever to the outcome of this season or any other until Lerner has sold up. Singing "we want Lerner out" is just stating what he wants himself.

The one thing I shall not do however is turn on other Villa fans who may be desperate to take some action (as long as it is legal, ethical etc naturally) - there will be daft suggestions and crazy ideas for walk outs, sit-ins, protests etc but this club is already a laughing stock so I don't think it will be "small-time" it will just show that people care.

We the fans are the only constant at this club and we will need to prepare ourselves for the future - we've done it before, we can do it again.

VTID

[richard moore]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

Plus you've got all our 'old rivals' like Spurs and Liverpool either building new grounds or significantly developing their current ones to increase capacity. I don't think we've even begun to realise the scale of the legacy that this idiot will have left us with, long after he has forgotten all about us

[ChicagoLion]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

Plus you've got all our 'old rivals' like Spurs and Liverpool either building new grounds or significantly developing their current ones to increase capacity. I don't think we've even begun to realise the scale of the legacy that this idiot will have left us with, long after he has forgotten all about us

Even thinking that those teams will be our rivals again is a pipe dream. I am not sure that a lot of people realise the enormity of this. I can also see a time when the Premier League will vote out relegation.

[richard moore]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

Plus you've got all our 'old rivals' like Spurs and Liverpool either building new grounds or significantly developing their current ones to increase capacity. I don't think we've even begun to realise the scale of the legacy that this idiot will have left us with, long after he has forgotten all about us

Even thinking that those teams will be our rivals again is a pipe dream. I am not sure that a lot of people realise the enormity of this. I can also see a time when the Premier League will vote out relegation.

I totally agree CL. Us going down is only the start of it all, this will have huge implications and it's quite likely that we will never catch up again. Lerner will become more or less the most significant person in Aston Villa's history for all the wrong reasons. Still, nice man, he means well you know and he's really quite harmless. One wouldn't like to speak ill of him eh...

[itbrvilla]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

Plus you've got all our 'old rivals' like Spurs and Liverpool either building new grounds or significantly developing their current ones to increase capacity. I don't think we've even begun to realise the scale of the legacy that this idiot will have left us with, long after he has forgotten all about us

Even thinking that those teams will be our rivals again is a pipe dream. I am not sure that a lot of people realise the enormity of this. I can also see a time when the Premier League will vote out relegation.

I totally agree CL. Us going down is only the start of it all, this will have huge implications and it's quite likely that we will never catch up again. Lerner will become more or less the most significant person in Aston Villa's history for all the wrong reasons. Still, nice man, he means well you know and he's really quite harmless. One wouldn't like to speak ill of him eh...

Spot on.  Irrepairable damage being done here and the long term future of the club as a remotely competitive club being washed away. Fuck everyone at the club. Fuck them all c***s.

[richard moore]

Tut, tut, you shouldn't be calling them that sort of thing. They've only fucked up the club you've supported all your life through mostly, in my case, happy and successful times. A club you could be immensely proud of but who are now a joke and a laughing stock. Why make it so personal? You must learn not to get so upset by it. Mr Lerner's a well meaning, very nice man who has quite unintentionally got it all wrong and didn't really mean to. I think we all need to grow up and stop moaning....

[brontebilly]

It's seems to be repeatedly forgotten here that before Lerner came we were absolutely nail on to go down under Ellis. He's made an utter and total dogs dinner of it, but let's not forget that we were heading for the drop before he arrived and our days of being a force were already a thing of the best.

absolutely, was at the game of the orange bed sheet under DOL at Fulham.

It was mind numbingly awful, the club was truly being run as a tar barrel outfit then and now.

[ChicagoLion]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

Plus you've got all our 'old rivals' like Spurs and Liverpool either building new grounds or significantly developing their current ones to increase capacity. I don't think we've even begun to realise the scale of the legacy that this idiot will have left us with, long after he has forgotten all about us

Even thinking that those teams will be our rivals again is a pipe dream. I am not sure that a lot of people realise the enormity of this. I can also see a time when the Premier League will vote out relegation.

I totally agree CL. Us going down is only the start of it all, this will have huge implications and it's quite likely that we will never catch up again. Lerner will become more or less the most significant person in Aston Villa's history for all the wrong reasons. Still, nice man, he means well you know and he's really quite harmless. One wouldn't like to speak ill of him eh...

I am sure someone will point out we are exaggerating, just like all though this season it's only October, it's only November, we are only 5 points from safety crap.Now it's we will piss it in the Championship bollocks without any idea what is written in those players contracts that have been negotiated by the idiots that got us here. Oh yes nothing to worry about, move along.

[VillaAlways]

The huge problem is that every year we are out of the Prem the PL clubs will get significantly Richer, just Surviving brings in £110 million in TV money alone. So those falling down will have a massive advantage than those that are there.
This is really scary stuff now.

Plus you've got all our 'old rivals' like Spurs and Liverpool either building new grounds or significantly developing their current ones to increase capacity. I don't think we've even begun to realise the scale of the legacy that this idiot will have left us with, long after he has forgotten all about us

Even thinking that those teams will be our rivals again is a pipe dream. I am not sure that a lot of people realise the enormity of this. I can also see a time when the Premier League will vote out relegation.

I totally agree CL. Us going down is only the start of it all, this will have huge implications and it's quite likely that we will never catch up again. Lerner will become more or less the most significant person in Aston Villa's history for all the wrong reasons. Still, nice man, he means well you know and he's really quite harmless. One wouldn't like to speak ill of him eh...

I am sure someone will point out we are exaggerating, just like all though this season it's only October, it's only November, we are only 5 points from safety crap.Now it's we will piss it in the Championship bollocks without any idea what is written in those players contracts that have been negotiated by the idiots that got us here. Oh yes nothing to worry about, move along.

Yep, the smalltime,clueless people running the club allowing players to dictate exactly what they want in their contracts Delph being a prime example and then allowing him to spout a load of shit to the fans.

I hate the lot of them

[Percy McCarthy]

From 'Nicky Nash' on our FB Page:

Aston Villa will remain, our pride and passion will not die, we will urge those boys in claret and blue on until the last devastating second. We will rise from the ashes and we will never turn our backs...  but we are Villa and we never say die.

Except when we need some chips and curry sauce 25 minutes into the first half. Or when "beating the traffic" 15 minutes from the end. Or sitting there, numb, in shock at how shit we are. ;-)

The bit that said "you are breaking the hearts of Villa fans all over the work" is spot on though. I'm sitting in trap one at work nursing my broken heart as I type.

[TopDeck113]

Randy Lerner is to the Villa Lion what his compatriot Walter Palmer was to Cyril.  The Yank who killed it.

[adrenachrome]

He transformed the Lion Rampant into the cowardly yella lion and set us lurching off along the yella brick road to nowhere. We're off to see the wizard.