Randy Lerner

[john e]

80-90% of Villa fans who don't post on message boards wont even know who the General is
so I doubt if many of them are getting all worked up about it

You'd be surprised. People who don't use heroesandvillains.info can read as well you know. Blinky has been in the press often enough down the years for a fair portion of fans to know who he is.

Same would go for Tom a Fox as well,
your the one that would be surprised to find the majority of Villa fans don't live in our little internet bubble, and find everything they do and say worth analysing

So most Villa fans haven't heard of Tom Fox or Colonel Blinky? Really?

Maybe his name would ring a bell with some of them

But i'l tell you this, if you talked about the 'false narrative' on here virtually everyone would know straight away what you were on about without having to explain anything

If you stopped to a few hundred Villa fans walking out of the ground at the next match and asked them about the 'false narrative' they wouldn't have the first clue what you were talking about

And that's the difference between those on the internet like you and me and those that arnt on the forums, which like Dave says are the massive majority

[saunders_heroes]

Hands up who knew the names of our chairman, secretary or even a director or two before the advent of the Internet? I know I did. I even heard them speak via the media. It's almost being suggested that before the age of the Internet fans didn't know their arses from their elbow when it came to their football club and who was in charge.

[Chris Harte]

I ain't got a clue what "false narrative" means either.

Why not just accept that the local media have already highlighted who these people are. Just like in the old days we all knew who the Chairman, Club Secretary and Ticket Office Manager were.

[PeterWithe]

Is there a survival plan?
The reason we are spending so much time talking about the General, is because no one from the club has told us what the plan is in this transfer window.
Twist or stick?

Garde has come out and said that he has players in mind and he has already mentioned wanting Remy.

Okay so where are the bids then?  Where are the signings?  There's another league game on Tuesday.  How long do we wait?  Until we've played our 23rd game? 

It was pretty widely accepted that we used to have to wait until the top six had done all their business before we got our turn at buying/loaning players, now it's more we have to wait until everyone else in the top tier has finished, there are few worse options for players than us.

You reap what you sow.

[auntiesledd]

General Krulak is no doubt a brave man.  You don't become a General without having guts.

However his comments today are embarrassing.

Why is he no doubt brave?
There's many ways to become a general - I doubt being brave is one. 

You'd imagine being strategically aware and using tactical nous might be closer to the mark - but he's never demonstrated that either.  Why on earth Lerner thinks he's ever been asset to the board I'll never know.

Perhaps Lerner likes a man in uniform? lol

His military career is very impressive and started at the bottom of the ladder. I am very uncomfortable with the personal abuse he is attracting here.

It's a shame he decided to come out with the guff he has then, otherwise his thoughts would've remained a mystery - along with his other good buddy.

Why does the fact his comments are considered guff call for comments about his military career, and Randy Lerner's sexual preference?

Some folk are just expressing their frustrations - albeit in thoughtless & crass ways at times. I accept that on occasion(s) it goes well beyond acceptable levels, but on here they'll be challenged & given the opportunity to explain their oft' misguided.opinion. If all else fails, the Mod's always have the power to delete & ban. Bloody interweb, 'more trouble than it's worth half the time.

[kippaxvilla2]

Fine but let's not have rubbish about players still wanting to come to us and the backing of a survival plan not to mention the building of something special.

[PeterWithe]

What other businesses would let a 73 year old man, who knows nothing about the company he represents comment on our current mess?  Dont these guys know when to retire We are a laughing stock.

Awful

Is that different from HDE having a microphone shoved under his nose for a comment about Villa? Both opinions pretty irrelevant nowadays.

[kippaxvilla2]

I might be doing him a huge disservice the old guy who was on wm tonight seemed to be pretty switched on in terms of knowing what's been said-who's who etc.  I doubt he's surfing the Information super highway most of his waking hours.

[PeterWithe]

Fine but let's not have rubbish about players still wanting to come to us and the backing of a survival plan not to mention the building of something special.

Quite, I'll be more than a bit suspicious about the motives of any new players.

[aj2k77]

80-90% of Villa fans who don't post on message boards wont even know who the General is
so I doubt if many of them are getting all worked up about it

You'd be surprised. People who don't use heroesandvillains.info can read as well you know. Blinky has been in the press often enough down the years for a fair portion of fans to know who he is.

Same would go for Tom a Fox as well,
your the one that would be surprised to find the majority of Villa fans don't live in our little internet bubble, and find everything they do and say worth analysing

So most Villa fans haven't heard of Tom Fox or Colonel Blinky? Really?

Maybe his name would ring a bell with some of them

But i'l tell you this, if you talked about the 'false narrative' on here virtually everyone would know straight away what you were on about without having to explain anything

If you stopped to a few hundred Villa fans walking out of the ground at the next match and asked them about the 'false narrative' they wouldn't have the first clue what you were talking about

And that's the difference between those on the internet like you and me and those that arnt on the forums, which like Dave says are the massive majority

My dad doesn't know Fox for his false narrative nonsense, he knows him for generally talking out of his arse. You don't need the internet to know Fox speaks shite.

[Clampy]

Is there a survival plan?
The reason we are spending so much time talking about the General, is because no one from the club has told us what the plan is in this transfer window.
Twist or stick?

Garde has come out and said that he has players in mind and he has already mentioned wanting Remy.

Okay so where are the bids then?  Where are the signings?  There's another league game on Tuesday.  How long do we wait?  Until we've played our 23rd game? 

I don't know, i'm just telling you what Garde said in a press conference before the window opened. Bids might have gone in for all we know, and they might not have.

[Irish villain]

What?

I don't for one second buy this notion that 'only a few hundred fans who use internet forums' know the ins and outs of who runs villa. For starters I am sure this and other forums have probably ten times as many who just come to read as actively post. Then what about social media We have how many followers on twitter & Facebook as well as an official website. I knew about Steve Stride when I was about nine from reading villa stuff and watching football shows on tv.

[ez]

I'd appreciate someone at the club like Lerner, Krulak or Garde apologising for the dreadful form and acknowledging that it's totally unacceptable.

[cdward]

Is the General just a tactical distraction, so the mythical survival plan is forgotten about until the transfer window closes. We have a plan, we are just not telling anyone what it is. Actually we don't really know what it is ourselves.
More soundbites bullshit we are being fed.

[aj2k77]

Board member and Chairman were imminent weren't they? Hello Tom, anyone home?