Randy Lerner

[NeilH]

Now do you get it NeilH?

I'm with Dave on this one - It hurts like a bast**d, but Villa Park is still there and the club still exists - Its a bad bad thing that is happening, but I doubt Lerner fancies throwing more money in to resolve it, especially given that he wants out.

[AVH87]

If this is Lerner keeping us 'ticking over', god help us if he really loses interest!

[in exile]

I never mentioned him throwing money at it.
Neil, I got to go, I'm fucking fuming after what I'm reading and hearing at the moment

[andyh]

I am a huge critic of Lerner and have been for a very long time.
However I do stop at the "he did this on purpose", "he is serving his own interests"
He has been a disaster as an owner and leader, incompetent, negligent, naive,useless even stupid but vindictive no.
Just completely out of his depth and even now has no idea of how to bail us out of this mess and is trying to hide behind the new Chairman and hopes it all goes away.

I tend to agree with this.
However, he does also have a 'duty of care' to his multi million dollar investment and yet he doesn't appear to be protecting it.
The indifference he is showing is the worst of all traits.

[ChicagoLion]

If this is Lerner keeping us 'ticking over', god help us if he really loses interest!

Something I learnt a long time ago, it is impossible to stand still in Business.
You are either going forwards or Backwards ,trying to stand still inevitably means you go backwards.
In this context up or down.

[Mostinho II]

I just don't get his 'it's my ball and if you can't be nice I'm taking my ball home' attitude.

It's our club - but it's his business, a business he's operated in a shocking fashion and driven into the ground - he's failed more than anyone, he's to blame more than anyone. And... nothing. We appointed the fat bloke. Randy's spent this much etc etc. If you can't play in goal mate shut the f**k up.

I don't think we've failed as supporters.

 

[Glenn Peen]

Sorry, lads - even I haven't got a song this time. Lerner and his cronies have created such an almighty mess that even I can't be roused to keep spirits up.

The only song that's going around my head is The Funeral March. That and the ruddy bell that someone in the marketing thought it would be a good idea to welcome the players on to the pitch with a couple of years ago.

For whom the bells tolls - Aston Villa's untimely demise affects us all. Sad, sad times.

[SamTheMouse]

He's not malicious. He's just a really, really shit businessman.

[Risso]

He's not malicious. He's just a really, really shit businessman.

Yep.  And I have it on very good authority that he has a massive hole in his finances, and that he's been told that to find a buyer, he's going to have take a 50% cut on what he wanted a year ago.

[aj2k77]

We've still got an Aston Villa to support?

Anyone enjoying the experience the past 5 years and 200 odd games? Losing the majority of your games, being pound for pound results wise the worst team in entire league? Selling your footballers and replacing them with semi retired no bodies.

Lerner and his army of yes men and bean counters can shove their Villa up their arse because this isn't Villa to me.

[Glenn Peen]

Let's hope so. Maybe we should club together, Risso? Let's get a fund started... Anything's got to be be better than this.

[Steve67]

Be warned, one thing that a failing football club needs to do first is find its level. We might be bottom of this league but we certainly haven't bottomed out yet. The incompetence of Lerner, unless he sells quickly, is yet to be realized.

[Dave Cooper please]

We've still got an Aston Villa to support?

Anyone enjoying the experience the past 5 years and 200 odd games? Losing the majority of your games, being pound for pound results wise the worst team in entire league? Selling your footballers and replacing them with semi retired no bodies.

Of course nobody is enjoying it but we are just going through what countless fans of other teams have gone through before us, we aren't the first to experience a total meltdown in the boardroom and on the pitch and we certainly won't be the last.
 Now the choice is yours, you can give up and go and do something else with your spare time or you can carry on supporting and hopefully in as short a time as possible look back on all this with a rueful grin and a whole load of "I was there when...." tales as we storm to the Premier League title in 2020.

[aj2k77]

I just can't see us stabilising with these fuck wits running throughout the club. Every decision they make leaves me shaking my head. You promise we win the league in 2020?

[Risso]

We've still got an Aston Villa to support?

Anyone enjoying the experience the past 5 years and 200 odd games? Losing the majority of your games, being pound for pound results wise the worst team in entire league? Selling your footballers and replacing them with semi retired no bodies.

Of course nobody is enjoying it but we are just going through what countless fans of other teams have gone through before us, we aren't the first to experience a total meltdown in the boardroom and on the pitch and we certainly won't be the last.
 Now the choice is yours, you can give up and go and do something else with your spare time or you can carry on supporting and hopefully in as short a time as possible look back on all this with a rueful grin and a whole load of "I was there when...." tales as we storm to the Premier League title in 2020.

You'll be watching Tamworth win the league before Villa I reckon!