Randy Lerner

[aj2k77]

6 fucking years notice you have had Mr Lerner.... SIX years .... for you to get it right and you have still fucked it up. How could you do that ....

We have been well warned and we continued to sign dross, cross our fingers and hope to avoid the drop.

Getting well and truly spanked out of this league this season. What was the 'project' again?

To cause Randolph as little time, effort and money as possible now.

[Irish villain]

6 fucking years notice you have had Mr Lerner.... SIX years .... for you to get it right and you have still fucked it up. How could you do that ....

We have been well warned and we continued to sign dross, cross our fingers and hope to avoid the drop.

Getting well and truly spanked out of this league this season. What was the 'project' again?

To cause Randolph as little time, effort and money as possible now.

It has felt like that for a very long time...

[Damo70]

6 fucking years notice you have had Mr Lerner.... SIX years .... for you to get it right and you have still fucked it up. How could you do that ....

We have been well warned and we continued to sign dross, cross our fingers and hope to avoid the drop.

Getting well and truly spanked out of this league this season. What was the 'project' again?

To cause Randolph as little time, effort and money as possible now.

It has felt like that for a very long time...

I seem to remember a lot of warnings from across the pond about his American football ownership. He obviously came in with the right intentions and apparently his personal life/divorce changed his plans to move over here but we have gone from the dictatorship of Deadly Doug to the throw the captains armband to the next chief executive of the week mentality.

[croatian]

Ever had an old expensive 10 speed racing bike rusting away in the shed?

The shed that's an inconvenient bus ride away.

You know, the bike you've lost interest in? You open the shed door every couple of years, peer through the gloom and cobwebs, look at it slowly falling apart and think "I should sell that, it cost me a lot of money. I'll get round to it one day, but I just can't be arsed at the moment, I've got too much going on"

You're hardly going to invest in new tyres, saddle or a service while it's locked away, forgotten and ignored, are you?

Besides, while it's depreciating it's hardly going to have any affect on you meeting your mortgage, gas and electricity payments, new car and nice family holidays is it? It's just not important at all. Anyway, your new wife and family are taking all your attention. Why should an old bike, that once seemed like a really good idea, have any importance now your life has moved on?

So, today it's still slowly rotting away in that damp, dark shed..........



 

[DeKuip]

You're never going to flog your bike with a sales pitch like that.

[villadelph]

The bike is immortal. Someone will find it and rejuvenate it.

We are Aston Villa. FORL.

[robbo1874]

Was that a typo and you meant to type ROFL?

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

Ever had an old expensive 10 speed racing bike rusting away in the shed?

The shed that's an inconvenient bus ride away.

You know, the bike you've lost interest in? You open the shed door every couple of years, peer through the gloom and cobwebs, look at it slowly falling apart and think "I should sell that, it cost me a lot of money. I'll get round to it one day, but I just can't be arsed at the moment, I've got too much going on"

You're hardly going to invest in new tyres, saddle or a service while it's locked away, forgotten and ignored, are you?

Besides, while it's depreciating it's hardly going to have any affect on you meeting your mortgage, gas and electricity payments, new car and nice family holidays is it? It's just not important at all. Anyway, your new wife and family are taking all your attention. Why should an old bike, that once seemed like a really good idea, have any importance now your life has moved on?

So, today it's still slowly rotting away in that damp, dark shed..........



 

I'll give you a fiver for it

[ASHTONVILLA]

Krulak claimed a lot of things, mostly bollocks though.

I can't escape the feeling that those early Lerner era board meetings were possibly a little like watching Team America World Police.

[AVH87]

Ever had an old expensive 10 speed racing bike rusting away in the shed?

The shed that's an inconvenient bus ride away.

You know, the bike you've lost interest in? You open the shed door every couple of years, peer through the gloom and cobwebs, look at it slowly falling apart and think "I should sell that, it cost me a lot of money. I'll get round to it one day, but I just can't be arsed at the moment, I've got too much going on"

You're hardly going to invest in new tyres, saddle or a service while it's locked away, forgotten and ignored, are you?

Besides, while it's depreciating it's hardly going to have any affect on you meeting your mortgage, gas and electricity payments, new car and nice family holidays is it? It's just not important at all. Anyway, your new wife and family are taking all your attention. Why should an old bike, that once seemed like a really good idea, have any importance now your life has moved on?

So, today it's still slowly rotting away in that damp, dark shed..........

I take the point and Lerner is an absent, neglectful owner, but a bike isn't an asset losing £27 million a year.

[Tayls_7]

Ever had an old expensive 10 speed racing bike rusting away in the shed?

The shed that's an inconvenient bus ride away.

You know, the bike you've lost interest in? You open the shed door every couple of years, peer through the gloom and cobwebs, look at it slowly falling apart and think "I should sell that, it cost me a lot of money. I'll get round to it one day, but I just can't be arsed at the moment, I've got too much going on"

You're hardly going to invest in new tyres, saddle or a service while it's locked away, forgotten and ignored, are you?

Besides, while it's depreciating it's hardly going to have any affect on you meeting your mortgage, gas and electricity payments, new car and nice family holidays is it? It's just not important at all. Anyway, your new wife and family are taking all your attention. Why should an old bike, that once seemed like a really good idea, have any importance now your life has moved on?

So, today it's still slowly rotting away in that damp, dark shed..........

I take the point and Lerner is an absent, neglectful owner, but a bike isn't an asset losing £27 million a year.

It's very rare that 'road bikes' (ahem) come equipped with only 10 gears, especially the expensive ones. This sounds like a cheap aluminium Raleigh. Probably with the old change levers on the frame. Leave it in the shed mate.

[trevor fisher]

In the magazine version of this site, I wrote a piece in the march edition asking why Villa have not been sold. The accounts yesterday gave the answer. Lerner can't sell the club. No buyer would want to take on this toxic mess.

Now we know that the spend rose and the income fell and 72% of income is on wages it was clear even before relegation that Lerner cannot get out even if he wants to. Only his money is keeping us from administration.

The fan protests now have to take this on board. There is no point in calling for lerner to go. Unless £100m plus is burning a hole in the protest group accounts, the club cannot be sold till things get better.

How is the big question.

Trevor FIsher,

[oswald funkletrumpet]

we are shafted

a small loss or breaking even would have given us half a chance

the loss and subsequent massive reduction in sky money, along with a considerable reduction in the under armour deal and reduced commercial revenue makes us virtually unsellable

[Mister E]

In the magazine version of this site, I wrote a piece in the march edition asking why Villa have not been sold. The accounts yesterday gave the answer. Lerner can't sell the club. No buyer would want to take on this toxic mess.

Now we know that the spend rose and the income fell and 72% of income is on wages it was clear even before relegation that Lerner cannot get out even if he wants to. Only his money is keeping us from administration.

The fan protests now have to take this on board. There is no point in calling for lerner to go. Unless £100m plus is burning a hole in the protest group accounts, the club cannot be sold till things get better.

How is the big question.

Trevor FIsher,

True, Trevor, except that for an enterprising and smart buyer there is good opportunity both to get the club cheaply and also to correct the elementary mistakes made by Lerner, at a time when the PL are giving clubs c£100m p.a.
Now is the time to purchase a club that could be generating £120-140m p.a. (Obviously after a season or two in the second tier).

[Witton Warrior]

Randy really is the perfect idiot - he even screwed himself - dear lord this will take years to sort out