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Hmm, that's a difficult one. I know what you mean, but then again, these are the people who appointed Tim Sherwood from a shortlist of one.
That's ultimately what is going to get us relegated.
They were also the same people who dished out a new four year contract to Paul Lambert after a reasonably good first four games of the season. There will be a lot of finger pointing when we go down, and they'll deserve an awful lot of it.
THANK YOUNot made many posts, but everytime I do, I seem to get blathered.
OK...I didn't rate Tactics last season, and suffered the wrath of those who said he was the 'Messiah'. THOSE people changed their opinion without missing a beat~~~football eh?
I hated Ray Wilkins, always have, and got equal abuse when I mentioned his "Sack-Record"...add us to that impressive list.
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What I meant earlier about dysfunctional management, is that from the incept of Randy and the General, we had a "Laissez-faire" ATTITUDE TO RESPONSIBILTY.
There seems, in retrospect, no guidelines of accountabilty imposed on Martin.
They were on Alex, more severley than on Paul, the next year..
It was really an amateur organisation of management controls. throughout ~ imo.
Lambert had 2 coaches sacked, beneath him ~ he accepted it. Was allowed to employ a guy as an Asst Coach months later, who just wanted a platform for 'Press Conferences" about his latest book....more journos at VP than in his back garden eh ?
Sanity here ? Management Control Here ?
So we got "Tactics Tim", a guy nobody outside the London meeja ever rated.
He was Messiah for a bit, like Lambert was to McLeish, but the ad-hoc, undetermined management ...remained.
Who Decides WHAT ?
Who STOPS this or that ?
WHO is empowered to make a decision on everything from seeds for a pitch to the next Thiery Henry ?
It's all casual. It's all left to the "professionals". And those 'pros' are rubbish.
Like Faulkner, like the General....ultimately like Randy Lerner.
There is a severe dysfunction in VP management~~imo.
Tom Fox is the latest.
Paddy can join him in a good pay-off I think.
Born at Arsenal, seeking Wenger's advice, these non-footie people think they've got the next Fabregas, the next Henry...all they are is another example of Randy's TOTAL lack of control and INTEREST in VILLA.
DYSFUNCTIONAL...and AMATEUR MANAGEMENTIt Starts At The Top~~ not through delegated blame-worthies.
Randy Lerner ....WIMP...INCOMPETENT..USELESS....... OK ?
Randy and his Macho General, never impressed me. It might have done to USA fans at Browns, don't work here. We have brains.
The "Dysfunction" like an out-of-control-family, started with Lerner and his innocence with Matin ~ imo~ got tougher later, but still he laid down no controls until we have Fox and Sherwood both disputing their own roles.
THAT...is a breakdown in management communication, not just a PR trick.
