New chairman and Lerner ramblings

[itbrvilla]

Not about us but he seems pretty clued-up to me. Time will tell, obviously.

'at the Aston Villa'!!!!

[The Left Side]

I've been following these threads on here all day and I'm absolutely staggered that Aston Villa Football Club, This Great Club of ours, has stooped so low as to employ a Maltese policeman to get OUR players making tins of soup out of toenails.

I don't go to matches any more but if I did I'd stop going.

Here here

[avfcdale]

I've been following these threads on here all day and I'm absolutely staggered that Aston Villa Football Club, This Great Club of ours, has stooped so low as to employ a Maltese policeman to get OUR players making tins of soup out of toenails.

I don't go to matches any more but if I did I'd stop going.

Here here

more !

[olaftab]

I welcome any new blood on to the board.

I will welcome any blood in the boardroom.

[Brend'Watkins]

Welcome Steven.  Please give Villa the strong leadership and direction that you talk about.

Welcome Steven.  Please give Remi a wad of cash to get someone who can put the ball in the back of the net regularly.  Do that and pretty much everything else will fall into place without much effort.

[villabear]

So is this 'the' statement?

[passport1]

So the reason things have been so bad for 5 years is that we lacked a Chairman (Accountant/Bean Counter). I knew there had to be a reason.

[Brend'Watkins]

So is this 'the' statement?

It might be but then again it didn't mention the Shumanites.

[not3bad]

So, is that the last we will see and hear from Randy ?

Could well be.

[olaftab]

I like this:

“I admit, I wasn’t as tough as I should have been earlier in my management career, because I just didn’t realise the collateral damage which the wrong person can do to the organisation,” he said.

“Now though, if they flaunt their trappings too much, regardless of how talented they may be, then they have to move on, because the whole is so much more important than the individual.

“Too many people think fulfillment is having matching Ferraris, so they can drive separately to the same restaurant, simply to display their wealth. There needs to be more humility, and people need to realise that they aren’t achieving anything by acting in that manner.”

[olaftab]

So, is that the last we will see and hear from Randy ?

Could well be.

I hope he will come and join the European Cup winners victory parade  in a few years.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I would say it's blindingly obvious that he is here to sort out the shittiness of the club as a whole, "to address the underlying issues across the club", not just to focus on the playing side. To give it the "shake up" he mentions. Get the club running in a fit and proper way and success on the pitch should follow.
I think it may take some time!

You have my 100% support Mr Hollis.
I sincerely hope that you are very happy and successful in the job.


   

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Is he a perfect potential purchaser of a half and half scarf?

[bodkins14]

Just a thought if we need a football man on the board what about that Spanish geezer Pep something or another he is free in the summer.

[Rigadon]

"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success. Randy has consistently provided financial backing no less so than last year."

That strikes me as a fairly dangerous and worrying conclusion to have arrived at already!

Randy has provided consistent financial backing, but only in the same sense that Agbonlahor is a consistent Premier League goalscorer.

When did we attain 'success' by spending anyway?  Bizarre thing to say.