New chairman and Lerner ramblings

[bicky]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

So Mr sly old Fox and co. my question is What special thing are you building ?

[MarkM]

So Mr sly old Fox and co. my question is What special thing are you building ?

Ground Zero for a fallout zone of despair

[aj2k77]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

So Mr sly old Fox and co. my question is What special thing are you building ?

We are ceasing to trade as a football club and are re-opening in August as an accountancy firm.

[Richard E]

Ground Zero for a fallout zone of despair

That sounds like it should be a Manic Street Preachers lyric.

[Dave]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

They're definitely incahoots about something.

[joe_c]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

They're definitely incahoots about something.

The transfer window sounds like it was quite a Mexican standoff between the management and the board.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Ground Zero for a fallout zone of despair

That sounds like it should be a Manic Street Preachers lyric.

I'm under neon lonliness

[KevinGage]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

So Mr sly old Fox and co. my question is What special thing are you building ?

Witless and Co have pretty much knocked all that pish on the head with the appointment of Hollis.

As soon as he came in the talk was about embracing  relegation and suggesting that the club had tried spending money, so now they are taking a different approach.

[cdward]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

Maybe they want to have their cape and eat it!

[SamTheMouse]

Haha, "ponchos" indeed. Schoolboy error.

At Villa, we call 'em Panchos.

[paul_e]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

So Mr sly old Fox and co. my question is What special thing are you building ?

Witless and Co have pretty much knocked all that pish on the head with the appointment of Hollis.

As soon as he came in the talk was about embracing  relegation and suggesting that the club had tried spending money, so now they are taking a different approach.

No, it wasn't, it was about not fearing relegation, the difference between those 2 being truly vast.  Then with money he didn't say we've tried spending money so now they're taking a different approach what he said was much closer to 'just spending money hasn't worked so we need to do something different'.  In both cases you've slanted things as negatively as possible, which has become common on this site recently, when what he actually said was just good sense and, as someone has posted on here previously was an acknowledgement that going full MON won't help but that also what we've done more recently is clearly wrong.

[KevinGage]

I don't think a new chairman coming in and talking so openly about relegation -as if it is inevitable- was good sense at all.  It was quite a pisser, in fact.

The club needed galvanising at that point,and there was still scope to do that. The talk should have been about how we are going to fight tooth and nail to stay in the top flight, but -should the worst happen- plans would be in place to deal with the drop.

We know we are probably doomed, but it wasn't so clear cut then. And you'd like to think everyone at the club was pulling out the stops to prevent it.

In his short time at the club, he has spoken about relegation as if it is inevitable,  talked about a 'crisis club'  and referred to fans as customers (as if we are likely to start going down the Olbiyun or Blues if we're not happy with the product). 

He might go on to be a fine chairman, but in keeping with recent Lerner appointments, he seems to have a gift for hitting the wrong note. And it wouldn't be unlike Lerner to appoint a duffer, would it?

[Villa in Denmark]

I don't think a new chairman coming in and talking so openly about relegation -as if it is inevitable- was good sense at all.  It was quite a pisser, in fact.

The club needed galvanising at that point,and there was still scope to do that. The talk should have been about how we are going to fight tooth and nail to stay in the top flight, but -should the worst happen- plans would be in place to deal with the drop.

We know we are probably doomed, but it wasn't so clear cut then. And you'd like to think everyone at the club was pulling out the stops to prevent it.

In his short time at the club, he has spoken about relegation as if it is inevitable,  talked about a 'crisis club'  and referred to fans as customers (as if we are likely to start going down the Olbiyun or Blues if we're not happy with the product). 

He might go on to be a fine chairman, but in keeping with recent Lerner appointments, he seems to have a gift for hitting the wrong note. And it wouldn't be unlike Lerner to appoint a duffer, would it?

That wasn't what he said though. He recognised it was a distinct possibility, anything else would have lacked credibility and been dismissed as "more corporate bullshit" or similar, and said that whatever happens we'll deal with it.

The customer thing is WM/Evening Mail reporting. When he used the word customers, he was talking about his previous jobs.

The last paragraph, quite agree. As much as anything else a "football man" on the board might lessen these unfortunate turns of phrase.

[kippaxvilla2]

Just want to say well done Steve - you are doing well during your initial probation period of six months.

[Billy Walker]

I want to ask one question.
I have heard so many times from the head ponchos at villa park that we are building something special and we all want to be part of it.

So Mr sly old Fox and co. my question is What special thing are you building ?

Whatever was being built is now lying in a heap on the ground. Bring on the next merry round of Lerner-inspired madness.