Positives from the Lerner era

[exigo]

In a damning indictment of how the positives seem to be dwindling with every week, what would you say are the good things from the Lerner era?

I like the mosaic on the back of the Holte.

[passport1]

None

[saunders_heroes]

Ummm....

[FrankyH]

Saving the Holte Hotel from extinction.

[German James]

I like the fact that he hasn't commissioned Gary Barlow to compose a rock opera about us.

[SamTheMouse]

Just the one page, then.

[newtonsballs]

Leaving

[ChicagoLion]

He has only been our owner since 2006,

[Clampy]

For wanting to be part of it, for putting a shit load of money in and the acorns deal. The Holte Pub is very nice as well. It's a shame it's gone horribly wrong but I don't hate the bloke for it in the slightest.

[olaftab]

Other than restoring the Holte nothing much really. Main job was progression in football and 6 out of last ten years have bean miserable.

[placeforparks]

he spent some cash improving bodymoor heath...

[Duncan Shaw]

Yeah finishing Bodymoor to the standard it is now, Doug got the plans in place, but would have built it on a more meagre budget.

The hope of years 2 and 3.  Say what you will about subsequent events, but we were vibrant, back on the radar and worth wacthing most of the time.  The run where we seemed to hammer everyone (can't remember the exact run, but Bolton sat home was part of it) with Barry, Young, Milner, Carew and gabby on fire was great, and a positive for me.  It was just bulit on sand........

[Nelly]

The Acorns deal; Carew; League Cup finalists, FA Cup Semi-Finalists, FA Cup Finalists - (painful in another sense!); that Ajax game, that Sheffield Utd game; in the early days, that sense of Villa finally being back and actually aiming to compete (!); European Football - it's not really Lerner's fault pubehead threw it away.

We have had good times but Villa's hierarchy have utterly conceded any hope of attempting to shore the club up and have accepted freefall, so none of that counts for anything.

EDIT: A few more - seeing off Mourinho (Doug's handshake) and seperately his Chelsea team a few times, Ashley Young's goal at Everton, the derbies in the early days, finally winning at Old Trafford, winning the first game at the Emirates, that 6-4 Blackburn game.

[Ads]

The three game where we scored four past Bolton, six past Derby and five past Small Heath with only one I  reply. Happier times.

[Des Little]

We get the chance to go to Rotherham, possibly on a Tuesday night in January.  Cheers Randy