Positives from the Lerner era

[Sexual Ealing]

I don't think my son, not Damon by the way, would mind me telling you that he was very friendly and open.  He wanted to see what a season ticket looked like. My son has spent a lot of time making TV shows in America so they talked about the US game and English players moving there.  They talked at some length about Brad Friedel and what a good influence he was.  Randy's companion grew bored and my son went back to his own table.  From what I gather Randy would have talked about Villa indefinitely.  He made a good impression on my son who is a pretty good judge.

Thanks for that Brian.

[amfy]

Mcgregor statue

Surely "positives of the Supporters Trust"?

He said he would pay half if we raised half.

In the end, I understand he paid quite a bit more than half.

[TopDeck113]

Yes, there have been positives, but unfortunately at the present moment I find it difficult to look beyond the complete mess we find ourselves in and the fact that the road to disaster is paved with good intentions.  So, for example, I've now even got a rather jaundiced view of the Acorns deal as an early example of the Lerner regime's inability to maximise revenue through commercial ineptitude and then spinning this failure as a gesture of philanthropy.  With this in mind, reserving judgement until (1) he's finally gone; and (2) we know how long it has taken to get back to respectability in the top flight is perhaps the best course of action.  I'll be able to judge all his actions in the round.

[Jean Quereue-Quereue]

The VMF restaurant, using local produce and local labour.  Shame it closed in the end - it brought tourists to a deprived area week-round.

[Mellin]

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

Atrocious Derby side and six different scorers. Didn't that happen in reverse recently?

[KevinGage]

Margaret Thatcher died.

[eamonn]

Putting on free buses for a cup game (Chelsea?).

I feel sorry for him. He seems to be a decent and humble man with a lot of affection for the club which I never thought he had to attend games to prove. Nothing wrong with family coming first.

I just wish he hadn't been so naive, incompetent and unlucky.

[cdbearsfan]

Margaret Thatcher died.

Winner.

[eric woolban woolban]

I got a scarf

[Jimbo]

I don't feel sorry for Randy Lerner. That sentiment belongs with the 'uncle Doug' revisionist crap. Unfortunately it's quite a bit more than him just being unlucky and not very good at running sports clubs.

Just as you wouldn't employ an electrician to plaster a room, you don't employ a glorified call centre manager or a marketing executive to run a football club. But Randy thinks otherwise.

He hasn't learned anything from his Browns disaster. He's proved himself to be whimsical, arrogant, aloof, detached, irresponsible, feckless and cowardly. Remi Garde's recent press conference suggests he has been lied to and betrayed. But the worst thing Randy ever did was allow Aston Villa to give up the relegation fight by January. That - for the so-called custodian of the club - is absolutely unforgivable.

He can't help being an idiot, a billionaire heir with no grounding in reality, but his abandonment of responsibility has been wilful and disgraceful. The bloke's a charlatan, and a tarted-up pub, some mosaics and an improved training ground won't begin to make up for the unholy mess he's created everywhere else.

Randy's sidekick, General Krulak, should know a thing or two about duty. Randy had a duty to this football club. Not only has he not fulfilled his duty, he's been found in his bunk, cowering under the covers, with his fingers in his ears. He deserves a very dishonourable discharge.

[brian green]

Let's get ourselves a nice Hong Kong hairdresser.

[AV82EC]

I don't feel sorry for Randy Lerner. That sentiment belongs with the 'uncle Doug' revisionist crap. Unfortunately it's quite a bit more than him just being unlucky and not very good at running sports clubs.

Just as you wouldn't employ an electrician to plaster a room, you don't employ a glorified call centre manager or a marketing executive to run a football club. But Randy thinks otherwise.

He hasn't learned anything from his Browns disaster. He's proved himself to be whimsical, arrogant, aloof, detached, irresponsible, feckless and cowardly. Remi Garde's recent press conference suggests he has been lied to and betrayed. But the worst thing Randy ever did was allow Aston Villa to give up the relegation fight by January. That - for the so-called custodian of the club - is absolutely unforgivable.

He can't help being an idiot, a billionaire heir with no grounding in reality, but his abandonment of responsibility has been wilful and disgraceful. The bloke's a charlatan, and a tarted-up pub, some mosaics and an improved training ground won't begin to make up for the unholy mess he's created everywhere else.

Randy's sidekick, General Krulak, should know a thing or two about duty. Randy had a duty to this football club. Not only has he not fulfilled his duty, he's been found in his bunk, cowering under the covers, with his fingers in his ears. He deserves a very dishonourable discharge.

A thousand times this.

[sickbeggar]

He's only been here 10 years is probably the main positive. Imagine what he could have done with double the time

[Jimbo]

He's only been here 10 years is probably the main positive. Imagine what he could have done with double the time

He hasn't left yet.

[Brend'Watkins]

He's only been here 10 years is probably the main positive. Imagine what he could have done with double the time

He hasn't left yet.

And we may get to find out.