Brian Little and David Bernstein to join the board

[dave.woodhall]

Don't get the excitement.

Bernstein is another Man City supporting accountant who is knocking on a bit.

You mean, apart from the wealth of football administration experience, like heading up the national F.A. and being Chairman of a big club in a similar position to that which we are about to find ourselves?

I've said this plenty of times but one of the biggest problems we've had since the departures of Doug and then Steve Stride is the lack of someone well-known enough in football that everyone would take a call from him. I'm a firm believer that everyone in the game operates at their own level - managers work with other managers, players hang out with other players - and we've had nobody until now who could work with other directors.

[pbavfckuwait]

Timing wise we can moan that it should have been done years ago, it was not , but at least the two appointments last week were in the areas the club has been screaming out for. King and Holis I am not sure but Little and Bernstein, big step in the right direction.

[pbavfckuwait]

Said earlier in the thread Dave, that if Bernstein had been here, you can guarantee that woman from Sunderland would not have been on the panel deciding the visa issue.

[dave.woodhall]

Said earlier in the thread Dave, that if Bernstein had been here, you can guarantee that woman from Sunderland would not have been on the panel deciding the visa issue.

That's a good point I'd not thought about before. Whatever else Doug might have been, a whisper in the right ear, a salmon fishing invitation and the panel would have been from Arsenal, Manchester United and any other club we guarantee six points every season.

[Des Little]

Apologies if I've got this wrong, but in time (ie post-Fox) wouldn't it help us if Hollis became CEO and Bernstein the Chairman? Seems like a better fit to me?

[pbavfckuwait]

Also Fox thought she was the receptionist so took no notice of her, didnt even say hello as he went into the tribunal.

[dave.woodhall]

Apologies if I've got this wrong, but in time (ie post-Fox) wouldn't it help us if Hollis became CEO and Bernstein the Chairman? Seems like a better fit to me?

We need someone completely new. I doubt Hollis has the football nous to be CEO and Bernstein probably doesn't want the aggravation at his age. it's a totally left-field suggestion but I'd be looking at someone like Steve Froggatt. He knows football, he runs a business so he clearly isn't daft, he's generally well-liked and he knows the club.

[144 Hard Boiled Eggs]

I've said this plenty of times but one of the biggest problems we've had since the departures of Doug and then Steve Stride is the lack of someone well-known enough in football that everyone would take a call from him. I'm a firm believer that everyone in the game operates at their own level - managers work with other managers, players hang out with other players - and we've had nobody until now who could work with other directors.

Spot on - I don't think we'd be in the total mess we are now if Steve Stride hadn't have departed.

[Villa in Denmark]

I don't know how it all works upstairs but do Little, Bernstein, King and Hollis have the power to sack Fox or does Lerner have the final say?

Little has no power whatsoever. He's just an adviser who will be largely ignored.

We were discussing Sir Brian's actual status - he is not a Board member and does not have any voting rights as I understand it? Starts to look like flim-flammery to stop the protest/s

Or alternatively he's not beholden to the board, so in a position to drop it all in a no holds bared fashion if he feels that they're taking the piss.  I'd imagine that he would feel his loyalty lay with us and the club in general rather than the individuals currently sitting on the board.

For all we know Little has asked for it to be this way, not wanting the formal, and with it legal, implications of being a board member and room to be a bit of a loose canon if he wants.

[Mostinho II]

Does anyone know of any decent Brain Little footage when playing for Villa? I have google searched but not much joy apart from a few goals here and there. I was a bit young to have seen him as a player. Didn't realise he only ever played for one club. The right one obviously.

[Pete]

Here's a good place to start.....

And this one

[Ron Manager]

Does anyone know of any decent Brain Little footage when playing for Villa? I have google searched but not much joy apart from a few goals here and there. I was a bit young to have seen him as a player. Didn't realise he only ever played for one club. The right one obviously.

But he would have played for two if he had passed the medical. Do we know which club he was going to join children?

Yes that' right!

[Diablo]

Here's a good place to start.....

And this one

What a welcome change. This actually made me feel good.

[Mostinho II]

Yeh I read that. He must of been desperate. Seemingly the only time a footballers career was ended prematurely and it was a good thing! Well sort of. I'm just glad he didn't taint his career in such a fashion. Sweet Pete, cheers! I watched the Blues one on YouTube - so they've always been dirty, talentless bastards then? 

[conman]

Does anyone know of any decent Brain Little footage when playing for Villa? I have google searched but not much joy apart from a few goals here and there. I was a bit young to have seen him as a player. Didn't realise he only ever played for one club. The right one obviously.

But he would have played for two if he had passed the medical. Do we know which club he was going to join children?

Yes that' right!

and like ron saunders he done a good job managing west brom