Riley - When Will It Happen

[auntiesledd]

Regardless of exactly what proportion of the blame for our predicament lies with him he is irretrievably tainted by the failure of which he has been a part and that ought to make his position untenable.

It wouldn't surprise me if the fuckwits at VP give the useless chancer a 4-year contract extension!

[SoccerHQ]

As regards Reilly, surely it's not just signing players, as head of recruitment surely it's in his remit to construct a decent network of scouts based around europe and South America (I doubt we have one unless John Blackwell does it on a part time basis- that's one for our older readers on here!).

And yet I read stuff like one went to live in Australia, another is a university student, it dosen't strike of striving for the best does it.

I also read that Lerner and Reilly get on and he's married to someone in the finance department so looks like that's why he hasn't gone yet.

[aev]

Riley.

[RussellC]

The anger towards Riley is a great example of how much we (as football fans) work on guess-work and assumption. We've absolutely no idea on what his brief has been in terms of scouting players, or even how involved he's been with the players that we've actually signed.

A few years ago we all thought he'd unearthed Benteke and was a genius, and now we all thing he's responsible for how horribly unbalanced our squad it and he's a useless C**t.

[Ads]

Its a collective failure and he's played his shoddy part in it. How much of it is his fault doesn't really matter, we're going down watching the worst Villa side since 1874.

[peter w]

I cheer myself up when reading the title of this thread and imagining it's Riley from Countdown and the question as a sexual air of inevitability about it. Sorry, as you were...

[edgysatsuma89]

If Ryelee is behind the structure of our scouting involving having scouts in Oz then yes he should f**k off. On the players front I think the french lads will be alright (wherever that may be) and Sherwoods picks are the really shit ones. Royleigh should have told him to 0121. He's below Timmy in the culpability stakes for me anyway. Faint praise and all that.

[aj2k77]

Director of scouting and player recruitment.

That's his job title. Therefore having a student and a beach bum as our scouts is his fault and he should be fired before we even get in to paying £50m for the dross we got.

[HolmesyVilla]

I cheer myself up when reading the title of this thread and imagining it's Riley from Countdown and the question as a sexual air of inevitability about it. Sorry, as you were...

Yes Riley when will it happen...surely someone has a sex tape of her somewhere??!

[not3bad]

It's nearly time.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paddy-riley-set-aston-villa-11376499?

[old man villa fan]

It's nearly time.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paddy-riley-set-aston-villa-11376499?

Who will replace him?

If the changing room photo with the names on the back of the shirts was genuine, there is one that has not been mentioned in recent comments.  It looked like Cook.  Could it be Garry Cook, ex Man City.

[Percy McCarthy]

It's nearly time.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paddy-riley-set-aston-villa-11376499?

Who will replace him?

If the changing room photo with the names on the back of the shirts was genuine, there is one that has not been mentioned in recent comments.  It looked like Cook.  Could it be Garry Cook, ex Man City.

He wasn't a scout though was he?

[old man villa fan]

It's nearly time.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/paddy-riley-set-aston-villa-11376499?

Who will replace him?

If the changing room photo with the names on the back of the shirts was genuine, there is one that has not been mentioned in recent comments.  It looked like Cook.  Could it be Garry Cook, ex Man City.

He wasn't a scout though was he?

I thought he headed up player recruitment.

[mr underhill]

from a games console?

[aj2k77]

Director of player recruitment and scouting.

It all falls under his remit.

A scout who's a student at school and one who's on the beach in Australia... his finger must have been on the pulse.