Ermmm... was it irony in the first seven posts you made whinging that 50.7% was over half?
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on June 26, 2017, 09:15:00 AMErmmm... was it irony in the first seven posts you made whinging that 50.7% was over half?I realise that this is a side issue but the numbers are pretty much irrelevant aren't they, with it being such a small sample of the overall supporter base? I am not sure you can extrapolate anything either way to how that relates more widely.
Yet Xia looks like he has received the Bumper Book of Club Management from Lerner at Christmas and is following it to the letter.
Dwight Yorke recently said that the players need to 'stand up' and its fair comment. The dressing room looks to be in a state where there are no leaders and no serious commitment to dig in and grind out results.
Quote from: KevinGage on June 26, 2017, 10:26:59 AMYet Xia looks like he has received the Bumper Book of Club Management from Lerner at Christmas and is following it to the letter. Hugely unfair, IMO. Whatever you think about Xia and his methods, comparing them to those used by his predecessor are way, way wide of the mark. Whatever Xia is, Lerner Mark II is definitely not it.
Quote from: RussellC on June 26, 2017, 12:05:24 PMQuote from: KevinGage on June 26, 2017, 10:26:59 AMYet Xia looks like he has received the Bumper Book of Club Management from Lerner at Christmas and is following it to the letter. Hugely unfair, IMO. Whatever you think about Xia and his methods, comparing them to those used by his predecessor are way, way wide of the mark. Whatever Xia is, Lerner Mark II is definitely not it.He looks like he is on the Lerner fast-track to me. Spunk a shedload of money up front? Check. Appoint an uninspiring dullard as a manager? Check. Do a complete volte face when the implications of FFP hit home and talk about sell to buy? Check. Start bringing in broken down 'name' footballers to appease some of the more gullible elements of the fanbase on fat contracts? Check.This is a bloke who talked about making Aston Villa one of the top three football clubs in world football little over 12 months ago, let's not forget. I don't see how any of the above would move us into the top 50. Still, nice twitter fonts.
Quote from: KevinGage on June 26, 2017, 12:28:39 PMQuote from: RussellC on June 26, 2017, 12:05:24 PMQuote from: KevinGage on June 26, 2017, 10:26:59 AMYet Xia looks like he has received the Bumper Book of Club Management from Lerner at Christmas and is following it to the letter. Hugely unfair, IMO. Whatever you think about Xia and his methods, comparing them to those used by his predecessor are way, way wide of the mark. Whatever Xia is, Lerner Mark II is definitely not it.He looks like he is on the Lerner fast-track to me. Spunk a shedload of money up front? Check. Appoint an uninspiring dullard as a manager? Check. Do a complete volte face when the implications of FFP hit home and talk about sell to buy? Check. Start bringing in broken down 'name' footballers to appease some of the more gullible elements of the fanbase on fat contracts? Check.This is a bloke who talked about making Aston Villa one of the top three football clubs in world football little over 12 months ago, let's not forget. I don't see how any of the above would move us into the top 50. Still, nice twitter fonts. Isn't he just following a logical approach to get promotion? Out-spend your rivals and appoint a Manager with a successful track-record of getting Promotion? We have to sell-to-buy now a) because of FFP and b) because out squad is far too big as it stands. That's in no way similar to Lerner pulling the plug on squad-funding when he decided he wanted to cut his losses. Lerner's biggest faults as an Owner were being too loyal to failing managers and not communicating with the Supporters. AS I said, if you want to criticise Xia for any of the above crack-on, but comparing him to Lerner is just not fair.
Like a manager who was brought in to get promotion and finished bottom half?
Quote from: paul_e on June 26, 2017, 01:20:07 PMLike a manager who was brought in to get promotion and finished bottom half?And would you expect Bruce to last beyond Xmas if automatic promotion isn't looking likely at that stage?