Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Chico Hamilton III]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?

Mellberg weren't it?

[AsTallAsLions]

I think the corporate checks and balances were in place in general for the club under Randy, the whole Football side of the club was under one persons sole control, which is how he wanted it. Unfortunately the two sides didn’t seem to speak much and when Lerner wanted to make things more joined up, MON saw this as a threat to his power and decided to leave.

A very generous way of saying that O'Neill spent a wedge of Lerner's personal fortune getting Villa to the heady heights of 6th and 5th without any trophies or Champion's League money to show for it... and when Randy decided to start trying to recoup some of that money Martin threw all of this toys out of the pram. I'm not a Randy apologist and by all accounts he wasn't a terribly nice guy in the end, but I'll struggle to ever look back on MON's years as anything but failure on all fronts.

[johnc]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?

Mellberg weren't it?

Why didn't Barry head it?

[AV82EC]

I think the corporate checks and balances were in place in general for the club under Randy, the whole Football side of the club was under one persons sole control, which is how he wanted it. Unfortunately the two sides didn’t seem to speak much and when Lerner wanted to make things more joined up, MON saw this as a threat to his power and decided to leave.

A very generous way of saying that O'Neill spent a wedge of Lerner's personal fortune getting Villa to the heady heights of 6th and 5th without any trophies or Champion's League money to show for it... and when Randy decided to start trying to recoup some of that money Martin threw all of this toys out of the pram. I'm not a Randy apologist and by all accounts he wasn't a terribly nice guy in the end, but I'll struggle to ever look back on MON's years as anything but failure on all fronts.

I was trying to be generous as they both hold the blame for wasting a third of a billion quid and achieving the grand total of fuck all.

[robbo1874]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?

Why didn't Barry head it?

Mellberg weren't it?

could’ve been. Not the first or last time I’ll be wrong. Just remember it was a pretty decent header down the other end of the ground from the Villa fans in the corner.

[AsTallAsLions]

I think the corporate checks and balances were in place in general for the club under Randy, the whole Football side of the club was under one persons sole control, which is how he wanted it. Unfortunately the two sides didn’t seem to speak much and when Lerner wanted to make things more joined up, MON saw this as a threat to his power and decided to leave.

A very generous way of saying that O'Neill spent a wedge of Lerner's personal fortune getting Villa to the heady heights of 6th and 5th without any trophies or Champion's League money to show for it... and when Randy decided to start trying to recoup some of that money Martin threw all of this toys out of the pram. I'm not a Randy apologist and by all accounts he wasn't a terribly nice guy in the end, but I'll struggle to ever look back on MON's years as anything but failure on all fronts.

I was trying to be generous as they both hold the blame for wasting a third of a billion quid and achieving the grand total of fuck all.

Agreed, and fair.

[Dave P]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?

Mellberg weren't it?

Why didn't Barry head it?

Applause.

[Mister E]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?

Why didn't Barry head it?

Mellberg weren't it?

could’ve been. Not the first or last time I’ll be wrong. Just remember it was a pretty decent header down the other end of the ground from the Villa fans in the corner.

Twas Mellberg.

[maidstonevillain]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?

Mellberg weren't it?

Why didn't Barry head it?

He was expecting to get a penalty.

[The Moose]

It was in front of the Villa fans - I am on the video by the corner as the corner is taken!

[dave.woodhall]

I think the corporate checks and balances were in place in general for the club under Randy, the whole Football side of the club was under one persons sole control, which is how he wanted it. Unfortunately the two sides didn’t seem to speak much and when Lerner wanted to make things more joined up, MON saw this as a threat to his power and decided to leave.

A very generous way of saying that O'Neill spent a wedge of Lerner's personal fortune getting Villa to the heady heights of 6th and 5th without any trophies or Champion's League money to show for it... and when Randy decided to start trying to recoup some of that money Martin threw all of this toys out of the pram. I'm not a Randy apologist and by all accounts he wasn't a terribly nice guy in the end, but I'll struggle to ever look back on MON's years as anything but failure on all fronts.

I was trying to be generous as they both hold the blame for wasting a third of a billion quid and achieving the grand total of fuck all.

The difference is it was one of them's money.

[kippaxvilla2]

If you want any evidence of the same old same old approach from MO’N look no further than his current tenure at Forest. 

He pretty well dropped their most creative player Carvalho straight away and only bought him back in after they could no longer qualify for the play offs to see an immediate upturn of 3-0 against Boro with him being central to most things positive.  He really hasn’t changed one bit.

[Tuscans]

What's Dean Smiths fathers name? Could be a nice gesture to add his name to the "My Lord" or "Claret and Blue army" songs. I dunno just an idea.

[XXVilla]

What's Dean Smiths fathers name? Could be a nice gesture to add his name to the "My Lord" or "Claret and Blue army" songs. I dunno just an idea.

Nah. Would you want 30,000 people singing about your family?

[frank black]

I believe this idea has been promoted all over social media. Not sure myself could be a nice touch?