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Author Topic: Ron Saunders RIP  (Read 49768 times)

Offline garyshawsknee

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2019, 06:47:21 PM »
What a sad day. The man gave us an identity and our best years.

Offline Nev

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2019, 06:48:55 PM »
Saunders was Villa and Villa were Saunders when I was growing up. Never equalled, never to be forgotten.

Offline p_ad

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2019, 06:49:17 PM »
A great manager who gave us a great team RIP Ron

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2019, 06:49:18 PM »
RIP to the man who gave me the best days of my life

Offline walsall villain

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2019, 06:49:33 PM »
RIP Ron. The best manager in my lifetime
Absolutely. He brought times I never thought I’d see at the Villa. Thank you Ron

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2019, 06:49:52 PM »
Ah, fuck.

RIP Ron.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2019, 06:50:53 PM »
Absolutely gutted, RIP Super Ron.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2019, 06:51:32 PM »
He scared me as a kid and even though he was getting frail he still scared me as an adult in the interview he gave for AVTV a while back. The man was and always will be an absolute legend.

I remember the interview he gave to Gary Newbon on the evening we won the title.

Newbon - "Are you going to smile now Ron"?
Saunders - "Life isn't all about smiling Gary"!

Offline andyh

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2019, 06:51:35 PM »
No words.
RIP

Offline dave shelley

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2019, 06:51:56 PM »
For me, nothing will ever surpass being in that heaving mass in Highbury at the Clock End.  He gave us that.

Offline Jon Crofts

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #25 on: December 07, 2019, 06:52:26 PM »
The full 110%, RIP Ron, a legend of a man.

Offline Exeter 77

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #26 on: December 07, 2019, 06:54:33 PM »
A giant of Aston Villa. A man who was rightly both feared and revered.

Offline BC Villain

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #27 on: December 07, 2019, 06:54:37 PM »
The greatest.  Let's do it for Sir Ron tomorrow 

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #28 on: December 07, 2019, 06:55:09 PM »

Offline clash city rocker

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Re: Ron Saunders
« Reply #29 on: December 07, 2019, 06:55:20 PM »
RIP sir Ron....you gave me the greatest times ever following the villa and never got the recognition you deserved

 


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