Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[hilts_coolerking]

These things do happen when big clubs are managed badly.

There's no reason why we have to be managed badly.  And certainly not this badly.

[Matt Collins]

It all goes back to what I've said many, many times before. For twelve years after 1990 we had so many situations and unique advantages and we threw them all away. It didn't need a fortune, it needed vision and business acumen. Other clubs were bringing in top-quality marketing people while we relied on an over-promoted Saturday shop boy.

Yep. And we got managers in who weren't great in the transfer market for the most part - certainly not ambitious

[Steve R]

Oi!  I've still got my copy too.  My mate has a chapter named after him.

Didier Six ?

[Lucky Eddie]

Oi!  I've still got my copy too.  My mate has a chapter named after him.

Didier Six ?

I like that

[peter w]

Ellis shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our club after the mess he made out of it. I forgot the Abdul Rashid nonsense and it took too long to realise he was totally out of his depth. That Ellis has a stand still named after him is galling and unfortunately it requires himt o pop off this mortal coil before that's likely to change.

[DeKuip]

Ellis shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our club after the mess he made out of it. I forgot the Abdul Rashid nonsense and it took too long to realise he was totally out of his depth. That Ellis has a stand still named after him is galling and unfortunately it requires himt o pop off this mortal coil before that's likely to change.

Wasn't there an agreement that Randy wouldn't change the name of the stand, in which case at least the new owners should be able to (not that it's a priority on day one).

[LeeB]

Ellis shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our club after the mess he made out of it. I forgot the Abdul Rashid nonsense and it took too long to realise he was totally out of his depth. That Ellis has a stand still named after him is galling and unfortunately it requires himt o pop off this mortal coil before that's likely to change.

Peter, I'm glad that you unlike others haven't lost sight of this.

Ellis was a pox on our club.

[dave.woodhall]

Ellis shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our club after the mess he made out of it. I forgot the Abdul Rashid nonsense and it took too long to realise he was totally out of his depth. That Ellis has a stand still named after him is galling and unfortunately it requires himt o pop off this mortal coil before that's likely to change.

Wasn't there an agreement that Randy wouldn't change the name of the stand, in which case at least the new owners should be able to (not that it's a priority on day one).

There was no agreement, but it would look incredibly petty.

[saunders_heroes]

It'd look petty whoever is in charge of the club. I don't think we'll ever see a name change unless it's because of sponsorship.
Doesn't particularly bother me anyway.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I want Dougs name staying on the stand....its something to moan about. I'm of an age where I like having things to moan about.

[Chico Hamilton III]

On the lunatic scale, Thomas Holte was much worse than Doug.

[dave shelley]

Judging by the way our luck is running at the moment, retaining Doug's name on the Witton Lane stand is probably what caused the alleged takeover to fall through.

[Jarpie]

Some Villa fans mention or complain that Deadly never put his own money into the club, but was he ever rich enough to put? Even in the 90s he would've had to put millions into the club to keep up with the richest clubs of the country when it came to the spending.

I'm not saying I liked the guy, and him just taking money from Villa was very objectionable, in the least.

[dave.woodhall]

Some Villa fans mention or complain that Deadly never put his own money into the club, but was he ever rich enough to put? Even in the 90s he would've had to put millions into the club to keep up with the richest clubs of the country when it came to the spending.

I'm not saying I liked the guy, and him just taking money from Villa was very objectionable, in the least.

It didn't need money, it needed vision.

[Jarpie]

Some Villa fans mention or complain that Deadly never put his own money into the club, but was he ever rich enough to put? Even in the 90s he would've had to put millions into the club to keep up with the richest clubs of the country when it came to the spending.

I'm not saying I liked the guy, and him just taking money from Villa was very objectionable, in the least.

It didn't need money, it needed vision.

So true that, especially during the 90s. Let's hope that the eventual new owners have enough of both to make us contenders again.