Villa CEO Elected To FA Council

you do not simply walk into Mordor, oh hang on, wrong Council

lol Lost_In_Ca, classic!

Lol@lost in ca

An amazing day all round................

I'm getting a bit giddy with all this. What next... Messi signs on a free transfer with wages of £30 and a curly wurly (his favourite I hear) a week?

At least while he is away on his FA duties, he's not here meddling in B6...

2big - he was officially appointed, he'd already been doing the job though. It wasn't a role change, it was a title change promotion for him.

When will he be qualified then 444? Does he have to work in football for 50 years before he knows something about it?

The FOOTBALL MANAGER IS THE FOOTBALL MAN. I can't see how people don't get that. You don't want a fan type like Ridsdale on a board, you want people to be a bit more cold light of day than that. Fine, last season, yes, we know (not as if we've not had crap seasons before mind you) but ffs, talk about some looking for the bad in everything!

So the answer there 444 is you don't like the bloke, so you won't acknowledge what he has actually done at the club because you're annoyed about Houllier and McLeish. Fair enough. I agree the catering staff should hold coaching badges as well. But what do we know about football, never played professionally either lol

I know JF, I was just pre-empting the 'he has no experience of the role and has never done anything like this before his promotion' rants lol

You said EVERYONE so don't go changing the goalposts when you are called on it. Yes he's taking the plaudits for Lambert, he also took the blame for Eck. So is it that difficult to have some balance? And where exactly is he bragging, show me the quotes would be interesting read.

Afterall if Paul and others hadn't worked so terrifically hard on increasing our turnover the Messiah would've thrown his toys far earlier than he did because the club wouldn't have been able to sustain his spend and burn policy on people he'd never play for as long as they did. But for many it's still the boards fault that Monny walked, yet it was the board that did the work to enable him to have the crack.

Some balance would be nice mate, this is a fantastic appointment for the Villa for the kudos, the involvement we can have to get decisions through that aid us as a club, increase our profile and as said already Dougie's involvement helped when it came to hosting events and the like, and that's exactly how Villa can capitalise on Paul's involvement now, even if it's only hosting local FA meetings at the Holte or the Suite's in VP. It's a win, win for us if done correctly and overtime. But in your mind that can't possibly be true because Paul's a mug, and all the FA are mugs - only businessmen and know nothing about football, but you still won't answer after how many years of working in football are you qualified to actually erm work in football?

I was ultra positive under MON gents. Much more so than Mike anyway ;-D. I was also positive under JG, BL, GTmkI and Atkinson but not just because we had a modicum of success. We played some attractive football at times and you always thought that we had a chance of winning when we played. O'Leary, GH then Eck tenfold have put us fans down by telling us that we're fickle, we expect too much or we just don't know as much as them. Sounds like you guys know Faulkner, or at least that you've had some sort of communication with him. Therefore you obviously know much more than me about what he does behind the scenes. I don't care about that. What has severely *****ed me off is the appointment of Eck in every way for many reasons that you agree with that I don't need to go into. I'm all for forgive and forget but not after 5 minutes FFS. This could very well be a smoke screen and I know that sounds pessimistic but they've given me reason to be so. I'm 34 which is older than our CEO and have been playing football since the age of 4 FFS so I think that I'm entitled to an opinion (whether that's right or wrong.) I have my own views and won't follow the crowd just because someone says so. Sorry if I'm overly negative but I see things in a certain way. Football is a simple game. Eck made things very hard by overly complicating things and confusing or scaring the Villa players into losing most weeks. Anyway, the main point is that, Faulkner was not fit to appoint ANYONE last season because of his ignorance. After a year or 2 of cockups, they seem to be getting it right but after sooooo much good will and promise when Randy first arrived to have been thrown back at us, it will take time for the likes of me to get over it. I assure you that I will given a few half decent aquisitions and watching a team that attacks. You're right in the fact that my glass is nearly always half empty, that's because I've drunk the other half and I'm queueing up to get another though!!! UTV