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Thank You Randy

By ianrobo June 16, 2010 16 Comments

I would imagine all season ticket holders received the following leaflet today from Randy Lerner and CEO Paul Faulkner. This is a fine gesture, no one asked for it and I certainly appreciate the effort to put such a simple thing together and well done to all. And in return, THANK YOU to Randy Lerner [...]

The BBC on Lerner – McGregor would have loved him

By ianrobo May 18, 2010 Leave a comment

Matt Slater on his blog on the BBC has written this excellent piece about meeting Randy last week. BBC LINK This is not the first article of this kind but is the best I have seen from a neutral commenting on many of the themes I have expressed on this blog since it started. It [...]

Lets all get Randy

By ianrobo May 15, 2010 Leave a comment

You may have read this piece before from the Daily Mail that Neil Moxley wrote but well worth repeating this for those of you who may have missed it Says everything why I love Randy Lerner as our owner and why I personally trust him 100%, there are things I could add Free scarves, Euro [...]

Randy Lerner back in Forbes rich list

By ianrobo March 11, 2010 2 Comments

The Forbes rich list is now out for 2010 and good news that Randy makes a welcome re-entry back into the list (valued at $1bn) along with his Mother and Sister. He is currently ranked as the 937st richest person in the world. Forbes Entry for Randy The families holding of Bank of America stock [...]

Villa’s financial health robust but we rely on Randy, wages are the key

By ianrobo March 5, 2010 6 Comments

The Daily Telegraph have just run a story on the latest annual report and it makes for some very interesting reading. I posted this article back in January and these figures confirm what I said then and confrmed why MON was saying what he was. The headlines are (some from the Telegraph report, some from [...]

There is only ONE Randy Lerner – The Quiet American

By ianrobo February 25, 2010 7 Comments

One stark contrast on Sunday ta the Carling Cup final will be to look to the directors box and notice the tale of two American owners. In the RED corner (or should that be yellow & green) will be the Glazier family. Possibly the most hated people inside of Old Trafford and that probably includes [...]

Randy Lerner, The Browns and the effect on Villa

By ianrobo January 13, 2010 Leave a comment

As you know Randy Lerner is the current owner of the NFL team the Cleveland Browns. As he also owns us and I like the NFL I have watched with interest developments at Cleveland and the way he operates there as contrast with ourselves. There are a great many differences between the two sports and [...]

Support Acorns

By ianrobo December 22, 2009 Leave a comment

You may notice on the right hand side of this blog a link for Acorns. As the nominated charity for Aston Villa I am delighted at the effort we have put into supporting them and let me remind you of William McGregor’s famous quote which I believe is the driving force behind our club. “For [...]

12 years and it comes to this, bye Barry

By ianrobo June 2, 2009 Leave a comment

So after nearly a year Barry has gone. I remember his debut at Sheff Wed away and shortly afterwards his second game at Goodison. Anyone who was there will remember the impression he gave to us all. He seemed to have everything at only 17, poise, quality passing and an intelligent football brain. Over the [...]

Randy is a quick Lerner

By ianrobo May 26, 2009 Leave a comment

Randy speaks and that is not very often and as someone who guards his thoughts very carefully he did this in a class way by inviting journo’s round for a fireside chat, no interviews but just in what seems like a relaxed manner. So what did he say and more importantly what did it mean [...]