Villa youngsters face nervous end to season of struggle â opposition profile Fri 15th Mar 2013 00:06 by Clive Whittingham Aston Villaâs faith in youth and lower league prospects is sound medium and long term thinking, but a transition period is proving painful and the short term prospects hang in the balance. Overview A struggle against relegation from the 2012/13 Premier League is not the only thing QPR and Aston Villa have in common. Both clubs are also suffering from the decisions and strategies adopted by their senior management, but in both cases the majority of fans seem hesitant in criticising the people at the very top of the organisation. Both clubs' chairmen, Tony Fernandes and Randy Lerner, have made mistakes in their respective tenures â primarily in the appointment of managers and squad building strategy. Neither set of supporters has ever been shy of turning against a manager or chairman in the past but for now both seem content to direct the blame onto the underlings. QPR's CEO Philip Beard is starting to cop some flak from the hooped masses while his opposite number at Villa Park , Paul Faulkner, is experiencing the same thing. The working theory on both counts seems to be that rich men who knew little about the inner workings of the sport naively placed their faith in others to run their clubs day to day and are now paying the price. Both Lerner and Fernandes have, at one time or another, been held up as examples of the ideal football club owner but those halos have slipped slightly as a season of struggle has ensued. Read more here.... http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/fb_news.php?storyid=31653
Was thinking about this game this morning. It seems ot me that their main threat (not only threat) is Benteke and we are looking to Samba to negate that threat. Our main threat is Remy - speedy and skillful and quite wily for a young player. Is there any one in the Villa defecne to negate that threat? Let's hope not. COYRssss!!
It's odd all these objections about the length of his articles. As a QPR fan, don't you want to see as much material as possible written about your club? Are you honestly complaining that someone is giving too much of their time to writing about the team you support? I enjoy reading about QPR, the more detailed the better. We all chose to come online to give our opinions in the form of words and text- so it's strange that forum users, of all people, would complain about the overuse of that medium. Surely if you want a brief summary of QPR related news you'd go to the general press? If 100 words of bland tabloid guff is enough to satisfy you QPR-related desires, then fair enough- i'd prefer to read something a bit more substantial though.
Yes Grift, but when it turns into a personal vanity crusade it just makes a bit of a mockery out of it.
I enjoy reading Clives articles and I can't see why people object to their length. If you haven't got the attention span then don't bother reading it. Everyone has a choice.
