And the Hello friends welcome back to another episode of the

Ritterol Football Podcast my name is Norris. Thank you for being here and

ladies and gentlemen this is the episode you've been waiting all year for. This is

the most complete, the best, some might say the perfect wrap up of the 2018-

2019 Aston Villa Football Club season. You won't find this type of coverage anywhere else so I'm glad you make us the

number one resource for your AV FC information. But really I do appreciate all of the love. You all sent me Monday morning when my

football club did win promotion to the PL. That's the last you hear from me on that subject until August.

I appreciate you putting up with me.

Somehow today we will try to top that.

That's why we have Roto Pat joining us in just a little bit.

Pat, a few days ago, posted his GM rankings, yes, 1 through 32,

grading the body of work of each of these general managers and stacking them.

Obviously go and read that, but also to compliment that piece, I thought we could go and

discuss basically every single ranking and general manager today.

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to hit that subscribe button, leave us a rating review.

You all have been great with that.

It takes like five or ten seconds, helps us out.

And we kick this episode today off just by Pat explaining the grading process the

ranking process and what he's looking for with this list.

See the rankings aspect is obviously important, but really, you know, it's still kind of more of a framing device.

I put a lot of time into the actual ranks themselves, you know, moving people around the whole time.

This year I kind of wrote the article over a longer period than usual kind of came in and out,

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