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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Rick_avfc on January 16, 2012, 10:42:51 AM
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Not sure if any of you saw it or have heard about Bannan's tweet after the game but it went something like this:-
"Chilling at home ... Wat a cold boring day that was !!!"
Not very clever by the wee scotsman and he should learn to control his emotions on a social media website. Yes, i'm sure we can all share his feelings regarding saturday's game but as a professional, he needs to keep those thoughts to himself. He has the priviledge of being a professoinal footballer who earns £10k a week - money that we can only dream of earning! The club have stuck by him through his recent ordeal and to tweet something silly like this will not help his cause.
Come on Barry, sort it out! Keep wokring hard on the training pitch and you will get your chance.
Mods, if there is already a topic on this, please lock this down. I didn't see one hence why I created a new one.
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Surprised this only got such little attention. It really pissed me off, to be honest.
Compare it to Gardner's tweet: Good point today lads! Unlucky could of had 3! Lets keep going! #utv!!! And good to see robbie keane make his first apperance! #whataplayer!
Albrighton's: Gutted we didn't win! I take responsibility for the goal defiantly! Need to do better! Roll on next weekend!!!
Just really unprofessional and shows a general lack of interest in the club. His following tweets were all about getting ready to go see Celtic play quite excitedly.
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Chilling wine at home I would imagine. Shame.
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Exactly, if he is going to tweet then he needs to look at the likes of Gardner and Albrighton and see how they conduct themselves. No excuse really and age cannot be an excuse as both Gardner and Albrighton are young lads and have shown a sense of maturity when using twitter to address their feelings.
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Or an honest assessment of a shit day at work. Choinks away.
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The word boring shouldn't be used by our players to describe match days.
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Oh dear. Presumably, people trawl twitter for honest opinions? Is it really that offensive?
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Are those direct quotes from Twitter? Appalling grammar from all three. </grammarnazi>
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I stopped following him and all footballers on twitter when i realised all their tweets consisted of
"Good days training now chillin at home"
"Good days chillin/training now off to Nando's
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He's human like the rest of us. I would guess he was pissed off about not getting a chance to try and get 3 points and put it on Twitter like millions of other humans do on a daily basis. Just because he kicks an inflated bit of plastic for a living doesn't mean he get's less pissed off than us lot when he's had a bad day at the office. I think boring was a polite term for watching the majority of that match.
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Oh dear. Presumably, people trawl twitter for honest opinions? Is it really that offensive?
When I first saw it I didnt think much of it but saw he was getting some stick. Yes, if he was bored thats fine but as a professional footballer he needs to be just that little bit more careful when broadcasting it to his followers as people will take offense to it.
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Bannan has proved his stupidity in public so it's on par with what I expect.
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Is this thread a fucking wind up?
Jesus christ.
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I've always thought he was overrated anyway. Sell him and put it towards a fullback or two. He's a Championship player at best.
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He's a very good footballer , unfortunately seems to be going in wrong direction like club in general , even if I do think twittergate is huge over reaction.
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I don't think he's very bright.
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He's a very good footballer , unfortunately seems to be going in wrong direction like club in general , even if I do think twittergate is huge over reaction.
A very good footballer? What has he ever done in a Villa shirt to warrant such praise?
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I said very good footballer not great , amazing , excellent or world class , play against him and I'm sure you would find he is , as for warranting praise certain players are getting paid more for having total stinkers so warrant praise purely on fact I think he is .
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He's a very good footballer , unfortunately seems to be going in wrong direction like club in general , even if I do think twittergate is huge over reaction.
A very good footballer? What has he ever done in a Villa shirt to warrant such praise?
I don't see enough live games where he has played to be qualified to comment, but I will anway I just have a gut feeling he is the new Peter Whittingtham, just falling short of Premiership standard. I hope I'm wrong.
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Is this thread a fucking wind up?
Jesus christ.
No not really. Why would it be a wind up? Also, just wanted to see what other fans thought about it and the fact that as a professional, he just needs to be careful what he says on an open forum where he can be targetted by the media.
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So he's a Celtic fan then?
Anyone know if Delfouneso is a Villa fan?
He's from Tyseley and his brother plays for Blues so he could be a Small Heathen...
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FFS, who cares? Has he called the fans wankers?Slagged off the board? Disrespected the manager? No.Get a grip
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It's hardly Barton-esque but still, Barry Bannan should be a little more concerned about trying to prove his worth as a professional footballer. Thus far all he'll be remembered for in his time here, should he leave tomorrow, is that he got arrested for drink driving. That's it. Brilliant!
He's a little naive and he needs to work a lot, lot harder.
At the moment, we need all our players to give it 100% and play as well as the possibly can. There's too few of our squad doing that, and he's one of them. McLeish is not very good by any stretch, but he's not got much to work with either in fairness to him, especially when some of the players, like Bannan, aren't putting in enough effort.
After what he did, he should be bending over backwards, busting his bollocks to try and force his way back into the team.
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FFS, who cares? Has he called the fans wankers?Slagged off the board? Disrespected the manager? No.Get a grip
He has previous for this sort of thing and was carpeted for describing Birmingham as a shithole on his My Space page a couple of years back. With this in mind he might want to consider the benfits of restricting his social media interactions to such uncontroversial fare as his visits to Nando's and whatever La Liga game happens to be on.
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FFS, who cares? Has he called the fans wankers?Slagged off the board? Disrespected the manager? No.Get a grip
I originally thought "who cares" when i first read about it but when you think about it, he was silly for tweeting it thats all. Yes, he is probably upset and not being given game time but with the current mood around the place, he just needs to becareful what he says thats all. If you were manager and one of your players tweeted that, would you not want to question him about it? I agree, he hasn't said anything over the top but some people have taken offence to it and have reacted negatively towards him on twitter.
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Is this thread a fucking wind up?
Jesus christ.
No not really. Why would it be a wind up? Also, just wanted to see what other fans thought about it and the fact that as a professional, he just needs to be careful what he says on an open forum where he can be targetted by the media.
He has said nothing.
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Is this thread a fucking wind up?
Jesus christ.
No not really. Why would it be a wind up? Also, just wanted to see what other fans thought about it and the fact that as a professional, he just needs to be careful what he says on an open forum where he can be targetted by the media.
He has said nothing.
ok, im a bit confused here so help me out. When you say "he has said nothing" what do you actually mean? The topic is about him tweeting "chillin at home.....wat a boring day that was". To me, thats him saying something which could (not necessarily me) piss people off regarding his attitude etc.
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FFS, who cares? Has he called the fans wankers?Slagged off the board? Disrespected the manager? No.Get a grip
He has previous for this sort of thing and was carpeted for describing Birmingham as a shithole on his My Space page a couple of years back. With this in mind he might want to consider the benfits of restricting his social media interactions to such uncontroversial fare as his visits to Nando's and whatever La Liga game happens to be on.
He also got involved in tit for tat with a Leeds fan following his loan and a general fan of Scottish football. They were upset by the 'uncontroversial fare' about doing nothing except playing FIFA or going to Nando's when he should be concentrating on training/ his career. Basically, it is a fine line on social media. Do you say what fans want to hear or how you feel? It is all down to interpretation too. If someone tweets 'gutted to be substituted today', a fan would be pleased that there is passion, a stirrer would say there's a major fall out with the boss.
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I don't mind chatting about whether or no wee Bazza should or should not be tweeting what he has been tweeting. However, I MUST say TSK! in the strongest possible manner at the use of the -gate suffix with a noun that is not "Water".
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Is this thread a fucking wind up?
Jesus christ.
No not really. Why would it be a wind up? Also, just wanted to see what other fans thought about it and the fact that as a professional, he just needs to be careful what he says on an open forum where he can be targetted by the media.
He has said nothing.
ok, im a bit confused here so help me out. When you say "he has said nothing" what do you actually mean? The topic is about him tweeting "chillin at home.....wat a boring day that was". To me, thats him saying something which could (not necessarily me) piss people off regarding his attitude etc.
If his day was cold and boring then it's up to him if he wants to tweet it. People choose to follow him and if they are pissed off by him saying he had a cold and boring day then they are the ones with an attitude problem.
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Is this thread a fucking wind up?
Jesus christ.
No not really. Why would it be a wind up? Also, just wanted to see what other fans thought about it and the fact that as a professional, he just needs to be careful what he says on an open forum where he can be targetted by the media.
He has said nothing.
ok, im a bit confused here so help me out. When you say "he has said nothing" what do you actually mean? The topic is about him tweeting "chillin at home.....wat a boring day that was". To me, thats him saying something which could (not necessarily me) piss people off regarding his attitude etc.
If his day was cold and boring then it's up to him if he wants to tweet it. People choose to follow him and if they are pissed off by him saying he had a cold and boring day then they are the ones with an attitude problem.
This is what I'm getting at, that people may take offence to him saying that so he should think about it before saying it considering he was in the match day squad. After he tweeted that, Albrighton tweeted something positive as did Gardner. Now, for the people who went to the game and follow Bannan on twitter, would have witnessed a boring game and were probably annoyed about it. Then for Bannan to say what he did, might wind up people/fans even more especially when other players are being more positive about it. I dont know if it has been reported in the press but I hope it hasn't or doesn't as they could take it to another level which could attract more negativity towards the club. Ok, maybe calling this topic twittergate can be perceived as being OTT but that wasn't my intention. It was just a heading I gave the topic.
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Getting in trouble at work for tweeting your opinion. Imagine that.
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Is this really worth writing about? It was a chilling day and the match was worse. Albrighton's tweet was what he felt. Gardner is excited just being on the bench. Bannon wants to take part, expects to take part. He is after all an international footballer (alright I know only Scotland). I agree with what he said. It was chilly and boring. We surely have more to moan about.
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I agree it was boring (watched the game on line) but as I wasn't there to watch the game cant comment on the chilly side of things! :P
Look, I think the point about this is that being a professional he just has to becareful and think about stuff before tweeting. What he tweeted was harmless to him and to many others (including me) out there but it caused some fans to get on his back hence why I wanted to see the reaction from fans on here. At the end of the day, its a set of words on a screen and each person will interpret it differently just as a number of people on here have. Its proof that we dont all view things from the same point of view. At a time where we are close to another recession and fans paying good money to come a see boring football in the cold, people will question his attitude when he uses the term boring especially when he is being paid good money to sit on the bench so he isn't really out of pocket is he.
On a more positive note, he did tweet that he was looking forward to the reserve game against Wolves followed by him being gutted at it being called off.
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Barry Bannan does seem to be a bit of a tool does'nt he ?
Done for drink driving, on around £50k a week for sitting on a bench in the freezing cold, nothing better to do than use social media to tell the world he is bored whlist supposed to be doing his very well paid 'job', you want to be in the stands and paying for your over inflated wages and ego, he is typical of today's modern footballer and why I am totally pissed off with the game.
Why not get on with trying to be good enough to wear the shirt of Aston Villa ?
Memo to Mr. Bannan: Engage brain before twittering.
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It's not like he said anything THAT controversial (this time). Many of our fans are bored shitless watching us and it's not as if it's our job to do that. How many of us complain about having shit boring days at work on various social networking sites? I dare say had he got to play he might have had felt he had a better day at work and would have felt more positively about it in much the same way if something went well for us at work we would find it a bit less shit and boring. If he had said that McLeish was a ****** for not playing him or that every day in Birmingham is cold and shit then he'd deserve stick.
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Do you think a day will come when players can submit a transfer request via a social networking site?
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Can't run, can't tackle, useless in the air and spends most of his time prancing around like a poor man's Xavi. Leaves us exposed if he plays in the middle.
Sell him if we can he will be no loss. Up his own arse in my opinion.
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Can't run, can't tackle, useless in the air and spends most of his time prancing around like a poor man's Xavi. Leaves us exposed if he plays in the middle.
Sell him if we can he will be no loss. Up his own arse in my opinion.
Until I read the last sentence I was convinced you'd been watching me play down the park.
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So he's a Celtic fan then?
Anyone know if Delfouneso is a Villa fan?
He's from Tyseley and his brother plays for Blues so he could be a Small Heathen...
If anyone should know it would be you.
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Has he called the fans wankers?Slagged off the board? Disrespected the manager?
No. That all gets done on here by all of us every day.
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At a time where we are close to another recession and fans paying good money to come a see boring football in the cold, people will question his attitude when he uses the term boring especially when he is being paid good money to sit on the bench so he isn't really out of pocket is he.
on around £50k a week for sitting on a bench in the freezing cold, nothing better to do than use social media to tell the world he is bored whlist supposed to be doing his very well paid 'job', you want to be in the stands and paying for your over inflated wages and ego, he is typical of today's modern footballer and why I am totally pissed off with the game.
What does the amount of money he gets paid have to do with this? Does being wealthy automatically eliminate all boredom from a person's life?
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Hide what they think and they look like bland PR puppets who echo pointless meaningless comments. Give an honest opinion and people are up in arms.
It *was* boring. I'd rather players admit it than pretend all is well in the world. The game was shit. Perhaps he could have framed it more positively, but when was the last time you heard a cheerful Scotsman?
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Can't run, can't tackle, useless in the air and spends most of his time prancing around like a poor man's Xavi. Leaves us exposed if he plays in the middle.
Sell him if we can he will be no loss. Up his own arse in my opinion.
Until I read the last sentence I was convinced you'd been watching me play down the park.
Best reply of the year so far. Coffee spitter.
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Thick footballer in "Twitter account" shocker. Personally if i was the manager i'd ban all the players from using it, but i don't get the outrage. Complaining about dull or stupid posts on twitter is like watching big brother and complaining all the contestants are dull and stupid - that's the idea, thats why its there - For dullards and celebrity dullards to tell even bigger dullards what dull thing they're doing. See also facebook.
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He's a very good footballer , unfortunately seems to be going in wrong direction like club in general , even if I do think twittergate is huge over reaction.
A very good footballer? What has he ever done in a Villa shirt to warrant such praise?
Have you forgotten the Manure home match last season where he had a big hand in running the match against them for 70 mins? Plus he had other decent displays last season as well when he had chances. But as mentioned, this one he has gone abit backwards in, but so as a lot of other players as well.
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I not sure it's up there with the "bored" England players at the World Cup, but it isn't very bright, especially a player that needs to work that bit harder to and behave a little better after what he has got up to.
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Before his driving shenaegans he was forcing his way onto the pitch, the reason he had a boring cold day is down to him,
Bannan has two choices, get his head down, work his bolocks off be a model profesional or Piss around on Twitter and other distractions.
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Personally i prefer straight talking. It was boring and a tad chilly. Don't like football cliches like 'uneventfull' instead of boring, or 'simulation' instead of diving.
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a lot of good things happened to Bannan in a very short span of time. He broke into our team, had some nice games and then broke into the national team. A lot of people were saying a lot of good things about him. Now, depending on who he is as a person, it
1) would have not had much affect,
2) motivated him to do more,
or 3) the one you don't want - let it get to his head.
It appears to me, that at least right now, our Barry falls into the last category and we've all seen this movie before. The best players in the world generally are motivated to do even more. Then there are those who are dazzled by the lights and start thinking they've arrived. That this isn't the start. They have a bit of fame, lots of money and people telling them how great they are and not stepping in when they act a fool.
Bannan has a lot of potential, but that's all. It's all untapped and unless he gets a grip now, be may never get a grip. In 10 years time he'll wonder why he's playing in League 1 and not ending a solid career in the top flight.
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If I was Bannan, I'd be laughing my bollocks off at this thread. And with good reason.
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If I was his boss I'd have probably sacked him after what he's got up to.
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The twitter comment, while in itself is pretty trivial, does suggest that Barry Bannan's number one concern is Barry Bannan. He needs to get his head down and work harder or he will end up as another of our academy players who flatter to deceive.
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The reason Bannan found himself out of the team was down to his own stupidity. Now he can't get back into the team he starts whining about it. Typical of today's footballer.
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I agree mate..........he is very average
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If I was his boss I'd have probably sacked him after what he's got up to.
He's just posted 'reel 'em in'.
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I amazed he can spell that well. He clearly hasn't got a brain.
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.
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I totally agree. It's because Bent was going through a rough spell everyone jumped on his back. Bannan can do no wrong in some people's eyes simply because he came through the ranks.
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Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.
The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.
Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic
Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.
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Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic
Bent has played for us for a year.
I've supported us for over 30 years, and doubtless love the club more than Darren Bent does, but quite frequently (especially this season), I'd prefer to go shopping than watch us play.
In fact, I'd prefer to go shopping with the Mrs than watch us play.
It was a bit daft because of the way it could be construed, but in a season of plenty of things to moan about, that strikes me as pretty trivial, really.
As does the Bannan tweet. He's right. it was really, really boring.
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See also facebook.
Quite right. I hear that Murdoch and his Myspace media arse-lickers are pulling the strings behind the scenes at Facebook. All the while Donna & Jason public are consumed by a tsunami of jism after the media wankfest twitter love-in.
Just my opinion.
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.
The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.
Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic
Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.
Lizz, i will tell you a story, I was playing amatuer football I was past my prime at this time and 2 young kids turned up, we recognised that they were too good to be playing 6th team football and eventually moved them to our first team, the wosre player out of the 2 ended up playing for Fulham at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 and is still being paid to play now at Wycombe I think, his name is Kevin Betsy, the other bloke (who was exceptional) dropped out because his mrs wanted him to spend more time with her, he ended up shoppping on saturday afternoons, he was a lot more talented than Betsy we all knew that. Betsy got pretty close to the big time his mate who I will not name went shopping and probably regrets that decision. It is part of changing room banter, hey lads lets enjoy it you could be shopping with your Mrs
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.
I doubt your boss would like to see a picture of you out shopping whilst you are off work sick though.
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a lot of good things happened to Bannan in a very short span of time. He broke into our team, had some nice games and then broke into the national team. A lot of people were saying a lot of good things about him. Now, depending on who he is as a person, it
1) would have not had much affect,
2) motivated him to do more,
or 3) the one you don't want - let it get to his head.
It appears to me, that at least right now, our Barry falls into the last category and we've all seen this movie before. The best players in the world generally are motivated to do even more. Then there are those who are dazzled by the lights and start thinking they've arrived. That this isn't the start. They have a bit of fame, lots of money and people telling them how great they are and not stepping in when they act a fool.
Bannan has a lot of potential, but that's all. It's all untapped and unless he gets a grip now, be may never get a grip. In 10 years time he'll wonder why he's playing in League 1 and not ending a solid career in the top flight.
I totally agree !!!!
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.
The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.
Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic
Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.
Lizz, i will tell you a story, I was playing amatuer football I was past my prime at this time and 2 young kids turned up, we recognised that they were too good to be playing 6th team football and eventually moved them to our first team, the wosre player out of the 2 ended up playing for Fulham at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 and is still being paid to play now at Wycombe I think, his name is Kevin Betsy, the other bloke (who was exceptional) dropped out because his mrs wanted him to spend more time with her, he ended up shoppping on saturday afternoons, he was a lot more talented than Betsy we all knew that. Betsy got pretty close to the big time his mate who I will not name went shopping and probably regrets that decision. It is part of changing room banter, hey lads lets enjoy it you could be shopping with your Mrs
I'm sorry, although it's a good story can't see how it can be applied to Bent's situation since he's already grabbed his opportunity.
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Not sure if any of you saw it or have heard about Bannan's tweet after the game but it went something like this:-
"Chilling at home ... Wat a cold boring day that was !!!"
Not very clever by the wee scotsman and he should learn to control his emotions on a social media website. Yes, i'm sure we can all share his feelings regarding saturday's game but as a professional, he needs to keep those thoughts to himself. He has the priviledge of being a professoinal footballer who earns £10k a week - money that we can only dream of earning! The club have stuck by him through his recent ordeal and to tweet something silly like this will not help his cause.
Come on Barry, sort it out! Keep wokring hard on the training pitch and you will get your chance.
Mods, if there is already a topic on this, please lock this down. I didn't see one hence why I created a new one.
i deleted him after he tweeted saying frankie "coke head" corccoza was... "legend #fact" really great get done for drink driving then have a public love in for a drug addicted dole dosser who openly admits sitting in his mum and dads garage waiting for his dole to go in, theres also the tweets about willy size that he claims his friend sent. i can see it all going very wrong for the lad if he stay on this path.
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Following a few of our younger players, with all the money they have, why do they choose to eat at such grim venues?
Even at their age, if i was on that kind of money, I wouldn't be darkening the door of Frankie and Benny's or Nando's for all the money in the world.
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I agree paulie, nandos....why , seemed a chore when I went .
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I agree paulie, nandos....why , seemed a chore when I went .
Mind you, Nando's is Michelin starred compared to the horror of Frankie and Benny's.
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Yeah lol , give me a country boozer or curry house anytime. Can't see atrraction in nandos
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Nando's is fucking ace! I won't have anyone having a go at that place.
Although you are right. If I earned the money they did I'd probably choose a slightly better establishment.
On the whole twitter thing. Players are getting stick for all sorts. Sczezny of Arsenal got stick for a joke tweet to Aaron Ramsay, saying something about a picture of him. It said something like 'Not being funny mate, but you look a bit like a rapist there!'
Clearly a joke, but he had to apologise for it.
I think it is all a bit pathetic to be honest
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Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.
I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.
The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.
Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic
Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.
Lizz, i will tell you a story, I was playing amatuer football I was past my prime at this time and 2 young kids turned up, we recognised that they were too good to be playing 6th team football and eventually moved them to our first team, the wosre player out of the 2 ended up playing for Fulham at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 and is still being paid to play now at Wycombe I think, his name is Kevin Betsy, the other bloke (who was exceptional) dropped out because his mrs wanted him to spend more time with her, he ended up shoppping on saturday afternoons, he was a lot more talented than Betsy we all knew that. Betsy got pretty close to the big time his mate who I will not name went shopping and probably regrets that decision. It is part of changing room banter, hey lads lets enjoy it you could be shopping with your Mrs
Kevin Betsy is a legend! He's about 96 and still scoring goals.
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I know I'm old, but could someone please explain to me the fascination of "following" someone on Twatter (deliberately misspelt).?
Is it because you are incapable of holding a conversation with other people without introducing the minutiae of a so called celebrity into the conversation?
To be honest I'm not at all interested in what any footballer does off the pitch, or for that matter what any so called "celebrity" is up to.
Maybe people who follow these people so full of their own self importance that they need to let the whole world into their shallow lives should be known as "twats"
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Or you could follow other Villa fans, or even businesses that you're interested in etc.
Not all about just following someone because they're famous and might say something to you.
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I know what you mean Paul. But I'm sorry I just don't get all this 'social networking' guff.
I have lots of friends and we meet up now and again and talk to each other about what's going on in our lives, and about Alex McLeish resigning and Jose Mourhinio is our new manager. But none of us feels the need to tell us about everything instantly and then have nothing to talk about when we meet.
Now why am I posting this on a Villa social networking site? ::)
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I know I'm old, but could someone please explain to me the fascination of "following" someone on Twatter (deliberately misspelt).?
Is it because you are incapable of holding a conversation with other people without introducing the minutiae of a so called celebrity into the conversation?
To be honest I'm not at all interested in what any footballer does off the pitch, or for that matter what any so called "celebrity" is up to.
Maybe people who follow these people so full of their own self importance that they need to let the whole world into their shallow lives should be known as "twats"
What? So you are not interested in the fact Joey Barton and Michael Owen are discussing shoes? :-)
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I know what you mean Paul. But I'm sorry I just don't get all this 'social networking' guff.
I have lots of friends and we meet up now and again and talk to each other about what's going on in our lives, and about Alex McLeish resigning and Jose Mourhinio is our new manager. But none of us feels the need to tell us about everything instantly and then have nothing to talk about when we meet.
Now why am I posting this on a Villa social networking site? ::)
I use FB and Twitter to promote H&V, mainly.
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I know I'm old, but could someone please explain to me the fascination of "following" someone on Twatter (deliberately misspelt).?
Is it because you are incapable of holding a conversation with other people without introducing the minutiae of a so called celebrity into the conversation?
To be honest I'm not at all interested in what any footballer does off the pitch, or for that matter what any so called "celebrity" is up to.
Maybe people who follow these people so full of their own self importance that they need to let the whole world into their shallow lives should be known as "twats"
I agree 100%. I'm in my 50s and waste plenty of my life on the internet these days but none of it is on this ridiculous Twitter and Facebook rubbish.
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By the way, I do not understand or get the point of Twitter at all.
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I know what you mean Paul. But I'm sorry I just don't get all this 'social networking' guff.
I have lots of friends and we meet up now and again and talk to each other about what's going on in our lives, and about Alex McLeish resigning and Jose Mourhinio is our new manager. But none of us feels the need to tell us about everything instantly and then have nothing to talk about when we meet.
Now why am I posting this on a Villa social networking site? ::)
I use FB and Twitter to promote H&V, mainly.
bugger, and i thought it was because we were chums
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I love each and every one of you all.
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I know I'm old, but could someone please explain to me the fascination of "following" someone on Twatter (deliberately misspelt).?
Is it because you are incapable of holding a conversation with other people without introducing the minutiae of a so called celebrity into the conversation?
To be honest I'm not at all interested in what any footballer does off the pitch, or for that matter what any so called "celebrity" is up to.
Maybe people who follow these people so full of their own self importance that they need to let the whole world into their shallow lives should be known as "twats"
I agree 100%. I'm in my 50s and waste plenty of my life on the internet these days but none of it is on this ridiculous Twitter and Facebook rubbish.
i dont know what the problem is with FB,
i have family members in Cyprus, South Africa, France, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, plus friends in other parts of the world and other family in various places in the UK, so it helps to keep in touch as much or as little as you like.
Facebook, the place to keep in touch with friends, without actually having to talk to them, whats not to like
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Quite happy with FB. Keeps me sane at times.
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Quite happy with FB. Keeps me sane at times.
i've got some right twats as friends though
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That's probably me.
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no, perish the thought
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I've not long been on twitter, but I have found for news stories, football results, traffic alerts it is great to have everything on one feed. I follow Villa players as well, more as curiosity than anything.
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It's worth joining twitter just for The Big Sam.
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Bannan clearly has the brain of a rocking horse and to all intense and purposes, might not be at the club this time next year
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I don't go on Twitter but love to hear all about it on here so that I get the info but can still slag it off.
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Bannan can't be trusted with computers.
I followed him on Twitter for a short while, but he was always having problems with viruses posting "get a bigger penis now" style spam from his twitter account.
He's a bit of a dimwit, I fear.
I still thnk he's a potentially cracking player, mind.
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Ireland's emergence as a football player over the past month has been unfortunate for Bannan. That said, he IS a talent and a midfield with him deep and Ireland linking is an exciting prospect I'd like to see more of.
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A couple of my mates take great delight in giving grief to Matt Kendrick on twitter. Cant understand why myself.
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The twitter posting not a great issue in itself but if he puts that in the public domain what is he thinking or saying privately.
Lee Hendrie mk2. Shame, rated him until recently.
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At least Bannan hasn't done a Joey Barton and decided to slate his previous boss!
"Joseph Barton@Joey7BartonReply
Neil Warnock saying I talk to much. Now that is funny #mikebassett"
then
"Joseph Barton@Joey7Barton32m
If I talked about Neil, he'd do well to get another job. Twitter cost him his job???? I can think of a million other things! #shutitwarnock"
then
"Joseph Barton@Joey7Barton
Looking forward to the game against Wigan tomo. 1st time in a while we actually have a plan and seem organised. #3ptsneeded"
then finally
"Joseph Barton@Joey7BartonReply
Lost his job and the guy is blaming everyone but himself! Embarrassing, time to look in the mirror mate. Last thing we need right. Big week"
Seriously, if I was Mark Hughes, I would ban him from using Twitter and if he dont like, leave! He is showing no class whatsoever.
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I met Barry Bannan in Manchester tonight. (That's where i live). He said he was pissed off that Gardner started infront of him and he didn't stand a chance with Mcleish and didn't rate him. He said he's starting to consider his future at the club.
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I met Barry Bannan in Manchester tonight. (That's where i live). He said he was pissed off that Gardner started infront of him and he didn't stand a chance with Mcleish and didn't rate him. He said he's starting to consider his future at the club.
A shame.
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He picked Gardner in my opinion because he's a bit tougher and we needed that in midfield
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Seriously, if I was Mark Hughes, I would ban him from using Twitter and if he dont like, leave! He is showing no class whatsoever.
I agree, his grasp of the hashtag thing is very poor. #poorgrasp #ofthehashtagthing
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He picked Gardner in my opinion because he's a bit tougher and we needed that in midfield
Not only tougher, but our replacement for Stan; wee Barry as good as he is, (or more to the point, should be), is an additional player - not a replacement.
I'd expect to see a lot more of Gardner, with Stan being phased out/rested and with Robbie Keane & Ireland on form - the odd sub appearance from Barry.
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Wee Barry gets about a bit on nights out after a game ! Maybe he should keeps his views to himself thou - or maybe drink was talking again ............ I fear whatever talent the guy has will simply go to waste and he will end up being a championship player .... too many incidents to be a top pro ...shame because he would be a good squad player
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Wee Barry gets about a bit on nights out after a game ! Maybe he should keeps his views to himself thou - or maybe drink was talking again ............ I fear whatever talent the guy has will simply go to waste and he will end up being a championship player .... too many incidents to be a top pro ...shame because he would be a good squad player
It was about 11.45 and we'd both definately had a few. Me in particular as I was at Wolves yesterday. He was at the cashpoint and I was behind him. I startled him in the que. I told him he didn't play in the middle as we needed steel and with due respect that's not his game. He agreed, I just told him to keep working hard and his chance would come. We had a nice drunken embrace and wished each other a good night!
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I startled him in the que.
If there's one thing I don't like, it's being startled in the que.
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I startled him in the que.
If there's one thing I don't like, it's being startled in the que.
Predictive text on my phone is a nightmare!
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He's a decent enough player but his form has been patchy since his drink driving incident and I'm not so sure he has deserved to get starts with Ireland's form. He had a case when it was Heskey ahead of him.
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Goodbye and good riddance, he seems to be a right prick.
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Drink driving is a terrible thing to do.
Didn't another former Villa midfielder, currently at the top of the league, get done for it when he was even younger than Bannan, though?
He turned out alright so maybe Bannan will learn from it too.
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Drink driving is a terrible thing to do.
Didn't another former Villa midfielder, currently at the top of the league, get done for it when he was even younger than Bannan, though?
He turned out alright so maybe Bannan will learn from it too.
But maybe after being done for drink driving the night after a match, he might be more circumspect then to go out boozing again, the night after a match.
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I don't really see the relevance of going out the night of a match, to be honest.
How does that make any difference? Maybe if we'd taken a mullering, but we won.
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Bannan needs to stop twitter, stop sulking and get his head down and start playing again. Being pissed off about other players isn't going to help. It was his place in the team to lose and through his own actions he lost it. Now others have come in and done well, so that becomes the the challenge in front of him. He needs to understand that whether it is at Villa, elsewhere or life in general, that you are always going to encounter adversity and you have to be strong to overcome it. If he blames others or runs from it now, he will just become more and more bitter the older he gets.
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I don't really see the relevance of going out the night of a match, to be honest.
How does that make any difference? Maybe if we'd taken a mullering, but we won.
Nor me but when you go out and start "slagging" your manager off in public there may be a problem
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I don't really see the relevance of going out the shopping when not playing but many saw that as an offence when it involved someone else.
Regardless, Bannan continues to act in an unprofessional manner. I don't care if he's 17, 22, or 48 he know's the score and should act accordingly. After his 'incident' he should be keeping his head down and trying to rebuild the trust of his manager and peers not getting leathered and moaning because someone else has got the nod ahead of him. He'll never be a great player because he appears to be as thick as pig shit and has an attitude to match.
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I met Barry Bannan in Manchester tonight. (That's where i live). He said he was pissed off that Gardner started infront of him and he didn't stand a chance with Mcleish and didn't rate him. He said he's starting to consider his future at the club.
He was apparently doing the same in a boozer in Sutton a few weeks back. Doesn't like Mcleish at all. Oh and the whole calling it Twatter instead of calling it Twitter, pure comedy genius.
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I saw him at the 18 bus stop at Kings Norton Green earlier. He'd had a few in the Navi, we both had. He told me he was going to piss in McLeish's coffee the next chance he could get at the training ground unless he picked him against The Arse. He hates everyone.
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Seems to have a lot of anger.
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Seriously, if I was Mark Hughes, I would ban him from using Twitter and if he dont like, leave! He is showing no class whatsoever.
I agree, his grasp of the hashtag thing is very poor. #poorgrasp #ofthehashtagthing
#verygood
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That's a real shame, he's got a lot of talent but, it seems, quite a few problems, and perhaps none of the senior managers he's had at Villa have really taken the time to try and help him onto the right path. MON didn't seem to rate him, and while GH did his handling of players was hardly brilliant. Having said that, he was here for such a short amount of time that either he couldn't make a difference or he did and Bannan's now unhappy he's gone. Obviously, a question none of us can answer, but the result is definitely a sad one.
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Gosh the lad gets around. I saw him in Romford, between the two sightings above. He snarled into his latte with caramel and informed me that he wasn't going to pass to nobody, no more. Then he fell into a little sports car and went around the tiny tots roundabout a few times before I helped him to get back on the pavement. Sad to see such nihilism in one so young.
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Footballer in brainless comment shock?
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If you look at his face as he is about to come on against wolves you can see the disdain he has for the manager.
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I saw him on the number eleven, going from Yardley to Ward End. He said he ain't gonna bump no more with no big bad woman.
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I love a bit of gossip just like Norris on Corrie but for fucks sake people. The kid is pissed off he isnt playing. I hope he hates McLeish for that reason alone and when he gets a chance takes it. He fucked up has been to court done his 'time'. Some of our fans just seem to want players to fail. All those on their high horse slagging him off for going out and having a drink! The cheek of the man.
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I saw him on Halfords car park in the back of Marc Albrighton's souped up Nova. Marc's motor really does look the business with it Recaro seats, big bore exhaust and blue glowing washer jets. Anyway, Barry looked at me with a pained look on his face, and uttered the immortal words "Choinks."
Choinks indeed.
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I saw him on the number eleven, going from Yardley to Ward End. He said he ain't gonna bump no more with no big bad woman.
That would be 11A and in that case I am worried as the Swan is a Blose pub and he might be on his way to the Sty.....however the good news is that he got on the right bus as 11C would have taken him a long time to get back to Villa Park!
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I saw him on the number eleven, going from Yardley to Ward End. He said he ain't gonna bump no more with no big bad woman.
That would be 11A and in that case I am worried as the Swan is a Blose pub and he might be on his way to the Sty.....however the good news is that he got on the right bus as 11C would have taken him a long time to get back to Villa Park!
The Swan's been knocked down about twenty years.
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Didn't The Swan used to have the longest [length wise] bar in England? If not, I have some very strange false memories.
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Didn't The Swan used to have the longest [length wise] bar in England? If not, I have some very strange false memories.
It was the biggest pub in Europe.
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I've just had it confirmed that he is appearing on the BRMB Sports forum sponsored by Brew XI with George Gavin at The Hunters Moon in Castle Bromwich tomorrow night.
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What's the difference between Bannan and Cuellar using Twitter to express themselves. Carlos has left a few posts declaring he's potentially off. And nobody's slagged him off?
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I think I've unfollowed Bannan
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Cuellar will leave, he said in one tweet that "summer is too far" when asked if he was leaving in the summer
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What's the difference between Bannan and Cuellar using Twitter to express themselves. Carlos has left a few posts declaring he's potentially off. And nobody's slagged him off?
Difference in attitude, IMO.
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I saw him at the 18 bus stop at Kings Norton Green earlier. He'd had a few in the Navi, we both had. He told me he was going to piss in McLeish's coffee the next chance he could get at the training ground unless he picked him against The Arse. He hates everyone.
Oh dear. I was going to defend the lad's right to go out on a Saturday night, after a match, and I suppose you can understand him feeling sore about not starting, given the circumstances. But this post isn't so good... I presume you mean he was drinking again on the Sunday? Training the next day and all that. Not so good.
Come on, Barry, get it together.
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You've got me there Merv. You're not being serious, right?
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Merv, re-read the post and its context within the thread.
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No, no... not being serious :-[
After I posted that I read a few of the other posts and twigged. Ooops. I might keep a low profile on here for, say, six months or so. What a tool.
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No, no... not being serious :-[
After I posted that I read a few of the other posts and twigged. Ooops. I might keep a low profile on here for, say, six months or so. What a tool.
If I was you i'd be blaming it on a hacker ie the missus
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Come on, Merv. Bannan wouldn't be seen dead in the Navi. He drinks in the Moon and tries to get the karaoke going on quiz night.
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Monday morning... brain's on the go-slow....!
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What's the difference between Bannan and Cuellar using Twitter to express themselves. Carlos has left a few posts declaring he's potentially off. And nobody's slagged him off?
Difference in attitude, IMO.
Yes indeed.
One player is pissed off that he isn't playing because he desperately wants to prove himself on the pitch and the other seems happy to pick up his cash and play every now and again knowing he'll get a freebie at the end of the season and a nice signing on bonus at his next club.
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What's the difference between Bannan and Cuellar using Twitter to express themselves. Carlos has left a few posts declaring he's potentially off. And nobody's slagged him off?
Difference in attitude, IMO.
Yes indeed.
One player is pissed off that he isn't playing because he desperately wants to prove himself on the pitch and the other seems happy to pick up his cash and play every now and again knowing he'll get a freebie at the end of the season and a nice signing on bonus at his next club.
How do you know either of those statements are correct?
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Yes indeed.
One player is pissed off that he isn't playing because he desperately wants to prove himself on the pitch and the other seems happy to pick up his cash and play every now and again knowing he'll get a freebie at the end of the season and a nice signing on bonus at his next club.
Really? I thought he tweeted saying summer was too far away indicating that he will leave in this transfer window?
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What's the difference between Bannan and Cuellar using Twitter to express themselves. Carlos has left a few posts declaring he's potentially off. And nobody's slagged him off?
Difference in attitude, IMO.
Yes indeed.
One player is pissed off that he isn't playing because he desperately wants to prove himself on the pitch and the other seems happy to pick up his cash and play every now and again knowing he'll get a freebie at the end of the season and a nice signing on bonus at his next club.
How do you know either of those statements are correct?
I don't, I'm just inferring from the Tweets, just like everyone else on here.
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If you look at his face as he is about to come on against wolves you can see the disdain he has for the manager.
I knew it. He's dazzyg!