The General's thread has been locked

[Chris Jameson]

What did he say?

Phone Nick Keyes?

[Risso]

He makes it sound like he and the board have been betrayed.

He just doesn't get it, does he?  Football that is.

[omariqy]

Spin, Spin and more Spin

[Merv]

The problem is that while it's quite easy and justified for the board to protest about outright abuse and the kind of mindless vandalism we saw at Bodymoor Heath earlier this week - I think the majority of us would agree that's totally out of order and helps nothing - it's not so easy for them to explain, for footballing reasons, why the recruitment process for a new manager - with several seemingly outstanding candidates readily available - has ended with the appointment of Alex McLeish. I don't think they can truthfully explain that, so I'd expect them to cease any of these kind of communications for a while yet.

[not3bad]

He has here

Meh.

[not3bad]

I don't disagree with him that some of the responses have been out of order but what has he said beyond that?  Nothing.

[omariqy]

He's put out a bit of spin which has no bearing or substance to what the questions the fans have been asking.  It is a bit of spin, making the board look like the victims.
  Don't ever question our support of our team - you have been here for a short period in our history and you will be remembered as such.  Us fans will be here whether we are winning the league or getting relegated from league 2.  So don't patronise us, we have valid and grave concerns and they should be answered and not discarded by a reply that has been dressed up as a guilt trip.

[bob]

My initial reaction when he first began posting on message boards was one of trepidation. It seemed likely that someday, somehow, something would happen to make it turn sour.

I hoped that they would fulfil all their promises and it could continue, or that eventually all questions would be pretty much answered as the club were doing everything right and everyone knew what was going on.

It's kind of a mixture as it turns out. It was decent overall, but it seems like it can't, or shouldn't continue. I rarely went into the thread so I don't know for sure, but I suspect most questions over the last couple of years have mostly been about prices of things, tickets, availability of merchandise (hence the running Nicola Keye gag).

It was a good idea, and served it's purpose well in the beginning. Lately it went tits up. I'm not sure the Facebook message was him, but if it was it was a big mistake. Finally, having Pelty come on separately and hint and suggest and argue with people felt very unprofessional. I guess it's up to him if he wants to come on here, but why were we left clinging to his clandestine titbits as a source of information? I wish they'd just be more honest and upfront with us.

[dave.woodhall]

In fairness to Pelty - what would you do if your father was being attacked?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

In fairness to Pelty - what would you do if your father was being attacked?

It's been disasterous and downright embarrasing, this good cop, bad cop that they've both induldged in.
The only ones who have really benefitted from it are the media.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

He makes it sound like he and the board have been betrayed.

He makes it sound like some very insulting things have been said on here and he has a point. I sometimes think this obsession with the Rags has started to drag us down to their level. It never used to be like this, we've always hated them but since 2003 things have gone a bit silly.

[Risso]

In fairness to Pelty - what would you do if your father was being attacked?

If my father was some sort of customer liaison spokesman (which in fact he is for one of the rail companies and is therefore all too used to getting stick from customers) I'd keep my nose out of things that didn't concern me, in case I made things even worse for the organisation concerned.

[SheffieldVillain]

In fairness to Pelty - what would you do if your father was being attacked?

If my father was some sort of customer liaison spokesman (which in fact he is for one of the rail companies and is therefore all too used to getting stick from customers) I'd keep my nose out of things that didn't concern me, in case I made things even worse for the organisation concerned.

Pelty doesn't work for the club. As a Villa fan he's got as much right as anyone to come on here and voice his opinions, and be treated like any other poster.

[Fergal]

The thread was a sham in any case. As far as I know Krulak has not posted or answered any questions for many days. The posts are mostly about the Manager. Mods pipe up now and than with comments like  "This is not the thread  for the Manager" and "stick to the questions to General only on here" etc. So not missing much wit it locked.

The so called moderators, hypocritically. joined in the claptrap that was going on there,the past few days.

How can we be 'so called' moderators? Either we are, or we aren't.

Because sometimes you  seem to choose to be moderators when it suits you.

I'm sorry. Unfortunately there isn't a moderator school we can go to. We have to make it up as we go along.

well maybe you could just let it go and filter out the stupid and abusive stuff

There'd be nothing left.

True, it would knock my post count down to about 7...

[Legion]

That high?