Barry Bannan Twittergate

[damon loves JT]

I startled him in the que.

If there's one thing I don't like, it's being startled in the que.

[Holte L2]

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!

[TheSandman]

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.

[Nastylee]

Goodbye and good riddance, he seems to be a right prick.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

[Somniloquism]

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.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

[Toronto Villa]

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.

[spangley1812]

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

[Nastylee]

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.

[Karl Bridges]

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.

[kippaxvilla2]

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.

[PaulWinch again]

Seems to have a lot of anger.

[Risso]

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

[Monty]

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.