The Statement #avfc fans should send....

[Dante Lavelli]

I know we moan about them, but I reckon we’ll miss it when we don’t get our daily dose of ranting.
Personally I want to see more letters to Randy.

[Stu]

Haha, quoting a Wiki page as the basis of your "facts" has genuinely made me laugh.

Splendid stuff.

Where else am i going to look? im guessing you have a extensive resource online elsewhere?

And with that answer, we all know that you do not have a degree. No one, not even a first year undergrad, would trust wikipedia, let alone cite it.

[damon loves JT]

I think the most effective form of protest would be for lernerslegoset to zip himself up in a holdall in the bath and wait for Randy to come and find him.

[Dave Clark Five]

Yeah it is. Ive told everyone all season we're likely to go down to abuse. I want the £100 bet i have on it to come off now.

Who was this poster previously? He's 'told everyone all season' but only appeared yesterday.

[paul_e]

See Dave, aren't you glad for this post now, we'd never have known what a pedant was or that you are personally responsible for the quality of football this season if it had been locked or merged elsewhere.

As for the opening poster, there is absolutely no chance you have a degree, even in a subject which you believed would allow you to justify poor spelling and grammar.

I work very closely with a number of universities support the online assignment submissions.  I know what happens with those assignments which includes automated text checking.  The system used would fill the screen with alerts if it received a higher education standard document with the amount of errors you had in that letter.

The reason people are critical on here is that, if you're not sure of your grammar and are writing a letter you want to use to represent all fans, it's really not hard t paste it into word and do a spelling and grammar check.  That won't fix everything but would be enough to not get the pages of criticism you've had.  If you've got enough time to write it and post it on here you've got enough time to check for basic errors.  You're unlikely to get picked up for using a comma instead of a semi-colon but using a instead of an and youre instead of you're are primary school mistakes and devalue the entire letter (god that youre is annoying, all underlined in red like a big idiot stamp, thanks chrome spell check)

Finally, in one post you say you've been on the site for a long time, if this is true you should have been well aware that your letter would get this treatment if it contained these errors, if you can't take the criticism don't post things that are supposed to represent the people on here with that many errors, it's that simple.  If you go back a few pages I've posted a letter that would pass scrutiny for most on here.  You'd still get replies of "why post it online, you attention seeker" but the majority of complaints on here wouldn't exist.

[Dave Cooper please]

Bloody hell, I have an early night for once and I miss this.

[Ian.]

Do milkmen still exist? I thought the last one died in captivity in 1983...

Yeah one bastard scraped all the side of my car two years ago and didn't report it. I had no idea who done it until it was too late to report it to the police as I had left it over 30 days. A lady further down the road from us witnessed it but after it happened she saw him walk up to my house so she thought he was letting me know. What he was actually doing was delivering 2 pints to my next door neigbour. The bastard.

[Ian.]

Will there be anything else on this thread that hasn't been said on a dozen others?

Yes, my next door neigbours milk man is a bastard.

[damon loves JT]

I'm actually not that bothered about the spelling or the grammar, it's just the expectation that I should fall in behind his banner.

[KevinGage]

Will there be anything else on this thread that hasn't been said on a dozen others?

I'm a man trapped inside a woman's body.

I've been to Wolverhampton.  But I've never been to me.

[Risso]

I'm actually not that bothered about the spelling or the grammar, it's just the expectation that I should fall in behind his banner.

I'm the opposite.  I'm a sucker for a well written piece of work.  I'll vote Labour next time as long as their manifesto has apostrophes in all the right places.

[nigel]

"May 6th will be “McLeish Out Day” at Villa Park. If you are our custodian you will see that us organising this during such a run has taken a lot to do and we ask that changes are made and (unlike the past few games) Villa Fans are allowed to display our feelings during the game through banners and placards."

Do what you like as long as it stays out of the ground for 90+ minutes and it's support the Villa untill we're hoarse!

Its worked well so far. Well done

What's worked so far? And 'Well done' for what?
Is it too much to ask for 90+ minutes of actually supporting our team? Forget about feelings for AMcL, you can do that before and after the game!

[dave.woodhall]

What we should remember with idiots like this is that getting people onside and attracting support isn't their aim. In their mind they're right, anyone who disagrees with them is wrong and all that matters is winning some strange game of which only they know the rules. followed by boasting about it to their friends.

[nigel]

"May 6th will be “McLeish Out Day” at Villa Park. If you are our custodian you will see that us organising this during such a run has taken a lot to do and we ask that changes are made and (unlike the past few games) Villa Fans are allowed to display our feelings during the game through banners and placards."

Do what you like as long as it stays out of the ground for 90+ minutes and it's support the Villa untill we're hoarse!

I have to agree with that Nigel, this negative stuff is NOT helping the guys that can do something about it ON the pitch.

I'd rather we stay up THEN replace the Manager still in the Prem.

Tim, the problem is if we do stay up then he will more than likely keep his job.

to be honest Pongo, I thought that too, but, I just can't see it now.
I've always said he should be given to at least Xmas to build his team and show he can do it, but I really believe he'll be on his way at the end of the season.

[nigel]

Great. Someone else who thinks "not united" = "should do what I say." Welcome to the site, by the way. It's only taken you 13 years to find it.

Hi Dave. Been here a long time. Thanks for the kind words. Guessing you disagree with the rest or just like him to stay?

You haven't been here a long time - you joined on Friday.

Touché