The Downing one was brilliant. I liked 'if you were a footballer, what would your prefered position be?'.
Quote from: supertom on April 08, 2014, 07:06:22 PMVery naive to do such a thing after 3 straight wins. Not only that, to ask a player who has been largely derided since he joined. Bennett himself had an awful game on saturday too. The whole team performance was abject, and he was particularly at fault during the game, making unforced errors. If you're absolutely gonna have to do something this stupid and get a player to answer fans questions, you pick a senior player like Vlaar, our club captain, or a player who's popular. Lets face it, this is the internet. You take to twitter and there's always gonna be a few wind up merchants and others just releasing pent up emotion behind the safety of their PC monitor. The way this clubs going, maybe we should cover the whole of Villa Park in a fucking circus tent, and change Randy's official title to ringmaster. I don't agree with the personal abuse of Bennett. It's not particularly nice. It's not his fault he's being played well above his level. He's not, and never will be a Premier League player. The club essentially threw him to the Lions. What else did they think would happen after 2 seasons of mediocrity (mediocre might even be a generous description), and 3 abject defeats on the spin? Bennett himself is also something of a poster child for Lamberts misfires in the transfer market.I actually thought he started the game pretty well, but then made one poor pass which nearly cost a goal and you could just see the confidence evaporate from him.
Very naive to do such a thing after 3 straight wins. Not only that, to ask a player who has been largely derided since he joined. Bennett himself had an awful game on saturday too. The whole team performance was abject, and he was particularly at fault during the game, making unforced errors. If you're absolutely gonna have to do something this stupid and get a player to answer fans questions, you pick a senior player like Vlaar, our club captain, or a player who's popular. Lets face it, this is the internet. You take to twitter and there's always gonna be a few wind up merchants and others just releasing pent up emotion behind the safety of their PC monitor. The way this clubs going, maybe we should cover the whole of Villa Park in a fucking circus tent, and change Randy's official title to ringmaster. I don't agree with the personal abuse of Bennett. It's not particularly nice. It's not his fault he's being played well above his level. He's not, and never will be a Premier League player. The club essentially threw him to the Lions. What else did they think would happen after 2 seasons of mediocrity (mediocre might even be a generous description), and 3 abject defeats on the spin? Bennett himself is also something of a poster child for Lamberts misfires in the transfer market.
Quote from: tomd2103 on April 09, 2014, 01:30:51 AMQuote from: supertom on April 08, 2014, 07:06:22 PMVery naive to do such a thing after 3 straight wins. Not only that, to ask a player who has been largely derided since he joined. Bennett himself had an awful game on saturday too. The whole team performance was abject, and he was particularly at fault during the game, making unforced errors. If you're absolutely gonna have to do something this stupid and get a player to answer fans questions, you pick a senior player like Vlaar, our club captain, or a player who's popular. Lets face it, this is the internet. You take to twitter and there's always gonna be a few wind up merchants and others just releasing pent up emotion behind the safety of their PC monitor. The way this clubs going, maybe we should cover the whole of Villa Park in a fucking circus tent, and change Randy's official title to ringmaster. I don't agree with the personal abuse of Bennett. It's not particularly nice. It's not his fault he's being played well above his level. He's not, and never will be a Premier League player. The club essentially threw him to the Lions. What else did they think would happen after 2 seasons of mediocrity (mediocre might even be a generous description), and 3 abject defeats on the spin? Bennett himself is also something of a poster child for Lamberts misfires in the transfer market.I actually thought he started the game pretty well, but then made one poor pass which nearly cost a goal and you could just see the confidence evaporate from him. He did. One little mistake after starting well and the booing started. Never mind the good start, let's just boo the one bad touch and get on his back so he'll lose what little confidence he has.I find Villa fans at Villa Park quite annoying. More annoying as each match goes by.
It was a little bit stupid, coming from people (or person, as the case my be) who are social media professionals.
Quote from: Toronto Villa on April 08, 2014, 04:47:13 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on April 08, 2014, 04:13:03 PMA better case of damned if they do you couldn't hope to find.and exactly the same as if Paul Faulkner decided to give another interview. A percentage of ours and every clubs fans will always make complete wankers of themselves in the name of passion and support. They don't actually want an answer or any kind of considered dicussion they just want an opportunity to sling mud. With all due respect, it is nothing like that at all. An interview is a one way thing.For starters, there's nothing to say these were mostly Villa fans getting stuck in. Can you imagine a Small Heath player doing this and someone posting a link here? What do you think the reaction would be?It's not about giving them stick for doing it, and giving them stick if they don't do this sort of thing, it's about failing to spot the glaring problem with things like this.On a different note, i was thinking earlier, who remembers that time they stuck that twitter panel on the home page of the OS, which displayed every tweet with a certain hashtag? They forgot to think about censoring them, so there was brief chaos as people started tweeting anti McLeish stuff and seeing it on the home page. That was a cock up, too.EDIT here's what happened when Liverpool did it with Downing:http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-winger-stewart-downing-gets-1751490I liked this one:Quote@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 08, 2014, 04:13:03 PMA better case of damned if they do you couldn't hope to find.and exactly the same as if Paul Faulkner decided to give another interview. A percentage of ours and every clubs fans will always make complete wankers of themselves in the name of passion and support. They don't actually want an answer or any kind of considered dicussion they just want an opportunity to sling mud.
A better case of damned if they do you couldn't hope to find.
@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?
I've only just read all the Joe Bennett stuff. It isn't particularly pleasant to read, however one did make me smile. "On average, how long does it take you to pick yourself up and go again?"
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