Joe Bennett

[Clampy]

The club showed just how out of touch they are with the fans, today, they posted a question and answer post on Facebook with JB on Facebook, it was just full of abuse, working on the assumption that he will see it, what is the point in subjecting him to that?.

I'm not keen on these Q&A things on twitter/facebook etc. For a new signing that's just joined, then fine.  It's open to abuse when the team are not doing well. You only have to look at some of the facebook comments when the club post some off the field news.

[Somniloquism]

The club showed just how out of touch they are with the fans, today, they posted a question and answer post on Facebook with JB on Facebook, it was just full of abuse, working on the assumption that he will see it, what is the point in subjecting him to that?.

Yep, clubs fault there are twats on the internet. Sack the board.

[JUAN PABLO]

The club showed just how out of touch they are with the fans, today, they posted a question and answer post on Facebook with JB on Facebook, it was just full of abuse, working on the assumption that he will see it, what is the point in subjecting him to that?.

Its not just AVFC . Amazon , Barclays and Tesco do it and you want to see the abuse they get . Rightly so too

[dave.woodhall]

A better case of damned if they do you couldn't hope to find.

[Toronto Villa]

A 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.

[Legion]

#askbennett

[supertom]

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.

[Tony Erdington]

I thought the kid was outstanding against Chelsea, but against Fulham he was like the rest of them poor.

I really don't understand what the club are trying to achieve.

[adrenachrome]

Grant Holt did a twitter Q&A a couple of weeks ago and one of the questions was "how many pies do you eat in an hour?".

[supertom]

Grant Holt did a twitter Q&A a couple of weeks ago and one of the questions was "how many pies do you eat in an hour?".

Finally, a sensible question.

[pauliewalnuts]

It was a little bit stupid, coming from people (or person, as the case my be) who are social media professionals.

Anyone who has ever seen a football club do one of these things in the past - and there have been plenty - will have noticed that they turn into feeding frenzies where people line up to take the piss. It has happened plenty of times, and anyone with half a handle on what they're doing in that role wouldn't have gone near anything like this.

I recall the one Liverpool did with Downing. It was absolute comedy cold.  It is asking for trouble.

Nothing to do with football brains needed behind the scenes or anything like that, but something which most people with a decent handle on social media wouldn't have gone near with a barge pole.

There's no point banging on about how our fans are wankers or anything like that, that's totally missing the point. The point is that, in running and publicising something like this, the club provided a focal point for people to take the piss, and for the target to see it all.

Mistake.

[pauliewalnuts]

A 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-1751490

I liked this one:

@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?

[Ad@m]

The Downing one was brilliant.  I liked 'if you were a footballer, what would your prefered position be?'.

[pauliewalnuts]

The Downing one was brilliant.  I liked 'if you were a footballer, what would your prefered position be?'.

See also:

@BillHansen28 So you left Aston Villa for Champions League football. How's that working out for you?

[tomd2103]

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.

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.