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Offline ciggiesnbeer

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #120 on: February 04, 2015, 01:46:30 AM »
"Randy, I`ll stop there."

7 paragraphs later he is still going on. Jesus.


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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #121 on: February 04, 2015, 01:53:05 AM »
Yes, OK, but he is here "if needed".

Imagine if he was there and not here when he is needed? What then?

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #122 on: February 04, 2015, 05:31:42 AM »
Mr Fox,

Since your last interview we have been beaten 5 nil by Arsenal, do you consider that a false narrative or perhaps a damn good whipping?

Yours,

Mr Scared

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #123 on: February 04, 2015, 06:34:18 AM »
Lets face it we are beaten before we play Chelsea why not offer them the three points, we can save the emarrassment, supporters can enjoy the day, and Chelsea can avoid injuries, that's if any of our players accidently get near them. We could follow through and offer the same deal to any top half team and save ourselves for the bottom five or six that really count. I forget they will turn up against the top sides and show a bit of fight.

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #124 on: February 04, 2015, 07:16:16 AM »
I've just read this thread in its entirety and am now exhausted.

Top deck's letter is perfect for me so I will be plagiarising it and sending off a version today to Tom Fox. I don't know if this will make an iota of difference but hopefully if enough do it, maybe?

That long winded dirge to 'my great mate Randy' is quite frankly too long and toe curlingly embarrassing. Awful. Would look much better in green ink and capitals.

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #125 on: February 04, 2015, 07:26:36 AM »
I bet this guy does nothing all day but look at emails from fans. I bet he reads them all and considers each one with equal merit. In no way does it go to his Junk mail where everything is deleted in one go.

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #126 on: February 04, 2015, 07:48:34 AM »
I have e-mailed Tom Fox twice,but I have the distinct feeling we're all wasting our time with any type of protest unless the national media make a big thing about it.
A high profile visible protest is the only way, how about a sit down protest on the pitch sufragette style?

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #127 on: February 04, 2015, 07:50:53 AM »
The sad thing about this thread is that, no matter how bad things get, whenever some Villa fans try to do something to arrest our slide - however futile - other Villa fans will always mock them. I don't know whether that's just a Villa thing or whether it happens at other clubs too, but we always turn on our own at times like this. I've never known unity among Villa fans.

I've never met Jon Fear, and I couldn't care less if he's got a messiah complex or not. I don't care about his letter being too long, boring, self-important and full of mistakes. At least he's doing something. I thought the 8-minute protest was ill-conceived, but at least they tried something. And I'd rather see that than a load of other fans standing on the sidelines doing nothing but taking the piss while the club we all support spirals out of control.

The club is in denial. The local press are too meek to get involved. The national press don't give a shit. So it's down to the fans to act. Let's cut the ones that do act a bit of slack.

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #128 on: February 04, 2015, 08:03:14 AM »
I've e-mailed London Midland trains this morning regarding shoddy service

Can I ask does this still count ?

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #129 on: February 04, 2015, 08:06:54 AM »
"Randy, I`ll stop there."

7 paragraphs later he is still going on. Jesus.



I glanced rather than read it all, the 'I'll stop there' comment and subsequent continuation made me smile. The rest that. Bothered to read made me cringe.

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #130 on: February 04, 2015, 08:13:26 AM »
The sad thing about this thread is that, no matter how bad things get, whenever some Villa fans try to do something to arrest our slide - however futile - other Villa fans will always mock them. I don't know whether that's just a Villa thing or whether it happens at other clubs too, but we always turn on our own at times like this. I've never known unity among Villa fans.

I've never met Jon Fear, and I couldn't care less if he's got a messiah complex or not. I don't care about his letter being too long, boring, self-important and full of mistakes. At least he's doing something. I thought the 8-minute protest was ill-conceived, but at least they tried something. And I'd rather see that than a load of other fans standing on the sidelines doing nothing but taking the piss while the club we all support spirals out of control.

The club is in denial. The local press are too meek to get involved. The national press don't give a shit. So it's down to the fans to act. Let's cut the ones that do act a bit of slack.


I agree with you on the whole, but don't see any reason to stop the tomfoolery on here. My messages will certainly not be sent on to Tom Fox  (I've sent a more considered one)
« Last Edit: February 04, 2015, 08:19:04 AM by Malandro »

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #131 on: February 04, 2015, 08:14:10 AM »
The sad thing about this thread is that, no matter how bad things get, whenever some Villa fans try to do something to arrest our slide - however futile - other Villa fans will always mock them. I don't know whether that's just a Villa thing or whether it happens at other clubs too, but we always turn on our own at times like this. I've never known unity among Villa fans.

I've never met Jon Fear, and I couldn't care less if he's got a messiah complex or not. I don't care about his letter being too long, boring, self-important and full of mistakes. At least he's doing something. I thought the 8-minute protest was ill-conceived, but at least they tried something. And I'd rather see that than a load of other fans standing on the sidelines doing nothing but taking the piss while the club we all support spirals out of control.

The club is in denial. The local press are too meek to get involved. The national press don't give a shit. So it's down to the fans to act. Let's cut the ones that do act a bit of slack.


This. All of it. Especially this bit.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2015, 08:23:21 AM by German James »

Offline Walmley_Villa

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #132 on: February 04, 2015, 08:22:19 AM »
Could someone also ask him to tell Lambert that the least he can do instead of sulking off down the tunnel is to tell the players to go over to the away fans to thank them for their support. They are soon over when we occasionally win.

There is real disconnect between the club and fans.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2015, 08:25:06 AM by Walmley_Villa »

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #133 on: February 04, 2015, 08:36:03 AM »
Hi Foxy!
We're dancing into 1939.

Tally Ho!



... And you'll be pleased to know that Supper's Ready!

A football team
Played on this grass filled soil
Now their time has been and gone
Were they starved of investment
Or was it the manager that f*cked up???

They never had anyone on the wing
Nobody whoooo
Could put in a decent cross

Now the lizard's shedding its tail
And like him
We need to shed the boss!
« Last Edit: February 04, 2015, 08:44:25 AM by not3bad »

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Re: Please email Tom Fox if you feel the current situation is unacceptable
« Reply #134 on: February 04, 2015, 08:36:29 AM »
I don't know if it's people mocking or just a sense of realism. The owner of our club whether we like it or not has employed Paul Lambert for the long term. He has also employed a Chief Executive for the long term with, by what they are saying, a 3, 4 or 5 year plan to, maybe occasionally challenge for Europe. We are also told that the owner can't give the club money anymore because that would be against the rules.

This, in my view, won't change until we have a new owner. Tom Fox effectively saying that he knows better than the fan base isn't helpful given our current position.  In fairness to him he has now held down top jobs at two of the nations leading sports institutions, as a foreigner, so would probably feel qualified to say so.

 


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