Joleon Lescott - GONE

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Just been watching The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. Lescott's £120K car would buy 48,000 malaria nets. Bet
he won't!!! He's too self obsessed and intent at swearing at Villa fans and offering them out for a fight.

[Holte L2]

Are these players still here?

I'm trying to pick a team for the Stoke match. It's hard. Some players may need to be magically recalled from loans. If not, either play nobody in that position, a supporter or use a pot plant. (I'd go with a Venus flytrap

4,1,3,2 formation

Bunn
Whole defence-youth players.
Gueye in front of the back four and Lyden central ahead of him.
Our two most talented youth players either side of Lyden.
Sellars and Robinson up front.

Bench.

Veretout, Grealish, Steer, Cissohko, Clark, youth players.

Fuck the rest.

                Bunn

Calder  Okore  Clark  Cissokho

          Gana      Green

Grealish   Keinan Davis   Veretout

              Agbonlahor

Your playing Calder and Davis out of position there I think.

I am unfortunately. I couldn't find eleven other players that weren't either really shit or not prepared to fight.

[clash city rocker]

In 50 years of supporting villa I can't ever remember the relationship between players and supporters being so poor. Yep there have been players who got stick in the past but there were always players that were well loved by supporters. There just seems no love lost these days between the two camps. Sad.

[Bottom Right 89]

Im just ashamed of my football team - the snake parts 1 & 2, jack grealish what i did last summer, war of the gum and escape from wycombe, n'zogbia the turd that won't flush and now rocky bal-lescott. I wish the whole lot of them would just fuck off.

[adrenachrome]

Gumgate sticks in the craw. Fucking flobbing fuckers.

[pbavfckuwait]

What has annoyed me, is the total silence from the club, do we not have a PR department or media advisers within the club, Players should be told "Feelings are a bit raw at the moment with the supporters, please stay of your social media sites, I am sure we can all afford a phone call or a private sms if we need to contact someone, or show them what we have availed ourselves of this week, especially after a 6-0 defeat and what you are flashing up on your pages, probably most of those guys will take a couple of years wages to earn that much, never mind spend it on a vehicle, no pictures of you flat on your back because you have been sucking some form of gas, or because you can't stand up for the amount of vodka you have drunk, please use your portable devices to have a look at the league table, take a breathe a for once in your life fucking think"
A statement from the club that the players have been advised of media use, easy , piss of piss.

[brian green]

I am afraid Kuwait that our PR department has been told that Mr Lerner has made his instructions quite clear on communications with the media.     Hide under the table.

[pbavfckuwait]

This is what annoys me Brian about the whole set up and to me, will if it continues leave us rotting for a very long long time.
Understand a financial cut back to an extent, easy not to understand when it is not your money, but a lot of what is wrong would cost nothing to repair, supporters feel shit at the moment and it appears, no it is a fact, Randy Lerner F.C does not give a shit about us.

[PaulWinch again]

Lescott was asked why he hasn't deleted the picture of the Mercedes from his Twitter account.

He replied: “Why delete it? It happened so I've gotta deal with it. Shall I just delete Sunday's game No it happened so I have gotta deal with it.”

That's fair enough. Of course the dickhead threatening him online will never turn up at Bodymoor Heath, that kind of behavior is typical of the keyboard warriors as PWS rightly points out. What the hell is the fella thinking? Of course he's run to his mates and tell them he's been deleted from Lescott's twitter followers and see it as some kind of badge of honour. Obviously he cares more about the Villa than the rest of us.

The whole thing has gone way over the top. On Sunday lunchtime we were all happy he was lining up along side Jores, now suddenly he's Public Enemy Nº1. Now it seems okay to call him a "klingon". Some people are no better than our players. The reality is he's been one of our better performers, not saying much I know but I'd rather have him lining up against Stoke than Clark. He's got 12 more games to prove his point, show his love for the club he says he supports, give his all before he moves on to other pastures.

My money is on him delivering the goods or at least giving it his best shot. Whether after this circus of kicking the scapegoat the fans give him a chance, is another matter. Things are shit enough without kicking ourselves in the goolies just to show how much more care than the players.

There are far more concerning matters at the Club than a bloody tweet from somebody that obviously doesn't fully understand the rules of social media. Time to move on.

I agree I think it's all gone way over the top.

[brian green]

Yes Kuwait,  I have had a similar bee in my bonnet ever since Randy took over.   There has formed around the club, whether by plan or neglect I have no idea, a policy of attempting to manage and control news from the club.  This is all well and good if it manages well a free and frank flow of information to those most interested in the club but has the absolute opposite of the effect intended if the recipients of the information are treated without respect.

The fall back position was and still remains to say nothing, whether it is MON's flounce, the alleged bullying, the slithering of a snake, the January transfer window that never was, gumgate or Joleon's magic trouserphone.

This is why Remi Garde is so important to us and why it would be the final unmitigated disaster if we should drive him out.   He speaks openly and honestly regardless of the impossibility of the tasks heaped on him by a cowardly board and cowardly players.

His three immediate predecessors spoke in red top tabloid cliches and the board speaks marketing junkspeak like "false narratives"  "building something great"  "I did not really consider fans to be customers" and "wasting a good crisis" while the owner is down the rabbit hole with Alice looking for his tribe.

Lescott and Richards and Agbonlahor and Guzan and all the others who have no real regard for who pays them their inflated wages should be told a real and simple truth.   Namely that they should stop behaving like teenagers playing with their phones and try to behave with some maturity and some personal dignity.

The club for its part should make it known that that message has been got across to the players but don't hold your breath.

[Chris Harte]

Im just ashamed of my football team - the snake parts 1 & 2, jack grealish what i did last summer, war of the gum and escape from wycombe, n'zogbia the turd that won't flush and now rocky bal-lescott. I wish the whole lot of them would just fuck off.

They're a laughing stock as well as an embarrassment to the supporters. Perfect summing up of their antics over the last twelve months. 

[aj2k77]

It saddens me to say that there is no bond between any of the players and the support.

[Virgil Caine]

Im just ashamed of my football team - the snake parts 1 & 2, jack grealish what i did last summer, war of the gum and escape from wycombe, n'zogbia the turd that won't flush and now rocky bal-lescott. I wish the whole lot of them would just fuck off.

They're a laughing stock as well as an embarrassment to the supporters. Perfect summing up of their antics over the last twelve months. 

Yes, an excellent summary which leads to a necessary redefining of the phrase ' Professional Footballer'. For sure in the past there have been some absolute wasters wearing the famous shirt but in all my time of supporting Villa I have never known so many poor excuses of the term 'professional' collectively dragging this great Club into disrepute. My love of the institution that is Aston Villa Football Club will never waver but some of its constituent parts I am really beginning to loath.

[Billy Walker]

Yes Kuwait,  I have had a similar bee in my bonnet ever since Randy took over.   There has formed around the club, whether by plan or neglect I have no idea, a policy of attempting to manage and control news from the club.  This is all well and good if it manages well a free and frank flow of information to those most interested in the club but has the absolute opposite of the effect intended if the recipients of the information are treated without respect.

The fall back position was and still remains to say nothing, whether it is MON's flounce, the alleged bullying, the slithering of a snake, the January transfer window that never was, gumgate or Joleon's magic trouserphone.

This is why Remi Garde is so important to us and why it would be the final unmitigated disaster if we should drive him out.   He speaks openly and honestly regardless of the impossibility of the tasks heaped on him by a cowardly board and cowardly players.

His three immediate predecessors spoke in red top tabloid cliches and the board speaks marketing junkspeak like "false narratives"  "building something great"  "I did not really consider fans to be customers" and "wasting a good crisis" while the owner is down the rabbit hole with Alice looking for his tribe.

Lescott and Richards and Agbonlahor and Guzan and all the others who have no real regard for who pays them their inflated wages should be told a real and simple truth.   Namely that they should stop behaving like teenagers playing with their phones and try to behave with some maturity and some personal dignity.

The club for its part should make it known that that message has been got across to the players but don't hold your breath.

The thing is Brian that it shouldn't be the manager's job to do all this communication work.  It adds a whole load of stress to his workload and unfairly leaves him to be the total fall guy for all the problems at the club.  It's a piss poor way to manage communication and it inevitably leaves a vacuum that gets filled with mindless Tweets, press speculation and various levels of shit-stirring. 

[UK Redsox]

I am afraid Kuwait that our PR department has been told that Mr Lerner has made his instructions quite clear on communications with the media.     Hide under the table.

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