Joleon Lescott - GONE

[UK Redsox]

"Joleon's Magic Trouserphone are pleased to announce that they will be supporting African Car Reverser on their upcoming tour"

[pbavfckuwait]

Billy agree totally, but I think Brian does as well, the only verbal communications out of Villa Park is that of Remi Garde and the only thing he should and to be fair mostly is talking about is the football.

There have been incidents aplenty that should have caused some reaction from the club, to let supporters know that these issues are being dealt with and that these actions are not acceptable from representatives of Aston Villa at any time, I do not expect to hear that this player or that player has been fined, that's internal club disciplinary measures and as such should stay internal.

But if there is a media adviser within the ranks of Villa Park, to allow a player to make a statement that the picture appeared because I had the phone in my pocket and then regardless of the abuse received within a couple of days the same player coming to verbal fisticuffs with a person, not even sure if the person was a supporter and saying come to Bodymoor and I will sort you out, it stinks of a total lack of discipline within the squad, basically not giving a dam what the club may do to the individual because they know that will be nothing and even more so a total lack of respect for the supporters of this club.
Holis may be a bean counter, but if he does not get a grip of many many other issues at the club, he might not have many beans to count.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

Offering a fan customer out on twitter would be gross misconduct in most businesses. Not sure that the club can comment though - these days journos are cut and paste media trolls desperate for traffic to serve ads on their websites e.g:

Villa say "We have reminded players to act responsibly on social media"
Media troll/journo "Villa slam Lescott for fan fight tweet #avfc #klingon"

[Billy Walker]

It goes back to what has been asked on here before, who is our head of media and PR these days?  Do we actually have one since Brian Doogan left?  I know there is a Scottish bloke who sometimes sits next to Remi in his press conferences at at Bodymoor Heath, is he a scaled-down version of Doogan?

[mr underhill]

just to clarify  is he a Scottish midget?

[Locko]

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.

Or if possible behind the sofa at least an ocean away...

[garyfouroaks]

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,

This is so true.

I worry that Hollis and Fox are excellent numbers men, but poor at the nuances of what makes those numbers spin at a football club.

There seems to be a lack of will, and know-how at he club, not a lack of money.

[dave.woodhall]

It goes back to what has been asked on here before, who is our head of media and PR these days?  Do we actually have one since Brian Doogan left?  I know there is a Scottish bloke who sometimes sits next to Remi in his press conferences at at Bodymoor Heath, is he a scaled-down version of Doogan?

Tommy Jordan. No, me neither.

[Steve R]

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.

Well said Mark.

[PaulTheVillan]

Lescott interview with Henry Winter.

Does anyone have a subscription to The Times? Could you paste the interview here?

I'm interested to see what shit he's came out with now

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4695215.ece

[Villan For Life]

Lescott interview with Henry Winter.

Does anyone have a subscription to The Times? Could you paste the interview here?

I'm interested to see what shit he's came out with now

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4695215.ece

I've got a Times subscription. I will post it when I'm on my laptop, lazing in bed on my IPad at the moment.

It's all from the "you've had a tough week and I'm your mate in the media" school of journalism.

[aj2k77]

Lescott interview with Henry Winter.

Does anyone have a subscription to The Times? Could you paste the interview here?

I'm interested to see what shit he's came out with now

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4695215.ece

I've got a Times subscription. I will post it when I'm on my laptop, lazing in bed on my IPad at the moment.

It's all from the "you've had a tough week and I'm your mate in the media" school of journalism.

What time are you getting up? If you wouldn't mind hurrying up a bit I'd like to read the Lescott interview before I go out.

[Villan For Life]

Lescott interview with Henry Winter.

Does anyone have a subscription to The Times? Could you paste the interview here?

I'm interested to see what shit he's came out with now

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4695215.ece

I've got a Times subscription. I will post it when I'm on my laptop, lazing in bed on my IPad at the moment.

It's all from the "you've had a tough week and I'm your mate in the media" school of journalism.

What time are you getting up? If you wouldn't mind hurrying up a bit I'd like to read the Lescott interview before I go out.

What time you going out?

[aj2k77]

Lescott interview with Henry Winter.

Does anyone have a subscription to The Times? Could you paste the interview here?

I'm interested to see what shit he's came out with now

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4695215.ece

I've got a Times subscription. I will post it when I'm on my laptop, lazing in bed on my IPad at the moment.

It's all from the "you've had a tough week and I'm your mate in the media" school of journalism.

What time are you getting up? If you wouldn't mind hurrying up a bit I'd like to read the Lescott interview before I go out.

What time you going out?

10.15, could delay the missus until 10.30 at the latest.

[Villan For Life]

You made me leave my warm and comfortable bed........just firing up the laptop