Stanley Victor Collymore

[saunders_heroes]

Collymore is just a shock jock trying to drum up business by being confrontational. I'm happy when people openly support Villa, especially in high profile positions, but he isn't very coherent, and i don't think people should take too much notice.

Nah! What's to disagree with anything he's said tonight?

[tomd2103]

The real one is really poorly worded because for me Lescott is just a bit thick. I don't think he's malicious like Richards or Gabby. I actually think he cares more than those two for sure. But he's simply a bit dim in a lot of what he says or does.

Don't think so TV.  The car tweet shows he's cut from exactly the same cloth as the other two pillocks you mentioned.

[ozzjim]

Oh Lescott has proven himself to be in that boat. The gum antics at Wycombe did that. He is a twat. Collymore calling him out though, considering some of the shit he put the club through which can't all be excused by his illness, is a bit pot and kettle, as much as I fully agree with him.

The stuff about Bacuna smiling at the final whistle I agree with too, what I don't want is a bloke who has done some very unsavoury things in public to be connected to Villa in an official capacity, which is essentially what he spends a lot of time canvassing for.

[Smirker]

Collymore is just a shock jock trying to drum up business by being confrontational. I'm happy when people openly support Villa, especially in high profile positions, but he isn't very coherent, and i don't think people should take too much notice.

He's a fan. I don't care how coherent he is.

This.

[Irish villain]

Collymore had his problems with us and a serious disease. He still gave us a few great moments: Gregory's first game against Liverpool and that goal against A. Madrid in the Uefa Cup.

Also, he has articulated the frustration, disbelief and anger of the villa base with what has been going on at villa for the last few years. He gets certain things wrong (who doesn't), but good on him for his appraisal of players and Lerner.

[FatSam]

He's just trying to goad Lescott et al to phone in because it would make good radio. I'm not saying that they don't deserve criticism.

[Steve67]

Collymore acknowledges that he was poor at Villa. That was then, this is now. He's calling them out, just like we are. I'm not his biggest fan but they deserve what Collymore is giving them.  He has the audience, the medium to do it. So, fuck it, give it to them!

[kippaxvilla2]

The tweet exchange is contained within this article.

http://7500toholte.sbnation.com/2016/4/17/11445126/stan-collymore-joleon-lescott-aston-villa-relegation-twitter-message

[brontebilly]

SVC is an oxygen thief and an utter scumbag to boot

I f*cking despise him, an utter disgrace in a Villa shirt

When the history of AVFC is updated 10 years from now on the biggest c*nts to wear our shirt will include:

Richards, Lescott, Flabby and.....will still include SVC

[Monty]

Where he had a real point was about the redundancies coming up at the club. Those people have been cost their jobs by a bunch of coasting millionaires who couldn't give a fuck, and have no problem having people who earn 100 times less than them lose their jobs while they 'earn' theirs on the piss in Marbella. Fuck these arsehole players. May their wives leave them and fuck them over intensely on the alimony. And after they've retired, so they can never get that money back.

[PhilVill]

I agree, the real tragedy here is that good folks are losing their jobs because of poor mismanagement and a dressing room that couldn't give a fuck and has been allowed to do so for eons.

So therefore I couldn't care less who is calling these players out publicly and their reason for doing so, I'm just pleased someone is.

Personally, Lescott should never have played for the club again the minute he sent that vile tweet of his car, talk about a huge 'fuck you' to the fans.

I think we can safely say there will be some very nasty stories coming out this week now that the big 'R' has been slapped by our name, leaked by players, agents, management and even David Cameron no doubt...

[brian green]

Mont, you have unerringly touched on the point my wife makes when I rant about the unfairness of obscene wages for footballers and the insecurity of the humble employees who lose their jobs.  She points out that professional footballers being almost entirely stupid dispose of their income as fast as they 'earn' it.  Gabby playing shit at Villa Park might cost a cleaner there a job, but his activities in Star City or Dubai enable cleaners to be employed at those places.  Society as a whole only has a problem with footballers when they bury the money they have sucked out of the economy in Panama or under the pavements of Zurich.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Isn't this the second time this season Lescott has offered someone out? It was a fan before I think.

Yeah but the guy did threaten to cut him a new scar. He's a prick but that is out of order

[peter w]

There is a mistake with connecting a players persona and what we think we know about them aligned to their knowledge of the game. Anyone at any level can be a connoisseur of football and understand it at every level the same way a physicist can explain the galaxies or a biologist can explain the building blocks of life rather than someone like a religious person can explain them.

I'm not saying that Stan's the man for Villa in any capacity but that he may have a good knowledge of the game that may be tapped into. Being a twat only makes it difficult for him to be employed (not my personal opinion that Stan is - I don't know him) not that his ideas have no value.

[Nunkin1965]

I can take or leave SVC. But he's only saying publicly what most of us think. So what if he's been a cock over the years?

We're all fucking hypocrites to a smaller or larger extent anyway. And is the remit on Villa that we dismiss anyone's opinion who has a history?

No new manager for us then.