Tony's Tweets

[dave.woodhall]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

If Lerner was still an ambitious chairman till the end like he was in the early days then people would still be fawning over Krulak on forums till this day. It was only when Lerner gave up did people turn on Krulak, it was nothing to do with people just getting fed up for no reason other than familiarity or boredom.

Krulak gave up a long time before Lerner did, and the shit he was getting was the very definition of ending in tears.

[peter w]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

*coughs*

[BC Villain]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

[saunders_heroes]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

Well if he sells Grealish he'll be getting a bit of Twitter stick. Let's see how he copes with that.

[DB]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

Well if he sells Grealish he'll be getting a bit of Twitter stick. Let's see how he copes with that.

Why would he get get the stick? Is it up to Bruce who he wants to let go?

[saunders_heroes]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

Well if he sells Grealish he'll be getting a bit of Twitter stick. Let's see how he copes with that.

Why would he get get the stick? Is it up to Bruce who he wants to let go?

Is it? I'm sure I heard Bruce say (back in December) that he has to sell a striker in January to fund some transfers.

[dave.woodhall]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

Well if he sells Grealish he'll be getting a bit of Twitter stick. Let's see how he copes with that.

Why would he get get the stick? Is it up to Bruce who he wants to let go?

You think everyone on Twitter is rational.

[Chris Jameson]

Some of his cryptic (or total bollocks, depending on your viewpoint) posts that might or might not be about certain players aren't really a good idea. For instance if whatever he's posted today that might or might not be about selling Jack (who knows) could be misinterpreted by the player or his representatives as he doesn't (or does) want the player to stay (or go). No need to comment whatsoever, I do think some of his posts show a lack of class and respect, following Barnsley players we were keen on signing being one.

Is it the speedboat?

[kippaxvilla2]

I maintain that if we revisit this thread in two years time if we haven't been promoted then it could be a very different owner that we see.  But that is just my view.

[Clampy]

I do quite like that fact that his transfer tweets piss off other team's fans. I think there's a bit of jealousy mixed in with their anger though.

[Dave]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

Well if he sells Grealish he'll be getting a bit of Twitter stick. Let's see how he copes with that.

Why would he get get the stick? Is it up to Bruce who he wants to let go?

Is it? I'm sure I heard Bruce say (back in December) that he has to sell a striker in January to fund some transfers.

And we then sold that striker to Middlesbrough didn't we?

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

It's still relatively early days of his time as owner and it looks like he's trying to apply the same processes and motivational tactics to Villa that he has done to his (until proven otherwise) successful businesses. Once Villa can be classed as one of those, he may well fade into the background a bit.

[saunders_heroes]

At the start everyone loved General Krulak's posts on here, back when we were all swept up by enthusiasm for the new regime. It ended up with people mocking. I fear this will go the same way

Sooner or later he probably will come off twitter, particularly if some people on there keep insinuating that he's a crook (two in particular).

Right now, it's refreshing.  We had ten years of near silence from Lerner, so having a owner and management structure who are willing to engage with us is a breath of fresh air.

Well if he sells Grealish he'll be getting a bit of Twitter stick. Let's see how he copes with that.

Why would he get get the stick? Is it up to Bruce who he wants to let go?

Is it? I'm sure I heard Bruce say (back in December) that he has to sell a striker in January to fund some transfers.

And we then sold that striker to Middlesbrough didn't we?

Erm, yes. Well done.

[Jimbo]

I think if Tony was doing this in isolation it could be a problem, but he isn't. The whole world is seemingly arguing with itself on Twitter, making tall claims or saying stupid things. What Tony says may well look daft, but it's mild in comparison to most. Eventually it all gets lost in a big gumbo of Twitter nonsense anyway. Ultimately, he will be judged on whether Villa are a success or not, and that's all. His Twitter activities will merely be a sideshow, and a relatively inconsequential one at that.

[peter w]

Exactly Jimbo. Lerner's problems weren't because he didn't communicate that just exacerbated and exasperated audience. The problem was how he pulled the plug and watched the club disintegrate under his watch. He and Krulak may have started with best intentions but when it went wrong they mismanaged to relegation and who knows how much damage behind the scenes.

If things go south for Xia in terms of not going up but the club is run well then it is not likely that him having a twitter account will have any correlation with Lerner et al.