Tony's Tweets

[Clampy]

I'd personally give him the whole season. People forget what a shambles of a team we were a few months ago.

[ozzjim]

I think it's easily forgotten Clampy.  The way we are paying I can see us staying to take chances and start winning 8/9 games in ten at since point this season.  I think we will end up in the play offs come May, but no one will fancy playing us.  At the moment is very frustrating but we are creating so many chances that it will turn into wins soon.

[Dave]

Yes, there's no such thing as luck, the same mistakes keep getting repeated. He hasn't spent £40m to be picking up a point a game and be below Burton Albion who have probably spent about 40p. They're not doing their jobs to a sufficiently high standard and need to pull their fingers out of their arses and stop making excuses and start getting wins. It's not unlucky when you miss sitters and hit the post.

Hitting the post is kind of unlucky....

It's not, it's an inaccurate shot.

Particularly the one that was an open goal from three yards.

Missing that one is definitely poor finishing rather than bad luck.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I'd personally give him the whole season. People forget what a shambles of a team we were a few months ago.

I can already see an improvement, as Villa fans we've had a tough few years I think people have a habit of focusing on the negatives

[Axl Rose]

I'd personally give him the whole season. People forget what a shambles of a team we were a few months ago.

I agree. It's nice to see some good football again. It's been an absolute rarity over the last few years.

I like Di Matteo a lot. I've had nothing but mainly negative feelings for every manager since O'Neil fucked off.

[DB]

I'd personally give him the whole season. People forget what a shambles of a team we were a few months ago.

I agree. It's nice to see some good football again. It's been an absolute rarity over the last few years.

I like Di Matteo a lot. I've had nothing but mainly negative feelings for every manager since O'Neil fucked off.

Agree. The re-builing job of this club, not just the playimg squad, has been massive - top to bottom.

[Jimbo]

Agree with all the points above about time. Anyone who expects to go up automatically this season has wilfully forgotten the last five years of disintegration.

We're putting together an entirely new team, it's far from the finished article (Westwood is still in it, ffs), and will take time to get right. Let's not be impatient and be thankful that we're on the right track.

It's frustrating, but I think it will take a minor miracle for us to go up this season.

[Dave]

We're putting together an entirely new team, it's far from the finished article (Westwood is still in it, ffs), and will take time to get right. Let's not be impatient and be thankful that we're on the right track.

It's frustrating, but I think it will take a minor miracle for us to go up this season.

We've spent over £50m on new players, bringing in a mixture of the best players in the league and players who have previously been good enough to win this league.

We've brought in fewer new players than Newcastle, presumably it won't take a minor miracle for them to go up?

I wouldn't go as far as to say that not going up this season would be a failure, but if we don't then somebody won't have done the job that they should have.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

There's a long way to go before the stench of defeat gets cleansed from Villa Park and it will take time. I have faith in RDM and Dr T. And also the players.
I think we need a bit of luck to kick start things.

[Jimbo]

As we discovered last season, you can buy a shitload of new players, but you won't necessarily have a team. How much we've spent is irrelevant at this point. What counts is how long it takes for those players to gel, and for us to become a robust outfit that won't crumble at the slightest suggestion of pressure. It's taking time, and it will take more time. But I think we're on the right track.

RDM likened his task to knocking down and rebuilding a house. I agree. It takes time to build a really good house, no matter how expensive the bricks are.

[chrisw1]

We're putting together an entirely new team, it's far from the finished article (Westwood is still in it, ffs), and will take time to get right. Let's not be impatient and be thankful that we're on the right track.

It's frustrating, but I think it will take a minor miracle for us to go up this season.

We've spent over £50m on new players, bringing in a mixture of the best players in the league and players who have previously been good enough to win this league.

We've brought in fewer new players than Newcastle, presumably it won't take a minor miracle for them to go up?

I wouldn't go as far as to say that not going up this season would be a failure, but if we don't then somebody won't have done the job that they should have.

Exactly.  It may be comforting to adopt the reverse psychology 'going up would be a miracle' but man for man we undoubtedly have one of the best and most experienced squads in the league.  We are already playing pretty well, so whilst of course a team needs time to fully gel that shouldn't really be an excuse.  I also don't really buy the almost entirely different team, with different manager and different league has been shit for the last 5 years so this new team will be shit too excuse.

It's a competitive league and going up would be a decent achievement, but really with the team and resources we have we should be expecting promotion.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I wonder whether Xia will be as prepared as some of us to give the manager a season to get this team organised? he doesn't strike me as a patient fella.   

[robbo1874]

Sounds like we'll batter somebody soon

[dave.woodhall]

We've just bought almost an entire new team. It's ridiculous to even think about the manager's future now.

[edgysatsuma89]

I'm pissed off that our manager couldn't see something so basic as to put an extra man in midfield to protect our lead so god knows what our chairman feels. He shouldn't be tweeting it though (if that was his point).

If you straight hit the post and it doesn't go in that simply isn't unlucky, it's inaccurate. I'm not sure how that can be argued. Deflections, bobbles etc are different obviously.