Tony's Tweets

[oswald funkletrumpet]

We can't write off this season thinking we will be fully prepared for promotion by next year. Three more relegated clubs with a year's worth of TV money to burn will just make it harder for us to get up. It has to happen this season, I fear.

How will three more teams with TV money to burn hinder us? We've got an owner who's already shown he's willing to spend big if needed. No worries on that front

It will hinder us because it will make it harder to get out of this division if they get more out of the players that they buy than we do.

If you were resigned to spending at least two seasons in this league since the summer fair enough but most of us expected more and the consensus seems to be that anything less than play-offs is failure.

agree

in season 3 parachute money is about 15 million so any teams just relegated will have a 50 million jump on us

having seen this league there is no one to be afraid of and a lot of shit so for me its got to be the play offs minimum

[cdbearsfan]

We can't write off this season thinking we will be fully prepared for promotion by next year. Three more relegated clubs with a year's worth of TV money to burn will just make it harder for us to get up. It has to happen this season, I fear.

I agree and also think it is too late to get this team any where near the top of the division.
It was too big a task to turn around years of decline.

I think it was a big task but we invested massively to achieve it.

There's no reason why we should be incapable of seeing a game out from 85 minutes gone. Had we done so in the majority of our games this season we would be near the top, in a good position to mount a promotion charge.

[Diablo]

Did we not draw a lot of games in MON's first season?

Agreed it takes time  - I just wish RDM and Clarke had some enthusiasm and would hurry up and find the right formula

I'm more concerned with Clarke than RDM personally. I've yet to see Clarke even look awake on the bench never mind showing us any of his supposed coaching qualities

I get the feeling all is not right between the two. Who was the coach that said he prepared the team all week depending on the opposition, only for the manager to come in Friday and change everything? I really hope that's not the case with RDM and Clarke.

Who was the coach and the manager you are talking about?

[Ads]

The money we have invested means the aim is promotion this season.

[brian green]

I have serious doubts about the management team and several of the players they have bought but I have no doubts whatsoever about Tony Xia.  If we could start to win some games and were in with a shout for the playoffs, I would not put it past him to fund more purchases in the January window.

[sirlordbaltimore]

The money we have invested means the aim is promotion this season.

I'm pretty sure it was strongly hinted that we had a 2 year plan

[paul_e]

Did we not draw a lot of games in MON's first season?

Agreed it takes time  - I just wish RDM and Clarke had some enthusiasm and would hurry up and find the right formula

We did draw a lot that season (we have for every season I can remember apart from last year) but we also won every now and again.

We started the season well on the back of fan euphoria at the sale and of having a manager we liked.  Then we went on a run from early November to mid-January which would've had calls for the sack of every manager since MON , think it was 5 draws and 7 defeats in 12 (including the FA cup).

[adrenachrome]

Dr. Tony Xia
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@Dr_TonyXia

Just recorded a video2the lads as RDM asked. Hope we'll get the win this Saturday as Chinese saying:哀兵必胜！oppressed army surly will win !#UTV
5:31 PM - 29 Sep 2016

[Monty]

That one sounds like it's from the Little Red Book.

[KevinGage]

Unless the video is threatening 95% pay cuts and/or amputations for goals conceded in the last 10 minutes, I'm not sure it'll do much good.

But kudos to him.

[pauliewalnuts]

We can't write off this season thinking we will be fully prepared for promotion by next year. Three more relegated clubs with a year's worth of TV money to burn will just make it harder for us to get up. It has to happen this season, I fear.

How will three more teams with TV money to burn hinder us? We've got an owner who's already shown he's willing to spend big if needed. No worries on that front

Where do you think the money is coming from?

If there is less of it coming in, there will be less going out. He's not stumping up all this cash from his own account.

[villadelph]

Dr. Tony Xia
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@Dr_TonyXia

Just recorded a video2the lads as RDM asked. Hope we'll get the win this Saturday as Chinese saying:哀兵必胜！oppressed army surly will win !#UTV
5:31 PM - 29 Sep 2016

Great. We're backs against the wall desperate after 10 games and our owner admits it.

FFS, just get three damn points.

[Ads]

I reckon the video is like Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday

[Nastylee]

Wasn't there a quote that none of the summer business was done using the parachute payments? So presumably it is from his own account.

[pauliewalnuts]

I reckon the video is like Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday

I reckon it's Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy video on loop, absolute top volume.