Tony's Tweets

[ozzjim]

And after a couple of seasons of finishing 6th we'd be moaning about it again. It's the nature of pretty much every football fan to always want more.

Of course. Just I'd appreciate it a little bit more given what we've experienced since 2011.

The difficulty with appreciating it more was the MON did such obviously fucking stupid things, and it drove us to distraction. Signed 3 right backs and still shoved a centre half there. Desperate for a goalscorer so signed Heskey. Needed a player that could unlock a defence so bought an extra centre half. Sold Cahill for 5m and bought Knight to replace him. Bought Harewood. His management was awful, tactics at home considering what he had at his disposal were shockingly bad. If we finished 6th playing great football and actually looking like a good team then yeah, I would want it all back tomorrow, but to be honest I don't really care where we are as long as we look a decent team. Sadly Bruce has similar afflictions tactically to O'Neill, so it might be a while.

Centre half wise, McGrath, Southgate, Mellberg, Laursen in that order in my time watching. Honourable mentions to Ugo, Teale and Vlaar. We have been fortunate there. I do like Chester too. I think hes the best centre half in the championship by a street. Calm head on him.

[cdbearsfan]

I wouldn't mention Vlaar in the same breath as some of those players, the lily-livered big girl's blouse.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Vlaar was for the most part injured or medicore. He cannot be compared to teale or ugo in any way whatsoever

[ChicagoLion]

McGrath and Evans for me.

Agree Evans.
Massively underrated.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

And after a couple of seasons of finishing 6th we'd be moaning about it again. It's the nature of pretty much every football fan to always want more.

Of course. Just I'd appreciate it a little bit more given what we've experienced since 2011.

The difficulty with appreciating it more was the MON did such obviously fucking stupid things, and it drove us to distraction. Signed 3 right backs and still shoved a centre half there. Desperate for a goalscorer so signed Heskey. Needed a player that could unlock a defence so bought an extra centre half. Sold Cahill for 5m and bought Knight to replace him. Bought Harewood. His management was awful, tactics at home considering what he had at his disposal were shockingly bad. If we finished 6th playing great football and actually looking like a good team then yeah, I would want it all back tomorrow, but to be honest I don't really care where we are as long as we look a decent team. Sadly Bruce has similar afflictions tactically to O'Neill, so it might be a while.

Spot on, Ozz. The only point I would question is your last sentence. I've yet to understand what Bruce's are other than worse than MON's. At least he had Plan A, as crap as it was.

[SoccerHQ]

And after a couple of seasons of finishing 6th we'd be moaning about it again. It's the nature of pretty much every football fan to always want more.

Of course. Just I'd appreciate it a little bit more given what we've experienced since 2011.

The difficulty with appreciating it more was the MON did such obviously fucking stupid things, and it drove us to distraction. Signed 3 right backs and still shoved a centre half there. Desperate for a goalscorer so signed Heskey. Needed a player that could unlock a defence so bought an extra centre half. Sold Cahill for 5m and bought Knight to replace him. Bought Harewood. His management was awful, tactics at home considering what he had at his disposal were shockingly bad. If we finished 6th playing great football and actually looking like a good team then yeah, I would want it all back tomorrow, but to be honest I don't really care where we are as long as we look a decent team. Sadly Bruce has similar afflictions tactically to O'Neill, so it might be a while.

Centre half wise, McGrath, Southgate, Mellberg, Laursen in that order in my time watching. Honourable mentions to Ugo, Teale and Vlaar. We have been fortunate there. I do like Chester too. I think hes the best centre half in the championship by a street. Calm head on him.

I agree his recruitment was dodgy but it's been catasprohic since he left bar Benteke.

Arguing about not signing a right back when we were going for top 4 looks pretty futile now when you consider the problems we've brought about ourselves over the last half decade.

At least he came in and got the club by the scruff of the neck for a bit. I agree we didn't always play easy on the eye football but bar the odd game we gave everyone in the premier league a game home and away.

I just hope it doesn't take decades for us to get back to that level, that's the worst case scenario.

[Richard E]

Neil Moxey is getting into a spat with the club on Twitter. He claimed we've spent £200m + in 12 months to go round in circles and Wyness replied that Moxey must be Diane Abbott's speechwriter!

[Gareth]

Neil Moxey is getting into a spat with the club on Twitter. He claimed we've spent £200m + in 12 months to go round in circles and Wyness replied that Moxey must be Diane Abbott's speechwriter!

Presume that's a reaction to Dr Tony calling some 'jerknalists' which was a little silly - part of the malaise around this football club over last few years has been created by journalists who felt embittered with lack of access to club news revelling in anything bad-club should not be rising to that type of comment on twitter, they should be trying to build a better relationship not getting in public spats

[Clark W Griswold]

Neil Moxey is getting into a spat with the club on Twitter. He claimed we've spent £200m + in 12 months to go round in circles and Wyness replied that Moxey must be Diane Abbott's speechwriter!

Moxey needs to re-evaluate where he's getting his information, needs to go and resit his GCSE Maths or needs to lay off the booze. Or maybe all three.

[mr underhill]

reports that Dr T is recovering from heart surgery - get well soon.

[PeterWithesShin]

Dr. Tony Xia‏Verified account @Dr_TonyXia  2h

Done a cardiology surgery today been worried for twenty years. It tells that once there's any problem, we can't escape, have to solve it.

[CJ]

The response of the bluenose on that twitter thread just beggars belief

[Clampy]

The response of the bluenose on that twitter thread just beggars belief

I saw that. He hates us enough to think and post something like that. It's incredible how sad some people are.

[manic-road]

All the best with your recovery Dr T.

[Gareth]

The response of the bluenose on that twitter thread just beggars belief

What was the response?