Tony's Tweets

[dave.woodhall]

Anyway, that's me done for the night. Carry on amongst yourselves.

[saunders_heroes]

Yes, a blip. It followed a four year decline and only ended when we had the biggest stroke of luck any club could have wished for, but it was only a blip.  Clearly being in division three, finishing below Halifax and losing to Torquay & Southend in the FA Cup first round is not as humiliating as relegation from the Premier League. Silly me for thinking otherwise. 

And breaking every unwanted club record on the way.

Like worst-ever league finish you mean? Or quickest relegation after winning the European Cup? Or the only Villa chairman to preside over not one but two relegations?

I'm not gonna list the unwanted broken records smashed since 2010 but I'm sure most fans know them. It'd be too painful to type out.

[Drummond]

I'm just amazed that you actually believe the stuff you're typing.

[nick harper]

Yes, a blip. It followed a four year decline and only ended when we had the biggest stroke of luck any club could have wished for, but it was only a blip.  Clearly being in division three, finishing below Halifax and losing to Torquay & Southend in the FA Cup first round is not as humiliating as relegation from the Premier League. Silly me for thinking otherwise. 

And breaking every unwanted club record on the way.

Like worst-ever league finish you mean? Or quickest relegation after winning the European Cup? Or the only Villa chairman to preside over not one but two relegations?

I'm not gonna list the unwanted broken records smashed since 2010 but I'm sure most fans know them. It'd be too painful to type out.

I'll do a few. I don't like either owner but Lerner was the other side of the Atlantic for these:

Heaviest league defeat
Most consecutive defeats
Most consecutive games without a win
Most consecutive games without a goal
Most goals conceded without scoring - 15
Lowest points in a season - even when 2 points for a win
Heaviest home defeat since 1935
Worst ever home record in a season

[cdbearsfan]

Imagine being an Ellis fanboy and choosing "Saunders Heroes" for a username. The mind boggles.

[VILLA MOLE]

This is abit of a race to the bottom chaps

[stuart445]

Imagine being an Ellis fanboy and choosing "Saunders Heroes" for a username. The mind boggles.

I was thinking that as well

[saunders_heroes]

Imagine being an Ellis fanboy and choosing "Saunders Heroes" for a username. The mind boggles.

So you can only respect Ron if you dislike Ellis?
The mind certainly boggles!

[cdbearsfan]

Imagine being an Ellis fanboy and choosing "Saunders Heroes" for a username. The mind boggles.

So you can only respect Ron if you dislike Ellis?
The mind certainly boggles!

Who tried to force Saunders out?

Who was forced from the Board having, essentially, made it a case that either he or Saunders went?

Who was absent as Chairman when Saunders reached the pinnacle of his managerial career?

Who was absent as Chairman when Saunders' team won their greatest victory under Saunders' successor?

Who returned as Chairman and dismantled the team that Saunders and Barton had led to glory?

Who was Chairman when the club were relegated five years after Saunders left?

Who was Chairman when Saunders went thirty years without visiting Villa Park?

Who was Chairman when Saunders' greatest captain was made persona non grata at Villa Park?

Who ignored the more valid claims of Saunders and Barton and decided to name a stand after himself?

Who had just left as Chairman when Saunders' team, and Saunders himself, finally received the recognition they deserved at Villa Park?

Change your username. You're a disgrace to the great man.

[saunders_heroes]

Ha!

[TonyD]

Promotion, two title near misses, two league cups.  Halcyon days.

[cdbearsfan]

Yes, and Mussolini made the trains run on time. You can make anyone look good if you ignore any of the bad things that happened when they were in charge.

Randy Lerner:

Two cup finals, four Wembley appearances, three successive top six finishes, regular European football, smashing our transfer record, smashing Small Heath, winning away at Man United and Arsenal and beating Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City and Tottenham home and away, lovely new scarves.

What a guy.

(Just in case anyone fails to grasp the point, Herbert's Heroes, for instance... I don't really think Lerner was brilliant I'm using that as an example to illustrate the point I made in the first paragraph).

[Toronto Villa]

If he does it makes what he did to the person responsible for the greatest moment in the history of Aston Villa even more disgraceful.

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors. I too love RS. and TB. Lifes shit sometimes.

Indeed.

Apart from plenty do know, and it's from independents that were at the testimonial, Rose Barton and things like that, so it's hardly guess work. 

I'm not doubting it at all. In fact I believe you!
I'd still take Doug Ellis over Randy Lerner every day of the week as chairman of Villa.

Would you fuck. If the internet existed in 1984-86 you would have lost your mind. You didn't have remotely the same access to information as you did under Lerner. Had you done so and watched such a great team stripped bear in just over 4 years, a proper Villa hero like Barton treated like shit you'd have a completely different view on things.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I hate it when posters I respect* argue about people I don't.

*thats all of you here

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Just to go off topic and get back on topic, the owner did something very nice earlier, in response to Stan Collymore asking if anything could be done for a fan who, for sentimental reasons to do with his grandad, was desperately trying to get tickets for the Burton game.

@StanCollymore
Hi @AVFCOfficial @Dr_TonyXia@burtonalbionfc anything we can do to help @Jamesfox1988? I’ll pay for the tickets. Wherever in the ground.

@Dr_TonyXia
Just read this.Been on business trips. @StanCollymore ,@jamesfox1988 contact @VillansHo have my director seat. Good luck.