Fairy In Boots Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, Hoof hearted said: Can't wait for him to tell Garth Crooks to "flock off"!! (Slightly racist but I'm 1/4 Chinese so am arrowed) Arrowed Lol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 I think Tony been fined on a regular basis for post match comments are a very high possibility. Imagine a few decisions go against us such as at the turn of the year last season when we could have had a few pens e.g. at West Brom and I think also at West Ham. He'll just call the ref out there and then similar to Holloway. Although he might be saved from the fines because of his broken English. I can't wait for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hoof hearted Posted August 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2016 This is just pure win, make it so! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 3 hours ago, DCJonah said: Well what's wrong? Please tell. He's proven nothing yet, certainly not enough to be praised like a god. And his tantrums are pathetic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, DK82 said: He's proven nothing yet, certainly not enough to be praised like a god. And his tantrums are pathetic. That's fine, nobody has to like him. But do you think the club is in a better position than it was 6 weeks ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 4 minutes ago, Jareth said: That's fine, nobody has to like him. But do you think the club is in a better position than it was 6 weeks ago? How do we know? Last season we were in a better place under Sherwood, apparently. That ended up well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 9 minutes ago, DK82 said: He's proven nothing yet, certainly not enough to be praised like a god. And his tantrums are pathetic. Haha. Praised like a god is a bit much. What were you expecting in his first couple of months? What's he not done that you think he should? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 8 minutes ago, Jareth said: That's fine, nobody has to like him. But do you think the club is in a better position than it was 6 weeks ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, DK82 said: How do we know? Last season we were in a better place under Sherwood, apparently. That ended up well. Well I got burned asking a certain other poster to look at the facts and make their judgement so I'll knock it on the head early this time. Each to their miserable own. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, DK82 said: He's proven nothing yet, certainly not enough to be praised like a god. And his tantrums are pathetic. I don't think anyone is praising him like a God Den? Some people like him, some people don't, most are pretty ambivalent I think. I am. I find him interesting, he's clearly a character, but my main concern is what we do on the pitch. The club generally *seems* to be heading in the right direction, which is the important thing? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 (edited) 44 minutes ago, DK82 said: 50 minutes ago, Jareth said: That's fine, nobody has to like him. But do you think the club is in a better position than it was 6 weeks ago? How do we know? Last season we were in a better place under Sherwood, apparently. That ended up well Den we don’t know do we mate. We have just been through half a dozen years of decline bottoming out to being a farce both on and off the pitch. If Xia gives us nothing else at the moment he offers up a little bit of hope something I think you’d agree we didn’t have under Lerner. None of us know how things will pan out under him. It could well be that some of what he says could turn out to to be all fart and no shit or he could deliver on every word. At present I think he is doing OK and I think the general consensus amongst supporters is one of cautious optimism with a few extremes either way. As for his tweeting I am sure that will die off pretty quickly as it is a novelty at the moment and a couple of poor results and he will realise it is not worth the shit that will inevitably come his way. Edited August 5, 2016 by markavfc40 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 He could turn out to be just like Lerner. But until the evidence points to that surely he deserves a bit of faith in him. Especially as everything he's done so far is living up to his word and trying to make this club better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 36 minutes ago, Jareth said: That's fine, nobody has to like him. But do you think the club is in a better position than it was 6 weeks ago? I personally think the club is in a better position off the pitch, however on the pitch I don't think there will be much improvement yet. The starting XI is still very bad indeed, especially in defence with only Elphick who is half decent and the midfield is exceptionally poor even by championship standards. We have Tshibola who is an unknown quantity but the rest of the central midfielders are atrocious. I must admit I'm unsure about Tony Xia. I'm also not sure that this season is going to go very well at all, I think that there is too much that needs changing in the first team and that we still have a lot more to do but not enough time to do it. I think we will struggle badly this season and I'm not sure how patient the majority of Villa fans will be. I think potentially we may do well under Tony Xia with RDM at the helm but I think it will take much longer than most of the fans will be willing to give. I think we are a long long way from being any good right at this minute 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 (edited) 45 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Den we don’t know do we mate. We have just been through half a dozen years of decline bottoming out to being a farce both on and off the pitch. If Xia gives us nothing else at the moment he offers up a little bit of hope something I think you’d agree we didn’t have under Lerner. None of us know how things will pan out under him. It could well be that some of what he says could turn out to to be all fart and no shit or he could deliver on every word. At present I think he is doing OK and I think the general consensus amongst supporters is one of cautious optimism with a few extremes either way. As for his tweeting I am sure that will die off pretty quickly as it is a novelty at the moment and a couple of poor results and he will realise it is not worth the shit that will inevitably come his way. He's not doing himself any favours at all with the way he is behaving. I learned a lesson in 2010. I was 100% behind Lerner, felt he was perfect. But we all know what happened with him. Xia needs to stop shouting his mouth off - which is frankly embarrassing, because if and when things do go wrong he's going to get it from all angles. It's almost as if we have gone from the arrogant silence of one man, to the mumbled tantrums and ramblings of another. Why on earth can we not just have somebody who is on middle ground? Absolutely nothing has been proven either way, as for saying are we in a better position than we were 6 weeks ago. Well it's impossible to tell, either way. But for a man who promised world domination in 5 years, he had better be working on something pretty incredible. I'm just not jumping on the Xia is wonderful bandwagon, oh and I hope he stops being such a fool on twitter. If this was a West Ham or Newcastle chairman, we'd be taking the piss. Edited August 5, 2016 by DK82 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 That the main negative that people can bring up about him is his tweets, is a good sign in my opinion. If owners of other clubs were tweeting in a similar fashion I wouldn't think anything of it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 But you seem to have made up your mind already. Rather than just give it time, you're being negative. Same goes for a few others. Haven't even played a game and you're already whining about a number of things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Well the West Ham and Newcastle chairmen are constantly gobbing off but we tend to pay very little attention, to be honest. It's all tomorrow's chip paper to be honest, it only seems to be Villa fans clinging on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 As long as it doesn't affect his ability to run this football club, I really don't care. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted August 5, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2016 41 minutes ago, KHV said: I personally think the club is in a better position off the pitch, however on the pitch I don't think there will be much improvement yet. The starting XI is still very bad indeed... I'm also not sure that this season is going to go very well at all, I think that there is too much that needs changing in the first team and that we still have a lot more to do but not enough time to do it. I think we will struggle badly this season and I'm not sure how patient the majority of Villa fans will be. I think potentially we may do well under Tony Xia with RDM at the helm but I think it will take much longer than most of the fans will be willing to give. I think we are a long long way from being any good right at this minute That's all fair comment ( I would say that because it's pretty much my view as well). Thing is, given this is the TX topic, in terms of what he could reasonably be expected to do, in the first 7 weeks or so of ownership (as was also the case with Randy Lerner) he's pretty much done it - put up money for players - yep, got a manager in - yep, communicated his plans and aims to supporters - yep, With RAL we had the Acorns partnership (which was and is great) and with TX the club's done deals with various partners and this thing in India. TX appears enthusiastic and engages directly with fans via twitter (RAL did that via General K and the messageboards) - it's kind of all pretty much the same as most changeovers at most clubs. There are some doubts, some unfounded worries, some unfounded hopes and all the rest. As a brilliant post said yesterday, it's too early to know how his time will span out, we won't be able to judge that for a long time, but so far there's no evidence of anything to worry about. The twitter stuff is an amusing diversion, really. I quite like it, now. But it's ultimately disposable 140 character messages reflecting someone's thoughts in a moment in time. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 On other club's owner's on twitter this is David Gold. Obviously doesn't make it right if or when Xia is unkind with his words, but an example of it happening at another club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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