Harry Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I'm amazed there are still people trying to defend him and suggesting we should a stick with him. He's a bit of an embarrassment and we should try to find a dignified exit for him ASAP. I just don't get why you and others have such a hatred of Joe Bennett. Your second sentence could apply to the owner, definitely the manager and half our playing squad. I don't know how you could divine from my comment that I "hate Joe Bennett". I don't know him, so have no personal views about him at all. I've just watched him play football and know he isn't up to the level required in the premier league, and never will be, so in a sense it is being kind to ask for him to be him to be found a new opportunity in a club at a more appropriate level. Ok so you don't rate him as a footballer rather than 'hate him' which BTW I meant in the context of football but my original point still stands. You say 'he isn't up to the level required in the premier league' which I say applies to our manager and much of our playing squad (my original comment). Personally I think he has some potential, you clearly don't which is what this forum is all about...opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 The club have only gone and done an '#askbennett' Q&A campaign on Twitter. How out of touch with the fans can you be? Surely they knew it would be full of abuse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 The club have only gone and done an '#askbennett' Q&A campaign on Twitter. How out of touch with the fans can you be? Surely they knew it would be full of abuse Gordon Bennett. Sums up the way the club is run really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 sums up football fans as well I'm afraid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post briny_ear Posted April 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 8, 2014 (edited) Well, it's also about social media and how a lot of people think it gives them licence to behave in vile and unacceptable ways that they would not dream of if they were face to face or in company. However, I do agree it was an astounding act of foolishness to put poor young Joe into the Twitter furnace just at the moment. Whoever at the club devised that one should be tarred and feathered and made to parade round Villa Park before the next home match with a big sign saying "Sorry, Joe". Edited April 8, 2014 by briny_ear 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Just yet another example of how out of touch with the thoughts and opinions of fans the club are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I tweeted to ask his favourite colour. He told me to eff off. Charming. This may not be true............ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 If they did this properly then Bennett won't even have seen the negative posts (unless he searched for them afterwards). Of course, this is a club whose social media tone of voice is that of a 16-year-old posh girl talking to her friends, and that spends matchdays retweeting desperate idiots for no reason. And that's the tip of the iceberg. So I guess we can assume Joe was thrown under the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didiersix Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 It is bloody hilarious. I can't understand what possessed them to do it. Even if Bennett doesn't see the responses, it is creating a bit of a story. And not quite the kind of story the club would want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 That's pretty incredible, I can't understand why anyone would've thought this is a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 It's never a good idea even for popular people, but it's a route one idea for lazy marketers who are stealing a living. Didiersix's point about creating a story is right. It's a spectacular own goal that should have died out five years ago and taken its perpetrators with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I'd prefer a Q&A with his sister. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 So the club shouldn't try to connect its players with (often young) fans because a bunch of knuckle dragging rocket polishers think its acceptable to abuse people they've never met through the safety of the internet? Nonsense. The problem lies with those who have responded in that way ...not the idea. You don't shut pubs because people get drunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yeah. It's not a pub though, is it? The problem is with the people who respond, obviously it is, but it is a fact that they will respond that way. So the club shouldn't try to connect its players with (often young) fans... Nobody's saying that. I don't think this is the right way - in fact, I think it's a very poor and out-of-date way that is rife with potential downsides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Shocking season + poor recent results + INTERNET + Twitter Q&A + Joe Bennett + Idiot fans behind keyboards = Completely embarrassing situation which makes the club and it's fans look bad and does nothing to help Bennett. How did nobody ask the question 'Are we sure this is a good idea?'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordSepulchrave Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Desperately sad and properly embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandaq Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Why did they even put him up to it? Baffled. It`s not a bad idea to do stuff like this but you really start to wonder. You will get abuse on twitter but come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Kendrick has written a piece on it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchard Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I am very surprised, that even considering the level of incompetence we've come to expect from people involved in the club 'behind the scenes' that anyone thought this would a good idea, and that nobody thought to mention that doing such a 'thing' would do more harm than good at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.I.C.O. Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I reckon there is a whole army of people working for the club who don't actually pay any interest in the footballing side of things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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