Rian 🐝

Sports Journalist for Roundtable (RTB) | Brentford Home and Away

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 I think there’s a clear difference between taking a team that finished 9th to 15th and a team that finished 17th to wherever you were in midtable.

Regardless, we’re clearly not going to agree on this so I think we should just save ourselves the effort. Have a good night 😂

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

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[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 I just meant in relation to the end of the season. You finished 17th, he had you somewhere midtable (?) at that point, we finished 10th and were 15th. Can’t speak for you guys but our frustration at that time was that we’d gotten worse with a better squad.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 Buddy we pretty much had zero full backs until April in Frank’s last season. Mbeumo was a big miss but the overall squad, and the depth in particular, was so much better.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 Probably because we were fighting for Europe the season before whereas you were 17th.

Compared to the previous manager, we as a team had massively dropped off whereas you, whilst not having a good season, were still in a better position than the previous season at that time.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 £300m+ spent in the summer transfer window - I’d be alarmed if I were you if you didn’t finish above us by a fair distance

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 Chelsea were pretty much top 3 until Maresca left. People wanted Andrews out because at one point, with a better squad than we’ve ever had at this level, we were 15th. Thankfully he’s completely turned it around, although your claim he’s eclipsed Frank is just straight up wrong.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@scottylake97 I vaguely remember them being all but safe at the time but my bad on that one if I’m wrong

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 Calling us tiny yet you’re infatuated with a manager that held a 3-0 loss to us and is behind in the league. Imagine that was Thomas Frank!!! After spending over £300m too!!! 😳😳😳😳😳

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 Thanks for confirming you started booing a new manager 10 games into his time with the club because, after inheriting a squad that finished 17th, you lost to two of the best teams in the league at the time and dropped to 11th or 12th. Proven my point.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@scottylake97 @xavb03 Yes. We’re not talking about him turning it around to go on a crazy winning run, we’re talking about him getting 10 points from 12 games.

Very easy for players to check back in after Tudor gets 1 point from 5 and they’re suddenly threatened with relegation and a drop in earnings

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@scottylake97 @xavb03 I mean from solely the bottom half teams when you played them:

Wolves already down
Palace were mid table and still in Europe at the time
Everton had nothing to play for
Leeds had nothing to play for

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 Stop pretending like you lot gave him any backing in the first place man 😭

You were booing the guy off when he had you in a European place ffs, your club’s just toxic from top to bottom.

Also it was 10 points not 7, from a far tougher set of fixtures, so I’d take my chances

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 I feel that, from your final 12 games and the leniency of a lot of that fixture list, you’re probably fuelled a lot by hatred to think you wouldn’t have mustered up a grand total of 10 points, but each to their own I guess.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 6th, 7th and 9th place included in those - all better PL sides than anything you’ve had since 1st season Ange. West Ham fair enough that’s a shocker, Burnley you should’ve won.

Again, it’s not great, but I don’t see proof you wouldn’t have got 10 points from your last 12 games.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 @Spurspapers @HLTCO You’re meaning to tell me that last season every single one of Tel, Palhinha, Bentancur, Gallagher, Kolo Muani and Richarlison weren’t starters?

Martinez, Cash, Tielemans and Rogers were the only Villa players starting on a regular basis in that team.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 And then you hired a bloke who got 1 in the next 5 games from a run that included home games with Palace and Forest…

I’m not saying those final 8 games weren’t honking, but 6 of those 8 were against teams fighting for Europe, his final 3 vs United with 10 men, Newcastle, City…

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@scottylake97 @xavb03 @Spurspapers @HLTCO The tweet above refers to Frank’s last few games as “a time when we didn’t have the most insane injury crisis in premier league history”.

Also, not saying he was doing an amazing job at the time, but you were about 10/15 points clear of the drop when Kudus got injured.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 @Spurspapers @HLTCO Villa made 7 changes for that game. There’s 7 absentees on your list for that game and 2 of them were Vicario and Davies so your claim isn’t really “factual” at all.

[Rian 🐝 @rianmullaley]

@xavb03 @scottylake97 @Spurspapers @HLTCO 11 injuries and a suspension for his last game against Newcastle, but sure, the injuries only magically appeared once he left the club!