07-02-2018, 13:25
I quite like the Roman Numerals man, and I tend to agree with him a lot. Don't really mind if people have a go at me, but I do find some of them are just deliberately obtuse. Everyone gets the wrong end of the stick sometimes, but they find ends to sticks that weren't there in the first place.
And they are so judgemental on players. Young Dylan on the wing for instance ........ it's fine saying he was poor on Saturday, even contrasting him as a loan signing with Ahearne-Grant playing for Crawley makes a point. Ahearne-Grant was a youth international at three levels and played 50-odd games at Charlton. Dylan's experience was a couple of months at Tranmere. No wonder Ahearne-Grant hit the floor running and young Dylan didn't. He was a better and higher-level of loan signing and that's a fair point. Suggesting our lad will never be a player as Bob's queues up to do, is something no one can, or should do so quickly. I've seen Messi be completely anonymous for Argentina. But maybe he'd be worth a second look ...
One week they were ditching Ramsdale on BB's the next he was a future England player. One week B-W was going to save us, two weeks down the line he simply wasn't a left back despite his youth international appearances and his entire Crystal Palace career having been geared to that position .......... They're batty. (If he isn't a defender of some kind where else is he going to play, he looks ill-at-ease receiving the ball with his back to a player and has a turning circle which won't frighten anyone?)
I've been wasting too much time on there arguing with the deliberately deaf. I like being on here with friends whose opinion I can question, who can tell me when I'm wrong (which is mostly). The atmosphere is nicer and kinder and more respectful across the board, not just on our part of it, but with the other clubs too.
This could be a turning point in our club's history. If we go down we don't want to follow the lead of Hartlepool and Orient, who have both been struggling to come to terms with where they are. We have to be aware of both the strengths and weaknesses in the National League. If we stay up we can't do to Jack what we did to Danny and expect him to re-build on fresh air ....... and frankly he also has to do more than rely on Tommy Wright bringing in nearly-men from Barnsley, a club full of them. I can't see why we can't be both critical of Jack and go with his judgement and offer him our support - he's allowed to get things wrong sometimes, we can't make him feel he can't chance his arm, try an off-piste idea, start thinking outside the proverbial box. And of course as fans we are going to evaluate players, but character assassinations and the regular implication that a player is failing because that is his fondest wish ..... well I'm not keen on that. Look at Matt Briggs, a man who was teetering on the edge of a full England cap in his teens, now in his mid-twenties even we've dropped him from our RADAR. No one sees the tragedy in that, everyone is keen to load him down with blame and guilt ........ maybe they're right but I'd think a lot more of them if they were capable of a little kindness.
I've wiped Bob's off my favourites so I won't even be tempted back to read their opinions. I'll miss their insights, but it won't half save me some time.
And they are so judgemental on players. Young Dylan on the wing for instance ........ it's fine saying he was poor on Saturday, even contrasting him as a loan signing with Ahearne-Grant playing for Crawley makes a point. Ahearne-Grant was a youth international at three levels and played 50-odd games at Charlton. Dylan's experience was a couple of months at Tranmere. No wonder Ahearne-Grant hit the floor running and young Dylan didn't. He was a better and higher-level of loan signing and that's a fair point. Suggesting our lad will never be a player as Bob's queues up to do, is something no one can, or should do so quickly. I've seen Messi be completely anonymous for Argentina. But maybe he'd be worth a second look ...
One week they were ditching Ramsdale on BB's the next he was a future England player. One week B-W was going to save us, two weeks down the line he simply wasn't a left back despite his youth international appearances and his entire Crystal Palace career having been geared to that position .......... They're batty. (If he isn't a defender of some kind where else is he going to play, he looks ill-at-ease receiving the ball with his back to a player and has a turning circle which won't frighten anyone?)
I've been wasting too much time on there arguing with the deliberately deaf. I like being on here with friends whose opinion I can question, who can tell me when I'm wrong (which is mostly). The atmosphere is nicer and kinder and more respectful across the board, not just on our part of it, but with the other clubs too.
This could be a turning point in our club's history. If we go down we don't want to follow the lead of Hartlepool and Orient, who have both been struggling to come to terms with where they are. We have to be aware of both the strengths and weaknesses in the National League. If we stay up we can't do to Jack what we did to Danny and expect him to re-build on fresh air ....... and frankly he also has to do more than rely on Tommy Wright bringing in nearly-men from Barnsley, a club full of them. I can't see why we can't be both critical of Jack and go with his judgement and offer him our support - he's allowed to get things wrong sometimes, we can't make him feel he can't chance his arm, try an off-piste idea, start thinking outside the proverbial box. And of course as fans we are going to evaluate players, but character assassinations and the regular implication that a player is failing because that is his fondest wish ..... well I'm not keen on that. Look at Matt Briggs, a man who was teetering on the edge of a full England cap in his teens, now in his mid-twenties even we've dropped him from our RADAR. No one sees the tragedy in that, everyone is keen to load him down with blame and guilt ........ maybe they're right but I'd think a lot more of them if they were capable of a little kindness.
I've wiped Bob's off my favourites so I won't even be tempted back to read their opinions. I'll miss their insights, but it won't half save me some time.