by ferrarilover » 19 Apr 2013, 02:37
It's not though, or I'd have put "bad". What I have written and what you have misquoted have different meanings and it upon those altered meanings that you have sought to find fault. This is manifestly unfair (and a bit daft).
Performances, in terms of predicting a future full of doom are hugely important, as are the score lines. A side playing no less well than a generally poor opposition and losing by odd goals (in some cases, very odd goals) is much less likely to go on a run such as we did that a side manifestly not good enough for its given division which is getting roundly thrashed by 3 or 4 each week.
I do take the point you make that it has taken until now, but I move that it has taken until now for the OS to take the time to interview a player and make a story from it (not a criticism, necessarily). To extend this to mean that the players have been unaware of their plight until that time is, for me, a step far too far.
It's a bit like repressed homosexuality. Just because you don't bugger a geezer until you're 45, doesn't mean you haven't been a closet homosexualist since 1973.
If, ultimately, you're driving at the idea that this attitude held by the players should have been made public some while ago, then I agree, but suggest that it would have been a risky strategy. If this article had come out 6 weeks ago, and we'd gone on to lose a couple of subsequent matches, the allegation would be (from some) that the players know they're in the poo and they still aren't doing anything about it. This negativity then radiates throughout the majority of the fanbase (see Coley et al) and that is damaging for morale.
The fan situation is one which, even at our level, needs to be managed. If we had an entire fanbase of people minded as per Scotty B (realist rather than suicidal), it wouldn't be a problem, but that isn't how the world works, so the club has to do its best to manage expectations etc.*
Matt.
*on this subject, do I recall correctly that Sheridan promised Argyle Championship football inside three years? If so, it's going to be funny watching that fall down around his arse.
It's not though, or I'd have put "bad". What I have written and what you have misquoted have different meanings and it upon those altered meanings that you have sought to find fault. This is manifestly unfair (and a bit daft).
Performances, in terms of predicting a future full of doom are hugely important, as are the score lines. A side playing no less well than a generally poor opposition and losing by odd goals (in some cases, very odd goals) is much less likely to go on a run such as we did that a side manifestly not good enough for its given division which is getting roundly thrashed by 3 or 4 each week.
I do take the point you make that it has taken until now, but I move that it has taken until now for the OS to take the time to interview a player and make a story from it (not a criticism, necessarily). To extend this to mean that the players have been unaware of their plight until that time is, for me, a step far too far.
It's a bit like repressed homosexuality. Just because you don't bugger a geezer until you're 45, doesn't mean you haven't been a closet homosexualist since 1973.
If, ultimately, you're driving at the idea that this attitude held by the players should have been made public some while ago, then I agree, but suggest that it would have been a risky strategy. If this article had come out 6 weeks ago, and we'd gone on to lose a couple of subsequent matches, the allegation would be (from some) that the players know they're in the poo and they still aren't doing anything about it. This negativity then radiates throughout the majority of the fanbase (see Coley et al) and that is damaging for morale.
The fan situation is one which, even at our level, needs to be managed. If we had an entire fanbase of people minded as per Scotty B (realist rather than suicidal), it wouldn't be a problem, but that isn't how the world works, so the club has to do its best to manage expectations etc.*
Matt.
*on this subject, do I recall correctly that Sheridan promised Argyle Championship football inside three years? If so, it's going to be funny watching that fall down around his arse.
