07-14-2018, 04:58 AM
(07-14-2018, 04:30 AM)LP link Wrote:I think you are naive if you think the personal derision our club wears from the likes of has-been players in Ling and Taylor has no effect!
It's just another cross to bear, and the continual repetition that sort of criticism brings has a real world influence on players and sponsors.
It's too easy and simplistic for fans to say the players shouldn't hear, watch or read the media. They cannot divorce themselves from the reality that they live in, they are bathed in the commentary daily, as are sponsors and potential sponsors.
Effects like pareidolia are not some not a crazy alternative reality conspiracy theory, they are very very real! Like it or lump it, what people hear, read or see does influence their opinion consciously and sub-consciously!
If anyone thinks I'll sit back non-reactive and let spuds like Ling and Taylor throw stones and make comments like that about our club, passively spreading my butt cheeks for them to have a free serve, they have got another thing coming.
The fact our club officials are so meek and mild in the light of this sort of slanderous media barrage is even more disgusting, no wonder blokes like Tom Elliott have oxygen! In the absence of some fight, we have to assume people like The Judge, Liddle, Judd, McKay, SOS and others all agree with them!
How can fans take joy or solace in the progress of children, while putting up with those spuds hanging crap on the club right through-out the broadcast at every available opportunity?
If i am capable of living my life without letting comments by those in the media getting to me about my beloved blues, then i'm sure those within the club are too.
Its not about whether it gets to them. Its whether you worry about them getting to you, if you can control it, if your energy is better foccussed elsewhere.
You don't need a blanket ban of media. You don't need to read it all. You don't need to analyse everything you read.
All i'm saying is that if the media want to have a go at us about our alternative strip. Let them. Who cares? Are we going to play poorer football because of it? If the answer is yes, then we need to find some better footballers/administrators.
Nathan Buckley carved out a fair career for someone who was constantly criticised despite being a great of the game. That continued into his coaching career too. You know what, he's going alright at present. Luckily he doesn't let the media dictate his moods/moves.