(05-14-2023, 07:54 AM)LordLucifer link Wrote:..............................................
If they don't want to come out with comments from the heart like "no, it wasn't good enough and we have let our supporters down yet again" then stop wasting your time & ours.
Results or STFU !!!!
So if the club came out and said "we let our supporters down" and we can see it comes from the heart (whatever that means) that would be sufficient to placate the angry hordes ? Somehow I doubt it. At any rate, I'd be wary of assuming there's only one audience when such comments are made. There's a number of stakeholders that get addressed in public announcements from the club, be they media, fans, players, marketers, coterie groups, other clubs, the AFL.
If Voss or anyone else said "we let our supporters down yet again" every time we lose, it would carry no weight or believability at all. I much rather they behave professionally rather than angry fanboys.
The chasm that exists between ideas fans have about AFL football, and the actual reality of what being an AFL Club / footballer entails, seems to get bigger and bigger.
I watched the Lyon presser after today's game, and the last question he was asked was about giving a spray at quarter time. Listen to his answer. In fact, watch the whole presser. If you didn't know the score, judging by his comments, you'd think they won. Barely a bad word about his own team.