Rd 2: Carlton vs. Sydney: Post Game Passion

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What would they know B4L?

Not only has Gibbs never been dropped but each of those coaches, except perhaps Barker, have singled Gibbs out for high praise.  I'm not sure what it is about Gibbs that raises the ire of some supporters but I suspect that I may have stumbled across it during the Swans NAB game.  A supporter seated not far from me was critical of Gibbs throughout the game and, after one passage of play that we stuffed up, launched into a tirade of abuse about how weak Gibbs was; he was actually on the interchange bench at the time  :

Supporters see what they want to see, coaches see what they are paid to see.

I've had the same thing happen to me, I sat next to a significant club benefactor last season watching a game and he let rip a massive rant about Murphy when it was actually Boekhurst who squibbed some contests. Ironically it was the Collingwood game last year at The G when Murphy was clearly BOG. This supporter is obviously fixated on Murphy for some reason, and even when Murphy was at his very best the supporters brain still blames him for a defeat. During the same game he leaned across and asked me who Cripps was!

Unfortunately this was a bloke who f0rks out big dollars to support Carlton but in my estimate he probably could not tell SpecialK from Gallucci. All he is interested in is Carlton winning and being associated with a winning club, when we don't he cuts loose with massive rants. The really sad part of this, some of them are big enough dollar donors that the club and it's other high end support groups have to sit tough and listen to their complaints. If something is spoken often enough it can be perceived as true even if it is baseless.