af wrote:
When a teacher marks a kid's work for the first time, he might well make a judgement early on and suspect it likely to be a poor essay. If he then on the basis of the few lines he's read not only makes a definitive judgement but loudly tells all and sundry what a failure the kid is, I'd say that teacher is a kn.b with a pretty serious inferiority complex. Even if the kid goes on to prove him right, going in early is the kn.bbish act.
WTF are you going on about now? Seriously, you are now just wittering away and making less and less sense.
Let's just set the record straight here. You have this bee in your bonnet about my so called need to decry young players straight away without giving them a chance. It is just a shame for you then that Briggs is the only player I have ever commented on at such an early stage, and only did so because it is quite abundantly clear to most observers that he is way out of his depth at SL level and therefore a diabolical signing in an area that we have been desperate to fill for some time now.
Now on to Hawkyard, the player that I likened him to. You tried to suggest that Hawkyard was a part-time kid who "unwillingly" stepped in to help the side. I ask you then, if you were asked to step into a role that you were uncomfortable with woukld you......
a. keep your head down and try not to draw too much attention to yourself and hope things work out for the best, or,
b. dye your hair in a spectacular badger style and put on a pair of BRIGHT GREEN boots, just in order to stand out as much as possible and draw maximum attention to yourself??
Your mate Richie took option b, and therefore made himself a target for onlookers. Therefore I doubt he was really the kind of "lamb being led to the slaughter" that you try to suggest....
Also, lets just put an end to this now as you are wasting your time. If I see something that is obvious to me then I will pass opinion on it whether people like it or not. It is an opinion board and that is how it works is it not? People will agree and disagree, debate will start, the board thrives....
Then there is you, the next in a line of people on here that seem obsessed with trying to make me change my mind and see things the way you do. It is a bloody nonsense of an idea and as another poster has mentioned this week it is the usual on here that if you do not "toe the party line" then you seem to become a target for the Bulls "superfans".
Then again, perhaps we all should listen to you. After all, if we did then we would still be trying the world that Steve McNamara was an amazing coach and the club were progressing impressively. Maybe too we would all be banging on about the World Class youth policy that McNamara was apparently the brains behing. Another myth pedalled by the club and blinkered supporters.
You won't make me change my opinion nor do you have any bloody right to think you have to. After all, if more people saw things through only one eye and a RAB tinted monocle like you seem to do then we would all gleefully accept the garbage we are being fed these days and settle for the inevitable decline out of SL soon enough. I maybe cannot arrest the slide but I sure as heck will not be sitting here pretending all is rosy in our garden.
You are ME and I claim my £5 
