Topic: Internet Terrorists

[Z e u s]

Now I don't agree with Tom Hicks very often and didn't in this case, it was a laughable statement, given what he had done to us over the years.

However if he said this about our fanbase now - I think he'd have a point.

No doubt it was fine emailing journalists, posting banners, contacting SSN, getting Hicks Junior sacked - when Hicks and Gillett were miliing our great club.

However these campaigns don't seem to have stopped and now - the focus has simply gone from the owners to the manager.  It seems a large percentage of our fans think it is OK to email journalists, post on John Henry's twitter account, boo the manager, chant for Dalglish - undermining the manager.

Now this is not the Liverpool Way, from what I know.  We are behaving like Newcastle fans, causing uproars whenever we don't get our way.  What next, give Dalglish the job and then move the focus onto him?  Ofcourse that won't happen, but the point is we should be better than this.  Some of the abuse on John Henry's twitter account is ridiculous, infact he should remove it or block these individuals.  They are making our fanbase look irrational, abusive, thoughtless and it just drags our club down.

I am all for wanting Hodgson out.  But the results and performance will take care of this and the owners will read the reports in the papers, posts on forums, comments on phone ins and realise he is not the right man - they know this, but probably can't get the right man yet, if known.

But our fanbase really need to take a long, hard look at themselves and stop these divides amongst fans, stop emailing journalists, stop posting abuse on Aldridge or Henry's twitter accounts, stop booing the manager or team.. otherwise whoever takes over will have no chance with the fans acting this way.

We need to get back to supporting the manager, getting 100% behind the team and back to The Liverpool Way, something the whole club has lost from fans, to players, to owners.

[StevePass]

okay.

[Pople]

Agreed, although it's probably a minority that stand out in comparison to others.

[LFCfan4Life]

Only going to make one point and it's that any idiot can create a twitter or forum account and pretend to be whoever yet wish. Nothing to stop a dickhead WUM tweeting shite to Henry and his wife etc

Also the Liverpool way is not to blindly support people just because they are part of the club players are one thing but managers and owners can be destructive to a club and set you back years - souness and the yanks have shown us that

[Greg]

We need to get back to supporting the manager, getting 100% behind the team and back to The Liverpool Way, something the whole club has lost from fans, to players, to owners.

This could look like we are behind Hodgson. I'm not.

I'm not abusing anyone, but I'm certainly not going near Anfield until he's gone.

[Sevo]

I'm an auld arse, and I helped create the supporters' part of the 'Liverpool Way'. It is not a charter for allowing the Club to come to harm, which  is what is happening under Hodsgon. The supporters have a duty to protect the Club and allowing a worthy convention to prevent this is stupid. The 'Liverpool Way' is to act in a responsible manner - getting this man out of our Club is responsible and necessary.

[Z e u s]

This could look like we are behind Hodgson. I'm not.

I'm not abusing anyone, but I'm certainly not going near Anfield until he's gone.

I go to Anfield to support the team.

I want Hodgson out as much as anyone, but I think NESV know he's not the right man, they are just hoping he can stay in the job until the end of the season when they can appoint someone like Deschamps in the long term.

[Z e u s]

I'm an auld arse, and I helped create the supporters' part of the 'Liverpool Way'. It is not a charter for allowing the Club to come to harm, which  is what is happening under Hodsgon. The supporters have a duty to protect the Club and allowing a worthy convention to prevent this is stupid. The 'Liverpool Way' is to act in a responsible manner - getting this man out of our Club is responsible and necessary.

I agree.

But it has to be done in the right way.

We can't just keep starting campaigns whenever we don't agree with something can we?  Some of the booing, twitter comments (to Anfield legends such as Aldridge) etc have been disgraceful.

[jooneyisdagod]

Good lord Zeus, you are a fucking bore and what is worse, you are a fucking bore that creates his own topic every time he wants to make a point already made across myriad threads. 

And if you don't understand why the Dalglish chants arise and why comparisons with Newcastle fans are dead wrong, just read my signature, shamelessly stolen from the excellent article by Dion Fanning. 

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Now I don't agree with Tom Hicks very often and didn't in this case, it was a laughable statement, given what he had done to us over the years.

However if he said this about our fanbase now - I think he'd have a point.

No doubt it was fine emailing journalists, posting banners, contacting SSN, getting Hicks Junior sacked - when Hicks and Gillett were miliing our great club.

However these campaigns don't seem to have stopped and now - the focus has simply gone from the owners to the manager.  It seems a large percentage of our fans think it is OK to email journalists, post on John Henry's twitter account, boo the manager, chant for Dalglish - undermining the manager.

Now this is not the Liverpool Way, from what I know.  We are behaving like Newcastle fans, causing uproars whenever we don't get our way.  What next, give Dalglish the job and then move the focus onto him?  Ofcourse that won't happen, but the point is we should be better than this.  Some of the abuse on John Henry's twitter account is ridiculous, infact he should remove it or block these individuals.  They are making our fanbase look irrational, abusive, thoughtless and it just drags our club down.

I am all for wanting Hodgson out.  But the results and performance will take care of this and the owners will read the reports in the papers, posts on forums, comments on phone ins and realise he is not the right man - they know this, but probably can't get the right man yet, if known.

But our fanbase really need to take a long, hard look at themselves and stop these divides amongst fans, stop emailing journalists, stop posting abuse on Aldridge or Henry's twitter accounts, stop booing the manager or team.. otherwise whoever takes over will have no chance with the fans acting this way.

We need to get back to supporting the manager, getting 100% behind the team and back to The Liverpool Way, something the whole club has lost from fans, to players, to owners.

I don't want to support the manager. I want him out of the club. I won't sing things about him at the match (In fact I've gibbed the match because of him). But I want him gone yesterday. He's an idiot. He talks bollocks in every single press interview - every other one he directly contradicts himself. He puts the club down. He puts the players down. He puts the City down. He puts the fans down. He's clueless. He waffles. He has no aspirations to be a top manager and despite all that he think's he's doing an incredible job. His man-management and management skills are close to zero. And he looks like a spitting image puppet. He's got the intelligence of a squashed weebil and the tactical nouse of a tuna.

[Pheeny]

over 1000 threads already running that this could/should have been posted in.