But people seem to think that 'wow he was a bit crap today' is like hanging him out to dry. It's massively different from Carragher going on Twitter to millions of followers to call him out. *shrug*
Fair enough, I'll bow out, but I find this all very fucking weird. It's not gonna be much of a forum if we all link hands and sing kumbiyah.
Notwithstanding that these posts are coming off the back off everyone saying he played well! Because he did!
You're not alone, think you're spot on.
There's a real moralistic edge going around (not just RAWK, just generally), where anything that goes over the most low of low thresholds people are quick to stick the boot in on fellow supporters for having committed the great thoughtcrime of suggesting that one of our players didn't run very far and wasn't kicking a ball to his best ability.
I wish some of these people who've decided that discussing our games - both the great and the not so great (within reasonable bounds, obviously) - dared step foot in a pub around anfield (or the away ground) on a match day. Try telling all of us (/them, don't do aways anymore) there that they're fucking dickheads who don't know how to support their team for daring to have and to share a view that one of our players played badly
Don't get me wrong, I agree with self policing in the ground, and have done it plenty (most recently calling out some prick behind me in 305 calling Trent shite among other unkind words, minutes before he set up a goal) - but that's because the shouts, and the moans, and the huffs from the crowd contribute to the atmosphere that the players hear which means it feeds through to their performance given how the crowd and the team feed off each other).
But the puritanical judging, moralising and policing of very very standard and not-out-of-order opinions like 'i think x player is better than y player, so I hope x starts and y is on the bench' on a football discussion forum is just so fucking joyless and tiresome (and must be exhausting to those people who have to act like they're whiter than white - even though they've usually been guilty of the same thoughtcrimes)