What can this type of tweet possibly achieve?!
@24spoony the sooner u are away from. hibs the better. useless, heartless prick the worst hibs player since eduardo hurtado ****in *****
To be fair to wotherspoon he retweeted it to show this guy up for the fool he is. If he met DW in the street i bet he wouldn't have said that to his face,
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Thread: Tweeting our players
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19-03-2012 08:54 AM #1
Tweeting our players
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19-03-2012 09:05 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 10:35 AM #3
Think we need to get real ..... DW is going to be a mainstay of our team and if not a big mistake letting him go to join the long list of players "not good enough" who go on to other clubs and flourish ! Support the team ..... Bad or good ..... support !! GGTTH
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19-03-2012 10:37 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 10:42 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 10:50 AM #7
Just beat me to it with those two names ....... Either we get behind the team , and I ain't no happy clapper , and yeh put forward our opinions but abuse ..... What exactly does that achieve ?
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19-03-2012 10:50 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 10:52 AM #9
So 2 players. Hardly a long list.
There's far more of the recently released warming the benches or being spectacularly average elsewhere. There's also a few who don't have a club at all.
I'm not trying to.condone abuse, whoever sent that to Wotherspoon is an idiot but I am.seriously starting to doubt he has what it takes as a player. I'd argue the list of bad players we have had in the last 4 years is far longer than that of those flourishing elsewhere.Last edited by Pretty Boy; 19-03-2012 at 10:54 AM.
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19-03-2012 10:53 AM #10
Such is the nature of public communication these days. Sad and pathetic, really.
That said, is it really any different from the "goldfish bowl" that so many players describe? The shouting of abuse from the other side of the street, the hard-man in the pub, the numpty at the game hiding behind "I pay my money, I will shout what I want"?
Being a professional footballer is more than just being able to play. They have to develop a thick skin, and be "on" in public all the time. Sometimes I think those abilities are what they are really getting paid all that money for.
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19-03-2012 10:57 AM #11
I'm sure we could all come up with a list over the years but that's not the point ..... it's gotta be just what do you achieve with abuse ????? I would venture to suggest ... Nothing . We all know things ain't good at ER and have all been angry and/or frustrated for a good few years .... prib since 2007 tbh but where we are right now we need to back the team as much as poss thro bad and good ( or not quite so bad) !!! Cmon GGTTH
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19-03-2012 11:04 AM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
No need for it at all, the only suggestion i could make is that football players don't use Twitter to tweet, harsh maybe but save's the hassle of getting the abuse, he gets enough of it when playing for Hibs why would he want more from fans tweeting him at any time of the day.
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19-03-2012 11:20 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What I am saying is I can understand it. Without going all uberfan, I have spent hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds suppporting Hibs in.the last 5 years or so. That's money that could arguably been better spent elsewhere. There's little enjoyment going to games now, even pre and post match pints are a drag now because so few of my mates want to go.
I'm getting very close to just chucking it and being a 3 times a season, semi finals and finals supporter. Attendances over the last couple of years show I'm not the only one. We seem keen as a support to try and blame each other but we don't make the decisions at the club. The board and managers do. We don't force players to go out drinking, we don't force them to look less fit than other teams in the league and we don't.force them to put in substandard perfornances.
Football clubs have made the choice to take supporters for granted. They have chosen to treat us like customers same as any other business. So they can't complain when we, as customers, become unwilling to pay for an inferior product and take our business and money elsewhere.
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19-03-2012 12:48 PM #15
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As has been said many times, he was not that good for us aside from the odd flash here and there. Poor attitude, had no intention of staying at Hibs beyond the end of his short term deal and probably said as much when he signed. He would not have done well in the SPL down to his attitude rather than ability.
Showed at Barnsley he is a good player when given a run in a team at the level he feels he should be playing.
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19-03-2012 12:54 PM #16
Lets not kid ourselves, the guy is useless, proves it time and time again on the park, especially yesterday, did he have a prematch chinky? But he doesn't deserve that kind of abuse, I expect Fenlon to empty him in the summer
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19-03-2012 12:58 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The board treats the club and its fans like a business so why cant the fans do the same?
Its terms like "part time supporter" that clubs can use to their advantage to emotionally blackmail fans into spending money. They have been doing it for decades, and in Scotland fans are starting to make a statement by not turning up.
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19-03-2012 01:11 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 01:57 PM #19
Re the tweet.....copmplete idiot and absolutely no need. Stack has been getting similar stuff posted of his Facebook.
Re Spoony.......is it any coincidence that he plays better for Scotland under 21's than he does for Hibs? Against a very good Dutch side a few weeks ago he was right bag of tricks, doing things he'd never dare try in a hibs shirt. Why do you think that is?Last edited by Frazerbob; 19-03-2012 at 02:10 PM.
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19-03-2012 02:07 PM #20johnbc70Left by mutual consent!
Always said his best game in a Hibs shirt was his first, against St Mirren on the opening day of season 2009/2010. There is a player in there, and I hope its at Hibs we see it.
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19-03-2012 02:10 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Fans moan about attitude of players (most of which is speculation) but often its their own attitute - articulated so there can be no doubt - that should be questioned.
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19-03-2012 02:34 PM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 03:44 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As for the tweet, fair enough let the players know how disappointed we are and how annoyed we feel that we have been humiliated yet again by our biggest rivals but there is absolutely no need for that, absolute idiot.
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19-03-2012 03:53 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-03-2012 03:54 PM #26
Few more recent departures that were "chucked too early!"
Felipe Morais flourishing at Oldham
Clayton Donaldson banging them (not so much this season) at Brentford & Crewe
Darryl Duffy - couldn't score for sh*t for us but has been at Cheltenham (and by all accounts playing very well)
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19-03-2012 04:04 PM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That'll be the same Clayton Donaldson with 5 goals in 35 games this season. He's on fire.
Darryl Duffy, having a good season (in League 2) where he's got almost as many goals this season as he has in his past 6 seasons combined.
As for Felipe Morais. I wouldnt even take the time to look into his form/record, he was/is just pish.
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19-03-2012 04:13 PM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't think we got rid of anyone too early. The above players got some first team exposure and, for whatever reasons, they didn't have the impact needed. That they may have found some form elsewhere is neither here nor there. They were signed to be successful for us and, in their time with us, they were not.
When we sign players we need players who are ready to play and play well. That is where, I think, Fenlon is having more success than his predecessors. Although a tad inconsistent he has found players, in the likes of McPake and Francombe, who added quality and hit the ground running. Because we operate with a small squad and not much quality in depth that is what we need.
We can't wait and see for very long or give players a season or two to find their feet. If they don't settle and contribute quickly then we have to change things and find players that will. The likes of Hearts, Motherwell, and Dundee United have been consistently better at doing this than we have. Hopefully that will change for us under Pat.
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