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Unless you're Darren Crocker or Leigh Tudor how in the world would you know any of that precisely? Sure Basti, Adams and Black might have been playing poorly from a supporters perspective but the coaches might be judging them on a completely different set of criteria to what the fans do and the fans don't know exactly what that criteria is. Maybe they fit structures better than the person who would replace them, maybe they play a role better than anyone that would replace them, maybe the players the fans want to replace t these players - eg Wood, Dumont and Kennedy is previous years - aren't ready to play that role in the side yet.
Why? It's a discussion I like to have, an obviously something that I'm passionate about/annoys me.
I'm not suggesting at all that fans can't disagree with decisions that are made or have their own opinions. But it's frustrating when they derisively dismiss the coaches decisions by claiming he has favourites or that he judges different players who play the same position on different criteria and claim that they know best even though they have absolutely no idea what discussions happen between coaching staff and players and exactly what the coaches are looking for from certain players. If that was the case then there would certainly be protests from players claiming they were being treated unfairly or protests from the coaching and selection staff that Brad was completely bias which obviously hasn't happened. As fans we have to trust the current custodians of our great club that they will make the right decisions for the future of the club - not blindly of course - but some calls by fans border on gross disrespect.
Passionless support renders the entire competition irrelevant. Your post is wonderfully written and in some creepy "utopia" that s**t may work. But here in the real world when people have emotional attachments and uber vested interest, it's going to boil over, and so it should.
Supporters have a love hate relationship with their football clubs and individual players through out the world. It's the way it is, the way it should be and the pressure of being a professional athelete. Robust discussion and criticism included with the creme de le creme of the worlds hottest women, oh, and not to mention some decent coin along the way and handy opportunities forever after.
Feel like the Turner selection last year flies in the face of a lot of the preconceptions of Bon on here.
Surely that was forced upon him.
If he had balls and it were his genius, he needed to play him rd 1.