Guly v Zaha - the "respect" wars ....

[Turkish]

I agree dell days but I hate players being singled out by the same posters even if they played well..I.be yet to see the same level of hate against hoosevelt who's scored lots of own goals and Davies or our young goalie who's fault led to swanseas goal. I suppose puncheons back in favour so gulys the new hate figure for these same people.

 

 

 

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Saints fans have always loved a whipping boy. At the moment it's Guly and Fox, no matter what they do people still slag them off and last week we had the 'anyone but Fox' brigade. We actually said during the Swansea game when Ramirez was appluaded and cries of "unlucky" when he gave the ball away fairly cheaply that the crowd would be in meltdown if Guly had done exactly the same thing. A lot of our fans last season claimed Harding was better, presumably because he ran around a lot and showed passion by screaming at the ball boy, the hero worship given to De Ridder before after yet another woeful display, again because he is quick and runs around a lot. A lot of our fans seem to confuse ability with effort.

Edited 14 November, 2012 by Turkish

[Fan The Flames]

Saints fans have always loved a whipping boy. At the moment it's Guly and Fox, no matter what they do people still slag them off and last week we had the 'anyone but Fox' brigade. We actually said during the Swansea game when Ramirez was appluaded and cries of "unlucky" when he gave the ball away fairly cheaply that the crowd would be in meltdown if Guly had done exactly the same thing. A lot of our fans last season claimed Harding was better, presumably because he ran around a lot and showed passion by screaming at the ball boy, the hero worship given to De Ridder before after yet another woeful display, again because he is quick and runs around a lot. A lot of our fans seem to confuse ability with effort.

 

 

Agreed, there was a post the other month listing the whipping boys, there were loads of them over the years. I disagree about SDR being hero worshipped, people we just hoping it would click with him, but granted he was given more slack than the current whippos.

[SuperMikey]

There's definitely a 'scapegoat culture' among Saints fans.

[Turkish]

There's definitely a 'scapegoat culture' among Saints fans.

 

It's understandable if not right when things are going badly but we've also had this in the last 3 season which have been a nonstop success story. Gulys problem is for whatever reason fansade up their mind he was rubbish after about 2 games and even in his hot spell at the start of last season fans were still on his back. I don't deny he hasn't played well recently but he's been an important player in two successive promotions. I find it astonishing that some fans are saying Chaplow is the answer to all our problems for example when in reality in two seasons hes had a spell of about 2 months where he was any good yet continue to get on Gulys back.

[Dig Dig]

 

It's understandable if not right when things are going badly but we've also had this in the last 3 season which have been a nonstop success story. Gulys problem is for whatever reason fansade up their mind he was rubbish after about 2 games and even in his hot spell at the start of last season fans were still on his back. I don't deny he hasn't played well recently but he's been an important player in two successive promotions. I find it astonishing that some fans are saying Chaplow is the answer to all our problems for example when in reality in two seasons hes had a spell of about 2 months where he was any good yet continue to get on Gulys back.

 

It still amazes me that people still call for Chaplow to play. Even when he was going through his good spell, scoring some goals his all round game has always been crap.

[doddisalegend]

Saints fans have always loved a whipping boy. At the moment it's Guly and Fox, no matter what they do people still slag them off and last week we had the 'anyone but Fox' brigade. We actually said during the Swansea game when Ramirez was appluaded and cries of "unlucky" when he gave the ball away fairly cheaply that the crowd would be in meltdown if Guly had done exactly the same thing. A lot of our fans last season claimed Harding was better, presumably because he ran around a lot and showed passion by screaming at the ball boy, the hero worship given to De Ridder before after yet another woeful display, again because he is quick and runs around a lot. A lot of our fans seem to confuse ability with effort.

 

Always think a good team needs a bit of both. But we're British (well most of us and we do like our limited but hard working players maybe people just identify better with a player of more limited ability giving his everything for the shirt.