My take (for what it's worth)

Is that question addressed to me?

 

Agree with all that.

Been really struggling with a lot of that recently and I've had to turn the BBS off to stop me breaking almost all of it. I find the BBS unusable after a defeat as I will turn in to the person you've described above. Shame, because this place used to offer a lot of solace when we'd lost. You'd feel crap, read a few posts that made you laugh, the feeling of defeat would go away and you could enjoy the rest of your Saturday night. The few banging the drum of negativity were easily ignored. The opposite appears to be true now. I struggle to find anything light hearted after we've lost, overwhelmed by what appears to be a competition to see who can criticise individual players/the team/the manager/the club the most. And it's gathering momentum. Negativity breeds negativity and the BBS is seen as the place to let off steam by criticising, when it used to be so much more. Such posts make me angry. I don't particularly want to be angry on a weekend, I don't want to feel any worse than I already do having seen my team lose, and I don't want to turn in to the person you have described above, so I've found it much easier and more beneficial to my mood to switch it off.

But people have the right to post what they want. I'd argue that having the right doesn't mean you have to use it.

I have the right to be a proper miserable old b'stard and make everyone feel like **** in my company, but I try my damnedest to make sure that doesn't happen.

 

If you mean the other thread, I wasn't referring to posters such as yourself. I have never seen you get on your high horse with anyone on this board. I do. I do it all the time. But not with you. It was actually a number of other posters I was referring to.

 

I've all but stopped going to matches and all but stopped posting on here. It's bad enough at 5pm on a Saturday after a defeat, only to come on here and things get 20 times worse. Better things to do in life.

 

Fair enough, James.

 

And then you have to sit with me at the matches and put up with my ramblings.

 

Yes. Your second paragraph in your initial message read like the Catechism that used to be taught in Catholic Schools.

 

Think you're being overly sensitive here. If we were all asked the question 'Was that a good performance?' after a match we would roughly all come to the same conclusion. (I doubt if many people could say the match at Donny was a good performance.)

But then posters take a different perspective - some may see poor performances as an indicator that all is not well, that something has to be done. Others see positives in a poor performance - new players being developed etc. And so opinions inevitably become polarised. Nothing wrong with that. The problem is when people read more into a post than is actually there - and there is a tendency to shoot the messenger not the message.

 

I never thought of it like that, but yes you're right, it does.
To answer your question (even though it's not anyone else's business), I was brought up a Roman Catholic. However, I do not believe in God, nor the doctrines of the church. I respect the right of others to hold their own beliefs.

 

The remnants of religious indoctrination. Glad you've seen the light now though.

And as umbridge seems to be de rigour on here of late; before any catholics take offence, I'm referring to any religion.

 

What?!?! You don't believe in Ronnie Glavin??? Shame on you!

 

I am quite happy for other people to follow their faith, it's their choice and I respect that. It simply isn't for me.

 

I didn't think of it like that.