For me this isn't rocket science...
If you want to say you don't rate Smalley as a player after you watched him then that's fair game. Personally, I haven't seen him start enough games to even have a view because most of his appearances he has come on its for 20 minutes or less. I cant see how judgements calls can be made.
However, its a bit dumb to say something nasty about a player, one of your own teams players, after he has had a serious injury. Yet, lets not go too overboard. Every club has idiots for fans and to be honest the management of PAFC and its players should have been in and around football long enough to know this will never change.
I think its fair game to talk about a player, managers & coaches abilities and what you feel are their strengths and weaknesses but beyond that when its gets personal, or just plain nasty (eg about his injury) then I do think sometimes for all the good the internet does for freedom of speech that people in positions of authority will never listen with much great enthusiasm because of the minority of idiots that voice stupid comments. It only serves to damage the rest of us who like to us this vehicle to express thought provoking opinions.
So then you get comments like Harbins which he feels he needs to say to defend the player when really common sense should prevail to the extent that the club should know that the fans who love this club would never think like that. To me it only serves the purpose of letting the internet trolls know that actually they can get heard and cause feelings of unrest.
If you want to say you don't rate Smalley as a player after you watched him then that's fair game. Personally, I haven't seen him start enough games to even have a view because most of his appearances he has come on its for 20 minutes or less. I cant see how judgements calls can be made.
However, its a bit dumb to say something nasty about a player, one of your own teams players, after he has had a serious injury. Yet, lets not go too overboard. Every club has idiots for fans and to be honest the management of PAFC and its players should have been in and around football long enough to know this will never change.
I think its fair game to talk about a player, managers & coaches abilities and what you feel are their strengths and weaknesses but beyond that when its gets personal, or just plain nasty (eg about his injury) then I do think sometimes for all the good the internet does for freedom of speech that people in positions of authority will never listen with much great enthusiasm because of the minority of idiots that voice stupid comments. It only serves to damage the rest of us who like to us this vehicle to express thought provoking opinions.
So then you get comments like Harbins which he feels he needs to say to defend the player when really common sense should prevail to the extent that the club should know that the fans who love this club would never think like that. To me it only serves the purpose of letting the internet trolls know that actually they can get heard and cause feelings of unrest.
