(18-01-2024, 11:24 AM)TitchfieldBlue Wrote:(18-01-2024, 11:00 AM)DeepBlue Wrote: I think the social media treatment of Colby Bishop has had an effect on the whole squad. They appear a tight-knit bunch of players and if you attack one, you attack them all.
Bishop has created a bigger problem than he probably realised by cupping his hands (but I thought it was to some particularly vociferous critics in the NS rather than the FE) but his error of judgement is nowhere near as bad as those fans than took the criticism beyond normal levels to the very personal and caused him to be so angry in the first place.
The bond between the fans and the team was at an all time high after the events at the end of the Blackpool defeat, but it has sink to a low with the reaction to the loss of the form and the unfair and personal criticism of one player. It doesn't matter if 95% of the fans still rate him, the damage done by the 5% is still very real.
I think all of the players have been fairly criticised, including Colby. They were also praised in the first few months of the season too.
Colby has not been criticised any more than some of the other players, such as Norris.
Colby especially is a well paid professional, I would guess on around 5k a week, and should be able to take criticism. Let's not forget, he and others were being praised August to November time.
If players are throwing a hissy fit when they are criticised, they need to grow up and ignore it.
No player would complain about fair criticism , they know they have good and bad games and will get criticised for the bad ones. But some of Bishop's criticism was apparently very personal and aimed at his family too. Bad enough for team mates to show it to him when he hadn't seen it himself.
I've no problem with players being angry at that sort of shit, as long they keep trying to prove the critics wrong, and as you say they are all still giving 100%.