palexander
Life President
Before anyone says it, this is not a response to the thread about Stoke today, where SBH has had a bit of a personal pop at me. :rolleyes::cry:
Has anyone else noticed that in the last few months, the feeling on SZ has changed? The board used to be full of genuinely interesting debate, from what I considered to be mostly very knowledgeable football people. Even during posts with conflicting views, there was always a respect of opinion.
I cannot put my finger on what has changed? Maybe our higher status has attracted a wider fanbase to SZ (can the mods confirm the figures?) or maybe after 2 years of success, just our general position has people more agnsty?
I consider myself to be quite knowledgeable about football, I've been supporting Southend for over 20 years, understand the deeper tactical side and know alot about players from all divisions (but apparantly that just gets tagged with the new buzz phrase of 'Championship Manager player' - which is total nonsense) and I love nothing more than a good football debate, which seems not to be the case on SZ any more.
Risk posting a message analyzing team problems and 'my god thats a personal attack on Sir Steve'. Highlight a fault in a player and you are not a true supporter, make a suggestion about an available player and you are being 'totally unrealistic, we could never afford Peter Smith from non-league Chesham! What ARE YOU THINKING!?'...
Its all gone a bit silly!
Once again, just to re-iterate, this is NOT in direct response to my posts only, but responses I have read to other peoples posts too.
I know of at few people that used to post on here and enjoy SZ, but avoid it now because they 'cannot be bothered'...
Anyone else feeling the same?
Has anyone else noticed that in the last few months, the feeling on SZ has changed? The board used to be full of genuinely interesting debate, from what I considered to be mostly very knowledgeable football people. Even during posts with conflicting views, there was always a respect of opinion.
I cannot put my finger on what has changed? Maybe our higher status has attracted a wider fanbase to SZ (can the mods confirm the figures?) or maybe after 2 years of success, just our general position has people more agnsty?
I consider myself to be quite knowledgeable about football, I've been supporting Southend for over 20 years, understand the deeper tactical side and know alot about players from all divisions (but apparantly that just gets tagged with the new buzz phrase of 'Championship Manager player' - which is total nonsense) and I love nothing more than a good football debate, which seems not to be the case on SZ any more.
Risk posting a message analyzing team problems and 'my god thats a personal attack on Sir Steve'. Highlight a fault in a player and you are not a true supporter, make a suggestion about an available player and you are being 'totally unrealistic, we could never afford Peter Smith from non-league Chesham! What ARE YOU THINKING!?'...
Its all gone a bit silly!
Once again, just to re-iterate, this is NOT in direct response to my posts only, but responses I have read to other peoples posts too.
I know of at few people that used to post on here and enjoy SZ, but avoid it now because they 'cannot be bothered'...
Anyone else feeling the same?