Quote Originally Posted by Jampie View Post
I don't think this is off-topic at all. It's meta but very on-topic IMO.

When your team loses it's understandable to be frustrated, but just as it's inappropriate to scream at people in the real world, it's not appropriate, in my opinion, to lash out online. Fair play to criticise a behaviour, but name-calling and casting aspersions on peoples' professionalism is too much.

I also think we tend to vastly underestimate how complicated things are when we post. Most of what happens on a football pitch is down to physical ability of individual organic beings (which is prone to fluctuate quite a bit), psychological factors (most of which are entirely subconscious) and a fair whack of randomness. But criticisms often boil down to ludicrous statements like "we lost because X didn't do Y". If we'd won because of some other random chance, you wouldn't have even noticed X not doing Y a lot of the time.

I sincerely hope the players and Ian do NOT read what's posted online. I gave up reading criticism of my work by the general public a long time ago because it's just an avalanche of poorly thought out and ignorant negativity. You just can't get through a day with your motivation intact if you spend any amount of time wading through... that.
Your third paragraph is an excellent explanation. Love that.