What would our players think of Gaschat?

Yes, it’s a good point. But I guess every forum has a range of posters ranging from fair to those who could be quite abusive. Having read other forums I think Gaschat isn’t too bad. Others, Burton’s, Tranmere’s seem ok and haven’t seen much abuse on them. But if I was the Sunderland or Portsmouth’s managers I would definitely avoid reading their forums.
I think our players could come on here and not be too embarrassed but istr Summer 18 when we were desperate for strikers something about Rhys Healey from Cardiff was one of the rumours about coming here. Didn’t someone post about him reading the forum and changing his mind. I might be incorrect but I’m pretty sure it was a rumour, perhaps others know better.
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I don’t know about our players reading stuff here but our owners and board do.

In fact our chairman is so taken by some of the comments he prints them off. I wonder if he has framed any of mine...🤔🤭

I can immediately think of a few players has been slaughtered on here in the past for various reasons - for example

Dominic Blizzard

Danny Coles

Mark Wright

Stuart Campbell

Tom Nichols
Ed Upson

Even lazy fat bastard waste of time Rickie Lambert

I really don't think we are as ‘nice’ as we believe at times on here

If some of the people posting on here actually stopped and considered what they had written as if someone else was writing about them I think they would be extremely hurt. Virtually all of our players are treated like commodities at one time or another rather than human beings with feelings. Even the Beard was both lauded on one hand and dismissed as limited in very unflattering terms on the other, and that was for one of the most popular players of recent years.

If you were to receive a written appraisal at work which said f**king useless, hasn’t lived up to potential, hardly ever delivers, doesn’t put enough effort in, is too slow, is too old and should be moved on as soon as possible you probably wouldn’t feel particularly motivated to give your best. So imagine turning up on a match day knowing that not only the opposition but the home crowd as well are looking to criticise and jeer at you. It’s no wonder that some players are crushed by the level of vitriol aimed at them so I would definitely recommend that they did not read the forums.

Absolutely- great example using Stuart Sinclair. Probably the best is of course Wael though not a player of course. Yet when someone on here calls another a name or writes negatively about them it becomes a bitch fight or it’s straight to the Mods. Players are not commodities but human beings with real feelings too so if you can’t take it on here don’t give it regardless

Oops lol

Some posters get more crap on here than players and they keep coming back for more.

Don't forget people on here were calling GC a PE teacher & the squad not good enough for EFL football

That was after the first game!

Well done Squiffy, great post. The world has changed hasn’t it? I remember getting used to email at work and thinking this is great but also thinking I’ve got to be careful what I say because although you can delete, as in these posts, it’s still there somewhere. When I email or post I have a simple rule, would I say the same thing to the persons face or wouldn’t I. If the answer is yes then I send or post. If I wouldn’t I don’t write it. So far it’s kept me out of trouble! So far.😉
So to answer the post, best not to look at it from a professional point of view.
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