Players and club officials do read this forum and would not be human if they didn't react in some way.
I believe that praise improves performance and criticism improves excuses.
I would also like to praise the OP for speaking up. Forums are a fantastic place to blow off steam and air frustrations, but they can also be very powerful and positive for the players. Can you imagine how SS feels reading the stuff we write about him. I bet he laughs at it, but there will be a sense of pride and determination to keep doing the good things he does.
That said, this place would be very dull if we were all happy clappy tinters. However, when things are going well people tend not to shout about it so much. Maybe for fear of jinxing it or just because its just not British.
So all that leaves is the grumpy buggers who then appear to be more vocal. It's not their fault that they are prepared to speak up when others don't!!
But if I were Matty Taylor I'd be pretty disheartened to read some of the stuff that's been written tbh.
There are 600 users here and there are less than a handful who say don't like Matty Taylor, but from reading threads it can appear that as many don't rate him as do. It's up to you guys to decide if you feel your opinion is well represented here. Is he 'useless', 'League quality' or 'Marmite'?