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Carter

Carter

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Nov 14, 2012
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This is an open letter to PRE on behalf of all the haters, the critics, the armchair warriors, the grumpy, daggy dads who vent their spleens at the slightest mishap on the footy field.

Yes, people who like to vent. Like me.

The message is simple. We like winning.

Winning is wonderful. It renders this site a fertile, sun-kissed paradise, where the optimistic, the starry-eyed, the romantic, the bullish, the passionate emerge from their euphoria to wax lyrical on players, plays, heroic deeds, the wonderland that is RFC.

So - I have a request.

After our next win, instead of scrambling to the Daniel Jackson thread, the Tyrone Vickery thread or the Damien Hardwick thread to screech WHERE ARE THE HATERS NOW?, please hold back. Calm yourself. Stop pounding your keyboards in rabid anticipation of a witch hunt, stop wearing your wrists out with trite, sanctimonious bleats of I TOLD YOU SO.

Because we are not in hiding. We are not on the run, ashamed of our rage, our unfair criticism, our needless bile.

We are enjoying YOU, candylanders. We are reading your silvery words of hope and boundless joy and BASKING IN IT.

It feeds us too. We are not so broken that we can't celebrate like the rest of you. After a win, we are so calm, so relieved, so bereft of fury, that words would just disturb our zen-like happiness.

We only find our voices in rage and anger. Call it a flaw. Call it a defect. But that is who we are.

In loss, we are Hemingway. In victory, we are like *smile* monkeys fiddling with crayons.

But we're not hiding. So how about we all jettison the hubris after a win. Because the haters are feelin' the love too.

Quietly.
 
We haven't had a good old fashioned internet lynching for 5 weeks now. I miss the old days where we had a near constant need for scapegoats.

Does anyone remember when we lost to GCS, North and Carlton by less than one goal in successive weeks? Halcyon days for internet fury and despair, historians may look back at time as a golden era of human expression.
 
Flowery language aside I also have a request. Stop posting nonsense about player x when we lose a game. Or worse, when we win and the richmondified parts of your brain still reach out to find a target to whack. Like a guilty man at the guillotine who's mouth shapes obscenities long after the spinal chord has been severed.

The 'venters' around here have a pavlovian response to the final siren, that is, if Pavlov had beaten his dog with a stick at every bell. The game ends, and even if it's our song playing, some find themselves searching for someone to blame for the loss that never came. To dissect who's at fault for the goals we didn't leak, and the clangers that weren't.

Maybe next time, take a breath. If there's a valid criticism to be had, of a player or a gamestyle, most are happy to hear it. But if you post nonsense don't get upset when people point out that it's nonsense.
 
I get it, Carter.

And my addiction to the RFC, and its' derivative PRE could be summed up in these words

"I'd rather stay here with all the madmen, than perish with the sad men roaming free.
And I'd rather play here with all the mad men, for I'm quite content they're all the same as me". - DB
 
PRE is just a reflection of how the team is travelling at any given time but you'll always have a sprinkling of Brighties and darkies who run against general consensus.
FWIW I've been positive on the whole for ages with how the team is travelling. The graph has been headed overall in the right direction for 4 years.
Good time to be a Tiger supporter. Not much to complain about at all. Best I can remember for a long time..
 
Carter said:
This is an open letter to PRE on behalf of all the haters, the critics, the armchair warriors, the grumpy, daggy dads who vent their spleens at the slightest mishap on the footy field.

Yes, people who like to vent. Like me.

The message is simple. We like winning.

Winning is wonderful. It renders this site a fertile, sun-kissed paradise, where the optimistic, the starry-eyed, the romantic, the bullish, the passionate emerge from their euphoria to wax lyrical on players, plays, heroic deeds, the wonderland that is RFC.

So - I have a request.

After our next win, instead of scrambling to the Daniel Jackson thread, the Tyrone Vickery thread or the Damien Hardwick thread to screech WHERE ARE THE HATERS NOW?, please hold back. Calm yourself. Stop pounding your keyboards in rabid anticipation of a witch hunt, stop wearing your wrists out with trite, sanctimonious bleats of I TOLD YOU SO.

Because we are not in hiding. We are not on the run, ashamed of our rage, our unfair criticism, our needless bile.

We are enjoying YOU, candylanders. We are reading your silvery words of hope and boundless joy and BASKING IN IT.

It feeds us too. We are not so broken that we can't celebrate like the rest of you. After a win, we are so calm, so relieved, so bereft of fury, that words would just disturb our zen-like happiness.

We only find our voices in rage and anger. Call it a flaw. Call it a defect. But that is who we are.

In loss, we are Hemingway. In victory, we are like *smile* monkeys fiddling with crayons.

But we're not hiding. So how about we all jettison the hubris after a win. Because the haters are feelin' the love too.

Quietly.
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Yeah nah.

So in summary, Brighties who have been laughed at, ridiculed, chided, and my personal favorite of being told we had no football IQ, should be adults and just turn the other cheek, hold hands with the darkies and sing kumbaya in joyful raptures promising to not attempt an teasing.

But the darkies who took joy in abusing, ridiculing, patronizing those who refused to stick the boots into the players and club when we were at our lowest, are now pleading us to forget the past, old hands and pretend it never happened.

Nah, *smile* you.
 
Do what I do, take crayons over to the politics thread. You can crash and bash and vent and spew and then saunter casually back over to Dyer-Tribe and continue rationally and thoughtfully. No one need ever no about the angry colourings and broken crayons. 8-
 
Coburgtiger said:
Like a guilty man at the guillotine who's mouth shapes obscenities long after the spinal chord has been severed.
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:hihi
 
Life on PRE is certainly dull when we continue to win and have 22 contributors.

Maybe we could reopen the Tambling, Pettifer, Gusbus and Terry Wallet threads in the two hours after a win to allow us to release our inherent cyncism and anger valves. The risk is we have a loss and many weeks of internal build up of cynicism and anger explodes onto the PRE keyboards around the world.

Unchartered waters for us tigers supporters. Dangerous times.
 
Carter said:
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We only find our voices in rage and anger. Call it a flaw. Call it a defect. But that is who we are.

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You are entitled to be who you are but I find it pretty sad really. I receive a lot of emails from people who read the site but don't participate any more due to the negativity, hatred, abuse and anger. It's a real shame, albeit it a very understandable one. Some poisonous keyboard operators even use our players as burley to bait others. I'd prefer to see a thread about that than one getting into actual supporters but each to their own. The sad thing is that good site members have stopped posting because of it.

PRE isn't the fun, happy place it used to be. It certainly wears me down and I find myself having extended periods away. In a few short weeks I'll be the only mod here and I don't know how much more of it I can take either. It's not a lot of fun copping and dealing with rage, anger and threats on a regular basis. The nobody likes us, everybody hates us so let's pick on them mentality is sad. My enjoyment of football has been tarnished severely...I hope not permanently. Life's too short.
 
rosy23 said:
You are entitled to be who you are but I find it pretty sad really. I receive a lot of emails from people who read the site but don't participate any more due to the negativity, hatred, abuse and anger. It's a real shame, albeit it a very understandable one. Some poisonous keyboard operators even use our players as burley to bait others. I'd prefer to see a thread about that than one getting into actual supporters but each to their own. The sad thing is that good site members have stopped posting because of it.

PRE isn't the fun, happy place it used to be. It certainly wears me down and I find myself having extended periods away. In a few short weeks I'll be the only mod here and I don't know how much more of it I can take either. It's not a lot of fun copping and dealing with rage, anger and threats on a regular basis. The nobody likes us, everybody hates us so let's pick on them mentality is sad. My enjoyment of football has been tarnished severely...I hope not permanently. Life's too short.
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indeed it is, Rosy.

my post was tongue-in-cheek. as ever, it is crucial to play the ball, and not the man.

especially on internet forums. agree whole-heartedly.
 
I'm down with all that Carter as long as I can still bag you haters out in the match day thread when in the second quarter you guys moan about how terribly we are playing when we are only 30-40 points up :hihi
 
antman said:
I'm down with all that Carter as long as I can still bag you haters out in the match day thread when in the second quarter you guys moan about how terribly we are playing when we are only 30-40 points up :hihi
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fair whack. i call that premature despair and suffer often :)
 
Baloo said:
Yeah nah.

So in summary, Brighties who have been laughed at, ridiculed, chided, and my personal favorite of being told we had no football IQ, should be adults and just turn the other cheek, hold hands with the darkies and sing kumbaya in joyful raptures promising to not attempt an teasing.

But the darkies who took joy in abusing, ridiculing, patronizing those who refused to stick the boots into the players and club when we were at our lowest, are now pleading us to forget the past, old hands and pretend it never happened.

Nah, *smile* you.
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dud. delist.
 
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