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Are we as armchair critics, too harsh on our club and national team players if they play poorly?


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By Heineken - 22 Jun 2010 3:04 AM

In recent light of Scott Chipperfield's comments and now he's saying he doesn't wanna come back to the A-League because of it, he also mentioned Sydney FC fans and our treatment of former striker John Aloisi.

I was dissapointed at times with Aloisi, but i feel some of the slack he recieved was a bit unfair. These guys after all, are only human, and they do make mistakes, like the rest of us, they have bad days, and what not.



Edited by heineken: 22/6/2010 03:05:33 AM
By Heineken - 22 Jun 2010 2:02 PM

Gotheberries wrote:
sydneycroatia58 wrote:
No I don't think we do.

Look at it this way these players are getting paid bucketloads of money to play the sport that we love and the sport that we have to pay just to play. If they play shit they deserve the criticism. It comes with the territory.

Aloisi is a perfect example. He's getting paid over a million dollars a season to score goals and when he doesn't do that on a regular basis he deserves every bit of stick he gets.

As an Arsenal fan I criticise a lot of the players a fair bit because as an Arsenal player I expect the best from them and when they don't perform they get the criticism.



Umm Aloisi was our highest goal scorer last season AND scored 2 criticle goals that got us through to the Final. Not really a perfect example after all, was it?


I think he was referring to his first season at Sydney FC, i was too. But in all fairness, he could have scored another 5 last season.