blueandwhitehalves
Senior Member
Oh there's definitely the analogy to a relationship break-up. The reaction to Shearer leaving was the perfect example of that in my opinion. That first game back with the deafening booing was our version of cutting his clothes up or stamping on his rolex or whatever. The next few games of minor booing was the bitter period. Then finally when he got clapped on his last appearance here/Tony Parkes' testimonial/opening his street name, that was us finally getting over it and appreciating the magnificent times as the love of our life!It certainly does say something to me OOT.
Do you ever feel that some of the hatred that we reserve for wantaway players is similar to the rejection we feel leading to bitterness when a relationship breaks up? I do.
Why Lucas Neill was so pilloried is just irrational. He was probably on his last major contract and his agent had found someone to pay him 72k pw. With FOC and therefore with no transfer fee the wage reflected that. We couldn't match that by a country mile and if we had done there would have been a queue of agents outside Mark Hughes office door the day after. Who could blame him? He'd seen out the contract that he signed with us, given us good service and was then doing his best for him and his family. The fact that he went bankrupt could not have been foreseen but that now is irrelevant. The plain fact is that he was an australian footballer with no previous links to BRFC.
The other similarity is no players are ever booed when the club decided their time was up. You're never bitter when you're the dumper are you.
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