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[Albion] What's happened to Adam Webster.



hans kraay fan club

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
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Chandlers Ford
AlbionBro said:
Do you feel it's the new fans? I mean those that hopped on the success train. I expect we are their second club if the truth be known.
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No, I don't think so.

For as long as I've been going (since 1982) there have always been obnoxious pricks in the crowd abusing our own for perceived shortcomings. The advent of social media has just allowed these goons to abuse the players on non-match days too. :rolleyes:
 






JBizzle

JBizzle

Well-known member
Apr 18, 2010
5,833
Seaford
hans kraay fan club said:
No, I don't think so.

For as long as I've been going (since 1982) there have always been obnoxious pricks in the crowd abusing our own for perceived shortcomings. The advent of social media has just allowed these goons to abuse the players on non-match days too. :rolleyes:
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You're right, of course, but it's not just allowed it, it's amplified it. Idiots in the crowd getting on a players back is part and parcel of matchdays at every club, now those same idiots can literally say it right to the player with no filter because they're hiding behind the anonymity of social media.

What kind of person looks at a fun little clip of Webster and uses it to fire over a torrent of abuse? The answer? Idiots
 








Cowfold Seagull

Cowfold Seagull

Fan of the 17 bus
Apr 22, 2009
21,648
Cowfold
Justice said:
Interesting to see how Igor is going to get games now Pervis is back and is by far the better left back. Webster covers the right hand side much better then we have been of late had a good game last night.
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Igor has gained ground on Pervis whilst he was injured l think, almost to the extent that RdZ seems to prefer him for certain games now, although admittedly not as a left wing back.

Pervis hasn't been the shoe-in that l expected since his return to the fold.
 




Cotton Socks

Cotton Socks

Skint Supporter
Feb 20, 2017
1,734
Hiheidi said:
I feel so bad for Webster. He did a cooking feature for the club social media and he's getting slated in the comments, that he's tagged into and has read.

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I really do love the things like this that the club does. Buzz's Bootroom I find very entertaining. I can now imagine Welbeck being someone who turns over the Monopoly board. :lolol:
It humanises the players, shows their 'off pitch' personality and I think it's great.
But I've also seen how much it affects someone when they're getting neg comments on something like YouTube. Someone I know uploaded a video 3 months ago that has nearly 2m views, 20k likes, gained nearly 19k subscribers, over 1.5k positive comments and less than 100 neg. It all happened so quickly that he wasn't expecting it, he was excited that it was at 500 views, then it went a bit mental!! He has found it really difficult to ignore the neg reviews but is hardening up to it now. I think people forget that people have feelings through the view of social media, they forget that there is a person at the end who's reading the horrible stuff they're saying to that person. People don't appreciate how badly text can come across at times as well, an innocent observation, not worded correctly, can sound like you're being really horrible. I use emoji's as an attempt to convey body language, f**k knows how many people would think I was being serious when I'm not, without the use of emojis.
Merry Easter :unsure:
 






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NorthstandRacoon

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Aug 1, 2017
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Withdean. Just behind the theatre of trees.
Fwiw btw, I do feel that if you pay your money you can say what you want at football regarding performances etc. If fans want to shout their displeasure at one if our players, or the team, playing poorly, let them. It really isn’t going to do anything and most the time it is just sheer frustration and after the match they realise what a fool they’ve been.

I have been guilty of it in the past after 1 two many beers.

Not everyone is there to clap their hands and sip tea and say how well the club is doing despite playing shite.
 






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NorthstandRacoon

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Aug 1, 2017
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Withdean. Just behind the theatre of trees.
Cotton Socks said:
I really do love the things like this that the club does. Buzz's Bootroom I find very entertaining. I can now imagine Welbeck being someone who turns over the Monopoly board. :lolol:
It humanises the players, shows their 'off pitch' personality and I think it's great.
But I've also seen how much it affects someone when they're getting neg comments on something like YouTube. Someone I know uploaded a video 3 months ago that has nearly 2m views, 20k likes, gained nearly 19k subscribers, over 1.5k positive comments and less than 100 neg. It all happened so quickly that he wasn't expecting it, he was excited that it was at 500 views, then it went a bit mental!! He has found it really difficult to ignore the neg reviews but is hardening up to it now. I think people forget that people have feelings through the view of social media, they forget that there is a person at the end who's reading the horrible stuff they're saying to that person. People don't appreciate how badly text can come across at times as well, an innocent observation, not worded correctly, can sound like you're being really horrible. I use emoji's as an attempt to convey body language, f**k knows how many people would think I was being serious when I'm not, without the use of emojis.
Merry Easter :unsure:
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Social media is a sespit and most of the comments on there are from weirdo’s or foreign fans. They seem to literally smear clubs and players to high heaven knowing they get little repercussions.
 








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Littlemo

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Aug 25, 2022
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NorthstandRacoon said:
Fwiw btw, I do feel that if you pay your money you can say what you want at football regarding performances etc. If fans want to shout their displeasure at one if our players, or the team, playing poorly, let them. It really isn’t going to do anything and most the time it is just sheer frustration and after the match they realise what a fool they’ve been.

I have been guilty of it in the past after 1 two many beers.

Not everyone is there to clap their hands and sip tea and say how well the club is doing despite playing shite.
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I never get this argument tbh, you choose to to keep spending the money, if you don’t like what’s being played you don’t have to keep spending it.

You spend money buying tickets to go on the bus or the train, if it runs late or breaks down do you feel entitled to go shout at the driver and call him a ****? Or even worse names? Booing and heckling a player if you decide he’s not good enough?

Obviously people expect it to a point, but sometimes it goes way other the top, especially when specific players get targeted. It’s this “I pay my ticket” mentality that causes that entitlement.
 


pigmanovich

pigmanovich

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Mar 16, 2024
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London
Littlemo said:
I never get this argument tbh, you choose to to keep spending the money, if you don’t like what’s being played you don’t have to keep spending it.

You spend money buying tickets to go on the bus or the train, if it runs late or breaks down do you feel entitled to go shout at the driver and call him a ****? Or even worse names? Booing and heckling a player if you decide he’s not good enough?

Obviously people expect it to a point, but sometimes it goes way other the top, especially when specific players get targeted. It’s this “I pay my ticket” mentality that causes that entitlement.
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Embracing the "fan as customer" mentality which has taken hold among PL clubs.
 




herecomesaregular

herecomesaregular

We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Oct 27, 2008
4,227
Still in Brighton
NorthstandRacoon said:
Fwiw btw, I do feel that if you pay your money you can say what you want at football regarding performances etc. If fans want to shout their displeasure at one if our players, or the team, playing poorly, let them. It really isn’t going to do anything and most the time it is just sheer frustration and after the match they realise what a fool they’ve been.

I have been guilty of it in the past after 1 two many beers.

Not everyone is there to clap their hands and sip tea and say how well the club is doing despite playing shite.
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The world is full of people like you nowadays, unfortunately.
 




The Fits

The Fits

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Jun 29, 2020
9,605
People think they're so clever on the internet, don't we?
Feel for AW here.
 


peterward

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Nov 11, 2009
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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo said:
I like Adam Webster, always has a smile on his face no matter what hes doing. Did remind me of an annoying toddler when he kept asking "whats this?" when he first got into the kitchen though.
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So do I as a man and character.

Can't deny I've made comments on here about mistakes in some performances, but not just slagging him off or making snide joke coments like those on YT.

Others have made mistakes too including our captain and Webster is never doing those deliberately.

Some players are very confidence driven, and Webster under Potter, ousted Duffy and was the main man next to Dunk, playing well and a regular.

Under RDZ he's second choice, he knows it, then in limited appearances the odd mistake feels magnified, probably weighs heavily on him and he's in that cycle of not playing each week and being conscious of making mistakes.

He's a good bloke, a great servant and top pro who deserves a bit of love a bit like Solly did, to help him get back to the best we've seen in past.
 


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