Transfer rumours, inside info, to feel batter about results when they see how extremely negative things are around here (often works for me, coming away from games frustrated and annoyed by a particular incident to come on here and see it blown out of proportion making me realise how it wasn't...
Or people who can't be bothered to get involved in discussions that quickly lose all nuance, become binary, and whose opposite sides cause each other to devolve into extreme positions.
It doesn't make the opinion less valid, but it does make it less representative of the whole fan base.
A poll that runs at 75% among die hard season ticket holders who go to as many away games as they can, might only run at 20%* if you included all the fans. Doesn't mean the 20% are some how...
A cross section would be a sample that has the same spread/variety as the whole in the same ratio, I'm not convinced nsc has the same spread as the whole, and certainly not in the same ratio.
There were some guys near me who were irate with stockdale. One of their gems was "the defence dealt with it, why did he come?" Which confused me as I thought if the defence had it covered how could a shot come in?
I would probably need to watch it again, but I thought the shot was entirely...