Yeah. I don't have a problem with people complaining and agree entirely with you.
I do wonder though whether they really know how to fix the problems that they are complaining about. If they don't, then it isn't really helpful feedback but if they feel good after they have gotten it off their chest then more power to them.
And what does complaining on an online website do to help bring in decent businessmen? Would decent businessmen surround themselves with people who are constantly putting shit on them?
I don't complain online because it's pointless, I go to the Leagues Club every 2 years and make my vote as to who I think should be on the LC board who controls the PNRL so it doesn't matter what I write online.
See some may say it is pointless to constantly complain about something that appears to have no benifit in complaining about, but I think that is wrong.
To my way of thinking, if more people complained and tolerated less crap about things...services, politics, roads etc, and I mean really complained, then there would come a tipping point and ultimately something would change and fairly quickly.
But it needs for a real good pissed off and sustained whinge. Anything less is ignored by the powers that be, just like for example our politicians who have learned the art of fragmentation of the population to avoid real political unrest over taking them.
Well the same can definitely be said of our club. There are always going to be 5-10% of supporters like me who will stick it to them as long as they keep producing clangers like the Hopa affair and others, Foran affair anyone?
Then there will always be around 70-80% who acknowledge their short comings and cockups, but easily dismiss them and look for any positive because they see no upside or point in pursuing a negative or destructive(in their eyes) point of view. So mostly just turn a blind eye to it, and get annoyed with people that keep reminding them of it.
And finally there are the rest, the perennial optimists who never say a bad word or entertain the thought of a negative outburst in public and will always see a glass totally full kind of view point.
Needless to say I am of the pissed off whinger type that only goes by deeds and results not blustering or rhetoric. So therefore I will always whinge until we get it right and at the very least until then going off is one way of keeping me sane following this ridiculously amateurish mob, even if it is only on an internet footy site.
