Pantherjim. said:
I'm surprised you're so anal about the subject that you'd actually take statistics on Rooster bashing! You must be obsessed with it!
The only reason why there is "38%" :roll: less Rooster bashing is because wankers such as yourself, Cockburn, OVP, Chook and Melon haven't been in here lately sprouting pig swill about how bloody great your beloved Roosters are, how crap other teams are by comparison, and how "flukey" it is for other teams to beat yours.
Most of you have been pretty quiet, hibernating in the sewers that you came from, hence less Rooster bashing. Nothing more.
I've been here all along, all season. Haven't been anywhere.
What you say is possibly true, but I tend to doubt it. It seems almost a given that the more successful a team is, the more unfair criticism it will cop. We saw it with Manly in the 70s and mid 90s, Brisbane in the early and late 90s, and with various other teams during the last 30 something years. It's just the Australian way, unfortunately.
I don't really "hate" any team -- I have a certain amount of affection for all of them, except perhaps the "new" teams, and that's only because I haven't grown up with watching those teams; but having said that, the times when I have degenerated into "hating" a team -- it's always because I have perceived that team to be a threat to the Roosters. In the early 80s I hated Parramatta, in the mid 90s Manly, more recently I've hated Canterbury.
But the "hate" is always temporary. It's certainly not "real" hate. Maybe with you it is. I don't know. Maybe you really do "hate" the Roosters. That would be pretty tragic, though. But I suspect with most fans, the hatred isn't real, it's transient and temporary, and is reliant on how successful that team is. Take away the success and you lose the hatred.
That's why Rooster bashing is down. As someone else said, they're too bad to be bothered hating. That's it.
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