Me too. COL is a top poster but sometimes he allows his heart rule his head when it comes to Tarbs. And he's not the only one either.
I made that point about a year ago in a long post I wrote. I still hold it to be very true. Not so much of the game itself (I still believe nothing compares to being at the Ground) but more so of the Club itself.
Ever since I can remember I've been quite amazed at how our fans (and fans of all other Clubs to be fair) can get carried away so easily. This is evident nowhere more so than at the end of the pre-season, just before the season kicks off. Every single year, without fail, the majority of our fan base start talking of ridiculously high-placed finishes, the brilliance of our players and the shi*tyness of our opposition. I realise that to some that's part and parcel of enjoying supporting a Club. To me, its just silliness.
I know some people won't like it when I say this but I do really believe that when you're living hundreds/thousands of miles away from the Club, you tend not to get caught up in the hype and nonsense that can otherwise take a hold of people. Of course that works the other way around too. The highs of winning something are no doubt less than of those who go week in week out and see the team succeeding. And I do believe that local guys have something - a connection - to the Club that I'll never have. Well at least not in the same way. But what I'm saying is that that "oneness" with the Club comes at a cost.
Take the other day for example. There are none that I've come across, on this Board or in "real-life", that are more passionate and die-hard about Rangers than Nines. When we're doing sh*t, his suffering is palpable. Even on a detached medium like this message Board I can actually feel the guys pain coming through on his posts.
After the Norwich game I was having a laugh and a joke with Gandy who's by and large a decent poster - unlike the rest of the Norwich wums on this Site. I didn't think anything of it. But Nines pulled me up immediately saying that I was being disloyal to the R's and that I should have empathy with the pain he and others were going through at that time. I didn't understand what his problem was but upon closer examination, his plight is that of a man who is quite literally part of the very fabric of QPR and when the Club suffers, he suffers too. Like really suffers. I don't have that intangible closeness to the Club because I was brought up in a different Country. Sure I get well pissed off when we're f*cking up but I don't think its the same.
Another example would be Stan losing the head yesterday when Kiwi posted up an article that basically said Fernades was playing poker with his pants down and gambling with the very future of the Club. I thought the article was very well put together but Stan was having none of it and attacked Kiwi and Kampala. Not in a bad way but it showed the passion that guys can have about the Club. The problem I find is that that passion can cloud judgement on occasion and suck people into a kind of bubble where reality gets distorted. My reaction to the article was, if any other small Club were behaving the way we are, I would indeed find its behaviour extravagant to say the least. Kampala realised this and is it a coincidence that he resides thousands of miles away from West London? Maybe it is, I don't know. But I definitely believe there is something in what Queens has said.
I'm surprised you said that mate. I don't understand that. The only thing I can think is that you got caught up in the excitement of a Tarbs argument which, I admit, can get a bit tasty at times.
I'm sure you regret that statement.
