Hob Nob Anyone?

CF has been on the money throughout these past few weeks so fair play to him. He just needs to pronounce the name of our stadium and former owner correctly now.

He got all his info from me.

What is it with Courtney Friday? He did a great job with transfers recently but now hell bent on stirring the shit with players. First making something of nothing over the Meite tweet and now stirring the shit on twitter over Danny Loader.
Does he have a brain? Doesn’t he realise his stirring will not help the club or player/s. And his aim is to achieve what? Have a bunch of numb-nut twitters agree with him. Just lost any respect I had for him, the kid needs to grow up.

Oilroyal wrote:What is it with Courtney Friday? He did a great job with transfers recently but now hell bent on stirring the shit with players. First making something of nothing over the Meite tweet and now stirring the shit on twitter over Danny Loader.
Does he have a brain? Doesn’t he realise his stirring will not help the club or player/s. And his aim is to achieve what? Have a bunch of numb-nut twitters agree with him. Just lost any respect I had for him, the kid needs to grow up.

Clicks. Fin.

Oilroyal wrote:What is it with Courtney Friday? He did a great job with transfers recently but now hell bent on stirring the shit with players. First making something of nothing over the Meite tweet and now stirring the shit on twitter over Danny Loader.
Does he have a brain? Doesn’t he realise his stirring will not help the club or player/s. And his aim is to achieve what? Have a bunch of numb-nut twitters agree with him. Just lost any respect I had for him, the kid needs to grow up.

He's a journalist. He gets paid to provoke discussion, interests and clicks on the media outlets' websites. He isn't a club employee and isn't paid to promote the club's interests. The biggest risk he faces is getting frozen out by the club and/or players. However, given the number of crazy rants and sometimes seemingly personal vendettas that Dellor has got away with, that risk would seem low.

Snowflake Royal wrote:

Oilroyal wrote:What is it with Courtney Friday? He did a great job with transfers recently but now hell bent on stirring the shit with players. First making something of nothing over the Meite tweet and now stirring the shit on twitter over Danny Loader.
Does he have a brain? Doesn’t he realise his stirring will not help the club or player/s. And his aim is to achieve what? Have a bunch of numb-nut twitters agree with him. Just lost any respect I had for him, the kid needs to grow up.

Clicks. Fin.

Clicks for what? He doesnt even work for a newspaper anymore.

He likes attention. I've learned to not react to him anymore, just block him and you won't see it.

CF has been very good this window, but what is his aim? As far as I can see he is not generating any revenue by what he is doing...

Readingfanman wrote:

Snowflake Royal wrote:

Oilroyal wrote:What is it with Courtney Friday? He did a great job with transfers recently but now hell bent on stirring the shit with players. First making something of nothing over the Meite tweet and now stirring the shit on twitter over Danny Loader.
Does he have a brain? Doesn’t he realise his stirring will not help the club or player/s. And his aim is to achieve what? Have a bunch of numb-nut twitters agree with him. Just lost any respect I had for him, the kid needs to grow up.

Clicks. Fin.

Clicks for what? He doesnt even work for a newspaper anymore.

That might be exactly the reason he wants the clicks. To show a perspective new employer that he can generate a social media ‘buzz’.

It is a little strange him personally criticising the players like that. It’s not going to help him get his info. Transfers he has been good at, but if he wants little bits of info from the players, best not to slag them off

Hendo wrote:

Readingfanman wrote:

Snowflake Royal wrote: Clicks. Fin.

Clicks for what? He doesnt even work for a newspaper anymore.

That might be exactly the reason he wants the clicks. To show a perspective new employer that he can generate a social media ‘buzz’.

Not even close. He’s been in his new job which is non click needing for some time now. He calls things as he sees it. Fair play to him for that.

I had to laugh today’s when Jonathan Low reappeared after being non existent over the final days of the transfer window, only to offer to do a Q and A today. The man is useless! I know he’s a jack of all trades chap now for GR but he really does the job a disservice.

It seems to be the trend and I thought it was just kids and no-mark journalists pissing our players off. Grown men should know better

https://twitter.com/maffff/status/1161693525727227904

short memories https://youtu.be/YKZbHoo21dg

Oilroyal wrote:It seems to be the trend and I thought it was just kids and no-mark journalists pissing our players off. Grown men should know better

https://twitter.com/maffff/status/1161693525727227904

short memories https://youtu.be/YKZbHoo21dg

Just to elaborate
https://twitter.com/maffff/status/11617 ... 53248?s=19

(wrong thread btw)

maffff wrote:

Oilroyal wrote:It seems to be the trend and I thought it was just kids and no-mark journalists pissing our players off. Grown men should know better

https://twitter.com/maffff/status/1161693525727227904

short memories https://youtu.be/YKZbHoo21dg

Just to elaborate
https://twitter.com/maffff/status/11617 ... 53248?s=19

(wrong thread btw)

Prefer to read GMac,s humble response with my cornflakes https://twitter.com/gmccleary12/status/ ... 1026620416

It’s a shame that the situation has ended it the way it has but McCleary has been garbage since the start of 2017 really. His PO final performance was really iffy and I still maintain he should have taken a penalty rather than leaving it to a CB and LB who inevitable missed

Gunters a bit different in the sense he’s never really improved/regressed in his time here. He’s always performed at the same sort of level but from the outside it seems he’s been affected by fan criticism and he’s played in his shell for the last couple of years

I’m not sure directly criticising them on Twitter is the right way to go around it but at the same time people are overvaluing their contribution here considering we’ve consistently underperformed for the majority of their time here

Think it's sad criticising them directly on twitter. This maf bloke is so obsessed with Reading and Twitter its weird for a grown man. Think a lot can depend on players like garath with the circumstances in terms of his kids schooling families all of that good stuff. He has no reason to move. And maf whoever you are stop being such a gimp its embarrassing

Theroyalbox wrote:Think it's sad criticising them directly on twitter. This maf bloke is so obsessed with Reading and Twitter its weird for a grown man. Think a lot can depend on players like garath with the circumstances in terms of his kids schooling families all of that good stuff. He has no reason to move. And maf whoever you are stop being such a gimp its embarrassing

I have absolutely no idea who you are....

maffff wrote:

Theroyalbox wrote:Think it's sad criticising them directly on twitter. This maf bloke is so obsessed with Reading and Twitter its weird for a grown man. Think a lot can depend on players like garath with the circumstances in terms of his kids schooling families all of that good stuff. He has no reason to move. And maf whoever you are stop being such a gimp its embarrassing

I have absolutely no idea who you are....

It's a good thing not drawing attention to yourself on the internet. Why do you feel the need to slag off players on social media?

I see Mafff using the Wilder article as part of his justification on twitter. What exactly has Wilder got to do with Gunts and Gmac? Since when has Wilder had anything to do with us, the club and our players?

to add:

It’s a real shame because Mafff is on my “most visited” tab and I go to his twitter first thing and again 6 or 7 times a day to find useful and sometimes amusing stuff. But sadly, this one he got completely wrong

I’ve no problem with him sharing an opinion tbh. And no problem with GMac telling him to fcuk off

Don’t really do twitter but not sure ‘tagging in’ is appropriate.

I’d however suggest it’s oversimplification on his part - McCleary basically near the end of his career, 4(?) young kids at school, wife might well be working locally etc.

It’s not as simple as ‘just go find somewhere else’. Maybe he tried but no option allowed him to live at home etc. Then why would you leave/uproot the family