YOU ARE. Ok maybe not you, but it’s fans. No, not my opinion, after all I am an Ospreys fan myself, but that is teh opinion of another Ospreys fan who also happens to write for scrum.com.
In an article about what is wrong with the Ospreys he claims
I’m certainly not saying that there are not fans who are passionate about the Ospreys, still less that the players do not care enough. And collective passion by itself will not turn a bad team into a good one. It might, though, make a good team slightly better. There is no doubt that passionate mass attachment to an identity is a huge plus for a team. Munster may be the most obvious case, but I’m equally reminded of it every time I go to Northampton. One reason I love visiting Franklin’s Gardens is that it recaptures what rugby felt like when I first watched it as a child in Wales, with large crowds whose investment in the outcome is an expression of a deeply-rooted collective identity.
Now forgive my bluntness but never have I heard so much shit in my life – not even when Stuart Barnes talks (and God knows him and his Sky cronies manage to take shit talking to a whole new level).
What the Ospreys need, more than decent replacements for John Humphries and Sean Holley, is some loud fans. If we are talking about the wage bill maybe more fans would be a wortwhile point, but when talking about underachieving? No thanks. The set up, the coaches and the players have to take responsibility for their own actions.
What I find most amazing about rugby journalism these days is not that the standard is poor, their lack of thought or insight. What surprises me most is that I am still occassionally surprised by it. But then I am an Ospreys fan and, as such, part of what is wrong with the Ospreys. I hope all you other so called fans take along hard look at yourself, it is your fault we have an away fixture in this year’s quarters – obviously it was the fans that caused us to throw away such a promising position away at Leicester.
Oh, wait, did I say away? Ah well, it was the fan’s fault anyway…
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