Niall Maher

Quoted from DB

I agree with your post, however, it got me thinking. Many have complained of a lack of team spirit these last months. Then Maher shows some which is to be congratulated, so we complain again. I haven't read what he said but this now shows a bit of comradery within the team.


Good point.

As I said earlier Andrews did make plenty of mistakes but I think he is better than portrayed.

Quoted from Alan Buckley

Hope this useless clown never plays for us again after his comments on twitter! He’s got away Scot free for most of the season despite being absolutely woeful! Now because we’ve scraped a win against a team below us he thinks it’s clever to have a pop at the fans!

No thanks Niall get yourself on the rock and roll come June 1st!

Quoted from AncientExiledMariner

Gosh. Twitter is a toxic cesspool.

I'm not on there, but reading through here, it's ridiculous.

Maher is defending a young player who didn't have the best of games. Considering he wasn't picked today and had every right to be sulking, he's stuck his neck out and that shows a good team spirit.

Basically, apart from Andrews, we had Wood and Green. Green was needed to come on for Thompson, who while talented cannot come through 90 mins and has to go off. Basically, the only choices we had was either Wood, or Smith at right back and Clifton in the middle. Considering Smith's form hasn't been great, DA went with Andrews. Andrews has had more good games than Wood imho so perfectly logical.

The real idiots are grown adults that go online and bash a young kid trying his best because that supposed grown adult has poor emotional management.

I'm pleased Maher was out of the team, but mainly because I'm still annoyed by him refusing the pass from Cartwright that led to that member up the other week and him getting caught up front when we got cut through and conceded. However, apparently you can not be happy with the way someone is playing, and still consider that not everything they do is bad.

Quoted from LH

Noone was bashing him directly. Maher started it with a comment about silencing the critics but looking through this and the just back thread the critics were far from silenced. There’s a time and place for told you so type comments and it definitely isn’t after your first win in two months.

Quoted from AncientExiledMariner

Gosh. Twitter is a toxic cesspool.

I'm not on there, but reading through here, it's ridiculous.

Maher is defending a young player who didn't have the best of games. Considering he wasn't picked today and had every right to be sulking, he's stuck his neck out and that shows a good team spirit.

Basically, apart from Andrews, we had Wood and Green. Green was needed to come on for Thompson, who while talented cannot come through 90 mins and has to go off. Basically, the only choices we had was either Wood, or Smith at right back and Clifton in the middle. Considering Smith's form hasn't been great, DA went with Andrews. Andrews has had more good games than Wood imho so perfectly logical.

The real idiots are grown adults that go online and bash a young kid trying his best because that supposed grown adult has poor emotional management.

I'm pleased Maher was out of the team, but mainly because I'm still annoyed by him refusing the pass from Cartwright that led to that member up the other week and him getting caught up front when we got cut through and conceded. However, apparently you can not be happy with the way someone is playing, and still consider that not everything they do is bad.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Kinda interesting how this follows on from Artell's comments that he was pleased to see the players stand up for each other and not back down when handbags were drawn.

My first thought on this was Maher's got some nerve, then calmed to it's heat of the moment and then third that I'm kinda liking that he's backing Andrews up. It shows some sense of togetherness in the camp.

Finally though I just thought it would be a lot easier if both Andrews and Maher said nothing at all.  It's really, really unlikely that I'm going to become a professional footballer now, however if I did I think I'd make a point of having absolute silence on social media.

Same for the generic 'we're gonna put things right' that comes out of players after every defeat. Does anyone care or believe it?

Quoted from rancido

I find it all very ironic that the fans can have "open season" on here to slag off the players with some remarks very toxic and bordering on offensive. Then when one player defends another on social media there is such an uproar! " How dare he" , " Who does he think he is" etc. There are so many hypocrites on this site but I suppose it's no different to most of the others. A lot of the posters and fans think they are untouchable and beyond reproach but when the object of their derision tries to defend himself and his work colleagues then they are, in turn, slated for it.

Quoted from rancido

I find it all very ironic that the fans can have "open season" on here to slag off the players with some remarks very toxic and bordering on offensive. Then when one player defends another on social media there is such an uproar! " How dare he" , " Who does he think he is" etc. There are so many hypocrites on this site but I suppose it's no different to most of the others. A lot of the posters and fans think they are untouchable and beyond reproach but when the object of their derision tries to defend himself and his work colleagues then they are, in turn, slated for it.