Post by Jindred on Aug 31, 2012 14:19:02 GMT -5
I am being driven insane by the fans of my team. People all believe themselves to be true fans of a team, when we are winning they act like pompous dicks who believe we are nothing short of the best team in the league, and when we are losing they are calling for our QB/GM/Coaches head constantly!
We just has the worst year we have had in a long time last year and it ended up with a total overhaul of our coaching staff. We have a totally new offensive line, only one starter is the same as last year, we lost most of our leaders to retirement over the last 3 years and we have brought in 25 new players to a 46 man roster. And that was before the start of the season! There are more now closer to 30.. Most of those new players have never played in the CFL before and it is a different game. Lots of different rules and a different play style on the bigger field. It takes guys a bit to get used to it coming up from the NFL or NCAA.
We ended up winning our first 3 games which surprised everyone! Then we blew two 4th quarter leads (do to horrible play calling aka going prevent defense far to early) Since the three game winning streak we have lost 5 in a row all games we could have won.. And now everyone wants our QB sent packing our GM gone and our offensive coordinator to be replaced..
Our fans can be the best in the league.. and usually are! However the constant complaining from everyone and everyone thinks they know best but what they are forgetting is we are a very young team with only a few veteran leaders, and we have a whole new coaching staff and our offensive line has been a turntable with injuries this year never really getting a chance to gel!
Are all fans this fickle that as soon as you lose a few games they are instantly calling for peoples heads? I have been a Rider fan my whole life but its only been in the last 6 or 7 years that I really go interested in football and in the last 6 or 7 years the Riders have been a pretty good football team always making the play offs and making it the the grey cup 3 of 4 years.. so this is the first losing I am experiencing. So I wondering if all fans are this annoying when a team doesn't play very good..
We just has the worst year we have had in a long time last year and it ended up with a total overhaul of our coaching staff. We have a totally new offensive line, only one starter is the same as last year, we lost most of our leaders to retirement over the last 3 years and we have brought in 25 new players to a 46 man roster. And that was before the start of the season! There are more now closer to 30.. Most of those new players have never played in the CFL before and it is a different game. Lots of different rules and a different play style on the bigger field. It takes guys a bit to get used to it coming up from the NFL or NCAA.
We ended up winning our first 3 games which surprised everyone! Then we blew two 4th quarter leads (do to horrible play calling aka going prevent defense far to early) Since the three game winning streak we have lost 5 in a row all games we could have won.. And now everyone wants our QB sent packing our GM gone and our offensive coordinator to be replaced..
Our fans can be the best in the league.. and usually are! However the constant complaining from everyone and everyone thinks they know best but what they are forgetting is we are a very young team with only a few veteran leaders, and we have a whole new coaching staff and our offensive line has been a turntable with injuries this year never really getting a chance to gel!
Are all fans this fickle that as soon as you lose a few games they are instantly calling for peoples heads? I have been a Rider fan my whole life but its only been in the last 6 or 7 years that I really go interested in football and in the last 6 or 7 years the Riders have been a pretty good football team always making the play offs and making it the the grey cup 3 of 4 years.. so this is the first losing I am experiencing. So I wondering if all fans are this annoying when a team doesn't play very good..