Quote from: Milltown Row2 on September 21, 2021, 03:54:00 PMQuote from: Hound on September 21, 2021, 03:41:08 PM
While social media can be a cesspit, this is squarely directed at mainstream media's criticism of Aidan O'Shea, in particular the Joe Brolly rant in whatever paper he wrote it.
Players who take advantage of media attention to build their own profile are also building a rod for their own backs when things don't go well on the pitch.
Dublin in the Lyons and Caffrey years embraced the hype, but got pilliored for it every year when Sam wasn't won. Although at least they were all on the hype-train together and the abuse was shared around!
In recent years, you could probably compare AOS to Bernard Brogan in terms of media attention, but Bernard was lucky enough to have success follow him so didnt have much personal abuse to deal with.
He's mentioned supporters in this, and they are your behind the keyboard trolls who are faceless, at least Brolly and co don't hide, and can and are pulled on their comments
Some of whom are on this forum.