"@ing" Spurs players on Twitter

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Would you abuse a Spurs player directly?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • No

    Votes: 76 98.7%
  • Total voters
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Stopspot said:
Nah. Hama (the man in my avatar) is too pure. His one flaw is when he forgets twitter is an open social media and he retweets BBW porn and his timeline freaks out.
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The scary thing with it is people use it to say things they would never have the courage or indecency to say in person and at some point we'll have someone in power that's grown up in this social media age, sitting behind a monitor with a finger on a button labelled "SEND"...
 
Social media.... where to start? I understand it's a huge part of business (it's a pretty big part of mine 'Sports Marketing') however it's toxic. The strategy, is for posts to seem like they are from the player themselves but really the club should have someone doing this on their behalf, like a buffer. The players need to stay off it directly for the following reasons:

1. They are stupid and post stupid things
2. Trolls, if it's not one of ours it's other teams trying to get in a players head
3. Players get drunk, tired, angry and this is no time to post

As to the question "Should a fan directly hassle a player?" think we all know the answer but player must be stupid if they think flack wont come their way.
 
Every club has idiot fans, we are no different.

All sorts of personalities get abuse of one form or another, for example the abuse Eddie Hearn gets is stupid. If some numpty on a phone or behind a keyboard thinks he can change anything or can get a point across by being abusive then he/she is being very stupid and naive.
 
For better or worse said:
I find this whole social media thing unnerving. I see kids with their faces buried in a screen – mostly on YouTube whilst their parent are transfixed on their own device. Social interaction is low for these people and they've only ever know this state. What are they going to be like as they grow into adulthood? How will they progress through life into retirement and old age? We're yet to see a generation bought up on this go full cycle. I think it's a worrying time...
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Agree.......got rid of facebook about 7 years ago (had it for a year, hardly used it), dont have twitter, or instagram.

TFC is it for me in terms of social media. I have no idea what the point in it all is. Big load of wank if you ask me
 
spursmalc said:
People forget players are human. Janssen told he was not wanted on transfer deadline day, do you want to go on loan to Brighton without any consideration for his personal circumstances. Players including Trippier wondering all week if they will get a game. It is ok for the likes of Kane who is guaranteed a starting place but Trippier fought to get the number 1 place with Walker and thought he had achieved it and then the club bought Aurier. He probably is very insecure at present wondering how many starts he will get. Then these idiots make these comments. It can only increase his insecurity which if picked could result in him playing under stress and having a poor game.
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And form is all about confidence
 
Seven Sisters said:
I wouldn't abuse anyone on social media, whether they were a Spurs player or whatever. It's cowardly bullying, full stop.
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The only person I have ever told to eat shit on any social media is a British pro wrestler (of all things). I stand by it tho since he is a convicted wife beater who locked his x girlfriend in a room after beating her.

Still thinks he can just walk around like nothing's happened so I'm fine throwing a curseword his way.
 
Mockers said:
What is the general feeling about negatively @ing Spurs players in social media?

I've just seen Trippier post a tweet saying something along the lines of "looking forward to the first CL game tomorrow #COYS" and amongst the first 5 of 6 responses you've got Spurs "supporters" replying to him with things like "hope you're not playing" and "you'll be benched". I mean what sort of brain dead nasty little cunt does that?

People will say they don't read it or it doesn't effect them but a) I believe both to be false and b) it's not really the point. (Roses recent comments about fans reactions to his contract extension being evidence of the former. And he isn't even in social media!)

As a Spurs fan I see nothing wrong with coming on forums like this and voicing your option on players, positive or negative but when it comes to directly messaging them with abuse that's crossing a line. Not to mention it can only have a negative impact.

Regardless of whether you like or loath a player messaging them ahead of a game with abuse has got to be the dumbest most counter productive thing a fan can do.

Maybe I'm alone in this thinking but social media really does highlight just how many absolute cunts there are in our society. It's rather depressing.
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It honestly shocks me that anyone would write those things about Trippier, a player who has only ever given 100% for the club and has always been respectful to us.

I can understand it more when a player has been disrespectful e.g. Rose. Still wouldn't do it myself though (and not just cause I don't know how to use Twitter)- not my style.
 
There's this one bloke on twitter who has it in for Dembele too, even has Dembele is a fraud in his bio, forgot who it is but he's pretty popular in the spurs hipster in-crowd around Flav Flav and Thelonious Thelonious

you see what i did there, @dding pseudo celebrities on social media to covertly insult them
 
SoCalSpurs said:
CoD generation as in a generation of shit talkers behind a screen
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That era was sooooooo bad. Pubescent teenagers screaming obscenities and racial slurs, ugh.

Fortunately however that seems to have absolutely died. I'm not sure when it happened, but whenever I fire up a competitive multiplayer game on Xbox now it's dead silence in chat.
 
VirginiaSpur said:
That era was sooooooo bad. Pubescent teenagers screaming obscenities and racial slurs, ugh.

Fortunately however that seems to have absolutely died. I'm not sure when it happened, but whenever I fire up a competitive multiplayer game on Xbox now it's dead silence in chat.
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That's because the victims of their abuse figured out how to use private chat which left them to cannibalize themselves.
 
spursmalc said:
People forget players are human. Janssen told he was not wanted on transfer deadline day, do you want to go on loan to Brighton without any consideration for his personal circumstances. Players including Trippier wondering all week if they will get a game. It is ok for the likes of Kane who is guaranteed a starting place but Trippier fought to get the number 1 place with Walker and thought he had achieved it and then the club bought Aurier. He probably is very insecure at present wondering how many starts he will get. Then these idiots make these comments. It can only increase his insecurity which if picked could result in him playing under stress and having a poor game.
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It's variable depending on the player, however. There are many, many top level athletes that feed off of negativity and use slights, perceived or real, to fuel their competitive fire.

It's really the same in all walks of life - some need to be reassured and supported while others do their best under the pressure of proving others wrong. That's why management is so very complex and difficult...the HR staff of the world will tell you that you simply must treat everyone the same, but in general that's a path to mediocrity.
 
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