Slightly O/T Richard Mathers Twitter

Quote: Ganson's Optician "Hi All

Apologies for not replying earlier, I work weekends.

Firstly, I must admit that I was rather surprised to see that people are so interested in what I say, and have the time o sit there sending me messages.

My initial tweet was made after Richie's second comment, after being nagged to do so by a few people around me. One of which has since commented on this thread praising Mathers, however he shall remain unnamed.

If you read my first tweet, it started saying that I have been behind him all season. You only need to look through my posts on RL fans or twitter to see that. However the past few weeks have been spent trying, and failing to defend him.

I would have just left it at that, however @olly007 responded praising him. I responded to his tweet, by that time I had a good few beers down me. In hindsight, I used a few choice words and was probably a bit too harsh.

I used Richie's @ tag when making my comments, so that people reading knew who I was on about. I didn't think Richie read his mentions, as players are normally told not to visit RL Fans etc.

Quite a few people have said that after watching it back, they thought he had a better game than they did at the time. Not had chance to watch it yet. However it's not just me who has slagged off his performance, my views have been echoed on both RL Fans (Mathers v Wigan, Hodgson for playoffs) and on twitter. There was also much worse said in the stadium.

Re all the personal insults, I'm not going to bother responding to them. You can't please everyone all the time. However I'm happy for anyone to send me a PM if it really means that much to them.'"

So you have been behind someone all season, supporting and defending them, yet after one or two mistakes you suddenly turn on him?

I could sort of understand if you have been one of the fans who have disliked him for a while, but to suddenly turn is poor form IMHO.