Quote: Cruncher "You do realise, don't you, that using terms like 'constantly happy brigade' is something of a faux pas in this context?
It's a bit of a give-away about where you stand. It also looks increasingly silly.
To start with, what does it actually mean? As you rightly point out, I expressed worry and disappointment with our mid-season results and because we were losing players. But I was still called a 'happy clapper' - presumably because I wasn't worried and upset enough (in other words, because I didn't agree with those calling down annihilation on the coach and the chairman).
In actual fact, the 'happy brigade', as you refer to them, don't really exist (if the club was being badly mismanaged - as it was under Whelan and Mo, EVERYONE would go to the barricades). But in reality, the phrase was coined not long after IL arrived by those who seemingly weren't prepared to give him a chance to rebuild the club, and was used to describe those who were - and it has continued to be used on and off for the same purpose ever since.
Yet even I, happy clapper that I am, didn't think anyone would be so ill-advised as to use it in the wake of IL and SW handing us our fourth major trophy in as many years. Congratulations on being the first - and only two days after it happened. That has to be a record.'"
I don't pretend to stand anywhere! Like you, I can see the immense good that IL has brought with him as well as feeling that he is wrong in his limp attitude to contracts. Like you, I am delighted by SWs successes after being concerned when he initially got the job. Where have I criticised SW?
I am irritated equally by those who whine over nothing as much as those that never complain no matter what. None of this makes you a happy clapper nor me a doom monger.
As for your last paragraph, the less said the better. How is mentioning those of an overly positive disposition in any way less acceptable than mentioning those with a clear anti IL agenda?