“Short memories” – fans slate criticism of Rangers

It’s often a thing that our valued readers regularly give their two pence on our content, sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing, occasionally getting abusive.

But today we were regaled with what would be our pick as comment of the year from a Mr Craig McDonald who was replying to a Mr Neil Black…

Mr Black suggested our criticism of Ryan Kent’s performances this season was unfair, where we implied his being unavailable for a while was a blessing in disguise to both him and the club, giving him a badly-needed rest.

“FFS people have short memories… Shocking comments about one of our best players”

said Mr Black.

The response, from Mr McDonald, was a touché moment, however:

“It’s all it is, memories. You turn up to work next week and do f*ck all and see how long you last…”

Never have we been in more agreement with a reader’s comment than this, and it sums up both the problem and solution with football support.

Craig is absolutely correct. Imagine you have a stunning week at the office – all the numbers add up, you win 6 new contracts, and you secure 4 new clients. The next week you sit around, barely do any work, make a few phone calls and put no effort into it.

Does your boss let you off happily and say ‘last week was brilliant, feel free to laldy it up now because you can live happily off that’ or does your boss get upset and wonder why your feet are up and you’re hopeless?

No one would get away with a bad week at work, or putting no shift in. Why should it be different in football?

Kent is out of form, not alone, but certainly not delivering. As fans, do we cut him and others slack because they were great last season, or do we expect those standards to be maintained this time around?

In the office, it’s certainly the latter.

And yet, being critical of any player sees accusations of short memories, as if memories are more important than what the player is doing on the pitch today.

It’s not Kent alone – at least he IS trying. He’s just not got the form, and Stevie’ been on record saying that. But in general, can we please stop using 55 or ‘short memories’ as a reason to defend bad form this season?

It won’t help anyone, and even our players aren’t using that excuse.