I thought he was fairly average, and any other player that hadn't been made scapegoat of choice wouldn't have got the same reaction. The only justification for booing individuals is if they aren't trying, and I never get that impression with Bacuna. Booing him was a twattish move.
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on August 06, 2017, 02:00:13 PMI thought he was fairly average, and any other player that hadn't been made scapegoat of choice wouldn't have got the same reaction. The only justification for booing individuals is if they aren't trying, and I never get that impression with Bacuna. Booing him was a twattish move.I didn't hear any booing when he went off, just cheering which I suppose is worse in some ways. He did play some poor passes yesterday, as did some others, but I suppose there is previous with Bacuna that means he will get singled out more.
He's nowhere near good enough to start for us.
There's the sensible side of me that thinks the booing is unjustified and Bacuna is harshly treated.But then I think of all the piss takers that have robbed a wage of us over the last few years, including him, and think again of all those supporters that have coughed up fortunes to be let down time and time again, and I see a certain beauty in the fact that they have used the one platform they have to get the message across, and it's been taken.And the upshot of it is that we won't have to watch one the most hopelessly inconsistent performers I've ever had the misfortune to witness ever again
Quote from: LeeB on August 06, 2017, 03:15:11 PMThere's the sensible side of me that thinks the booing is unjustified and Bacuna is harshly treated.But then I think of all the piss takers that have robbed a wage of us over the last few years, including him, and think again of all those supporters that have coughed up fortunes to be let down time and time again, and I see a certain beauty in the fact that they have used the one platform they have to get the message across, and it's been taken.And the upshot of it is that we won't have to watch one the most hopelessly inconsistent performers I've ever had the misfortune to witness ever againExcept the biggest culprit for that is Gabby and he gets hero worship because in his case the fans memories are much shorter.
Quote from: paul_e on August 06, 2017, 03:18:38 PMQuote from: LeeB on August 06, 2017, 03:15:11 PMThere's the sensible side of me that thinks the booing is unjustified and Bacuna is harshly treated.But then I think of all the piss takers that have robbed a wage of us over the last few years, including him, and think again of all those supporters that have coughed up fortunes to be let down time and time again, and I see a certain beauty in the fact that they have used the one platform they have to get the message across, and it's been taken.And the upshot of it is that we won't have to watch one the most hopelessly inconsistent performers I've ever had the misfortune to witness ever againExcept the biggest culprit for that is Gabby and he gets hero worship because in his case the fans memories are much shorter.Correct, to a degree.Fans don't have to be consistent, and anyway most of those fans have witnessed Gabby being an absolute menace in a very good Villa side, even if it was years ago.Whereas Bacuna has just been gash from the word go, and has shown little to no improvement in 4 years or so.