Trollheart

Having jsut watched Match of the Day, can I try to frame this in a football context?

Let's say we're all in a team. They're doing okay; not great, mid-table maybe, possibly sliding closer to the relegation zone. (This is soccer, American members use your own interpretations. It amounts to the same basic thing) Manager calls all the team --- subs and all --- in and asks for ideas. Lots of guys have them. A player, let's call him Joe, is known for not having played much and not been involved in many matches. He's never been on a winning side. He thinks the team sucks. He's simmering.

When asked, he says he has some great talents if only someone would give him a chance on the pitch. Boss says ok, put your money where your mouth is. You're on next Saturday. Joe says okay, BUT I get to choose the team, I set the strategy, I'll accept no red or yellow cards or any decisions against me. Oh yeah, and I want the whole board changed to people I want running the club. THEN I'll play, and you'll see us win the Premiership.

What do you think happens? Think he gets to play, or that he's back on the bench, preferably on the transfer list?

Not terribly accurate I know, but it gives you an idea of the frustration we feel when one member --- and one only --- constantly puts down everything we do, nixes all ideas and suggestions, laughs at our efforts to improve the place while doing absolutely nothing himself.

You're playing week in week out with this guy. How would you feel? Honestly. And let me add, the whole team has explained the situation to him many many times but he just won't listen, so don't say you'd sit down and talk to him. It's been tried.

And in a broader sense, how good do you think having him in the team is for morale, and therefore performance?

Tore, you HAVE to hold sop responsible for this: he's the only one who has created the drama. People didn't jump on him right away; that came later after we had got tired of listening to his endless rants, sulks and refusal to face any sort of fact, while inventing his own to suit his agenda.

And again I realise that had the other thread stayed open, we would all be in there rather than here. So what is the answer? If people ignore sop what's that going to achieve? Nobody's gonna agree with him just to keep the peace, and he's already demonstrated that he's the type of person who will browbeat, or try to, anyone who gives him an inch. So he's not getting an inch. Or a centimetre, if you prefer. There's no reason on this good green Earth why the behaviour of people who have hitherto been innocent of any drama should be called into question, and his behaviour brushed under the carpet, the blame shifted and the whole situation skewed to make him the victim.

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