- May 2, 2011
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Reckon it’s been a build up of things.
Supporters were pretty dirty at him last year from his body language, efforts, some of his actions (going back to SA and not telling anyone, the ice bath incident) last season. And it was opposition supporters that were the most critical. I think Daicos’s year intensified the disappointment towards JHF as well.
But if you look back to a number of our games last year (not really sure why someone do that too themselves) but he was actually getting booed a little even back then. Fans were put off by him. Not north fans. We were making that many excuses for his efforts and actions, much like Port fans are now.
Then there was the trade request. Trades like this can go 2 ways. You see the Dunkley trade, where dogs fans will be disappointed that he wanted to be somewhere else other than their club. But none of them can accuse him of not busting his arse when he was at the bulldogs. Even though he wanted out, as a football he still did everything for the club when he was there. Doubt any dogs fans will give him stick.
I think if we saw effort last year from JHF and in the end he just wanted to be home, that’s one thing. But the blokes efforts from round 5 onwards were so poor. No respect shown to senior blokes. Once again, I think this rubbed the footy public up the wrong way. Not just north supporters.
And then we come to Kane Cornes. I’m sure JHF’s camp would have been like ‘many of the footy public aren’t going to be happy with this situation, so let’s keep a low profile and hopefully everyone just moves onto another story’. But old d***head in the media wasn’t having it. Having a crack at north, and pumping JHF like he was the greatest player in history, straight out of the manual of ‘what to do to make everyone hate you’.
The booing will continue for a little bit longer, then stop around mid season when everyone couldn’t care anymore. I reckon JHF has played this the right way. Has actually played well through the booing, and it doesn’t seem to be impacting him. Which is pretty much all he can do.
Cornes, King and the rest of the media clowns keep bringing it up is moth to a flame stuff. Not sure Joe Public will take anything Cornes says onboard. Actually, most likely the booing will continue as he wants it to stop.
Supporters were pretty dirty at him last year from his body language, efforts, some of his actions (going back to SA and not telling anyone, the ice bath incident) last season. And it was opposition supporters that were the most critical. I think Daicos’s year intensified the disappointment towards JHF as well.
But if you look back to a number of our games last year (not really sure why someone do that too themselves) but he was actually getting booed a little even back then. Fans were put off by him. Not north fans. We were making that many excuses for his efforts and actions, much like Port fans are now.
Then there was the trade request. Trades like this can go 2 ways. You see the Dunkley trade, where dogs fans will be disappointed that he wanted to be somewhere else other than their club. But none of them can accuse him of not busting his arse when he was at the bulldogs. Even though he wanted out, as a football he still did everything for the club when he was there. Doubt any dogs fans will give him stick.
I think if we saw effort last year from JHF and in the end he just wanted to be home, that’s one thing. But the blokes efforts from round 5 onwards were so poor. No respect shown to senior blokes. Once again, I think this rubbed the footy public up the wrong way. Not just north supporters.
And then we come to Kane Cornes. I’m sure JHF’s camp would have been like ‘many of the footy public aren’t going to be happy with this situation, so let’s keep a low profile and hopefully everyone just moves onto another story’. But old d***head in the media wasn’t having it. Having a crack at north, and pumping JHF like he was the greatest player in history, straight out of the manual of ‘what to do to make everyone hate you’.
The booing will continue for a little bit longer, then stop around mid season when everyone couldn’t care anymore. I reckon JHF has played this the right way. Has actually played well through the booing, and it doesn’t seem to be impacting him. Which is pretty much all he can do.
Cornes, King and the rest of the media clowns keep bringing it up is moth to a flame stuff. Not sure Joe Public will take anything Cornes says onboard. Actually, most likely the booing will continue as he wants it to stop.
