Dealing with Roosters hate?

[Steakface]

Seriously, the IQ of many league fans (even here) is pretty low! People take things way too seriously... I enjoy the banter and commenting and love it when the chooks are on fire, but I’m very aware that it’s a sport and in the scheme of things not very important to the quality of my life. I really think people forget this or don’t have anything else going on! But I do love an argument or stiring up the simpletons... haaaaa!
I agree with other comments, anybody could offer many of our players bigger contracts, but they don’t... any team could have picked up the Morris brothers cheap, but they didn’t! Any team could have developed a system and so many young guys that do a job, but they don’t! Roosters ain’t spending a fortune on players that do not influence the result of a game..neither do the storm and Penrith, raiders and parra etc are learning this!

Most club forums are shockers, absolutely toxic. This one gets a pass mark but geez it has its moments too.

The only NRL forum that is genuine good banter and largely free from mouthbreathers and dickheads is Reddit (r/NRL)

[Ivan Benko]

Probably a left field topic, but in a page full of Roosters, I think I’ll be able to get some good answers and advice. I love the club, I get to as many games as possible, watch as many as possible and live and breathe the Roosters 12 months a year. Yet the one thing I still struggle to shake is the hate comments, and dealing with people constantly wanting to bag out the club. I genuinely have not seen one post where there is not Roosters hate. It’s always salary cap cheats, brown paper bags, just every single bit of hate under the sun. I sometimes get so worked up reading the comments and especially when replying to them. You respond with some facts and still cop the hate. I think NRL put up a post with the score recap from yesterday, and all I saw were comments about “not playing any good teams yet”, “refs are on your side” or “you’ll win anything with Politis paying off the league”.

So I guess in simplest form is...how does everyone deal with the hate? Is it an age thing and the older I get the less it will affect me? Do you guys just not read/engage with comments anymore? Or just simply not let any of the hate affect you and bask in it? As I said, very left field but I just wanted to see what you guys do to deal with it, or even more so, why you don’t let it affect you.

Cheers!

They only hate us because we are successful , so hopefully the hate and the success will continue

[rented tracksuit]

My favorite hot take on that is "arguing on the internet is like winning a race in the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still (I'll clean it up) disabled."

[mattyh]

toughen up, who gives a f##k.

[Larry Long Balls]

toughen up, who gives a f##k.

Damn straight!!