Tony Stark wrote:
Whilst I appreciate fans will want to express their disgust at Kyle's actions and latest comments...
Let's not make friday about Kyle. Screaming at him, booing him, and singing swing low sweet chariot at him is just another way of giving him attention and making the game about him.
We need to blank him completely. Stay deathly silent whenever his name is mentioned, whenever he is lining up a kick etc. Then really ramp up the support for the rest of the lads. We need to maintain a positive atmosphere especially at 'home' otherwise the place is going to be filled with negative emotion and as we saw at the Warrington game the place will become like a morgue. Increase your support for those that are fighting for the club and lets not give the new guys like LMS, Shenton & Perry the wrong impression about us as a set of supporters.
D.M.F.A.K
Don't. Make. Friday. About. Kyle
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with this - but the thinking seems muddled and the outcomes (if such could ever be achieved on a wide scale - which, given the nature of RL fans, is incredibly doubtful) are likely to be counterproductive. On the one hand you want to retain a "positive atmosphere" - which I applaud and yet you implicitly describe Eastmond as an attention-seeker and then explicitly implore people to deny him such. Wouldn't it be far more positive to just cheer Eastmond on? After all, he's wearing a Saints shirt. He will be until the end of the season. He has publicly said he wants to give everything in his final year and not let his team mates down. Surely that statement is as worthy of being taken at face value as anything he has said to Granada (a company devoted to gutter TV)?
I wish Kyle would have gone at the end of last season - but he didn't. Any kind of protest against Kyle - whether it be boos from the supporters or a withdrawal of support - runs the risk of putting him off his game in a season when we are desperately short of ideas and experience in the halves. And that would certainly NOT be a "positive" outcome.
Given the injury situation, the loss of Kyle and uncertainty about the contracts of some of our better players we need to make sure we get through this season's difficulties as unscathed as possible. We cannot afford to allow issues to spill over into next year when, whatever happens, we will be entering the most important season for Saints in decades.