Stormers coach John Dobson did not hold back when addressing so-called ‘keyboard warriors’ during yesterday’s press conference. “I genuinely don’t read it,” he said. “But when you see it, it’s unbelievable.
People who know nothing about our process or what a player is going through – whether an injury or their family – feel free to assassinate someone’s character.” The Stormers boss expressed concern about the personal nature of the online vitriol. “To say this guy is***and shouldn’t be part of the Stormers, and that La Rochelle is not far enough away for Salmaan Moerat … “But this world where you can assassinate a person’s character like that based on absolutely no information and it’s published … it’s there in black and white …” “The world that the youth operate in now is so binary – if you’re not with me, you’re against me, then you hate me, and I hate you. It’s just a bilge.
“I wouldn’t like to be Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu now, I wouldn’t like to be Warrick Gelant. What’s he done wrong? Made mistakes on a rugby field?
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He hasn’t gone and invaded a country and strung nuns from a tree. But that’s the sort of level of abuse you get now.” Dobson highlighted the demands of playing professional rugby. “Then you’ve got the added stress of someone telling you, or your kid reading, that you are *** … from some expert sitting in his dressing gown.”
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