Per schreef:It's because Yannis doesn't play here anymore.
I think Phillipe's hope and empathy for Ajax went out the door with him?
Am I right?
I have no idea, but although I would like to ask Jamcocteau to calm down a bit and count to ten before he posts (I deleted a few words from your posting, btw), he's definitely got a point. Philippe doesn't even seem to notice, but he does sound like a broken record at times. He's very pro-Blind and for that reason has been sceptical of Henk ten Cate from the very start. Which is weird for many reasons, and two reasons in particular.
1. Ten Cate's got nothing to do with Blind's dismissal. He's not guilty of it. He just accepted a job (head-coach of AFC Ajax) because it was a vacant position and the club asked him to accept it.
2. The dismissal of Danny Blind was a unanimous decision by literally
all the responsible entities within the club: from the chairman to the managing director, from the technical director to the Members' Council and from the Commisioners to the external advisors. Literally not a single person with an official voice voted against the dismissal of Danny Blind - and I know this for a fact. Even the supporters don't talk about him anymore. Everyone is just getting on with it, except for Philippe in his remote bunker somewhere in the beautiful, great nation of France.
This makes Philippe's crusade a bit tiring. Meanwhile, he thinks that he's being perfectly reasonable and that
I am the tiring one, so who knows.
The worst thing (and this is another thing that Philippe himself doesn't seem to notice) is that Philippe is pretty much the only person in the English Zones who absolutely and utterly refuses to accept other people's points every once in a while. He always returns to the same topics and statements, and each time he returns to it he seems to have totally forgotten all the information other people provided him with. It is absolutely useless to explain to Philippe, for example, what the position of John Jaakke is within the club, which powers the chairman has (and which ones he hasn't). Philippe will just put his fingers into his ears and, when the next opportunity is there, simply start all over again.
The problem is: people who can't listen to other people always think that they can. The world's great psychologists still haven't found a solution for that.
Perhaps the roots of this attitude go all the way back to the time when Philippe was the only person visiting these English Zones. He could start a new thread for every thought he had, and the only person to reply to them was Philippe himself. No-one ever contradicted him. He never had to listen to anyone. The English Zones were his private playground.
Then we (Ajax USA) invaded the place. Since that day, Philippe has seized literally every opportunity to moan about our houserules and act as if he's become the victim of some sort of a dictatorship. The tone of his posts is almost always aggrieved and negative. Never one enthusiastic word about, for example, a beautiful goal or anything. Moaning, moaning, moaning, about Ajax, about Jaakke, about Ten Cate, about the way we (Ajax USA) moderate these boards -- about
everything, really.
The funny thing is: these zones were absolutely dead and we seem to have built a very nice and very respectful Ajax USA community here. Many people here have made new friends through Ajax USA
and these discussion boards. I for one definitely have. The Ajax Talk team seem to like what we're doing and almost everybody seems to have a good time here. Except for, of course, Philippe. It's essentially the same thing as with the Blind issue.
In general, if there are a hundred happy people around you, and you are the only bitter one, there are two things you can do:
1. stamp your feet, claim that things are shit and repeat that statement two million times, like a grumpy mantra, in order to stress your point.
2. look into the mirror and ask yourself the question: is it possible that my bitterness tells me someting about my own attitude?
Option 1 is the only option that Philippe knows, and he will go for it until the day he dies. And the bad news for everybody else is: he's got the right to do so. Negativity is not a crime, so I'm afraid there's nothing we can do.
K.