RUFC Cyber Trolls? No room here

Why does this happen?

I`ve followed the twitter feed of Richard Stewart for some time. I`m not a keen follower, and to be fair, he never tweets anything controversial or really stunning, any way.

So I was a bit surprised when I searched for him today to learn he`d closed his account. Was he heading for the barricades if we didn`t sign anyone. How wrong I was. He`d closed it because of the abuse he`s had to endure recently from our “fans”.

Let me point out to those people. At the last guesstimate I saw, the Stewart family had put about £30M in to the club. They`d come in at a time when we`d had 2 administrations and looked in danger of folding. From the doldrums we now have a state of the art stadium, fit to host televised international games.

A successful visit to Wembley and consecutive promotions got the club in to England`s second tier, and were all under pinned by the Stewart family investment. Meanwhile at the financial helm they, quite rightly promised they wouldn`t put the club in hock.

How sickening it must be to be subjected to abuse from”fans”. Is it worth it? If I was him, that’s what I’d be asking myself.

I ask those who are doing this “Do you think there is a queue of seriously rich people waiting to throw money at Rotherham United?” No! Anyone with premier league pedigree, yes but they`d be in it for the big bucks. What we have here is a family that already have a financial investment in this town with ADS Lighting. They`re putting something back in to the community. The only alternative I can see is a fans buy out. Oh we`ve had that before. What a success that was!

I`m not saying they`re perfect, but they`re doing a good job on a budget. At the end of last season relegated teams got more in prize money from the premier league than Real Madrid got for winning their league. Where does the Financial Fair Play give us smaller clubs a fighting chance?

Get behind the manager and support the directors.

There`s no room in this club for cyber bullies or any other kind of bully. Your views don`t represent what I`ve seen to be the majority of fans