Everyone has an opinion. Expectations have changed in terms of winning trophies and therefore so have the expectations on performances of our players, some of whom are the best paid in the world. There'll always be overreaction in the usage of words to describe some players, especially on a forum.
An example, if people wanted to lambast Vinny today for his mistake...then why not? Everyone can make a mistake, but he's paid NOT to make them (or not those type of schoolboy errors). He's still a hero to us, but mistakes have been creeping into his game lately (Sunderland cup, Hull away and now this). Doesn't mean people won't support him, but fuck me, that's a shocker and he deserves the stick for that incident, whatever else he's done for the club.
And as for the fans changing over the years...it was 15-20 years ago that our fans had a massive hate campaign against the likes of Richard Edghill...things aint changed that much then eh?...