Nah, totally different people.
Waz I like having around, especially when he puts his mind to tactics he can make some very salient points that are worthwhile discussing. The issues he and his alter egos have gotten on this forum generally stem from what I think is him having very strong emotional reactions (which is totally fine). When we're doing poorly it becomes doom-and-gloom that verges on self(Bournemouth)-hatred and talking about how other teams are better than us as part of that, and that understandably gets him the most stick. A lot here, myself included, don't like to see posts that come off as Bournemouth-hatred. I disagree with him at those times, but we all respond to disappoint differently and it's at least understandable why he veers toward those points when performances are poor. But when we do well, like in recent weeks, I think on the other side of that exact same coin his praise can sometimes become overly effusive, stuff like how a player MUST be played in a way because it was very successful recently. Even if I disagree with the level of praise at times, it's worthwhile discussion and we're all generally happy to praise the team's successes, generally doesn't get much stick at times like these. Overall, I'd say Waz is fun to have around when we're doing well and has worthwhile thoughts on tactics when discussion turns there, he can just be overly negative when we're underperforming in his eyes.
R&R is very much different in that he takes the dismal attitude of Waz when we're doing poorly, cranks it to 11, and then keeps it up despite whatever form we are in. He picks the most basic facts that can be construed as negative (sometimes even making up ones incorrectly or using unwarranted assumptions, his "reality" and "realism" are all too often "lies" and "imagination"), ignores absolutely anything positive that may counteract those or negatives the opposition similarly may be suffering, predicts the absolutely worst-case scenario, and then revels in being right on the occasional instance that we do poorly. Also has a habit of spelling player's names incorrectly despite being corrected, which is disrespectful of the team and I haven't seen Waz ever do that. Even when Waz may feel like he's rooted for the opposition because we've performed poorly and he's feeling negative, he still has that basic level of respect for the team. R&R is not just annoyingly negative, but also annoyingly predictable.
Sure, both can be lightning rods on this forum at times, but I'll have Waz 1000% of the time over R&R, and they're definitely not alter egos.
