SOL era home crowd...

[0321safc]

Is it fuck

 

[mart]

Our fans are no different to any others. Anything other than immediate success is met with anger.

 

[Peter123]

Give over. Crowd were completely passive under Moyes and last season yet we came bottom both times. That had nowt to do with crowd. Support has been fantastic last few years.

The atmosphere has been flat this year & we are really struggling with a lack of originality in our chants. However, these games simply aren't big games, can't kid yourself otherwise. Nobody cares about a game with Accrington, Luton or Barnsley.

Last 2 games crowd have been edgy but that's on the back of sitting throughout 2 months of woeful passive performances with no real payoff

The support last year was shite.
This year it's been something else and can't be used as an excuse.

 

[PeteFTM]

Thought this for a while. A lot of our fans act like spoilt brats, I’d say we’re noticably worse than any other home crowd i’ve witnessed.

Compare us to some of the European crowds and it’s embarrassing.

 

[Deleted member 31333]

The support last year was shite.
This year it's been something else and can't be used as an excuse.

Didn't get on the players backs once & all we wanted was too see a home win.

Literally players were excused of everything because of Short

 

[The Muffin Man]

Supporters are sick of turning up in their thousands every week spending their hard earned cash to watch us stink the place out. Lets face it, we've been shit for about 80 years, not just since we've been at the SOL. No wonder people are frustrated...

I pay £14 for me and my lads season ticket, this is less than my mates pay to watch Evostick football....Sorry like, lets not even get into we pay our money so have a right to abuse the players and make it harder for them to win....We pay fuck all by modern standards.

 

[Nelson!]

Not sure how many former players and managers need to say it before it gets through the thick skulls of many.

Ego. Our fanbase is all we have to brag about so some people will never admit there is an issue.

Keane talked about certain players not being able to deal with out home crowd, even though they were good on paper. Not sure what else people need to hear to accept it is a factor.

 

[doodlebugs]

Every home crowd is like that

I still think safc will go up though.

i is with you on that statement

 

[Nelson!]

What a load of shite. Has worked in our favour twice as much.

That'll explain why we have such a great record at the SoL then.

 

[ERIMUS1876]

Good OP.

 

[Medulla]

Yes. Oxford home game, went off in the 70th minute to a chorus of boos. We won the next game 4-0 away to Bradford which was widely proclaimed to be down to his absence.

Can see he went off and didn't play the next game so fair enough, but I can't remember a single player ever being booed off while stretchered off. And I mean at any football game full stop.

 

[Nelson!]

Can see he went off and didn't play the next game so fair enough, but I can't remember a single player ever being booed off while stretchered off. And I mean at any football game full stop.

You're right. It was ironic cheering instead of booing.....but just as harmful. He almost quit at that stage as evidenced by his book.

 

[stephen cartwright]

That'll explain why we have such a great record at the SoL then.

You said you disagreed that home team fans don’t get on players backs, anywhere but the sol


I simply can’t fathom your logic on that one as it happens at every club at whatever level, throughout the world

 

[Nelson!]

You said you disagreed that home team fans don’t get on players backs, anywhere but the sol


I simply can’t fathom your logic on that one as it happens at every club at whatever level, throughout the world

I don't see a lot of other team's managers/players and independent journalists talking about how difficult other home crowds make it for the home team so I assume we must be a special case. Arsenal is the only one I'd really agree are as bad as us.

 

[stephen cartwright]

I don't see a lot of other team's managers/players and independent journalists talking about how difficult other home crowds make it for the home team so I assume we must be a special case. Arsenal is the only one I'd really agree are as bad as us.

If Man Utd go on a one game bad run, they are well up in arms. It happens everywhere, it’s not just at the Sol

Look at the dissent at Everton, for finishing 8th under big Sam?

 

[Medulla]

You're right. It was ironic cheering instead of booing.....but just as harmful. He almost quit at that stage as evidenced by his book.

OK, I know he got a hard time in his early stages but I find that a bit hard to believe if I'm honest. Maybe a handful of idiots perhaps.

Anyway, I think the idea that it's always been there since we came to the SOL is nonsense, but I do think it's an issue that's developed for various reasons to do with our football, and trends in modern football that started in about 1990

 

[Nelson!]

OK, I know he got a hard time in his early stages but I find that a bit hard to believe if I'm honest. Maybe a handful of idiots perhaps.

Anyway, I think the idea that it's always been there since we came to the SOL is nonsense, but I do think it's an issue that's developed for various reasons to do with our football, and trends in modern football that started in about 1990

Mate, I was there and remember it. Hard to admit after how his career with us turned out.....but at that point all he'd done was fail to keep us up as our main signing and fail to look impressive in division one.

 

[lozza]

So out of all the grounds in the country ours is the only place where the home fans get on the players back?? And our ground is the place where away sides thrive on it ?? Mental stat that mind !!!!

 

[Nelson!]

If Man Utd go on a one game bad run, they are well up in arms. It happens everywhere, it’s not just at the Sol

Look at the dissent at Everton, for finishing 8th under big Sam?

I don't hear those crowds groaning at the first stray pass or see lots of journalists writing up their home support as a problem season after season.

So out of all the grounds in the country ours is the only place where the home fans get on the players back?? And our ground is the place where away sides thrive on it ?? Mental stat that mind !!!!

Not the only place, but possibly the most notorious. How many managers have said words to the effect of "if you can frustrate them at home the crowd will get on their backs" about us?

You're kidding yourself if you think it isn't an issue.

 

[stephen cartwright]

I don't hear those crowds groaning at the first stray pass or see lots of journalists writing up their home support as a problem season after season.



Not the only place, but possibly the most notorious. How many managers have said words to the effect of "if you can frustrate them at home the crowd will get on their backs" about us?

You're kidding yourself if you think it isn't an issue.

You don’t hear them, probably because they pass you by, whilst you follow safc and hear anything that’s said

Play poorly in a home game, at any level, you will be booed off the park. That is very much reality