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Its Him Again said:
Not true .
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No home crowd in the history of football, does not get on players backs when losing at home?

Am I the only one who thinks that?

Mr RAWhite said:
I honestly don't think there is a crowd in the land that gets on their own teams back like ours did last night until we got a goal back. Every one of our players looked shot scared to do anything. Then the goal came and the atmosphere changed completely and the team responded in kind..
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Imo you are wrong

Arsenal booed until wenger retired for five years, is one example
 
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Mr RAWhite said:
I honestly don't think there is a crowd in the land that gets on their own teams back like ours did last night until we got a goal back. Every one of our players looked shot scared to do anything. Then the goal came and the atmosphere changed completely and the team responded in kind..
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Everton fans seem a lot worse than us in this regard IMO. Even going back to when they were decent under Dr Death it never seems to take much for them to get restless at Goodison whenever I watch them on TV.
 
PtangYang kiperbang said:
You need a manager to instill the confidence in the players. That first season under Keane, he had them believing they could beat anyone. A manger should be to make a group of players greater than the sum of its parts. Somehow, this bunch is way less than the sum of its. Some of that is down to the players, some of it is down to the manager. There is no motivation and fire in that team. None. So flat every single week.

He’s got the best players in the league on paper, the strongest squad, the most money, the biggest stadium, the best facilities, the biggest crowds, he and the players are failing massively. They are bottling every game every week, and that’s why the fans are reacting and rightly so. We want them to stand up and be counted and they’re quite happily letting the season slip by. Another year in this league will be catastrophic, there’ll be no-one left, we’ll lose a generation of fans, the financial implication will be huge. But aye, let’s stick with it.
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Do you think the players are happy to let it slide by? That doesn't seem the case with most of them. I come back to the point of who you'd replace, and who you'd get in.

But also, if this is so important, it's also the hill we should be dying on as fans. We should be with them to the last, because it might be the difference between going up and not.
 
KittenMittens said:
Do you think the players are happy to let it slide by? That doesn't seem the case with most of them. I come back to the point of who you'd replace, and who you'd get in.

But also, if this is so important, it's also the hill we should be dying on as fans. We should be with them to the last, because it might be the difference between going up and not.
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KittenMittens said:
Do you think the players are happy to let it slide by? That doesn't seem the case with most of them. I come back to the point of who you'd replace, and who you'd get in.

But also, if this is so important, it's also the hill we should be dying on as fans. We should be with them to the last, because it might be the difference between going up and not.
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If we had been behind them from the start like we were after we pulled it back to 1-2 then we would have won that game..
 
If a team gets beat after giving 100% then you'll rarely, if ever, hear fans booing. It's when some if not all don't give a fuck when we are losing and end up getting beat that pisses All fans off.
 
Nelson! said:
We're great when it's going well. That's not in question....but most supporters are.
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That's a good point to narrow the debate , which fans would you make an example of regards being excellent when the chips are down? And by "down" is your example comparable to SAFC?

I am 31 and I turned my back on the last Man Utd at home game under Moyes, I've been to maybe 3 or 4 games since having being a ST holder since the SOL opened. I don't think I have missed anything since , and up until I sacked it off I thought that the last really good football we had was under Peter Reid. Steve Bruce had a decent team for a year or so.

Even the promotions after Reid, Keane included, didn't really give entertaining football. I can totally understand why fans are pig sick of it...are they duty bound to always get behind the players? Some will think so, others won't, and some will walk away from it.
 
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daveydavey said:
That's a good point to narrow the debate , which fans would you make an example of regards being excellent when the chips are down? And by "down" is your example comparable to SAFC?

I am 31 and I turned my back on the last Man Utd at home game under Moyes, I've been to maybe 3 or 4 games since having being a ST holder since the SOL opened. I don't think I have missed anything since , and up until I sacked it off I thought that the last really good football we had was under Peter Reid. Steve Bruce had a decent team for a year or so.

Even the promotions after Reid, Keane included, didn't really give entertaining football. I can totally understand why fans are pig sick of it...are they duty bound to always get behind the players? Some will think so, others won't, and some will walk away from it.
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If you can walk away from it then it isn't in your DNA..
 
Johnsafc said:
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
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:) We are in a fantastic position, a challenge, we are not a team fir for storming the league, this is a good place to be. The only thing that bothers me is if we do go up could we invest & compete at that level ?
 
Johnsafc said:
They don't. Even if people try to care it's just not the same buzz as if we are playing a big team. Can sense that in the stadium. Have been able to all year
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The stadium wasn't exactly buzzing when we were in the Premier League either mate..
 
Plank said:
Wyke was getting shit from some in the SWC even when he was just receiving the ball for a pass. It's cringeworthy like.
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He was that good that he got dragged off in the 54th minute, maybe the crowd are right that he's shit, or are you saying the crowd are causing his shitness? I remember Kelvin Davis getting more crap than that, every time the ball went anywhere near him. He eventually went the journey.
 
mysticmackem said:
He was that good that he got dragged off in the 54th minute, maybe the crowd are right that he's shit, or are you saying the crowd are causing his shitness? I remember Kelvin Davis getting more crap than that, every time the ball went anywhere near him. He eventually went the journey.
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I honestly don't think there is a human being alive who could perform to their best when getting so much stick from your own "supporters"..
 
The crowd were great on Friday once we started getting back into it. I agree though that we are quick to get restless and booing players and/or ironic cheers aren’t helping anyone
 
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