...you'll be a true Saints supporter. I'm totally ashamed of our crowd last night, when the going gets a little bit tough they disappear and turn on the team that has given them so much to cheer in the last 2 years. Why oh why can't our home crowd give unconditional SUPPORT and back the team for 90 minutes like our superb away fans do?.
There are more counts in Southampton than there are any where else. Love the team, hate most of the fans. Last night was embarrassing though, considering we had so many leaders - Hammond, Hooiveld and Davis, the team were lacklustre to say the least and needed a boot up the arse.
I agree! i didn't boo but can understand others that did.As long as the booing is not during the game then i don't think it's all that bad,we have to communicate with the players somehow.
'Supporters' by definition should 'support' the team, for long periods last night there was silence and groans, I could understand it more if we were having a crappy season, but we are in the middle of possibly our best season for nearly 10 years. There is a definite link between confidence and support from the fans being transmitted to the performances on the pitch.
I absolutely hate, i say again: HATE the masses fans that the camera shows leaving before the final whistle. Imagine what it does for the players confidence, 10 minutes left of play and they see the stands emptying. Loads of Newcastle fans left their home game against Arsenal last season at half time. What they missed in the second 45 minutes was one of the most spectacular comebacks in English football. We've scored 2 goals in quick succession before, and the lack of support shown in abandoning a game before it's over just represents a lack of belief and support for the team. When we lost 3-2 at the King Power Stadium last season, the entire away end sang 'Oh When The Saints' at the top of their lungs to the team right up to and even after the final whistle. The support last night was emotionless and disappointing.
Have you got the reference for this research or is it just an assertion? Sorry, don't mean to be clever about it, but I do tire of the twelfth man stuff at times. I hardly miss an away game, and as someone else has said we tend to keep going even as the Kelvin is picking the ball out of the net again! I can't say I've seen the team suddenly improve. I'm not having a go, mate. I totally agree with the main spirit of your post. We have a team and they are doing well in the 2nd division. We'd have killed for this pre-Liebherr. Interesting piece of research would be the correlation between the stay-away-fans-when-we-were-****e and the boo boys. They may well be one and the same.
The difference is that support is better away from home, we actually played well that game, and we were still on a high from just being promoted.
Ok I was not nor would I be a boo boy. Hang on a minute though. I don't care what game you go to, crowds do go quiet when things are not going so well. That is a natural part of watching football!! It is nothing to do with not supporting the team or lack of. I would much rather that than booing the team because they are having a bad game. As I said in another post I am not convinced that the booing was about the team more to do with Nugent and his antics. If he isn't cautioned for his antics there is no justice. The team had a bad day yesterday.......they have had several bad days of late. It is time NA earned his corn and get it sorted.
