Although I understand RAWs (This isn't a pop Reg honest, just wondering where others stand on this.) worries about the boos having a detrimental effect on the team. Surely this is a two way street, and the players should try to win over their detractors? IMHO the team has to make the first move in this sort of situation and at least show some ****ing balls. In 50 years of support of SAFC there have been times when I and the majority of the crowd have gave the team stick. Is it ever right to give them stick? I have said this before, I have went to matches home and away when we knew to a man we were going to get tonked. Yet cheered the lads off the pitch after a beating just for their effort. But we also used to boo them if they rolled over and played dead. Does it make a difference to us that even the water carriers of the team are earning obscene wages? I know it does me. The amount of money they are earning they should be crawling off the pitch exhausted.
course people should boooo if they think people deserve it!! (our players and manager deserve it atm) ps. i wouldnt boo personaly cause i think its pathetic haha
Never booed the lads no matter how bad they were but, do understand the lads that do it. For me at least it is counter productive and puts more pressure on the team, agreed that the team need to win over a large portion of the home crowd they only do that by playing well.
But I have been at Roker Park in the dark days where booing the lazy ****ers has woken them up. And then any little effort the boos turn to cheers it sorted the wheat from the chaff. Our main chant in those bad old days was "Get into them!" and it used to work, they would start chasing the ball.
i get ya mate but we cant "get into them" anymore because football has sadly became a non contact sport and it makes me sad..
as i said in a previous thread, i think it could be last chance saloon on sunday, i think everybody will be right up for it (the fans that is), me & mine certainly will be, but if it doesnt go well things will turn sour pretty quickly. You pay your money you take your choice, if a fellow fan feels the need to boo then thats his right if justified, mindless booing gets on my tits, however, when collectively the team and or manager are not doing what they are being hansomly paid for then they deserve to be shot with ****! If i or any other employee were consistently not performing to the level expected i'm sure we would be fearing for our jobs and under extreme pressure to improve Sunday is the definative day of our season for me and anything less than 3 points will have the boo boys out in there droves
Works the other way nowadays as well mate. My son and his mates young teenagers, were getting stick off some of our own for getting excited and cheering the lads on and told to sit down after a near miss or even a goal! Over the last year the lad and his mates have shot up in size and they aren't getting any abuse now. Far too many people are going to the SOL as a day out and there's very little passion in large tracts of the crowd these days. When I was a regular, I was left hoarse no matter what, it took a couple of hours on the beer before I could even converse.
i know what you mean, i got laryngitus from the last mags at home game. i notice the idiots have stopped with the **** off you stewards chanting
At Roker Park in older days the crowd got things off their chest by the slow hand clap which went all the way around the ground. Never been sure about booing as it could be directed at the opposition, ref or anybody on the pitch,
Some of my mates paid £45 down there today. Yes they have a right to boo. My mates work all week to pay hard earned money to watch these overpaid prima donna's. If them lazy b*stards cannot be arsed to put a shift in they deserve booing and to be honest a good f*cking kicking. I personally have never ever booed but boy do i vent my frustration on anybody within earshot when we perform as we did today, which incidentally we have done too many times this season.
It deeply saddens me that people are so pompous that they feel the need to strenuously distance themselves from those who boo... Like it's the pit of humanity! Seriously, some people need to lighten up! I am a fervent boo-er! I boo the opposition goalie, I boo my mate when he brings back the wrong drink, I booed my girlfriend when she was late for the last derby by ten minutes (I still occasionally do), and I boo the lads when they play crap and I don't think they've given it their best. I find it laughable people think not boo-ing makes them morally superior. If you love that high-horse so much, take up equestrian dressage, and leave us boo-ers alone, because at the end of the day you can't give constructive criticism or detailed feedback on their display, we can either applaud, leave in silence, or boo. As supporters, it's our universal language which allows some form of dialogue with the players and management. If you can only give positive feedback, what's the point of them trying? They'll be loved and cheered whether they give a flying jiminey or not... That, to me, is utterly pathetic, and the people who are so snobbish as to find boo-ing vile need to find another hobby. You are the ones not helping the team, because you're not giving them the stick they need and the rocket up their arse. What do you think the manager is going to do after an inept display? Lick their balls? No, he'll give them what for too! Of course, there is such a thing as too much boo-ing (BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!), because every game is a reset we should be getting behind the players as often and as hard as possible. A supporter's primary role is to support the team (bit of a given), and boo-ing a player or getting on their back, even when they're trying their best, is not acceptable or clever. I don't much care for boo-ing ex-players either, especially ones who have done a good service for the club (like Demba Ba, for example). Clapping former players is part of a joy of match day experience for me, because supporting a club isn't a one season or one game thing, it's a lifelong journey. In life, friends who move away and cross your path again later on aren't subject to your abuse, are they? Let's be realistic, as supporters of clubs who are never going anywhere, as much as we may aspire to greatness, we are going to lose a lot of games in a season. Losses I can take, the odd bad performances I expect (and I expect us to be the worse team in about 50% of our games at least), but the instant bad performance is created by lack of effort and application, as oppose to bad luck, well a boo-ing they shall deservedly receive. As long as the proportion is right, it's more useful than silently shuffling towards the exit. There's a reason silence is the loudest sound in literature, and it isn't because most characters are supreme entities above the plebian masses. It signals giving up, shock and apathy. So I implore you, let the lads know you give a toss and give them the boo-ing of a life-time (should they fail miserably in the next game)!!!
