I would reckon that even Ronaldo couldn't control a ball if he had the best part of 40,000 people getting on his back...Yes we may not have a great team, burt it doesn't help one bit when the away fans out sing us every ****ing home game and the only noise we hear is moans and ****ing groans whwn passes go astray..
admire your conviction to the cause mate , I'm normally a happy clapper but today i was sat on the couch head in hands for the first half . That was shocking from what i remeber the crowd never got on the lads backs during the Keane era, saying that we always started strong, played hard and played till the last minute. This lot seem to show up half asleep and clock out early
I agree that the fans need to generate an atmosphere for the lads to play, but unfortunately the play has been so dire it's difficult to get enthusiastic about it. It's a double edged sword and I think fans are getting tired with the perceived lack of effort from some players.
I don't get this atmosphere thing. Some of them beat Sheffield United behind closed doors last week. Perhaps they'd play better if 43,000 of us didn't turn up eh? Just say the word, lads, because plenty of people would be happy to oblige the way you're playing now.
Just watched MOTD for what it was worth, however I thought Tony Pulis made a very valid comment after their game, he made the point that the team has had a very busy run game wise in January and whilst disappointed not to have won he,thought the point they got was a positive one, similarily we have had a busy January. with a hell of a lot of travelling as well as matches and it caught up with us a bit yesterday, the players now have ten days,before City and M'Vila for one looks as if he,could do with a rest, I know it's,a sooo hard being a well paid professional footballer but even they get tired and jaded and I think it showed in yesterday's game.
You are dead right of course, a roaring stadium every week does mean points. However it should really be the players giving the fans a reason to get behind them, you know that everybody just needs an excuse to cheer us on but when you pay a good wedge of money and spend the day travelling, only to see less spirit and quality than your pub side from kick off I think it's the players to blame not the fans. You've heard the noise when we score. The fans are ready and willing to cheer themselves hoarse but they aren't getting what they need to do so which at bare minimum is effort and desire.
What got me was it was only the Bournemouth fans making any positive noise from the off..We have about 2 hundred fans at the back of the south stand who make the effort and that is pretty pathetic.. I fell in love with Sunderland AFC when we were struggling in what was then the 2nd division in front of crowds averaging around 16,000. However, the people that did turn up got behind the team regardless of how crap the team were playing, and that has been lost now..
Aye but 16000 in a ramshaclkled old shed. Getting your leg pissed on or gettng thrown about 50ft when a goal went in. The nice warm breeze blowing up roker baths road making it feel like benidorm. Sentimental about the old girl. Sterile new stadiums.
Mad as it seems this is Sams way and we will just have to trust he is right, we have no other option. The point may be useful, but my fear it is too little too late and as our involvement in the transfer market so far has been pitiful I am now less optomistic about our future than I was a month ago. The other side of the coin is that we are still picking up points and this gives me some hope that even now we may survive, we have to believe it can happen, its our only chance.
Got to the point yesterday when Catts was even getting the ball it created groans around the stand(i moved at half time). It's not a lack songs, it's not a lack of cheering, it's the negative moans and groans which I think is the problem, usually followed by some primitive mammal rising to his feet and spilling abusive Neanderthal drivel. This is no way to treat people. Do these men behave the same when they watch their kids perform on a football pitch or in a play? Do they do it to the other kids? No do they ****. It's easy to say for what they earn they should be able to deal with it, but people in poorer countries may say it about the common man over here, doesn't make the common man over here immune to performance effecting issues. Fact is they are Human beings with feelings, self esteem and confidence, all of which can be broken regardless of what they earn on the pitch and there's 1000s of dumb arse cavemen on the stands who don't understand this(despite them being just as vulnerable) and believe they should be able to just block it out and perform. These men, and they're scattered from one end of the ground to the other represent everything wrong with our club imo. Dosen't have to have to sing or dance or yell to support your team, Booing at half and fulltime doesn't even make a person less of a fan imo. But booing, and throwing abuse from the stands while the lads are out trying is tantamount to cheering for the opposition as far I'm concerned.
