Never had you down as a heckler and a booer Sterling !!! Impossible to please Yes !!! but not getting on team teams back. You learn something new every day
I don't boo. I just think in recent weeks it's been justified by those who have. I'm prone to random outbursts of rage, but I've never once booed at a game. I'm not impossible to please either. I haven't seen anything from the last 8 games that's looked remotely anything like our best and I'm not happy applauding 4th or 5th place; it's not an achievement to limp to the finish like we constantly seem to. Regardless of how **** we used to be in the past, we've spent a lot of money on this squad and apparently have the best manager in the division, so why would I be happy at the way we are playing now given that teams of lesser quality (Brighton, Burnley, Boro) are above us in the league? It isn't hard to please me at all, play to your best, get results. I actually said at the start of the season, even when we were winning, that we weren't playing to our best and was shot down by people saying "it's fine" and "you expect too much", yet we clearly stepped up towards Christmas. Now we've started to stutter and people don't seem the slightest bit worried that we're about to miss out on a ****tonne of cash which could potentially stabilise us for years to come.
Well maybe this team isnt as good as the experts keep telling us it is. Maybe we are easy to frustrate and nullify. Having a good squad isnt translating itself into a good team out on the pitch. We keep getting told theres more to come but i dont think it looks that way we just seem to be fizzling out. Prepare yourself for the play offs and hope we can struggle our way through in triumph.
It's made up of a mixture of players that kept us in the Premier League (McGregor, Davies, Livermore, Huddlestone, Elmo etc) and internationals with a good reputation (Hernandez, Dawson, Diame), I don't think it's unfair to expect promotion at all. We are easy to frustrate and nullify and that's because tactically we're inept. It'll show what kind of manager Bruce is over the next 8 games; will he stick with the same formation and hope that having big names in the squad will somehow help us win, or will he look at the opposition and try to exploit them by changing our formation to keep them on their toes? I'll give you two guesses, but you'll only need one.
I think this is about right. It's a shame cos we definitely do have a great squad, it just lacks strikers which makes all the talent in midfield and defence pretty much pointless. However it's entirely Bruce's squad. He's spent millions and ended up yet again with no strikers.
Yet he continues to say goals win games. The mind boggles at what he was thinking in the summer transfer window, or rather he wasn't.
This. Think it was john hartson in an interview in the 90s who said fans work hard all week and pay a lot of money to watch their team so they've got every right to let the players know when they're not happy. In general I'm against booing but on on the back of two months poor performance and results people are rightly pissed off and booing is sometimes the only way to get that across
It shouldn't be up to the fans to make them play better regardless of if they're cheering or booing. Football is a form of entertainment. Any play on at the theatre with actors underperforming for this long would have been shut down months ago. I have no problem with the booing. I make a 140 mile round trip every home game to watch a team which has underperformed all season. Thing is most of the frustration hasn't been caused by the players on the pitch it's what goes on off it and the way the club is run yet we still show up to support them regardless of how much it costs us and despite the owners trying to push us out. People are entitled to vent when the last thing they're fully behind (playing squad) cannot pull together and put a decent performance in. This squad on what we paid to get them in cost 54.5m Burnley's squad on what they paid to sign them cost 20.2m (and 9m of that was for Andre Gray) We're massively underperforming so I understand why people want to get that across.
The point of booing is not to make players play or feel better, it's a means to tell the players and manager that a section of the fans are not happy and want **** sorting out.
A goal in the first half tomorrow would be a big help and stop supporters reading their match day programme until half time which is rapidly becoming the norm!
Really? Is that just an initial fee? It was quoted as 9m at the time. Bargain if you're right! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34017194
I don't think players get singled out particularly at the KC its more booing of ****e performances of the team in general and dissatisfaction with the tactics and officials. It was a lot worse in years gone, the KC nowadays is a library compared to Boothferry back in the day. 'Arf' (whatever that means)
The fee was exaggerated ahead of the deal, Burnley confirmed the fee was £6m and there's an additional £500k due assuming they get promoted.
Yeah and could you provide a list of the games when booing your own team 'turns the tide', and suddenly the passes start finding their man, the shots are on target, the confidence flows back? Cos I'm ****ed if I can and I've been going to City for decades. I do remember it destroying the confidence of the likes of Paddy Greenwood and Mally Lord.
What is the point of booing, ffs? Is it to show you're unhappy, like John Cleese in Fawlty Towers when he beats his underperforming broken down car with a branch and shouts at it to go? Or is it done in the belief that booing will lead to an immediate step improvement in performance? If it did, players would listen too load angry booing on their Dr Dre headphones as they get off the coach outside the ground, and the halftime teamtalk would be replaced recordings of booing? So which is it? Emotionally incontinent adults spitting their dummy out or moronic belief that it 'improves' performance? Still waiting for someone to post that list of games where we've turned it round after mass booing from all around the ground. Someone put their money where their mouth is.
