Two things Westernmac. Firstly this booing thing. It is simply not true that the supporters boo players at the slightest hint of something bad happening. The booing, and I have been to all but one home match, only really happened when the performance of the whole team was complete and utter garbage. I've said this many time, I do not boo personally. But what are supporters supposed to do when they see play like that? How else do they show some sort of disapproval. It isn't just the young ones either. Blanchard got jeered and so did purse and Williams. I don't condone booing but I can understand, having been there watching and equally frustrated, why some do it. To imply that the supporters of Argyle have not got behind the team generally and have not been patient is simply not right. They continue to go which shows support in itself and is desperately what the club needs in the finance. A lot of other clubs would have shipped a couple of thousand out of the ground by now if they put on those performances. I just refuse to agree it is down to their actions that the form or play has been poor a number of times.
The second point is the Fletcher one and I offer a defence on behalf of plymborn although he is big enough, old enough and probably ugly enough to defend himself. Fletcher has seldom shown much in the way of tactical know how. People accept he is inexperienced to a point and allow him a bit of that. It is however when the thing is going wrong, everyone within a mile of the ground can see it is going wrong and Fletcher doesn't appear to have a clue what to do about it or in most cases even seem to try. He has a lot to learn tactically and it shows. The problem a lot have, and it isn't just plymborn is that we have undergone a huge fall from grace and there has been so much to be negative about. There is fear that we cannot afford another fall and it has at times looked like happening. I don't think people genuinely expect promotion this year or ever have in reality but they also don't expect a struggle and it has looked like we are or have been struggling. Fletcher in my view needs to be bolder and set the team up to win, especially at home, and not simply not to lose. I would however agree that little credit is given for last season because in our hearts and heads we were doomed but it didn't happen according to the script. I've always said that if you knock when it goes wrong then you must praise when it goes the other way. Nothing is a oneway street. I'm not convinced about Fletcher at all but he is the man in post so we live with it. Next week I might change my view depending on the result which is ever the way with fans.
