Feck Sake Fontaine! Good result against Hollohead, would have loved to see his rat face skulk down to the dressing room! But read the match report, and the moment leading up to their goal who was the player to give away possession? Fontaine! I'd rather have anyone of these participants in defense to be honest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCNVvvmxNw
Heard the other night about Fonts and his children being abused by yobs at a Coffee shop in Portishead. If true it's bloody scandalous.
you don't boo your own player come on as a sub, just lay off him as its not going to help him mentally, ****ers
agree to some point massive, but you don't think players read forums, listen to the radio, watch what's being said about them on tv or read their twitter feed? criticism surrounds them when they play bad, but they pick up pay slips that give them every reason not to listen to it
Although he is having a poor run at present, he is still a Bristol City player and unlike some, who have deserved stick in the past, I don't see Fonts not trying his hardest for the team, so if he's playing let's get behind him (on the goal line preferably, only joking) and hope that he can discover his form.
He is at the core of all that has been rotten about City in recent years. . But still, booing a sub on is bad form. Was it all stands?
What Fontaine needs above anything else is a loan move away. He needs to play for a team that will appreciate his experience, for fans that won't boo him the second he touches the ball, and in a place where he won't get hounded. A short three month stint would be enough to get the guy his confidence back, especially if we can do a double loan move for someone else during that time.
Amen to that. One of the few old guard still left from previous regimes. Also agree a loan move to another L1 or L2 club would help him....especially if it turned into a permanent move. As for the personal abuse when he was with his kids, then that's people stooping very low....
Please if you want to boo any of our players - DONT COME!!!! And by the way, for the record Fonts did all right when he came on.
Fontaine was in no way at fault. He cleared the ball out the box and their player hit a 25 yard volley into the top corner. Farcical to suggest it's his fault. He even made a headed interception while on the deck. Wouldn't say the booing was widespread but still out of order. He played solidly and if any other player had come on their goal would just have been applauded as a very good strike.
Funny, these people who get agitated when players get booed are nowhere to be seen in the stands. I remember LJ getting barraged with abuse near where I sat (didn't really disagree with it, but didn't join in), and didn't see any of you forthright folk stand up and tell people to shut up and keep their unwanted negative views to themselves. Any particular reason for this? As you some of you seem to pipe up behind the veil of the internet. Ironically, you then lambast another player like Kilkenny, rightly or wrongly (usually rightly though). Just find it a bit sad.
I might be disabled now but I still tell the yobs to shut it when they start booing the players on the pitch even Fontaine and I don't think he is the right player for City at the moment he needed a break a couple of years back when he couldn't cope with being the senior player in the defence but it's gone past that now he needs to be out of the firing line either at another club or in the development squad to get some confidence back. I will say though that when 20 or 30 people are booing one lone voice telling them to shut it does not do much, though when I was in hospitality and had an altercation with several yobbos about their abuse of Woolford they started on me then one of the City staff, I've forgotten her name now, came over and told them to shut up or get chucked out never saw a bunch of would be bravos slink off so quickly in my life.
Fair enough Hawk, but I've never seen anyone stand up to the boo boys in person, only on here, which lets face it, is anonymous. I just don't really distinguish a big difference myself (others clearly do), between the people who boo players, and the people who go on the radio, or forums attacking a players ability, but then is disgusted at someone booing him in person. I think these blokes are paid well enough, and having gone through the system from youth (which is getting more and more horrendous) are thick skinned enough to ignore the small minority of people who do boo. Confuses me even more when these holier than thou folk then get their hair off if Kilkenny has a poor game or looks as if he isn't trying. Surely it's the same thing? However if what Redprint said is actually true, then yeah, thats a different kettle of fish in some sense and totally uncalled for.
If Fontaine was being abused in front of his family by yobs it's disgusting and those yobs are scum and lowlife, especially as Fontaine was in no position to defend himself, I've never booed any of our players over the years but I have the opposition on many occasions. Criticise yes, complain sometimes but never booed, oh I have just remembered and it's own up time, I did boo Pulis and Lindsey Parsons when they were in charge.
Got to agree with Jambo, Fontaine was unlucky enough to be the last City player to touch the ball before the goal. It was a fantastic goal which IMO was no ones fault. Also agree with EndersMB, I've never thought of it that way. A loan deal could be the answer for everyone concerned, it could be just the thing to sort his head out. I sometimes think he puts too much effort into and rushes into mistakes as he knows he's not the fans favourite at the moment. This could allow him to rejuvenate himself, we don't have anything to lose if it fails we are in the same position if it works then we benefit.
Well it looks like the moment Fonts came on, you were waiting for him to make a mistake, how sad is that, yes the blokes going through a tough time, and has been for a while, but to wait for him to make a mistake ,so you could put a post on here about it, christ, and you call yourself a City supporter, sad, well thats my opinion.
I don't always agree with you RP, but wholeheartedly do here. Most of us agree that he has been a liability for the last 3 seasons but nobody deserves that. Boo him at games if you must but abusing him when out with family is unforgivable, harks back to the same issue with Tinnion. Plus having seen the YouTube clips he was not to blame, however after reading the BBC match text they were my thoughts as well as it read " Clearance by Fontaine" then 10-15 secs later goal by Garvan, so you can see where this train of thought has come from.
It does our club no justice or advantage to harass the players in their private lives, just because of results or poor form. However, it happens at every club. and even more so in a place like Milan or Madrid where you do not have a private life if you play for the locals. Fontaine has been a footballing liability for 4 years, and although he is a far better player than his form suggests, we will probably never see the best of him again. He really needs to uproot and start again somewhere else. If it works he could see the latter years of his career enjoying some success, but if he stays I can only see misery and The Bench. Misery and The Bench - sounds like a band of psuedo S&M metalers
