I booed today and last week

Seems to be very frowned upon on here and by JAQ on Twitter.

Last week was disgraceful. Today wasn’t as bad but not far off.

We all support the club in our own way and I’ll be the first to happy clap when it’s needed. I clapped players on and off the pitch today, not so much last Saturday but still. I’ve earned the right to express my opinion.

The board are failing, Collins isn’t. He’s doing a right job but my boo’s are at the board and their decisions this season. I’ve never know a season like it recruitment wise than this and that includes ‘Conway’s best summer ever’.

 

serious question

how will booing help?

 

Booing isn't a rational response, and no, it doesn't help. But that's irrelevant. It's an emotional response by people who genuinely feel upset and hurt. Their boos are just as valid as others' claps.

At the end of the day, none of this is rational. Grown men, some of whom are old enough to be grandparents of the players, getting worked up, both positively and negatively, over a game.

Football is pure emotion, and it cuts both ways. You can't lambast people for booing when we play poorly, just as people can't be lambasted for literally jumping up and down, punching the air and shouting when a ball goes into a goal. It's all irrelevant nonsense, but we love it.

 

Booing a board that are keeping us afloat is probably more daft than booing the players for me.

Poor look either way booing at all but especially following a game where the team had tried hard but lacked quality and the run of the green in the final third. And have lost about three league games since October.

 

Imagine you're a young footballer, playing in front of 12,000 supporters. At the end of the game there's a lot of booing. Which of these goes through your head?

- It's ok, they're not booing me, they're booing the board.

- It's ok, they're not booing me, they've booing the manager.

- It's ok, they're not booing me, they're booing the referee.

- It's ok, they're not booing me, they're booing the opposition players.

- It's ok, they're not booing me, they're booing my teammates.

- They're booing me. I've just tried my best for 90 minutes and they're booing me. Don't know why I bother. Maybe this isn't the place for me.

 

I get why people would boo as they see it as the only way to express their frustrations/concerns even though I don’t understand how it helps the team improve and not something I would do with maybe the exception if it was clear that the players in general just didn’t give a **** and were not trying and if there were clear signs of the owners asset stripping and running into the ground(like Reading).
Out of interest:
Was you booing at the board when we was on a long unbeaten spell?
Was you booing when we played Derby as the recruitment is the same?

 

I booed after that. I never boo as I think it’s pointless and stupid. But that was absolute garbage and I was really pissed off. Life innit!

 

I wouldnt boo the team as i think it drives negativity and lowers confidence especially of young players. It creates an atmosphere unattractive to people, players and staff. However i can see it is a way to express frustration and dissatisfaction and people might feel better to vent and make feelings known. My choice to back off from games last few years wasn’t primarily down to the players or performances and i think we have seen some fundamental and systemic club issues that add to the fans frustration. Its a hard one to discuss and i think a forum rightly is a place where opinions and observations can vent and lay out views. People have expectations, partially set by the club itself and its hard to take when we are in a period where we are falling well short and our limitations exposed.

 

I would love us to be an established Championship team but like someone posted earlier I think currently league one is our level.If promotion wipes out our losses and wages go up this board aren't going to bridge the gap to buy Championship quality players ala two million here and three million there.
The stark reality is if we went up we would get our arses handed to us on a plate week in week out.

 

I was brought up to regard booing as bad form and see no reason to change my view, sorry.
Nobody on the field or at the club was doing anything less than their best yesterday but it just didn't work out for us. It's sickening to see the chance of automatic promotion probably disappear, particularly when we were so clearly the better team, but sheet happens. Like the team, we need to suck it up and come out fighting next time. If we give the team the impression we aren't all behind them then we're not playing our part in the process.

 

Then what is the point? Surely we can’t think about finishing 7th every year, that can’t be our target. We might aswell fold the club, we’ve got to aim to play at the highest level possible.

 

What I don't get, is the audible grumbles everytime we don't release the ball early, misplace a pass, pass the ball backwards even if there wasn't a forward option on etc. I reckon we were about 7 minutes in yesterday and the first vent of frustration was released from the crowd. As the game goes on, it only gets more frequent.

It doesn't happen as often away from home. Particularly when we've got a good backing on a Saturday afternoon. I've only managed Fleetwood and Port Vale this season, but the atmosphere from the away end for both of them was fantastic. We're more patient, more vocal with our support for the team.

And then people wonder why our home form is so much worse than our away form. Obviously it's not just that, but it certainly doesn't help.

 

Booing sucks dick

 

I see nothing wrong with booing. Football is a passionate game and those passions can manifest themselves in different ways.

I’d also say the dull way we play creates a vacuum as people think about it more and get frustrated. It isn’t for me but I can appreciate why others do.

 

Never booed in my life and never will. I go to support my team through thick and thin. The notion that they're not trying and don't want to go up is pathetic in my opinion. Shouting " Boo" seems a very strange action from grown men. Does it actually make them feel better? It certainly achieves nothing. What do fans of teams like Harrogate do after they've lost?

 

Correct, the board are failing...... These are the same guys that kept Khaled employed for so long so I don't think they have much idea when it comes to running a successful club.

 

If a player thinks that then goodbye.

 

Every team and every player wants to play at the highest level possible. But not every team has a divine right to be promoted.

Ask
Pompey
Bolton
Derby
Blackpool
Peterborough
or any team you can think of.

Finishing below the promotion places is never a target. There is no point to it. But sometimes stability is. That is the most important. Definitely for those unfancied teams. Then press on. Some like Stevenage are on a roll. But inevitably it will more than likely end at some stage.
I dont agree with Redmist btw. In the fact we will attract better players to the club. The money available in the Championship I believe will be much more than at present.
But stability is then the key. Not yo yo ing.

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Seriously mate. that wasnt the worst performance by a long way. Pissed off I can get. But as you've already said pointless and imo does more harm than good.