Apart from the 1996/1997 and 1999/2000 seasons our away form has been absolutely terrible. Fortunately i don't get to many away games now but a couple of seasons ago i went to Leicester and we were turned over 4-0 and i went to Wolves last week and witnessed another inept performance in which we showed too much respect for the home side. For gods sake we are in the same league as these sides lets sodding try to compete rather than rolling over like the embrassment that we are. Massive respect to the fans that went today, they should get their travel costs reimbursed by the club, the poor buggers will still be travelling home after setting off before 8.00 a.m. this morning! I am absolutely fed up of my team putting in spineless performances away from home. It's about time our players grew a pair and started to compete with our opposition. Why should the fans have to keep forking out to witness absolute rubbish week in week out away from home. And when our fans start to sing stupid songs like we're going to win 6-5 what a joke, this mentallity makes us a laughing stock. I'm afraid that it looks as though we'll be in league one next year, and god knows if or when we'll be back in the Championship?
My sentiments exactly. Yes we cannot compete financially with these teams but for christ's sake we are in the same league and the way we just roll over is embarrassing. Most League 2 teams would have done better than us at Wolves & Brighton.
Agreed. Absolute embarrassment singing that 'we're gonna win ... ' song, did it against West Ham last season on TV!
Let's face it the national media do their best to make us a laughing stock at the best of times so singing songs like 'we're gonna win...' plays straight into their hands. It makes us look like a joke, for gods sake we should be at the table to compete not to make the sodding numbers up!
I think we should all just boo at 4 nil down for the last 30 mins that should help the team instead of singing "silly" we gonna win songs and supporting the team.
There's nothing wrong with supporting the team at 4-0 down and singing 'Come on you Reds' etc. but keep on singing embrassing songs like 'we're gonna win 4-5' and we'll forever be portrayed as the village idots. Do you realistically think any premiership fan base or ambitious Championship fan base would sing such a stupid chant?
I remember us singing it against Chelsea in the premier league when they hammered us at our place. I don't particularly like the song because it means we're having our arses kicked but it's just a song, a sort of 'gallows humour' attempt at cheering yourself up when you're so fed up you're wondering why you bother.
It's just an example of how things have changed. Back then no one expected us to beat Chelsea hence the song. Now no one expects us to beat anyone so hence the re-emergence if the song. Mission reduce expectations is a roaring success.
That should be the song we adopt as our club song to sing on the terraces. Everyone knows the words. Instead of "Life's a piece of ****" in the last verse we can sing "Barnserlee are ****".
