LJ asks for ironic chants to stop.

I think the fact that they've been losing games is enough to tell them they've not been doing enough. Ironically chanting/cheering isn't going to improve that.

In my opinion anyway.

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So by that logic getting behind them wont change much then.


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It's terrace humour for fcuks sake! I can't believe the manager and players are so ******* weak minded to be even referencing it (whether questioned or not) considering how little stick they've actually received this season despite being bottom of the league, and how good the away following has been this season.

 

So by that logic getting behind them wont change much then.


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Ahhh so im pathetic for having a differing opinion? Haha whens nursery break up for xmas?


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Cheering for Colchester tomorrow Donny T?

 

And your even more pathetic !

DonnyTyke is a see it tell it as it is man.

Not dressing it up as prize turkey when it's a hedge spuggy .

 

More importantly Mr Blunderbuss are you attending?

 

Lee wants to lighten up a bit can't imagine Danny would have said this after the Oxford away promotion game to the premier league.

"Ryhill , it,s just like watching Ryhill "
It's just like watching Ryhill , it's just like watching Ryhill"

Now that was funny.

 

I'll sing what I like...
I'll sing what I like...
Johnson's a bell-end...
I'll sing what I like...

 

Can't disagree with any of that fella!!!!!!!

 

If the worst he has to worry about from the supporters after the run we've had is irony, then he's doing alright.

 

They're professional footballers getting paid good money to play football. We're the ******* idiots who pay silly money to watch them here, there and everywhere, no matter what. When they toddle off to their next club/payday, we'll still be here. Forever more.

We're enduring one of the worst runs of all time. This is the worst I've ever seen of us. It's beyond bad, I can't pretend otherwise. And yet I can't recall any chants calling for the manager to go, or mass booing of the players during games. I think we've been bloody lovely about it all.

So what if folk are channeling their frustration into piss taking songs aimed at the opposition supporters. It's gallows humour, it's typical tarn. And I say that as someone who hasn't joined in. But then, I'm not much of a singer. It's not my cup of tea to sing about how **** we are, because I'm usually whingeing at Roy about how **** we are. But I refuse to believe the chants have contributed to the players' **** form. Because these chants first surfaced at Scunny, when we'd already lost a **** load of games.

 

I was a big ticked off when I read LJ's comments in the Chron.....but I was already ticked off having read the main article where he said he wanted to extend the majority of the loans and players out of contract in January until the end of the season. After the high of Wigan his comments today really annoyed me. Who is worth keeping?! Maybe Pearson....but he's the one we have apparently little chance of keeping. Unbelievable


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Given the way they performed at Altrincham I couldn't really give a rats arse how the players saw it.

Play better, win games...get the chants you want to hear.

Play *****, lose games and hear some things you don't want to.

The answer is simple and its win games. On the pitch. Cos that's where they are won and lost

 

Makes perfect sense to me.

 

You're in the perfect position to answer this Whitey - does constant negativity from fans demotivate players? Or does it give them a kick up the arse and make them play better. I realise every player is different, but what's JB's view?

 

Has anyone who has criticised Johnson for this addressed what he and Mawson have actually said? Plenty of stuff about him and the players being too sensitive/precious (neither have said anything that suggests they are) that they should man up, that they should expect even worse criticism and that people can sing what they like, but nothing in answer to what they actually said.

Johnson doesn't say you can't sing these songs, he simply says he would like it to stop. He doesn't demand it, he'd just prefer it if we didn't sing such songs. Not because his feeling are hurt or because he can't take a joke, but because he doesn't believe it helps the team be successful. If you disagree with Johnson on this issue, are you saying that you do believe it helps? Singing such songs helps us win games? If you don't think it helps, as fans of the team that Johnson manages, stopping singing these songs isn't a real hardship, is it?

Mawson simply says that he and his team mates aren't 'buzzing' about the current crop of songs. Again, he doesn't say anyone's upset or had their feelings hurt, just that they're not buzzing. Would you be buzzing if hundreds of people were singing that you were **** while you did your job? Even if it was sung in an ironic manner. We want our players to be buzzing don't we? Singing the type of songs that Johnson wants us to sing might not help. We might still lose. If the opposition are much better than us it won't make any difference. But in a tight game it might just put that extra zip in some tired legs towards the end of a game that means a player gets his head on the end of a cross and places it in the top corner rather than being a couple of centimetres away from it.

Lee Johnson, Alfie Mawson and all the rest of us are on the same side. We all want the same thing. More victories for Barnsley. If the players and the manager don't believe the songs we're singing at the moment are helping, shouldn't we change our behaviour, even if we don't agree with them? We want to boost their confidence don't we? Isn't that the whole point of making noise at games?

 

Oh stop talking sense will you!?