Our so Called Supporters

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  1. Prince of Risborough

    Prince of Risborough Well-Known Member

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    Reflects the mentality of a lot of football supporters in general though - thick as a brick, every one of them!
     
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    You don't need to go far to realise why we are so poor at home. I would wager that Steve Bruce's team talk to his Blackpool players on Saturday would have been along the lines: don't let them score early; press them into mistakes on the ball; the longer we stop them playing, the more their supporters will start to get on at them; their heads will drop as a result; they will be there for the taking. Even I could have given that team talk and I would imagine that most opposition managers know it too. The question is: how do we change the Oakwell culture? And who leads the change being made?
     
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    Let's be honest we've always had a small percentage of fans who's behaviour embarrases the club, the fans and themselves...
    It normally happens when we are on TV where someone runs on the pitch...I remember one fan running on during a goal kick and kicking the ball in the net.
    I remember fans hurling abuse at Billy Sharp who had lost his child...I remember Chopra being racially abused before he started scoring.
     
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    Assume you are including yourself in that conclusion?
     
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    Least said soonest mended Well-Known Member

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    I can imagine the 'we want four chants' were made tounge in cheek. You have to admit that the whole performance on Saturday was farcical and a shambles. If we didn't laugh we could cry
     
  6. Prince of Risborough

    Prince of Risborough Well-Known Member

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    Why would you say that?
     
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    Juddy G Well-Known Member

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    Just because you said they are thick the lot of them ? Not some not a few you said the lot.
     
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    dreamboy3000 Well-Known Member

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    Because of how much they dominated the first half and could have easily gone in at half time with an handful of goals, his half time team talk will have just been "more of the same" knowing goals would eventually come if they kept playing the same way and knowing how useless we have been all season in the second half.

    It would also explain why Blackpool players were back out for the second half a fair while before we were.
     
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    Prince of Risborough Well-Known Member

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    No you’ve misread my post. I’m not sure why I’m bothering to explain it, but I’ll try.

    Durkar Red posted about some idiots near him in the Ponty End chanting we want four when we were 3-0 down. I simply responded to that saying that this “reflected the mentality of A LOT OF football supporters in general”. Not ALL supporters and not all Barnsley supporters.

    “A lot” is not the same as “the lot”, is it? Is that clear enough for you?
     
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    Juddy G Well-Known Member

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    May worries I get that from a lot of but your last sentence said All it’s only semantics anyroard.
    Worse things especially everything connected to BFC to get wound up ower.
     

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