What Hill NEEDS to understand NOW

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  1. fir

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    Fans pay money to watch the team and are entitled to make comments on the performance... that's why they go.

    The manager's job is to select the team, get them to play. NOT to continually comment on the performance of the fans.

    I'd prefer him to get it right, but this continual "us and them" will get him sacked eventually.
     
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    I really like Hill and I think he will take us forwards eventually but he cannot keep blaming the fans for sh.it like the first half today. He needs to develop a siege mentality, I understand that but surely that siege has to include the fans. What benefits does he think alienating the hard core of fans is going to give? A strange and risky tactic after a performance like today.
     
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    I think Hill already knows that we have some of the worst, most ill informed fans in the league.Its been that way for forty years or more but recently the abuse has become more virulent.He puts his reputation on the line every week but fans can come on here and spout any sort of rubbish.
     
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    What bit of today's performance did the fans get wrong?

    In what other profession would you get away with slagging off your customers? If he can't say anything nice, he should button it.

    Every club has its moaners. Slagging off the fans as a group is just WRONG.
     
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    Sorry but I have defended Hill in the past but there are times when you just have to hold your hands up and say today we were sh.it, I got the tactics wrong and some of those players let the club down particularly in the first half. Today was one of those times.
     
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    Booing is counterproductive.It saps players confidence and unless that player is strong it can cause them to hide.
    When confidence is high everyone wants to get on the ball.At most clubs playing at home is their 12th man.
    Not so at the 'well.Fans can act as they want but when they get some back throw their dummy out. If you get your kicks by booing save it until the final whistle
     
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    Wrong,


    just that.
     
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    The difference is

    Fans pay good money for the privelege of being able tp throw the dummy out of the cot

    Keith Hill gets paid good money NOT to throw the dummy out of the cot.

    I agree that booing is counter productive, but he has to accept that it happens all over the country, at every ground without exception. He would do his club a better service if he didn't alienate the fans.
     
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    If booing is so counterproductive

    As you and others claim, then why were we so much better in the second half? If you're right then surely the second half performance would have been even worse. Fact is we improved ten fold.

    Maybe a bit of criticism actually gave the players the boot up the arse they needed. Maybe not, maybe it didn't make much difference. But one thing we can say for absolute certain is that it didn't make the team play worse.
     
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