retired_dots7337

We gained about 10 thousand disgraceful fans when we moved stadium.

They do all sorts of things like booing the team off after a poor first half to booing them off at full time.

Booing players like Samaras.

Lots more people leave 10 minutes before the final whistle now as well. Arriving 10 minutes late.

We also have the mongs that sing Munich songs, but thats slowly started to fade away, dont hear it half as much as you used to.

It wasn't half as bad as when we were at Maine Road.

retired_dots7337

Ill just add to that, it still happens this season, their were people around me booing the team off at half time against Reading, the same people left before the final whistle. I laughed so much when we scored.

Ventil

I see nothing wrong with booing your players.

Football is an entertainment business and, as with most other forms of entertainment, if you're not entertained you're allowed to voice your displeasure.
Add in the cost of the ticket to a match and the wages that these players receive for their performance and you can see where the dissatisfaction comes from.

retired_deljo

Chelsea fans are, to a man, fine upstanding gentlemen.

retired_katie14

Was having this discussion with someone just this morning.

The more money that players are being paid the higher expectations fans seem to have. Talking to my granddad I have to bite my lip a lot of the time when comes out with stuff like ‘£50k p/w and he can’t hit it with both feet’ or ‘all that money and complaining about playing too many games’.

I fail to see how giving someone more money is going to make them better than they are.

Never get the value for money thing either as football’s not the same as going to the cinema / theatre / concert etc.

Ventil

Where, in entertainment means, is there a difference between choosing to spend a Saturday afternoon at the cinema or going to the match?

Giving a player more money is not going to make him a better player, but it is the fans who are paying his wages and they have every right to expect a performance that they feel reflects the salary they are paid.

retired_v_meenucancer

nothing wrong with booing in exceptional circumstances, like when the team is doing really, really badly, or when some players clearly aren't trying. we booed our team when they lost 9-1 to peterborough, and loads of people wandered down to where the players were coming off to shout at the the players who'd been particularly useless. like michael harle.

no point if it's going to happen every time a team loses a couple of games.

and what purvis said, not sure how paying players more is supposed to magically make them better players. was the same situation with sven as england manager, when people seemed to thing his high wages should guarantee them the world cup

no idea what docker is on about at all. in what forms of entertainment is it seem as ok to just randomly start booing? try it at the cinema and see how long they let you stay in there.

retired_hana20

Was having this discussion with someone just this morning.

The more money that players are being paid the higher expectations fans seem to have. Talking to my granddad I have to bite my lip a lot of the time when comes out with stuff like ‘£50k p/w and he can’t hit it with both feet’ or ‘all that money and complaining about playing too many games’.

I fail to see how giving someone more money is going to make them better than they are.

Never get the value for money thing either as football’s not the same as going to the cinema / theatre / concert etc. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I agree with your sentiments Neil, anyone who goes to a Coventry City match expecting to be entertained with dazzling football needs a serious word with themself! It doesn't matter if Kevin Kyle was on £80,000 a week he'd still be awful

Spems

i used to watch leeds in the mid eighties and early nineties quite a lot and i've got to say we probably had the nicest most well mannered supporters you'd ever meet.

retired_katie14

It's different because going to the match as a fan you accept the risk factor of not always being entertained.

The primary role of a film at the cinema is to entertain the audience which is a factor in football, but not the main one.

If you went to see a film and it was crap and then all the sequels were crap you'd reach the point where you just didn't bother any more instead of keep gonig and being disappointed at lack of value for money.