'Booing'

[Tfox]

you pay you hard earnt money to watch players who earn 50x your weekly earnings, i dont care who gives a shit, il booo if i wana!

[Benji]

I think if the players have had a bad game they need a kick up the arse and they should be booed. It's the most effective way of voicing your frustrations.

Likewise i'm the first to clap them and cheer if they've had a good game (I.e. Worked hard).

What if we play terribly but win? Very often the result of the game is enough to make most fans minds up as to whether the players tried hard or not.

[StanSP]

I think if the players have had a bad game they need a kick up the arse and they should be booed. It's the most effective way of voicing your frustrations.

Likewise i'm the first to clap them and cheer if they've had a good game (I.e. Worked hard).

Yes, from a fan's perspective, it IS the most effective way of voicing YOUR frustrations.

But it is NOT the most effective way for the players to improve performance. They need motivating, not knocking down further.

[Kitchandro]

But you want them to improve performance, right? You want them to show the travelling fans how good they are, right? Well if you do, booing just isn't the answer.

Please don't get me wrong, I totally understand that you pay money and travel miles and miles and do get frustrated. But booing is NOT the solution in an attempt to change things around.

Booing just isn't productive in my eyes. It shatters confidence and doesn't inspire.

This argument makes a bit of sense after 10 games, but when you've no chance of the play-offs and the season's nearly over I disagree.

Truth is I actually don't want them to improve from now until the end of the season. If we do, Pearson may think we're actually a decent side and keep the same shit players.

No, now I don't care about our results or how we play. I know I'll get a season ticket next season but I doubt I'll be going to any more games this season. So if I wanted to boo to show my frustration I can't see the downside.

I don't care about the players confidence anymore, it's too late for them to turn things around. They've had plenty of chances.

[wattolcfc]

Yes, from a fan's perspective, it IS the most effective way of voicing YOUR frustrations.

But it is NOT the most effective way for the players to improve performance. They need motivating, not knocking down further.

Is getting paid £5,000 PLUS a week not motivation enough? Is the excitement of winning not enough? Is putting in a performance to be proud of not enough?

Unfortunately the footballer of today takes everything for granted and is used to getting everything handed on a plate to them. They don't live in the real world like most fans and should be able to take criticism/booing if they under perform.

[Kitchandro]

I didnt think the performance was bad enough to warrant booing or 'what a load of rubbish' but if people want then so be it. Had we scored early on, had Dyer scored his chanve then I think we'd have won by a good couple of goals and everybilody would be upbeat. Thats football, as long as you support your team Im not bothered how you react the that just dont tarnish our reputation.

But those things didn't happen, Dyer couldn't finish his brekky, and we played poorly and lost.

[AKCJ]

What if we play terribly but win? Very often the result of the game is enough to make most fans minds up as to whether the players tried hard or not.

Agree to a certain extent. But I don't think a team can win without effort. I applaud effort first and foremost.

Yes, from a fan's perspective, it IS the most effective way of voicing YOUR frustrations.

But it is NOT the most effective way for the players to improve performance. They need motivating, not knocking down further.

I disagree. I think that if a player is demotivated by booing then they shouldn't be playing for us. If I was a player and I was being booed i'd want to prove them and my manager a point rather than sulking about it.

[Kitchandro]

Is getting paid £5,000 PLUS a week not motivation enough? Is the excitement of winning not enough? Is putting in a performance to be proud of not enough?

Unfortunately the footballer of today takes everything for granted and is used to getting everything handed on a plate to them. They don't live in the real world like most fans and should be able to take criticism/booing if they under perform.

This is the bottom line for me. They are not children, they should be hugey motivated to do what they do without being sucked up to all the while.

There are downsides to every job, but there are a lot less in being a footballer than in what most fans do for a living.

[causer7]

Was at the match today, the performance wasn't good enough and everyone knows that but people are saying that booing will give them a kick up the backside but isn't that what the manager is for? Of course when you've spent all that money following the team up and down the country your going to be frustated but shouldn't we stick with the team through thick and thin and leave the players to be kicked up the backside by pearson? And if it isn't working then get rid of the ones letting the others down.

[JonnyBoy]

But you want them to improve performance, right? You want them to show the travelling fans how good they are, right? Well if you do, booing just isn't the answer.

Please don't get me wrong, I totally understand that you pay money and travel miles and miles and do get frustrated. But booing is NOT the solution in an attempt to change things around.

Booing just isn't productive in my eyes. It shatters confidence and doesn't inspire.

how is licking their arse when they put in a half hearted performance the way forward? its contradictory?

[Corky]

Yes, from a fan's perspective, it IS the most effective way of voicing YOUR frustrations.

But it is NOT the most effective way for the players to improve performance. They need motivating, not knocking down further.

They were being motivated.

As I recall- Schmeichel, Konchesky, Morgan, Bamba, Drinkwater, Dyer, Marshall, Nugent, Beckford all had their names sung in a positive way.

I didn't hear a negative chant, or mass booing, during the 90 minutes.

[JonnyBoy]

Was at the match today, the performance wasn't good enough and everyone knows that but people are saying that booing will give them a kick up the backside but isn't that what the manager is for? Of course when you've spent all that money following the team up and down the country your going to be frustated but shouldn't we stick with the team through thick and thin and leave the players to be kicked up the backside by pearson? And if it isn't working then get rid of the ones letting the others down.

you and I pay their wages though?

[StanSP]

how is licking their arse when they put in a half hearted performance the way forward? its contradictory?

where did I say that you should 'lick their arse'?! Totally put words in my mouth, there. Cheers for that.

At least all those others who replied to me could do so in a formative and sensible way.

[JonnyBoy]

where did I say that you should 'lick their arse'?! Totally put words in my mouth, there. Cheers for that.

At least all those others who replied to me could do so in a formative and sensible way.

sorry mate just fustrated with Leicester at the moment, along with everyone else.

bring on the next game, and the next....

[causer7]

you and I pay their wages though?

Yes but I still don't think booing is going to give anyone a kick up the backside, like I said if the players on the pitch aren't giving 100% then they shouldn't be playing. For example peltier has not been playing well recently so why isn't pantsil in the team? Or even the young lad liam moore, give him a chance.

[Matt]

I'm not talking about today but on the booing subject, Am I right in hearing boos when Steve Howard comes on?

Ok he might not be everyone's favourite player and I have to admit as a Howard fan he is perhaps not for us anymore, but is it just me or am I actually hearing boos (Quite loud boos) when he comes on?

Perhaps people are booing him or booing Pearson but either is not good whether you like him or not, people get on their high horses about you should never boo no matter how bad, well booing when a player is coming on as a sub is alot worse.

I said it in another thread tonight, I probably did but I just prefer not to remember but even in our relegation season I don't think I was ever this angry, upset, disappointed or frustrated as I am this season - I guess down to the expectation pre-season, I hadn't set my aims unrealistically high I would have been happy with 6th but being consistantly all season within the playoff mix, we havn't not even near, I need to take hard consideration into how many games I go to the rest of this season and whether I renew my ST or not, no doubt I will renew though - Glutton for punishment springs to mind.

[Libertine Dream]

But those things didn't happen, Dyer couldn't finish his brekky, and we played poorly and lost.

Had Kermocu.nt scored his peno against Cardiff we would be in the prem.

Had we scored two more than them we would of won.

Had Sven known what he was doing he would never of got the sack.

Had your Dad pulled out, you wouldn't be here

Well obviously, I'm just saying that the poor performance would have been papered over had we scored first and more than likely won. Its not quite the booing at Barnsley which was a game we definitely deserved to lose and was probably justified.

[Kitchandro]

Well obviously, I'm just saying that the poor performance would have been papered over had we scored first and more than likely won. Its not quite the booing at Barnsley which was a game we definitely deserved to lose and was probably justified.

But we did deserve to lose this one, we didn't play well enough to get a point.

[Karljohn]

I dont boo but equally I dont applaud the warm up, the 2nd half entrance or anything that I dont consider to be worth putting my hands together for. I'll applaud them when they run out and maybe a bit at the end, but all this bollocks with little ripples of clapping just because theyve run 10 yards in a warm up is soft as shit. Ive never understand why people stand pitchside at the end and clap after a 0-3 home defeat to Millwall. Its a "look at me, im a loyal fan" action. Well your not, your a mug with self esteem lower than a gimp.

[Libertine Dream]

But we did deserve to lose this one, we didn't play well enough to get a point.

To me, because of the amount of promising positions we got into we should have got a point but likewise the Posh would have been disappointed to draw that.

Personally I think today was Sousaesque without the pretty football