Southampton post match thread

[Melton Fox]

Iif you feel that there are better players at the club, then boo the manager.

I'm getting sick and fcuking tired of people thinking I boo players because I moan about them after the match if they've been shit.

I have NEVER once in my entire life booed a player, or the team. EVER.

 

[highland fox]

I accept that it is frustrating to watch poor play, but what is the point in giving grief to your own player? Presumably, Newton and Hume are doing their best: if you feel that there are better players at the club, then boo the manager and, if not, accept that these are the best we've got the moment and hope that we get better players in soon.
Cort has been a good player. The fact that we brought him in at a time when he is crocked, is hardly his fault. City's medical checks should have put pay to the deal.

Do you think so ? Never rated him myself and has to be one of the most injury prone players ever.Agree with what you say about the medical checks,its beyond belief how we ever signed him in the first place and nobody is going to take him off our hands now with Holloway admitting that he's fecked

 

[foxin_oz]

I accept that it is frustrating to watch poor play, but what is the point in giving grief to your own player? Presumably, Newton and Hume are doing their best: if you feel that there are better players at the club, then boo the manager and, if not, accept that these are the best we've got the moment and hope that we get better players in soon.
Cort has been a good player. The fact that we brought him in at a time when he is crocked, is hardly his fault. City's medical checks should have put pay to the deal.

What I find mystifying is that every manager we've had this season has selected Newton on the wing. Why?

They must see something in him. Any suggestions as to what? And who should be playing right wing? I'm stumped. :icon_conf

 

[highland fox]

I'm getting sick and fcuking tired of people think I boo players because I moan about them after the match.

I have NEVER once in my entire life booed a player, or the team. EVER.

Thats what I'd do if I went.If I go I go to support my team,all of them.

 

[Redditch Fox]

I wasn't suggesting he get out on the pitch. But long ball isn't working. If he looked at the tactics from the Watford game where we passed along the ground rather than hoof it up and hope our shortish strikers outjump taller defenders then maybe we might have a little more success. More diagonal balls putting players into gaps and less hoof ball is what I'm suggesting. :icon_conf

In theory yes - but in spite of the Watford game (which I missed) - we don't seem to have the personnel to play the football which you are suggesting.

On other points raised here (not by you) of course there is a point in booing players. That is only way that the crowd can seek to influence selections etc.
I'm not saying it's good - but it is obviously a method and sometimes works.

On Sappleton - point made by Cate fox - the reason that the crowd wouldn't get after Sappleton is because he is a kid- Cort isn't, he is just eking out his pay days here and the club was crazy to sign him given his injury record.

 

[Disco Bob]

I sense a sea change at The Walkers.

I think that the Leicester crowd will always be sympathetic to young kids who are giving of their best - but the old lags like Cort and Newton etc etc are in the firing line - whether this is fair or not.

That's not a sea change - that's the way a sizable section of twats have always behaved.

A sea change, although paradigm shift would better suit it, would be for people to understand the contributory effect their negativity has on results and either desist or f*ck off.

Paying money may well entitle people to an opinion, but unless we learn from our recent history we are going to be condemned to repeat it every f*cking Saturday at home.

 

[Steven]

That's not a sea change - that's the way a sizable section of twats have always behaved.

A sea change, although paradigm shift would better suit it, would be for people to understand the contributory effect their negativity has on results and either desist or f*ck off.

Paying money may well entitle people to an opinion, but unless we learn from our recent history we are going to be condemned to repeat it every f*cking Saturday at home.

It is up to the players to break the circle. :icon_wink

 

[dibbdroid]

That's not a sea change - that's the way a sizable section of twats have always behaved.
A sea change, although paradigm shift would better suit it, would be for people to understand the contributory effect their negativity has on results and either desist or f*ck off.

So true, I can't figure out what's worse, listening to the moaners in the stands or suffering from Steve Walsh's drivel on the radio. Sometimes we the fans have to show a modicum of patience.

Holloway needs a chance to find out who's who in the squad, unfortunately for us we've seen a lot of these players over the last few seasons put in about 10 decent performances out of 40-odd. It'll take time but eventually we'll have a manager stay long enough to clear out the dead wood and hopefully bring in some better talent.

Fair enough, vent your anger on here away from the ground, even as an eternal optimist I know sh|t when I see it and just the thought of Maybury on the bench f**ks me off but that doesn't mean I'll be barracking.

The pre-season started a week ago so by Easter we may have a clue.:icon_eek:

 

[spionfox]

I have NEVER once in my entire life booed a player

I think it is important to clarify at this point that you mean you have never booed one of *our* players!

I'd hate to think you remained silent when Wise came back here!

 

[Disco Bob]

It is up to the players to break the circle. :icon_wink

Passing the buck in such spectacular fashion should see you forge a successful career in IT middle management (or a semi-successful one in politics).

Of course the squad bear a responsibility but you have the option to help or hinder them - and I'm guessing that as you started the thread on the dot of full-time that you did neither.

Until fans at the ground realise that the negativity they base their lives on acts to the detriment of the team things will not be changing in a hurry...and anyone believing it could is a fool.

 

[Steven]

Passing the buck in such spectacular fashion should see you forge a successful career in IT middle management (or a semi-successful one in politics).

Of course the squad bear a responsibility but you have the option to help or hinder them - and I'm guessing that as you started the thread on the dot of full-time that you did neither.

Until fans at the ground realise that the negativity they base their lives on acts to the detriment of the team things will not be changing in a hurry...and anyone believing it could is a fool.

There are fewer of them than there are of us. Just on the logistics of it all it is easier for the players to make an impact than it is for the fans. :icon_wink

 

[spionfox]

There are fewer of them than there are of us. Just on the logistics of it all it is easier for the players to make an impact than it is for the fans. :icon_wink

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Do players respond to the crowd or do the crowd respond to the players?

Personally I reckon it's a bit of both. At the start of the game the fans should be in full voice, the players should respond etc etc.

Sadly, all too often our crowd have been pretty apathetic at times, as have the players.

 

[Disco Bob]

There are fewer of them than there are of us. Just on the logistics of it all it is easier for the players to make an impact than it is for the fans. :icon_wink

This is the pointless and misguided logic of a Union official.

"It's the management! It's up to them to change..." Bollocks.

Change begins with the individual and everyone at the Walkers next Saturday either contributes or detracts.

Sit on your arse waiting for the players to lift your spirits and you'll be waiting for ever.

Will you be there Steven? Will you jeer?

 

[fitz]

This is the pointless and misguided logic of a Union official.

"It's the management! It's up to them to change..." Bollocks.

Change begins with the individual and everyone at the Walkers next Saturday either contributes or detracts.

Sit on your arse waiting for the players to lift your spirits and you'll be waiting for ever.

Will you be there Steven? Will you jeer?

the difference is spectators are paying to watch, whereas the players are being paid. often i wonder what they are being paid for, but they are being paid

 

[Disco Bob]

the difference is spectators are paying to watch, whereas the players are being paid. often i wonder what they are being paid for, but they are being paid

So?

 

[fitz]

So?

so why should those being paid rely on those who are paying to try and motivate them?

 

[Billyjof]

I get paid by my boss and I couldn't give a fcuk about my job . My boss should be motivating me or sacking me.

Where lies the blame??

 

[SilverFox]

Re: Southampton match thread

FT 1-2

Careful Steven you shouldn't use smilies like that. You might be branded as something you aren't.

 

[Steven]

Change begins with the individual and everyone at the Walkers next Saturday either contributes or detracts.

Put simply there are eleven players who could change the mindset in the stadium. I doubt whether eleven fans could and would have the same impact. :icon_bigg :icon_cool

 

[fox58]

Booing now seems to be endemic at matches, so called supporters appear to have no patients when results go against their team.

Take Newcastle for example they had a good run at home at the start of the season, the first home defeat was met with a chorus of boo’s and every subsequent performance at home has encountered the same response. Is it any coincidence then that there are on such a bad run, I think not.

Football although a team game is still about confidence and I have yet to witness any player that has responded to being booed by his own supporters.

Before anyone say’s Kisnorbo it was once he was moved to his preferred position that he improved.