Well doneto all the boo boys, read on!!

[watsongooal]

If it were decent football, there would not be a spare seat! Traditional Latino walking pace negative football is not going to entice me to waste my money. If Poyet ever gets it right and we up the tempo and score goals like Barcelona do, it will be worth going. As someone who has mainly gone to away matches over recent years, I can honestly say that our away football is the most boring thing that I can remember - and that includes our Gillingham days.

You do know we have has our best seaon in YEARS dont you? We have matched premiership teams in the cup this season and have narrowly missed out on a play off place? Are you on the right board? You know this is a Brighton board dont you?

 

[dingodan]

People need to get a f***ing grip. We were 2-0 down at half time in a must win game against an average team. After the second shocking team selection in as many games the fans have a right to boo. Would you rather we all clapped and jumped around every time we play shit? If you pay your hard earned money you have a right to express your views. Booing happens at every single ground in the world. It is normal. We have some right jobsworths on here

Who needs away fans, when we have home fans like you.

Yes you paid money so have a right to express your opinion.

But if your opinion is "we are shit", why don't you f*** off and go watch another team play.

Booing might make you feel better, but if you think it helps in anyway you are wrong and a fool. All people like you do is damage this club.

Yes other clubs have negative, self righteous, entitled, flouncealot fans, and they too damage their clubs. That does not make it Ok for you to do the same to ours.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

People who boo at games are spectators, not fans. Spectators go to match to be entertained. If the team is not entertaining they boo because they are unhappy... they are not getting value for money.

A fan goes to a match because he or she loves the club. Of course they want the team to play well and win but at the end of the day no matter what league they are in or how badly they play the fan continues to believe and shows his faith in the club.

It seems there has been more booing this year than even when Adams was here second time around..... does that have something to do with the increase in spectators over fans?

Oh and porkpie, dont consider yourself a fan....you choose not to go and support your team because their football isnt entertaining. When was that ever a consideration to which team you support?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Why Booo it would have been a waste of energy and it was clear to see we or the crowd did not turn up for the first half, So I went for a Piss,Pie and Pint early. Life is toooo short to get pissed off with football, it is what it is !

Brighton have as far as I can recall allways been hit and miss. No one surley expected us to be up there after dire run of form in December with four straight defeats. We have been puching above our weight and have done from my view extremley well this season. Word people Season

 

[Moshe Gariani]

As the half-time whistle blew I fully expected there to be muted booing at the home team's lacklustre performance on the back of a disappointing run of performances/results. It is completely normal under such circumstances and Gus is showing his thin skin and big ego by commenting on it like he has done. Far better to accept it for what it is and just move on.

It is particularly wrong of Gus when he should have been praising the excellent support given to the team in the second half. Very unusually, the home crowd were able to help change the mood of the game and spur the players on BEFORE we scored to get back in the game - the chief vehicle for this was The Great Escape started in WSU and then that spread to other singing, support and encouragement. The Watford manager commented (unprompted) on it during his interview describing The Amex as "a rocking place" and it clearly influenced things on the pitch.

Yes, in an ideal world the crowd would bellow loud encouragement for 95 minutes regardless of how the game is going but that never happens anywhere. What we have got at The Amex is very special and Gus should appreciate it and nurture it at every opportunity.

What Gus doesn't seem to accept is that we are able to watch the game and understand what is going on fairly well. It is so obvious that when the players step up their effort, speed of movement and passing to create a more lively, attacking tempo then our players are plenty good enough to play exciting football that scores goals and gathers points. What most of us don't understand is why we only seem to be able to play like that in the second half of home matches and if we have gone behind.

 

[terryberry1]

Who needs away fans, when we have home fans like you.

Yes you paid money so have a right to express your opinion.

But if your opinion is "we are shit", why don't you f*** off and go watch another team play.

Booing might make you feel better, but if you think it helps in anyway you are wrong and a fool. All people like you do is damage this club.

Yes other clubs have negative, self righteous, entitled, flouncealot fans, and they too damage their clubs. That does not make it Ok for you to do the same to ours.

Pipe down you fool, i never said we were shit. Read what i wrote before you get your knickers in twist. I'm as big a Brighton fan than anyone on here and for the record i didn't boo. Everyone has a right to though.

 

[dingodan]

People who boo at games are spectators, not fans. Spectators go to match to be entertained. If the team is not entertaining they boo because they are unhappy... they are not getting value for money.

A fan goes to a match because he or she loves the club. Of course they want the team to play well and win but at the end of the day no matter what league they are in or how badly they play the fan continues to believe and shows his faith in the club.

It seems there has been more booing this year than even when Adams was here second time around..... does that have something to do with the increase in spectators over fans?

Oh and porkpie, dont consider yourself a fan....you choose not to go and support your team because their football isnt entertaining. When was that ever a consideration to which team you support?

Props for articulating yourself well without resorting to expletives. A better man than I is ye.

 

[dingodan]

Pipe down you fool, i never said we were shit. Read what i wrote before you get your knickers in twist. I'm as big a Brighton fan than anyone on here and for the record i didn't boo. Everyone has a right to though.

You do not boo fair play. But you are still a boo sympathiser.

 

[fataddick]

The Curbishley comparison made earlier is very apt I think. As he pointed out, his problem at Charlton was with the fans who jumped on the bandwagon once they had the ground, not the long-standing support who had the perspective to appreciate what an achievement it was to even be in the top league. The vocal minority got him sacked and his successors took the club back where it had come from.

To correct a couple of inaccuracies. Firstly, no-one got Curbishley sacked. He quit because he thought he had taken Charlton as far as he could (if you believe his autobiography) or because he arrogantly thought he was about to be appointed England boss (Steve McLaren was appointed a week later). We'd already been back at the Valley for three years when Curbishley was appointed sole manager, so I don't really get the bandwagon comment. Yes, people's expectations had risen beyond where they should have been, but the reason fans had begun to turn against Curbs (certainly why I and many mates had) was all the tales of his increasing arrogance and how he'd lost the dressing room and been in the job so long he thought he was untouchable. Increasingly our better players were negotiating moves away from the club because they couldn't hack his attitude - Danny Murphy, Paul Konchesky, and many many more. Yes the ensuing calamity (allowing Dowie to spend more money that summer than Curbs had been allowed in his entire reign, particularly) suggests "ha ha be careful what you wish for", but I believe the bubble would have burst if Curbishley had stayed too. His West Ham reign - quitting after two seasons with several players openly criticising his attitude/arrogance in the press - is hardly a ringing endorsement of what the man had become. So if there's a comparison to be made, you should perhaps be be more concerned about the perceived arrogance of Poyet in recent press conferences than of 'new' Albion fans/attendees having unrealistic expectations.

 

[Lush]

I laughed a lot when someone in WSL shouted "Put a shirt on him!" during the Eric Gill pitch-side interview.

Does that make me a bad fan for not supporting the team?

 

[father_and_son]

Personally, I booed the ref (he had a terrible match riddled with crap decisions, mistakes and inconsistencies) but not the players. I may not agree with them, but I will defend the right of others to express their own opinions

Significantly I feel that Gus' attitude to those who booed the team (didn't see/hear it myself) as completely wrong. And demonstrates that he is about as ready for the Premiership as the rest of the club - not yet!

He should be apologising to the fans for what was a shocking performance - he's the manager, he takes the blame when things go wrong and let's the players take the credit when they go well - that's his job!

The fans, rightly or wrongly, expect to see a performance worthy of a team fighting for a play off spot, because that's the team he has given us for most of the season. Last night, for the first half and parts of the second, we played like a team who didn't even deserve to be in this division.

Half the team had their compasses set completely wrong and were only capable of kicking the ball Northwards, the goalkeeping was dreadful - his "kicking to touch" was something I'd expect to see at Twickenham! - and the attitude of the team was negative and deflated long before anyone booed.

All in all, I think we were really lucky to get a point from last night and feel Gus owes us an apology for the way the team played.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Gus is getting far too precious and so are some of the fans, if someone wants to boo, let them boo, it doesn't really bother me and the players need to accept it is part of life and the ups and downs as a footballer and Gus needs to accept it, and fast as part of being a football manager.

When Barnes did a rash challenge on someone last night and was spoken to be the ref I shouted out " send him off " which was pretty funny imo.

We have done well this season but are not Worldbeaters and will have plenty of bad days at the office. This " I do not boo and am therefore a better fan than you " is load of old bollocks in my opinion.

 

[ajcocker]

Gus needs to get of the fans backs and actually understand the booing i herd from where i was sitting was soley directed at the REF who was so POOR i think he should take up SUNDAYs as a ref.lol, also gus needs to understand that the fans will be around at the amex a lot longer than he will as i can't see him doing a FERGI from MAN U and staying at one club for a long period of time, if GUS wants to keep giving it large towards the fans and watch his side play all home games with a capacity of 2000 away fans then carry on my son after all he seems to think he is GOD dream on GUS!!!!!!!

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

He should be apologising to the fans for what was a shocking performance - he's the manager, he takes the blame when things go wrong and let's the players take the credit when they go well - that's his job!

it will be a cold day in Hell before that happens my friend

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Gus is getting far too precious and so are some of the fans, if someone wants to boo, let them boo, it doesn't really bother me and the players need to accept it is part of life and the ups and downs as a footballer and Gus needs to accept it, and fast as part of being a football manager.

When Barnes did a rash challenge on someone last night and was spoken to be the ref I shouted out " send him off " which was pretty funny imo.

We have done well this season but are not Worldbeaters and will have plenty of bad days at the office. This " I do not boo and am therefore a better fan than you " is load of old bollocks in my opinion.

Booing is the issue. Everyone has the right to gripe about anything and yes Gus is answerable to the board and, theoreretically, the fans but booing is in noway constructive... it is destructive and therefore isnt fan behaviour. Even demonstrations to sack the boss are better than booing.

 

[HH Brighton]

People who boo at games are spectators, not fans. Spectators go to match to be entertained. If the team is not entertaining they boo because they are unhappy... they are not getting value for money.

A fan goes to a match because he or she loves the club. Of course they want the team to play well and win but at the end of the day no matter what league they are in or how badly they play the fan continues to believe and shows his faith in the club.

It seems there has been more booing this year than even when Adams was here second time around..... does that have something to do with the increase in spectators over fans?

Oh and porkpie, dont consider yourself a fan....you choose not to go and support your team because their football isnt entertaining. When was that ever a consideration to which team you support?

Summed up perfectly, anyone who boo's is not a supporter, they may follow Brighton and your entitled to boo if you want but don't then pretend you are a supporter.

 

[Harold]

Poyet pre-emptive strike to deflect criticism. Offering up an alternative story (this time fans supposedly booing the team).

Main story should have been about him starting with a rookie keeper (in Albion terms) who un-nerved the defence with poor decision making, and un-nerved the team in general with poor kicking to the outfield. That and the surprisingly languid start to what was an important game at home. A slow nervy start that put us straight on the back foot against a Watford side keen to press.

10 goals without reply is going to stretch the patience of many, but I genuinely believe the booing was aimed at the ref at half-time (certainly where I was in WSU). Can't comment on any verbals Poyet believes the North Stand aimed at Gonsalez obviously. IF Gus believes he has a point about perceived lack of support off the pitch (a minority by his own admission), it pales against the bigger issues on it last night, and in a few preceding games as well.

Believe he is the man though, and confident he knows exactly what need sorting out for next season.

 

[bhawoddy]

You think that an 'idiotic team selection' is justification for booing?

Jesus wept.

without reading the whole thread - i think the booing that was heard was directed directly at the referee as far as i could tell. I think this booing the players is a complete bollocks and hes got his wires crossed. Anyone booing players this season needs specialist help, i cant see for one second that Poyet has got this right.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

erm...why is it jingoistic to describe latin football as "boring tippy tappy stuff"?

So is it xenophobic to describe English football as kick and rush?

 

[The Large One]

without reading the whole thread - i think the booing that was heard was directed directly at the referee as far as i could tell. I think this booing the players is a complete bollocks and hes got his wires crossed. Anyone booing players this season needs specialist help, i cant see for one second that Poyet has got this right.

Usually booing the ref is saved for when they're either the last on the pitch or heading for the tunnel. The sustained booing was saved for then.

However, there was a brief, not particularly loud bout of booing (a couple of seconds) the moment the referee's whistle went for half-time. At least there was in WSU.