[Football] Players who try to get the crowd going

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

NSC: “we need to be the twelfth man”

Players: “we’re a goal down, help us by being the twelfth man”

NSC: “no f*** off, just get on with it, you owe us a performance (etc)”

 

[Milano]

The atmosphere tonight could be either:

1) Brilliant - loads off work drinking all day + under the lights + Albion put in a Marseille performance.
2) Appalling - loads can't be arsed going + empty seats all over + Albion put in a Cardiff performance.

I can see it starting more as option 1, then it's up to the players, slow passing backwards and forwards across the back and it will quickly become more 2.

 

[Hamilton]

You don’t find fluffiness of towels important? Not much disappoints quite so much as a towel that feels like sandpaper to me

Hang on!

I didn’t bring towels into it. That is a fresh thread!

 

[A1X]

Doing it when you’re 1-1 at home in the 88th minute and have a corner to get a roar going is fine, doing it 20 minutes into a game which is nil-nil is pointless

 

[wellquickwoody]

Stop it.

You can start waving your arms at the crowd when the crowd start to see something worth cheering.

Yes, we need atmosphere, but that gets generated by quality entertainment on the pitch.

I’ve seen a few of our players do these frustrated hand gestures at the Amex recently. It is no more likely to make me cheer more loudly than goal music.

You’re all paid handsome amounts of cash and you practice all week. Put in a shift on the pitch and the crowd will put in a shift in the stands.

Blimey! Are you and the players not wanting the same thing, an Albion victory? Whilst agreeing that players need to do their bit, if an occasional gee up will help then why not? Do you not remember the days of ‘Seagulls, Seagulls, Seagulls’ EVERY time we got a corner, deserved or not?

PS Ever wondered if you are more suited to cricket?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I dislike it after the team have just conceded a soft goal.
Feels a bit like a lack of ownership to me.

I don't mind it when the team are putting a shift in and nothing's coming off.
That feels a bit like, "come on we need some help from you now".

 

[Motogull]

Players who try to get the crowd going? I thought we had Players who try to get the crowd going home early.

 

[jcdenton08]

Compare and contrast to the alternative thread after a defeat/bad run, where it’s someone saying that the players “don’t look like they care” during a match. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

 

[pocketseagull]

This feels like a thread that was posted after being beaten at home by Brentford.

 

[Han Solo]

Jesus wept.

I’m not worried about it. It’s just bloody irritating.

And Swansman, I’ll moan about what I want to moan about. I find your weird name change and admittance to the site under a new name irritating too and have had a moan about that. Ffs it’s a football chatroom, if we weren’t moaning it would be dull!

Anyhow, players are doing it too much and in some sort of aggressive entitled way. By all means get excited WITH the crowd, but looking like you’re moaning at them? Nah. Stop it.

Equally I can moan about this petty grievence of yours.

Anyway, don't blame the players. Blame the leaders of the club for not telling them that fans in England are only supporting their teams when they're winning (known as "fair weather support" in some places and "success supporter" in others) so if they want to fire up the crowd they need to score a couple of goals first. British fans like to describe it as "reactionary" as that sounds better than "not very interested in their team unless things don't go well".

By all means, be that way and love that way but don't expect a young player from Benelux or South America to automatically understand thats how it works in England.

Like I said, good chance they know better now after the backlash and critisism they got for trying to raise some sort of "lets turn this war around"-mood against Palace. They'll have to save it for when they move elsewhere.

The advice some are giving, that players should be doing it when the team is already 3-0 up or something, won't happen a lot. Thats when you've already won the game and don't need the support of anyone. Its like showing zero interest in your kid when he's struggling with the math books and everyday life growing up, and then becoming a good supportive father to your son when he's 28, married and making more money than you do.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Blame the leaders of the club for not telling them that fans in England are only supporting their teams when they're winning (known as "fair weather support" in some places and "success supporter" in others)

Given the history of this club, that's an unbelievably tone deaf post.

 

[Han Solo]

Given the history of this club, that's an unbelievably tone deaf post.

But people are saying STRAIGHT OUT that they don't sing, cheer or support their team unless "the team excites them" (aka wins the f***ing game) which is EXACTLY the definition of a fair weather supporter. What tone do you expect me to hear other than the one people repeat over and over again?

 

[Flounce]

Blimey! Are you and the players not wanting the same thing, an Albion victory? Whilst agreeing that players need to do their bit, if an occasional gee up will help then why not? Do you not remember the days of ‘Seagulls, Seagulls, Seagulls’ EVERY time we got a corner, deserved or not?

PS Ever wondered if you are more suited to cricket?

The shiteness of our corners for years killed that chant! As someone else suggested we have more chance of conceding from the break than scoring from the corner

Cricket can f*** off btw

 

[Klaas]

See it all the time now, just something players these days do

 

[Zeberdi]

But people are saying STRAIGHT OUT that they don't sing, cheer or support their team unless "the team excites them" (aka wins the f***ing game) which is EXACTLY the definition of a fair weather supporter. What tone do you expect me to hear other than the one people repeat over and over again?

At least they turn up occasionally.

 

[AlbionBro]

I think it will be loud tonight, but will it be with support or groans? Let's hope the former will be implemented.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Hans Kraay did it against Oxford United at The Goldstone in 1985 and Physio Mike Yaxley told him to behave

 

[Littlemo]

I generally don’t mind it but there is a time for it. If we are playing horrendously badly, or have just lost a terrible goal or something then it’s a bit taking the piss to start being on at the fans.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

The atmosphere tonight could be either:

1) Brilliant - loads off work drinking all day + under the lights + Albion put in a Marseille performance.
2) Appalling - loads can't be arsed going + empty seats all over + Albion put in a Cardiff performance.

I can see it starting more as option 1, then it's up to the players, slow passing backwards and forwards across the back and it will quickly become more 2.

Someone’s just sworn on the coach I’m on, it’s gonna go orrrf tonight, strap in

 

[Blue3]

I like to see one of our players showing a bit of passion at the appropriate moment