7oaksgull
Well-known member
Its usually quite important to perform in front of your own fans. I mean we are the people who buy the STs and merchandise. Keep playing crap football at home people stop going. Lose the faith and go shopping etc with their families. Less hassle and dare to say cheaper. If however you do well, well generally much more reason to go as ENJOYMENT becomes a part of the event rather than turgid frustration.
Yep, fair comments. However, someone made a very good point on here last week that being at the game dilutes the impact the actual result has on you because you've met up with your mates, had a beer etc. At the moment we have only the performance and the result to impact how we feel. That is causing an additional impact.
I believe that the huge amount of frustration being felt by fans in general is because we actually realise we are tantalising close to things being so much better. We are 'in' games more often and for longer. We are not bottom of the league. We are not getting hammered every week. We are not an awful side to watch. Fine margins are killing us: A deflection that goes in or goes wide. A tight decision that goes against us. Our shocking inability to put our chances away. I think many of us could probably handle being bottom of the league better than the constant 'near misses'. As the cliche says: "I can handle the dispair, It's the hope that kills me"