If people thought that was bad, where were you 2 years ago? Because THAT was bad, and deserved booing. This doesn't. Gus is spot on, our fans are pathetic at times. We're 4 points clear at the top of the league, we played a weakened team today against dogged and determined opposition and we drew 1-1, but had how many chances to win? And the minority boo. It's pathetic "support". If you think the fact you've paid a tenner to get in gives you the right to boo like a petulant child, then you've got the problem, not the team/Poyet.
All the nonsense about them being 112 places, 8 leagues below us is irrelevant. They're a football team playing against another football team, we dominated posession and shots on goal, but couldn't find the net enough to win. On another day, we put 5 away and everyone is ole'ing the football. It didn't happen, but there's not fundamentally wrong with the team just because we didn't win on the day.
Most of this. The performance wasn't that bad (except when it came to finishing, or choices in their box), imo.
My my - hasn't this caused a stir - and rightly so.
Lesson No. 1 for Gus and Tanno - football fans are fickle. Lesson 2 - some fans like to boo. Lesson 3 - most fans are not as tacticaly astute as they are and that's why fans sit in the stands and the managers sit in the dugouts - except Tanno who tried to do an impression of a professional footballer.
GP and Tanno both showed extreme managerial inexperience and their Latin sensitivety by the half time and full time petulant reactions to a few fans who were acting like it was a panto - which in many respects it was.
FC were not a Colchester and yet we played against them as though they were and gave them way too much respect. Some of our football was poor and most of our finishing was utterly shocking and with the greatest respect to the management, it was extremely frustrating sitting in the stands watching us play as we did. I do not agree with booing but get real - it happens.
GP and Tanno need to get real and accept it happens - ignore it - either take the competition seriously or not and be prepared to accept the consequences without throwing their toys out the pram. Almost everyone recognises the improvements they have made to this club and what they have achieved - but yesterday there were many poor things against a team that should have been absolutely hammered and people were justified in being frustrated - just because they boo doesn't give the management the right to become all indignant.
Most of this. Though...
I love brighton fans, but i do not like some of their reactions either, so why do they have a right to slate Gus, but he gets hammered when he bites back. Its a joke
...this. The fans had an emotional reaction, it's unfair to criticise Poyet for having an emotional reaction too.
One pattern I'm seeing is that each side seems to be pointing to the league tables, as if it affects the performance in the cup yesterday (one saying how high we are, one saying how low FC united are).
Both are right, both are wrong. The league is a reason for us not to be disappointed by cup performances. However, the league is also a reason for us to expect to beat FC united.
For me, though I don't boo (it seems like such cartoonish behaviour), the end of each half is the only time it should occur. Yes, that means half time, too. It lets the players know you are unhappy with the performance, and can have an effect. It does help, at times. Contrary to what some people believe, criticism, booing, etc can spur on players, it can wake them up. Many many managers are known for giving the hair-dryer treatment at half-time and booing is simply the fans equivalent. If we cheer them off, we undermine any half-time haranguing, if we give silent treatment it's as if we don't care, so why should they?
We should and, as far as I've witnessed, always do get behind the team at the start of each half.
However, and this is important, the booing should only occur when we are performing badly, and not just because we aren't winning.
But ultimately this (though, perhaps not as aggressively put as this)...
get a grip you sad fuckers , there's more inportant things in life to worry about ......................... or maybe not in the case of 80% on here