are the boo-boys proud?

[cockjol]

as bad as spurs were first half, i couldn't believe the amount of booing that took place at half-time...bet the same people were cheering the team on after steed's equaliser...talk about fickle:bang:

 

[$herringham]

i think Boooo is the 21st century way of sayin, "come on, we're gettin sick of this" every team has had it (i think)

PS. i cant stand spurs bein booed, really sucks

 

[TrueYid]

Crap! The crowd had every right to boo the team off, they were poor and the fans who paid good money to go see them were justified in letting the players know exactly what they thought of the performance.

The players played well in the second half and deserved to get cheered.

Thats not being fickle! That is portraying to the team how you feel about the way they are going about their jobs.

 

[rez9000]

It was disgusting. I'm likely to overstate my feelings because I'm a bit tired, but it sickens me. There is no excuse for it. Even if you're unhappy with a performance (and let's be fair, you'd have to be blind, stupid or mad to think we did well in the first half), but there is no justification for it.

I can understand that after shelling out a shedload of cash on the tickets, people expect some sort of performance. But even then it's not justified. We are the twelfth man. If we expect our players to do well, then we should expect the same of ourselves and booing doesn't accomplish that.

 

[TrueYid]

It was disgusting. I'm likely to overstate my feelings because I'm a bit tired, but it sickens me. There is no excuse for it. Even if you're unhappy with a performance (and let's be fair, you'd have to be blind, stupid or mad to think we did well in the first half), but there is no justification for it.

I can understand that after shelling out a shedload of cash on the tickets, people expect some sort of performance. But even then it's not justified. We are the twelfth man. If we expect our players to do well, then we should expect the same of ourselves and booing doesn't accomplish that.

I dissagree, it is discusting when individual players are jeered, but at the half time whistle or full time for that matter, if the players just have not performed, and I am talking about a game like today when we were awful for the first 45, than those who shed out the cash have every right to let the team know they were not good enough.

 

[rez9000]

I dissagree, it is discusting when individual players are jeered, but at the half time whistle or full time for that matter, if the players just have not performed, and I am talking about a game like today when we were awful for the first 45, than those who shed out the cash have every right to let the team know they were not good enough.

I spent £80 in total tonight, and I found the first half utterly pathetic. But in the same way that cheering players on motivates them, then booing them will demotivate them and that decreases the chances of them performing better in the second half.

And my own personal feeling is that support should be just that: support. Expressing dissatisfaction is every fans right, but not by booing. Booing is disrespectful, and is pre-meditated. No player walks out onto the pitch with the express purpose of perfroming badly, it just happens. Equating poor performance from players with justification for booing just doesn't cut it with me. Silence would have a greater effect. Can you imagine a stadium with the majority of the fans silent. That would send a much clearer message, I feel.

 

[pagevee]

I spent £80 in total tonight, and I found the first half utterly pathetic. But in the same way that cheering players on motivates them, then booing them will demotivate them and that decreases the chances of them performing better in the second half.

And my own personal feeling is that support should be just that: support. Expressing dissatisfaction is every fans right, but not by booing. Booing is disrespectful, and is pre-meditated. No player walks out onto the pitch with the express purpose of perfroming badly, it just happens. Equating poor performance from players with justification for booing just doesn't cut it with me. Silence would have a greater effect. Can you imagine a stadium with the majority of the fans silent. That would send a much clearer message, I feel.

Tried to rep you for that but I need to spread it around some more. Good stuff though. COYS

 

[TrueYid]

I spent £80 in total tonight, and I found the first half utterly pathetic. But in the same way that cheering players on motivates them, then booing them will motivate them and that decreases the chances of them performing better in the second half.

And my own personal feeling is that support should be just that: support. Expressing dissatisfaction is every fans right, but not by booing. Booing is disrespectful, and is pre-meditated. No player walks out onto the pitch with the express purpose of perfroming badly, it just happens. Equating poor performance from players with justification for booing just doesn't cut it with me. Silence would have a greater effect. Can you imagine a stadium with the majority of the fans silent. That would send a much clearer message, I feel.

I understand your point, and appreciate where you are coming from as a paying fan, I have not been to the lane for quite a while now (just too far to travel)

When I was living in England I used to go very often. I only remember booing once, when we lost 0-4 to Blackburn Rovers on the last day of the season - but I felt at the time it was justified, and from what I have read/seen of last nights game, we were very poor, against a team which should have been beating comfortably.

I do understand your point, that it may not send the best message, but it does send a message - maybe not in the best and most positive way. Allot of people (under 30,000 not enough in my opinion) paid good money and too call them disgusting and fickle for showing their frustration is not fair.

It is a two way street, the fans can be the twelfth man, but first and foremost the other eleven have to turn up and put in the effort too.

 

[Kendall]

if we're going to keep our best players the boo boys need to shut the fuck up.

they don't boo at OT

 

[TrueYid]

if we're going to keep our best players the boo boys need to shut the fuck up.

they don't boo at OT

And you reckon if United were two nill down at half time against FC Copenhagen in the Champions Leauge they wouldn't?

 

[Kendall]

yes, because they have been in similar positions before and not been booed, it seems like every game at the moment

 

[guiltyparty]

The fact is they were booed and came out and won the game, so it clearly didn't have a negative effect. Coupled with Ramos's arse-kicking it did the trick.

Individual players? No booing. Whole team when they play that badly? Abso-bloody-lutely. It's the few bits of 'fan power' still left - call it a 'review of the game'. If Spurs want to treat the fans like consumers, I'm giving them feedback.

 

[tony0379]

Boooooooooooooooo Cockjol Boooooooooooooooooo!!

 

[N10toN17]

Better not to boo, shows a bit more class, a lot more booing recently at the Lane, makes us look like the geordies and that's never a good thing.

 

[Stoof]

I was saying Boo-urns. :-(

Agree with rez, nine thousand percent. :wink:

 

[Spursbabe63]

as bad as spurs were first half, i couldn't believe the amount of booing that took place at half-time...bet the same people were cheering the team on after steed's equaliser...talk about fickle:bang:

That's exactly what i said to my hubby at half time...bet the boo'ers felt like pillocks at full time..

 

[MattyP]

I understand the feeling behind why fans want to boo and lets face it there would be on-one remotely connected to the club who would have been happy at half time.

That said, its not something I can find myself doing. The guy I go with booed last night, I think for the first time that I can remember, and he got a right frosty look from me - was quite easy given how bloody cold it was!

But, as I've said before, if it was possible to orchestrate a chant of "Pull you fucking socks up boys", "Play with pride", etc I'd prefer that.

Though the "You're not fit to wear the shirt" should be reserved for people like Ghaly. The people chanting that at the end of the first half should be ashamed of themselves, not least because a fair few of them starting singing "Juande Ramos blue & white army" as soon as we took the lead.

And people call Spurs fans fickle?!

 

[Flatters]

I spent £80 in total tonight, and I found the first half utterly pathetic. But in the same way that cheering players on motivates them, then booing them will demotivate them and that decreases the chances of them performing better in the second half.

And my own personal feeling is that support should be just that: support. Expressing dissatisfaction is every fans right, but not by booing. Booing is disrespectful, and is pre-meditated. No player walks out onto the pitch with the express purpose of perfroming badly, it just happens. Equating poor performance from players with justification for booing just doesn't cut it with me. Silence would have a greater effect. Can you imagine a stadium with the majority of the fans silent. That would send a much clearer message, I feel.

I agree. Also, I saw you on the telebox last night when they zoomed in on some of the crowd. :-D

 

[worcestersauce]

I don't go along with the idea that you can boo if you've spent enough money, after all we choose to spend it

I don't like the booing and I know that sometimes we are so bad it's painful but my main reason for not doing it is this.

The first time you do it it doesn't come naturally, the second time it is easier, then it becomes natural and then you end up doing it just because the team is 1-0 down at half time.
In the end the crowd will boo every time the team isn't winning or doesn't win as we've already seen happen a couple of times this year, and that in my opinion is bloody rediculous.

 

[Defsta]

You mean poo-boys :think: