- Dec 8, 2005
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The poor performance or the boos? It's a trend which is really bothering me.
Lets check ourselves, the fans started grumbling and groaning within ten minutes, we were playing without much pace but we were knocking the ball about fairly comfortably, nothing to panic about. Now the grumbling then became moaning, the moaning became booing, before half time, and before we started to play poorly.
As soon as the boo's and the loud whining started, our play became disjointed, our players looked nervy and at times were trying to force the game, passes that aren't on, runs that aren't there. It's a cycle that is easily broken, by not behaving like toddlers who want cake instead of carrots. A patient and methodical approach may have been the right tactic, breaking them down slowly might have paid off, had the fans not panicked the team into breaking from that, which lead to the lack of cohesion in the first place.
Are our players too easily influenced by what is coming out of the crowd? Clearly they aren't as able to shrug it off as you lot may think. The booing and moaning makes everything 3x worse, it's not just this weekend, it happens every time we don't play at 100mph or race into a 2-0 lead.
The sense of entitlement amongst our fans is unbearable, what happened to being patient? What happened to supporting the team? Obviously i could go on a rant about how society demands instant gratification etc blah blah blah but I'll spare you that. That first half made me ashamed to be a Spurs fan, not in a way that being a Chelsea or Liverpool fan would, but the childish and impatient attitude of WHL, it's pathetic and is actually harming the team. Yes we ended that half pretty poorly, but had the crowd not jumped on their backs so quickly, would we have been so poor? I don't think so.
(for the benefit of some, i wrote this at half time, i haven't a bloody clue what happened in the second half, but man, a Siggy hat-trick? That came out of nowhere! I wasn't expecting Lloris to be that good on the wing either, fair play to AvB for that, especially in that lightning storm)
Lets check ourselves, the fans started grumbling and groaning within ten minutes, we were playing without much pace but we were knocking the ball about fairly comfortably, nothing to panic about. Now the grumbling then became moaning, the moaning became booing, before half time, and before we started to play poorly.
As soon as the boo's and the loud whining started, our play became disjointed, our players looked nervy and at times were trying to force the game, passes that aren't on, runs that aren't there. It's a cycle that is easily broken, by not behaving like toddlers who want cake instead of carrots. A patient and methodical approach may have been the right tactic, breaking them down slowly might have paid off, had the fans not panicked the team into breaking from that, which lead to the lack of cohesion in the first place.
Are our players too easily influenced by what is coming out of the crowd? Clearly they aren't as able to shrug it off as you lot may think. The booing and moaning makes everything 3x worse, it's not just this weekend, it happens every time we don't play at 100mph or race into a 2-0 lead.
The sense of entitlement amongst our fans is unbearable, what happened to being patient? What happened to supporting the team? Obviously i could go on a rant about how society demands instant gratification etc blah blah blah but I'll spare you that. That first half made me ashamed to be a Spurs fan, not in a way that being a Chelsea or Liverpool fan would, but the childish and impatient attitude of WHL, it's pathetic and is actually harming the team. Yes we ended that half pretty poorly, but had the crowd not jumped on their backs so quickly, would we have been so poor? I don't think so.
(for the benefit of some, i wrote this at half time, i haven't a bloody clue what happened in the second half, but man, a Siggy hat-trick? That came out of nowhere! I wasn't expecting Lloris to be that good on the wing either, fair play to AvB for that, especially in that lightning storm)