West Brom at home last season (3 Viewers)

[skybluecam]

Does anyone remember?

We're in 20th place, losing 1-0 at home to a fairly local rival. Haji, our £7.7m record signing with just 2 goals in 14 games goes clean through on goal and misses a glorious chance.

How did the crowd react? By immediately singing his name.

At the time I thought that was something for us to be proud of as a club. You wouldn't get that from many fanbases. And of course Haji scored twice on his next appearance and went on to score 19, including those goals at Wolves and Wembley.

Have we given the players anything like that support in low moments this season?

 

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[hill83]

Yes

 

[TomS91]

Everyone sings Bassette's name every week. And Simms when he's on.

There is a bit more moaning and groaning than usual and the ironic cheers at Pompey when Collins caught the ball or at Cardiff when Thomas played a pass to a teammate is shit.

But generally I think most are pretty supportive still.

 

[ajsccfc]

Apart from the odd individual voice you hear, the majority tend to be supportive. Probably not as vocally as recent years but it's not gone nasty as it could.

 

[Ccfc_Addy]

I remember that game; I was absolutely fuming afterwards and being sat on a coach that was leaking water onto me didn't help matters. BTA scored for them that day as well, right?

 

[Domo]

from what i heard cov fans were still at norwich after the game had finished applauding the team, we (on the whole) dont moan towards the squad as much as we do on here.

 

[The watchmaker]

Does anyone remember?

We're in 20th place, losing 1-0 at home to a fairly local rival. Haji, our £7.7m record signing with just 2 goals in 14 games goes clean through on goal and misses a glorious chance.

How did the crowd react? By immediately singing his name.

At the time I thought that was something for us to be proud of as a club. You wouldn't get that from many fanbases. And of course Haji scored twice on his next appearance and went on to score 19, including those goals at Wolves and Wembley.

Have we given the players anything like that support in low moments this season?

Hmm... Interesting. You appear to be suggesting we should get behind the team and stop whining when things aren't going quite right...

Side stepping that though - stand to be corrected - but I think you are probably overestimating how good the support was last year and how poor it has been this year. A lot of players (particularly Wright and Simms) we getting a lot of flack early last season. This time fans (in stadium) have by and large supported the players/managers. Luton I think is a good example - and that bore fruit for us.

There's not been much to cheer last few games and you can feel the excitement draining out of the crowd as we start to look more and more mid-table. Hoping for a decent atmosphere in the cup and a morale boosting win.

 

[clint van damme]

Does anyone remember?

We're in 20th place, losing 1-0 at home to a fairly local rival. Haji, our £7.7m record signing with just 2 goals in 14 games goes clean through on goal and misses a glorious chance.

How did the crowd react? By immediately singing his name.

At the time I thought that was something for us to be proud of as a club. You wouldn't get that from many fanbases. And of course Haji scored twice on his next appearance and went on to score 19, including those goals at Wolves and Wembley.

Have we given the players anything like that support in low moments this season?

Once again your self awareness is non existent.
We've backed Robins through lean times before and it all worked out though this time you decided to call for his head!

 

[pusbccfc]

They have been heavily backed in numbers but certainly not in voice.

Plenty moans and groans every game.

 

[SBT]

There was still quite a lot of residual good-will around the place in October of last year (we hadn't yet lost at home, although we'd drawn most of them). I think it's understandable that fans have more patience with a player who's only played a dozen or so games for us, rather than one who's been here for a year or more.

As it happens, WBA scored a second 15 minutes later in that game with a hell of a finish from their striker - wonder what happened to him

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

As it happens, WBA scored a second 15 minutes later in that game with a hell of a finish from their striker - wonder what happened to him

Not sure. Did you see the incident after that though where the same player found himself in a great position to score a third, or pass it to two well-positioned colleagues and waste fully blazed it over the bar?

 

[skybluecam]

Once again your self awareness is non existent.
We've backed Robins through lean times before and it all worked out though this time you decided to call for his head!

I didn't exempt myself from my post. Although calling for a constructive change is different from just moaning at the team.

 

[San Francisco]

Another post blaming the fans. Players have got to step it up if they want fans to back them.

 

[Adge]

To be fair I didn’t think we covered ourselves in glory on Saturday. Thought v Norwich we were quite flat. Interestingly, the majority did applaud the team at the end but my hands stayed firmly in my pockets.

 

[pusbccfc]

Another post blaming the fans. Players have got to step it up if they want fans to back them.

Why?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Does anyone remember?

We're in 20th place, losing 1-0 at home to a fairly local rival. Haji, our £7.7m record signing with just 2 goals in 14 games goes clean through on goal and misses a glorious chance.

How did the crowd react? By immediately singing his name.

At the time I thought that was something for us to be proud of as a club. You wouldn't get that from many fanbases. And of course Haji scored twice on his next appearance and went on to score 19, including those goals at Wolves and Wembley.

Have we given the players anything like that support in low moments this season?

Away yes

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Away yes

Hardly anything to get too excited about at some of the home games.

 

[higgs]

Hard to get excited when passing backwards

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[San Francisco]

Why?

Not gonna spend loads of money every season and cheer on a bunch of overpaid tossers who clearly don't give a shite, laughing and so on with the oppo after a loss doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence right now. Players need to earn the fans support.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

cheer on a bunch of overpaid tossers

I get your point, but I can't look at the players like that, unless they have thrown the towel in on the pitch, then started laughing and joking straight after the game. That wasn't what happened at Norwich - the players put in a proper shift and were unlucky (a worldy and a foul 9 times out of 10). That was why i happily applauded them along with a good proportion of the support at Norwich. I saw signs of encouragement on Saturday, considering we were without 3 of our most attacking threats. Will be at the Cup game, but more interested in the January window and how the team cab be helped. My support is (as it should be) unwavering.

 

[pusbccfc]

Not gonna spend loads of money every season and cheer on a bunch of overpaid tossers who clearly don't give a shite, laughing and so on with the oppo after a loss doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence right now. Players need to earn the fans support.

Great support from you then.

 

[Bigelvesy]

I think the Luton game this season is the perfect example of constructive support, and also the perfect example of why they’re not getting it / we’re not feeling it now.

The players were creating chances, showing aggression in their attacking play and genuinely looked like we should be winning.
We got hit by an unlucky penalty and a very good goal, but the team were applauded off at half time because we could actually see that they were trying.

Games at the moment arent like that, the slow turgid passing left to right by the back 3 and Sheaf/Eccles also dropping into that line serves absolutely nothing. Players are consistently taking the “safe” easy option to pass back or sideways rather than ever attempt to play forward.
Its why Bassette and BTA look so bad, cause they never get the ball played to support the runs they make. Even simms isnt getting the service.
The games are fucking boring at the moment, hard to back the team when you’re bored as fuck tbh

 

[San Francisco]

Great support from you then.

Continue happy clapping this lot then. I was there in the League 1 and 2 days and they showed far more fight then than now.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Continue happy clapping this lot then. I was there in the League 1 and 2 days and they showed far more fight then than now.

It's not happy clapping - it's supporting them! If that can make a difference in just one game this season, then it will be worth it. I was also there in L1 and L2. and we played against some real dross teams/players (and barely scraped up in L2), despite the end of season memories of Notts County (a) and the final against the mighty Exeter.

 

[bigfatronssba]

This isn’t something the players can complain about.
The support at Norwich was brilliant yet they still folded up like the sissies that they are

 

[JoeCCFCPUSB]

Does anyone remember?

We're in 20th place, losing 1-0 at home to a fairly local rival. Haji, our £7.7m record signing with just 2 goals in 14 games goes clean through on goal and misses a glorious chance.

How did the crowd react? By immediately singing his name.

At the time I thought that was something for us to be proud of as a club. You wouldn't get that from many fanbases. And of course Haji scored twice on his next appearance and went on to score 19, including those goals at Wolves and Wembley.

Have we given the players anything like that support in low moments this season?

In all fairness it's been a further year on and Thomas, Dasilva, Binks, Latibeaudiere, Eccles, Torp, Collins,Simms,Asante have been abysmal.

Tickets are still being purchased, new merchandise is still being purchased, away support is still almost always sold out, and the CBS does above 25k most home matches.

So when you say get behind a collective group of players that all but a small few have been playing with each other now for knocking on 2 years, and are all playing shit, while collecting 10k plus grand a week, fans are tired of it mate.

Week in week out we have watched a group that have no fight, no creativity, fail the eye test, consistently concede 2 goals a game, the players, manger, coaches and owner should be fucking thankful we are still buying tickets, buying merchandise, selling out away matches, hitting 25k at the cbs most matches.

The players should be thanking us, because they've done next to fuck all since they have arrived.

 

[alexccfc99]

There was still quite a lot of residual good-will around the place in October of last year (we hadn't yet lost at home, although we'd drawn most of them). I think it's understandable that fans have more patience with a player who's only played a dozen or so games for us, rather than one who's been here for a year or more.

As it happens, WBA scored a second 15 minutes later in that game with a hell of a finish from their striker - wonder what happened to him

Miles offside tho