Is the home form decline this season the fault of the boo boys ?

Don't know if that's the reason or not, but maybe if we try a gameplan to not concede the first goal early doors and see if it helps?

 

The group I was with did pretty much the same. No booing, certainly no clapping but some seriously downbeat comments about the capitulation we’d just seen.

 

I very seldom boo, but I booed off the team as loudly as I possibly could do at the half time whistle on Saturday

Constructive or not, the damage was already firmly done in the first half and I wanted at least a couple of the players to hear my boos. I don't give a damn what other supporters were thinking of my actions at the time, and as a paying supporter home and away, I am fully within my rights to voice my opinion in this manner if I so wish

If the match against an appallingly-poor Notts Co goes the same way tomorrow, then expect it to be as toxic as we've ever known (if any fans can actually be arsed making the effort to come down for a 3rd consecutive Tuesday evening that is - I wouldn't blame them if they stayed away)

 

It's not the fans fault, it's the dross being served up for years.

 

Oh goody ....
Another "is it the fans fault" thread".

 

I think if it was something that was just a "this season" problem, then maybe it's a topic. But the form at home has been sub-par for a few seasons now. Fans cant be expected to just sit through and watch without expectation or the ability to speak up.

Going back to the start of the 21/22 season, we've played 65 home games and we've managed 21 wins, 16 losses and 25 draws. Scoring 84 and conceding 76. To say we had a promotion chasing season in there, that's not a good enough return. At best, it's that lovely word again....... mediocre.

 

No fans = no club. Simples. The fans didn't get us promoted in 2013, to the Capital One Cup Final or to beat Chelsea in 2015. The manager and the club allowing that manager to have full control of all first team affairs did.

 

Spot on. I have never boo’s my own team. It will not help all it does is make the players nervous and more prone to make mistakes. We walked out on 86 minutes, something we have never done before, except when we had to go somewhere. Those that boo do the job for the opposition they are part of the opposition game plan.

 

The amount of times we have conceded first under GA is shocking, and home and away we seem to have conceded early doors under him

For example, we conceded in the first couple of minutes of his tenure.

Its something GA has to urgently address, otherwise the atmosphere is never going to improve.

So no, don't blame the fans

 

No.

 

No, what makes you think it is?

If the team performed like we know they can, say against Wycombe even though they didn't win the game people walk out of the ground with their heads held high knowing everyone had given it their all. That's all fans ask. If you think the players have given it their all for the Doncaster game, the Forest Green game or the Mansfield game then we clearly have a different definition of effort.

 

Every team that plays away has the same 'tactic'.
Score first to shut the home fans up and let them get onto their team's backs - it's not special to VP!

 

I wonder if they boo their sons on a sunday morning

 

No it's a very fragile confidence no leadership, players out of form, coming back from injuries and they are just lily livered. its. thats all

 

We have not had decent home form in this division spanning over a number of seasons.
We need to break teams down that come to stifle. One way is to make corners and offensive set pieces more effective - where we score. Sadly lacking for the vast percentage of home games. Break them down they then have to change their game plan and play more openly giving more and better opportunities to score.

 

Briggus how can a team get from kick off to goal in 57 secs with zero challenge. he had a free header mate.....the might FGR

 

A bit of a nonsense post for me, EVERY team has its boo boy fans if things are not going well - Chelsea 2 major cup semis and they boo, Villa had massive progress but they boo etc
I think our supporters can be amongst the most loyal with the constant crap they are served up - and one expression of emotion is to boo, it just happens.
But rarely when there are signs of a plan, direction, effort and some entertainment - Wycombe a prime example, standing ovation at the end and we lost

 

No, it is not the fault of the fans.
I don't boo my myself but fully get why people do. There is more to it than this season, its just a culmination of general dross of a number of years that is getting to the supporters. Add to this people leaving early hopefully things are coming to a head and that will lead to changes at the top that have been the constant in the decline.
6 long term season ticket holders either side of my wife and myself left just after half time, none of them had left early before.
This shows the general feeling, or maybe I should stop my dirty protest!