Will some of the supporters be the weak link next season?

Doc Lynam said:

We are going to get beat next season, maybe even badly a few times. If some of our supporters are going to view defeat by singling out players for special criticism, next season will be like poison and not just on this board!

We need to be more realistic over the summer and next season, SUPPORTING the players and club through the hard season ahead because our club is going to need us big time; even if that just means a more realistic and positive outlook in defeat!

UTA

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goldstone said:

If the players are giving 100% and getting beaten by better teams I believe the fans will be right behind the team. However if like yesterday there appears to be a lack of commitment and effort from the players then the fans will rightfully get on their backs.

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clippedgull said:

How will criticism on this board be poison?

If players are too timid to accept brickbats justified or otherwise they should be nowhere near social media.

I don't know any players personally but I would imagine most would just laugh at critical comments and call the contributors !!

Glenn Murray just a few games ago called supporters fickle for the animosity shown to Akpom.

The players know the vast majority of supporters are behind them through thick and thin and that is what counts.

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Return of the Rev said:

I can see alot more leaving early when for example 3 down against Chelsea with a 5.30pm kick off and about 3,000 Chelsea wanting to give it large at the station.The family stand will be leaving in droves on 80 minutes.

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Bold Seagull said:

Because antipathy spreads to the terraces. Some of the vocal treatment of Ashley Barnes for example by sections of our supporters was generated from this site and social media. He's gone on to be a valuable Premier League player, and yet too many were convinced, or were led to be convinced that he wasn't good enough.

When the going is great, yeah sure we all get behind the team. Point is, if we're on a bad run next season, will multiple threads and getting on player's backs transfer to the crowd - recent history tells us it will, and it will be done when we least need it.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

It was perfectly civilised in West Upper yesterday (in my area anyway). That said, the lad who has sat next to me from day one always gets a bit over excited, and yesterday was no exception. The mentality is this: starts out noisily disputing every refereeing decision, regardless of how obviously the decision was correct. Then, if things are not going well, whenever a player makes a mistake, he's on their back. To be fair he never names the player in an abusive way, but the anguished outbursts have only one flavour. He's a really nice bloke, and I like sitting next to him, but next season, if he doesn't acquire a little perspective, it is going to be ****ing torture.

And even on here..... we were not shit yesterday. We did not bottle it. Steven was not rubbish. In fact I thought Stevens was sublime. His movement and passing are first class and he will grace a PL side. I hope it will be us.

No, yesterday we lost a game. That means we have now lost, er, the fewest number of games in the division. We are top of the league. We are not bottlers. Hughton is not clueless.

Some of our supporters, as the OP implies, are pathetic drunken inexperience tin pot provincial numpties. Actually, it reminds me of the olden days in the early 1970s, with our laughable North Stand 'boot boys'. Hopefully, if we have a run of defeats next season, they'll quickly piss off back to where they came from

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Bold Seagull said:

Because antipathy spreads to the terraces. Some of the vocal treatment of Ashley Barnes for example by sections of our supporters was generated from this site and social media. He's gone on to be a valuable Premier League player, and yet too many were convinced, or were led to be convinced that he wasn't good enough.

When the going is great, yeah sure we all get behind the team. Point is, if we're on a bad run next season, will multiple threads and getting on player's backs transfer to the crowd - recent history tells us it will, and it will be done when we least need it.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

It was perfectly civilised in West Upper yesterday (in my area anyway). That said, the lad who has sat next to me from day one always gets a bit over excited, and yesterday was no exception. The mentality is this: starts out noisily disputing every refereeing decision, regardless of how obviously the decision was correct. Then, if things are not going well, whenever a player makes a mistake, he's on their back. To be fair he never names the player in an abusive way, but the anguished outbursts have only one flavour. He's a really nice bloke, and I like sitting next to him, but next season, if he doesn't acquire a little perspective, it is going to be ****ing torture.

And even on here..... we were not shit yesterday. We did not bottle it. Steven was not rubbish. In fact I thought Stevens was sublime. His movement and passing are first class and he will grace a PL side. I hope it will be us.

No, yesterday we lost a game. That means we have now lost, er, the fewest number of games in the division. We are top of the league. We are not bottlers. Hughton is not clueless.

Some of our supporters, as the OP implies, are pathetic drunken inexperience tin pot provincial numpties. Actually, it reminds me of the olden days in the early 1970s, with our laughable North Stand 'boot boys'. Hopefully, if we have a run of defeats next season, they'll quickly piss off back to where they came from

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goldstone said:

If the players are giving 100% and getting beaten by better teams I believe the fans will be right behind the team. However if like yesterday there appears to be a lack of commitment and effort from the players then the fans will rightfully get on their backs.

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