Richy_Seagull
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How has this thread got so long? It's pretty simple, anyone who bood is a massive **** and not needed at the Amex.
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Booing Akpom
- Thread starter Mr deez
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GT49er
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Just stop right there! I don't!
rocker959
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Quite right .
Aveacarlin'
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- Jul 5, 2011
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Interesting stuff and hope we aren't paying him much for that sort of attitude.
Ungrateful, narrow minded, bloviating, Albion 'fans', have always needed to boo someone - feck knows why 
As it stands it would seem if it weren't Akpom being boo'ed, inexplicably Skalak may well have been on the receiving end of some of that treatment, instead.
Booing Akpom is probably the lesser of 2 evils.
Next season it'll be Hughton, for losing back to back matches with Chelsea and Utd.
#twats
As it stands it would seem if it weren't Akpom being boo'ed, inexplicably Skalak may well have been on the receiving end of some of that treatment, instead.
Booing Akpom is probably the lesser of 2 evils.
Next season it'll be Hughton, for losing back to back matches with Chelsea and Utd.
#twats
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The fans that booed him didn't care about his problems. They just wanted to abuse him.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
A little premature.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Dunno. At the moment, Chelsea and Man Utd are Cup matches.
I genuinely don't really get this idea that Akpom didn't TRY.
(Not suggesting he was absolutely busting a gut, but) he was TRYING. He just wasn't very GOOD.
For the record, in 34 years of going, I've only booed / heckled TWO Albion players. Kemy Agustien in one match when he genuinely was NOT trying, and Adrian Colunga (who I liked) when he got a second yellow, with a minute to go, and refused to leave the pitch quickly, even though we were a goal down.
(Not suggesting he was absolutely busting a gut, but) he was TRYING. He just wasn't very GOOD.
For the record, in 34 years of going, I've only booed / heckled TWO Albion players. Kemy Agustien in one match when he genuinely was NOT trying, and Adrian Colunga (who I liked) when he got a second yellow, with a minute to go, and refused to leave the pitch quickly, even though we were a goal down.
But he is not our own players is he?
He is the latest in an ever-growing list of loan strikers who don't give a stuff. Obika was hopeless but at least he tried; wasn't his fault he didn't have the skills or talent to make it at top Championship level.
Akpom was a disgrace and an embarrassment. Not since Leon Best have we had a player so unworthy of wearing the stripes. Hopefully we will never see him again.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Not sure AK would totally agree, in the first half he went ape with the lack of speed moving forward. Also, closing down of the away 'Keeper was NONE. We are the home side, in need of victory against a lower side. Urgency should be paramount.
Being the younger of the front two, it should be his job mostly, Murray knackered himself it was clear trying to do this in the second half.
Suggesting he "looked horribly out of his depth at this level...." would indicate that CH and the scouting team recruited somebody who doesn't have the skills to play for a top Championship side. I would not like to think that is the case.
He's just another billy big bollox with a Kemy / Leon Best attitude. He knows he aint staying. He knows Arsenal are going to pay him his (probably over-inflated) wedge anyway. So why should he give a shit? Oh wait. He didn't.
BHA Haywards Heath
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- Jan 31, 2012
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Tbh i think Akpom got a slightly raw deal. Murray was playing terribly for most of the game as well, and gave Akpom nothing - held nothing up and played nothing on. Murray just has that goal scorers knack of getting one even when he is playing garbage or injured or whatever it was.
Booing someone's first full start for the club is an incredibly moronic thing to do - especially when we are riding high as we are - just enjoy it.
Booing someone's first full start for the club is an incredibly moronic thing to do - especially when we are riding high as we are - just enjoy it.
Just wait until we get promoted and get 3 losses and a draw out of our first 4 games in the Prem! Booooooooooooooooooooooooo
Yes, I saw that. Knockaert wasn't going 'ape' just at Akpom, though - he was annoyed about pressing on his own, and was screaming, and gesticulating for the whole team to be pressing forward.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
...or even not get promoted and get 3 losses and a draw out of our first 4 games in the Champ. Booooooooooooooooooooooooo
BBassic
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- Jul 28, 2011
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I've had a day or so to ponder on this. For starters I always think its bang out order to single out and boo one individual player. Boo the team if they all put in a sub-par performance but directing all of that to one, very young, player is in absolutely no way beneficial.
Having said that he did look like he couldn't give a shit. At the time I put it down to a couple of things; he's being asked to play the Baldock role and really only Baldock can play the Baldock role and that it was his first start at the club, having been limited to a handful of sub appearances before. The more I've thought about it though I would have hoped that he would've realised this was a big chance for him to make a name for himself here or to impress his parent club and he really didn't do anything of the sort.
A shame. But again, he shouldn't have been booed off.
Having said that he did look like he couldn't give a shit. At the time I put it down to a couple of things; he's being asked to play the Baldock role and really only Baldock can play the Baldock role and that it was his first start at the club, having been limited to a handful of sub appearances before. The more I've thought about it though I would have hoped that he would've realised this was a big chance for him to make a name for himself here or to impress his parent club and he really didn't do anything of the sort.
A shame. But again, he shouldn't have been booed off.
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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Worst Limerick ever