How does booing help?

[Prestwich_Blue]

Can someone explain why we need to "help" a bunch of professionals paid tens of thousands of pounds a week?

If they're not performing to an acceptable standard then they need to know. If that doesn't get the message home to them then they need to be shipped out.

Say you went for an expensive meal and the courses all arrived at different times, were either burned or under-cooked and it generally tasted like shit, would you meekly say "That was lovely"?

Why should how much they get paid have anything to do with how much we should support the team?? Follow that logic through and in a couple of seasons you won't bother supporting the team at all. Booing doesn't help the team. It only gives more fuel to the media witch hunt against us, and if they get their way, give it 3 months before they start again with the next manager.

I couldn't give two hoots about the so-called media witch-hunt. They'll wirte what they like whatever we do, until we're successful then they'll be crawling up our backside.

 

[Balti]

Mancini, who last witnessed a home goal nearly five hours ago, admitted: ‘If Carlos Tevez doesn’t score, nobody does.

'It has been our problem all season.’

I'm not surprised the boo boys let him have it tbh

 

[Marvin]

Seriously can one of you "booers" explain this to me?

Can someone explain why we need to "help" a bunch of professionals paid tens of thousands of pounds a week?

If they're not performing to an acceptable standard then they need to know. If that doesn't get the message home to them then they need to be shipped out.

Say you went for an expensive meal and the courses all arrived at different times, were either burned or under-cooked and it generally tasted like shit, would you meekly say "That was lovely"?

We don't need to, but that's why most supporters turn up instead of watching on TV.

Doesn;t matter how much they're paid. They're still human and need their confidence raising. Generally there's an advantage to playing at home, largely because of the atmosphere created by the home crwod.

A decade ago, opposing manager sused to love coming to maine Rd because they knew that if they kept City out the restive home crwod would quickly turn on the home team.

I know that some of the people voicing their disquiet go home and away, and are True Blues, but there's an increasing amount of impatience and hostility that does not help the team

 

[bluefandk]

Does booing make the team play better? - no

Does booing help nurture an environment conducive to success? - no


So much hypocrisy surrounding the subject of booing. There seems to be certain elements of our support who thrive on being permanently outraged. They're outraged by what the press write about us, yet the same people fuel the negative reporting in the press by voicing their outrage at the matches.

Fans are outraged at the criticism we receive for spending so much money, claiming it can't buy success, yet the same people are secretly expecting instant success as demonstrated by their constant whining when things don't go our way.

The fans bemoan the loss of Craig Bellamy, when in fact Craig Bellamy's loyalty to City couldn't stretch to keeping his head down and refraining from undermining our manager at every given opportunity.

As the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal and United have all learned this season, the idea that there are any "easy" matches in the Prem is a complete myth. A well organised team on its day can make it very hard for even the most talented of sides to carve out an opening.

i guess we just have to accept that some people will woman and moan no matter what we do though. There's people who sit near me who come out with the same negative comments week in week out and have done so irrespective of our standing in the league table or what division we're in for the past 10 years. To be honest, I think these people need to find a better way to spend their money as going to football seems to be an expensive waste of time for them.

Take a bow son, fantastic post.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Mancini, who last witnessed a home goal nearly five hours ago, admitted: ‘If Carlos Tevez doesn’t score, nobody does.

'It has been our problem all season.’

I'm not surprised the boo boys let him have it tbh

The irony of him saying this two minutes after his patronising comments about the fans wanting 2 strikers on the field didn't escape me, either.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Which is strange since Tevez asked to come off.

It was the decision to replace him with Barry, rather than another striker that was booed, not the decision to take him off as such. People could see he was struggling and I think most people knew that Mancini wouldn't take him off without good reason.

If Jo had been brought on there would have been no boos.

-- Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:28 pm --

Shows just how big the problem is then - ""30,000"" who didn't analyse what he was doing and why - just decided to boo and have a knee jerk tantrum on an admittedly frustrating afternoon. Thankfully your estimation is way out.

I don't think so pal.

You think?

 

[benji1967]

How does booing help?


It helps to identify the knobheads

spot on lol if u have a booer next to u tell him to boo the fuck off cause hes not wanted here/ write a letter to the boss if u care that much saying how u can make it better then i think he be booing and laughing at u 4th place and in europe does not sound that bad to me so Are you a big club booer? if so stay at home and boo at the telly cheers

 

[the kippax wall]

Unfortunately the only time a lot of our fans are vocal at the moment is when they are giving shit to our own team. The fact that we get forty odd thousand fans outsung by a couple of hundred most of the time is shit. Yes, there's always been moaning twats at every ground including ours. But if you are going to get emotional enough to boo if we don't win every game, at least be heard when we're doing O.K.
If you think the team is doing shit at the moment, fair enough, but it's fuck all to how bad the support is!

 

[monkey-trousers]

What if the band were, on the whole a decent band, but just missed a few note's on the odd occasion, because they had only formed recently?

Hahahahahahaha

Unbelievable stuff

Ok maybe a little subtle. How about the lead singer forgot his words, the bass guitarist had broken fingers and the drummer only had one arm.

 

[BuckersMCFC]

I honestly don't get where the excuse comes from of "I pay a shed load of money to watch city, so if i want to boo, i'll boo."

If that was the case on your season card it would state your 'customer number', not your 'supporter number'. If the club doesn't see us as payiong customers, and see us as supporters. Who they look after and have done a lot for us the past few years in return for our loyalty. Which over the years have been famous for, as we were still here when we were shit (as the song goes) So who are we to turn on the club, players, managers etc. who have transformed this club into something many of us are proud to support.

Pride in battle? Where's the pride in booing our team at the first opportunity. With 4th for god sake. And have been on the up for a long time, our time is here. Let's savour it.

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