The Fans Get On The Players Back Far Too Easily On The Pitch

[pigeoniho]

And opposition managers know it!

 

[mcfcmatt]

And opposition managers know it!

It's just crap to be honest, and any decent team can defend it...
Been like it the last few years.
No movement, When Ireland took them he was gash!
Set pieces are our weakness when they should be our strong point for the talent we have.
Balo corners now?! Give me a break?! He should be in the box moving and causing chaos!

 

[samharris]

Some dick behind me kept sayin (in one of them really annoyin ear splitting voices..) "we never fuckin score from corners.." every time we got one.

Weve scored about 5 recently ffs...what are they on ??

 

[forevermancity]

Now then..

Didn't see this happen as much today, the groans and moaning were't as loud as they normally are.

i expected a boo at HT cause i'm that used to it, didn't hear one.

we came out second half, still played average, the whole stadium was alive, was amazing.

more of it, part 2 on thursday please.

incredible support today.

to be fair i think its about time fans stopped digging at other fans.

our support, in large, is fantastic. If people moan, accept it, there will be Barca fans moaning at the Nou Camp ffs, thats life.

 

[BlueMooney]

We have been shit at corners though for ages, when was the last time we scored a decent goal from a corner? I thought dzecko would of changed it but not so far.
I'm used to us getting a corner and knowing we will not score. Our set pieces are poor tbh.

Vieira against county (x2) second header was better.

before that, ermmm Lescott v Wolves.

before that, errmmmmm nothing at all lol

Had a quick look back at all my match reports from this season just to get some stats on the topic...

Tevez vs. Liverpool (h) (can't remember if this was a cross or a corner)
Boyata vs. Timisoara (h)
Adebayor vs. Lech Poznan (a)
Tevez vs. Fulham (a)
Lescott vs. Aston Villa (h)
A Johnson vs. Blackpool (h)
K Toure vs Wolves (given Jones OG) (h)
Vieira vs. Notts County (h)
Vieira vs. Notts County (h)
Richards vs. Notts County (h)
Y Toure vs. Aston Villa (h)
Richards vs. Reading (h)

So far that's either 11 or 12 from corners in 47 matches this season, depending on the Tevez one and that's not including goals that have been the second cross or shot from the edge after a corner has been cleared.

 

[mattcarter123]

sat in the south stand yesterday as soon as a ball was misplaced in an attack half the row in front was going mental....getting on the players backs wont encourage them

 

[ChrisBee]

I was at the back of 219 yesterday and there was an old bloke doing his nut at every missed pass. At one point, after Lescott had passed back to Hart, the old bloke started ranting again and another fella behind me asked him why he was shouting cos it was the only pass on and got he reply "it's just an opinion, are you turning on your own fans now?"

It was fucking depressing.

 

[Danny Hoekman]

I'm usually quite laid back and yesterday was the first time I've ever said something. I know Kolorov wasn't having a great game, but the two lads sat directly behind us were slagging him off every time the ball went anywhere near him. I said that they should be trying to get behind them all and push us to a first FA cup semi final for 30 years, not constantly moan. (Never heard another word from that point and they left on 82 mins).

I know it's always been there, but I really do think it's gone up a level this season.

 

[waspish]

I'm usually quite laid back and yesterday was the first time I've ever said something. I know Kolorov wasn't having a great game, but the two lads sat directly behind us were slagging him off every time the ball went anywhere near him. I said that they should be trying to get behind them all and push us to a first FA cup semi final for 30 years, not constantly moan. (Never heard another word from that point and they left on 82 mins).

I know it's always been there, but I really do think it's gone up a level this season.

Mainly it must new fans who av seen us spend billions and expect us to play like Barcelona be 3-0 up by half time and be 10 points clear in the league!

 

[VOOMER]

Happens everyweek, one stray pass and it's 'sell him', 'he's not worth 20mill', 'how can he get £200,000 a week for that?' embarassing really.

Needs to stop, and today and thursday it needs to stay outside the ground, ir's becoming a farce.

I'ts getting to the point now, where if we haven't scored or lead in the game by HT everyone thinks it's not good enough, then the embarassing Boo appears.

Then the players leave the pitch with a negative attitude, and it seems when they come out second half the pressure is instantly on, and we have to score straight away.

Normally, we sit in the 3rd tier row b in the corner. The guys there are coming from all over I think out of the 12 people near us the ours is the shortest journey, the next is York, we even have a guy coming over from the isle of man. On sunday, we had a line of dicks behind us, all half pissed rambling on with bullshit comment after bullshit comment. 288 was the section, row b, so their seats would have been row c 589-595. A high pitch whine of a voice sprouting forth with half drunk crap throughtout the game and he wasn't the worst for negative comments without reason. We have seme great fans, truely great fans and then we have more, far more than our fair share of thick as *uck, whinning, no mark, know nought *ankers. Will some kind soul re-educate them?<br /><br />-- Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:59 pm --<br /><br />

Some dick behind me kept sayin (in one of them really annoyin ear splitting voices..) "we never fuckin score from corners.." every time we got one.

Blue, you weren't on row b section 288 (I think that's right), because we might have been subject to the same aural abuse?