Some people call their selves fans

[shurlock]

Strange old atmosphere - a widespread sense of entitlement among the fans that we just had to turn up coupled with the cold which made it hard to get excited about things not helped by an excruciatingly lethargic performance for the first hour.

 

Even the goal wasn't celebrated coz people assumed it would be disallowed. Northam was a morgue - typical of late while the Itchen was up its own a**e singing filthy co*kney songs (knees up mother brown). The whole ground seemed to be in its own little enclaves.

 

Looking further head, today might be a sign of things to come next season assuming we don't make the playoffs. As the gratitude/relief of still having a club wears off and as the quality of squad is improved to dwarf anything else in the league, so i can see more and more people getting on the backs of players if performances/stretches of play in games don't go our way.

 

I think this is underestimated on the forum. Some people are accused of being happy-clappers; but in reality they are nothing of the sort. They are happy to write this season off as a transitional/learning one on the strict condition that next season we take the league by storm. In their own way, they are no less as demanding as the so-called pessimists, though that's masked for now.

 

Will be very interesting to see how the team deals with this pressure - and how much slack is afforded.

Edited 31 January, 2010 by shurlock

[Nineteen Canteen]

Sorry but I didn't get past the title. "their selves"???

 

You also need to get over yourselve. If the only comment you can make on a therad is with regard a poster's grammar / spelling when the context remains obvious then I'm afraid you show a lack of class/quality/respect/humilty as a person.

[Daren W]

You also need to get over yourselve. If the only comment you can make on a therad is with regard a poster's grammar / spelling when the context remains obvious then I'm afraid you show a lack of class/quality/respect/humilty as a person.

 

Oh the bitter irony.....

[dune]

A few days ago 19C made severall attempts at trolling and everyone ignored him.

 

More of the same please because attention is his oxygen.

[sotonjoe]

TBF, that sort of behaviour is the reason I stopped watching games from the Northam Stand. Being right in the middle of all the singing is great, but the amount of spite being shouted at the pitch was embarassing. Having to listen a group just shout the usual racist claptrap at Euell last season was the final straw for me.

 

You'll get idiots in every stand I guess, but there seemed to be a concentration of them in that stand. Im much happier with people being 'quiet' in the Kingsland, if it means I don't have to listen to rubbish being shouted.

[Nineteen Canteen]

Oh the bitter irony.....

 

Someone has been messing with your forum profile Daren, I would talk to the mods as I have been taken off your ignore list without your authorisation.

 

Do you think its ok to mock spelling mistakes and / or grammar especially when you ignore the whole valid context of the post? Lacks class IMO a bit like your misguided ironing.

[John B]

I was sitting in block 10 today and some bloke in his late fifties was just shouting abuse throughout the whole game. Oy Pardew this is sh#t, how much are you lot on and so on and so on..........

 

He was pi##ing and lot of others off around. Not one word came out of his mouth was positive in anyway.

 

Ok it wasn’t the greatest game to watch and there have been a few new players that still need to jell and our midfield is missing Hammond.

 

I think this sort of idiot at the ground is short sited doesn’t understand football and clearing cannot see what AP is trying to do. It’s enough to put you off going when there are kn#bs like this at the game.

 

Perhaps you should have discussed his frustration with him and to see if he had a point

[Village Saint]

- Millions spent

- Top player signed

- 16 signings since the summer

- Big crowds home/away

- Playing sides that cost under 100k (11 + subs)

 

all looks good, then..............

 

11 wins (some very unconvincing) in 27 games.

 

People will start to get frustrated.

 

Imagine the expectation next season - no more excuses = Huge pressure.

 

Er NO. Record in last 25 games is: Won 18 Drew 4 Lost 3. Strangely enough equal best of all League One sides. But of course I forgot the team should somehow recover points lost in games played previous to the spending of the money

[John B]

Perhaps some people like see exciting football and dont care about statistics.

 

 

If we are not playing well it is easy to get slightly frustrated

[RonManager]

Perhaps some people like see exciting football and dont care about statistics.

 

 

If we are not playing well it is easy to get slightly frustrated

 

Bit of both I expect. I found myself getting a bit frustrated during the first half, following on from my frustration at the second half performance at Brentford, both of which were unexpected. I was highly relieved in the 2nd half on Saturday when we suddenly started to play like I know we can, assuring me somewhat that we have not 'lost it', and went home happy.

 

Hopefully we will keep this level up against Exeter.

 

Keep the faith

 

COYS

[The Godfather]

I think the problem we have at St Marys is that people expect us to roll over teams 5-0 every week but the reality is our performances have been very average at times. We are to slow of the blocks from the first whistle and this is a regular occurance which enables the opposition to get a foothold in the game, even if the opposition are poor and rarely look like scoring.

I'd take a average 2-0 win every week at the moment, hopefully the result and clean sheet yesterday will give the team alot more confidence. We need to start games like we did against MK Dons the other week.

[John B]

I think the problem we have at St Marys is that people expect us to roll over teams 5-0 every week but the reality is our performances have been very average at times. We are to slow of the blocks from the first whistle and this is a regular occurance which enables the opposition to get a foothold in the game, even if the opposition are poor and rarely look like scoring.

I'd take a average 2-0 win every week at the moment, hopefully the result and clean sheet yesterday will give the team alot more confidence. We need to start games like we did against MK Dons the other week.

 

It would be nice to win 5 0 once this season and excite the fans

[derry]

Er NO. Record in last 25 games is: Won 18 Drew 4 Lost 3. Strangely enough equal best of all League One sides. But of course I forgot the team should somehow recover points lost in games played previous to the spending of the money

 

We have only beaten one team in the top ten in the league.

 

The thing that gets to me, time after time, is listening to the team announcement, and thinking that that isn't going to work, then being proved right. Waigo should be starting. Wotton is stopping us playing.

 

The team selection and plan is the problem. We have the players but the manager is too negative.

[Nineteen Canteen]

We have only beaten one team in the top ten in the league.

 

The thing that gets to me, time after time, is listening to the team announcement, and thinking that that isn't going to work, then being proved right. Waigo should be starting. Wotton is stopping us playing.

 

The team selection and plan is the problem. We have the players but the manager is too negative.

 

I agree with you on Wotton but suggest that Pardew is just overly cautious than too negative. I also believe that level of cautiousness increased when it became apparent in the run up to Christmas that we had a fair chance of making the play offs and the fans latched on to this fact and maybe created some psychological pressure on the manager?

 

Impossible to say for definite of course but something has changed and maybe it's just the fixture pile up and the fact we were never likely to be ready for a realistic assault on promotion this season if we competed for every honour going. Although many have enjoyed the JPT run I think we should have played our reserve team from the start and perhaps we wouldn't be looking so jaded as a team. Afterall, what does the JPT mean in terms of achievement? Very little and a few seasons ago if we had thought we would be competing in it we would have been mortified. Its a minnows cup and I would have preferred to have saved our playing resources for the league.

 

Early in the season, play off talk was shrugged off as impossible or at best ignored and talk was only of building a foundation for the future and getting ourselves comfortably safe. I think collectively our expectations (club and fans) have created a burden we can't cope with along with aftermath of that Leeds game and all those cups games.

 

We are getting close but we need to accept we are bit 'Andy Murray' at the moment and probably need another year of 'lessons' to fulfill our potential.

[NorthamSteve]

MODS please change the title of this thread, it's giving me a headache.

[John Smith]

I was sitting in block 10 today and some bloke in his late fifties was just shouting abuse throughout the whole game. Oy Pardew this is sh#t, how much are you lot on and so on and so on..........

 

He was pi##ing and lot of others off around. Not one word came out of his mouth was positive in anyway.

 

Ok it wasn’t the greatest game to watch and there have been a few new players that still need to jell and our midfield is missing Hammond.

 

I think this sort of idiot at the ground is short sited doesn’t understand football and clearing cannot see what AP is trying to do. It’s enough to put you off going when there are kn#bs like this at the game.

 

Best way I find to react, is rather than tap him on the shoulder or tell the officials, whatever, I'd stand on my feet and sing "Alan Pardew's Red and White Army". And when he started to put one of the players down, I'd sing their name as well. Becasuse what I tend to find is that those around me will start to join in because they despise that bloke as much as I do and nobody will say anything. Safety in numbers and all that, trust me, it works!

 

As for TDD and Glagow_Skate, they don't go to the games and only troll on here because they need the attention. Ignore their posts, they mean nothing. It's more of a 'look at me' cry for attention than anything substantial. Last season, we didn;t have a first team, we had a youth team promoted to the first team. So, we needed to buy at least 15 players with experience to have a first team. When you are known to have money, teams bump their prices up. In my opinion, ML did exactly the right thing, has trusted the scouts and his managers opinion and spent more than the average team on decent players, in order to build a team. And bl**dy hell, we have, awesome!

 

I love this team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SaintDonkey]

There was a **** behind me on Sturday who spent the first 10 minutes of the game shouting abuse at Lloyd James, eventually someone must have had a word with him and pointed out that he wasn't actually playing

 

He then switched targets to Mills (some perhaps deserved, he didn't have the best of games) and Papa when he came on (totally undeserved but he shut up again when he scored).

[alpine_saint]

Does this place have an ignore button?

 

Your posts make me feel so ****ing depressed. My heart sinks everytime i see that stupid union jack.

 

But the post you quoted of his is spot-on.

[southamptonfc]

Anyone has the right to say what they like about our performances and I have the right to cal you grunting retards for doing so after a 2-0 win.

[View From The Top]

The team selection and plan is the problem. We have the players but the manager is too negative.

 

We said on Saturday that he isn't brave enough at times.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Which ever **** has blighted (at least) the last three seasons home and away by continously shouting "PORK!!" in some stupid voice kindly refrain from doing it. Every match I go to I seem to hear you and every match I can never bloody find you to tell you to shut the **** up!

[RedAndWhite91]

Which ever **** has blighted (at least) the last three seasons home and away by continously shouting "PORK!!" in some stupid voice kindly refrain from doing it. Every match I go to I seem to hear you and every match I can never bloody find you to tell you to shut the **** up!

 

He stands somewhere behind me in the Northam, perhaps 5/10 rows behind. Think he is a bald bloke, can't be sure.

[Secret Site Agent]

The sign of a good team is to be able to win when playing badly.

 

We did just that yesterday.

 

Hey, I actually agree with that.

 

I'm happy for us to get as high as we can this season, and will be happy to go up next season, BUT I want automatic promotion. I still expect us to have a bit of a lean time.