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Nice piece from Mr P

Have the club released any figures on ST sales?

pointless. if people can't respond on their own initiative a plea from the chairman won't change things if we go 1 0 down after 20.

nice to get an acknowledgement/thanks on St purchases though.

It is annoying at best and self defeating at worst though. Never understood why you'd boo your own team during a game, what's the objective? Tuesday night was fucking woeful and painful to watch, but I never thought 'I know, I'll gee up the team by telling them as loudly as I can how shit they are. That will spur them on and get them back on track.'

Yeah this. I've never booed our team no matter how shite we've been I just don't clap if were real crap, or bugger off a couple of minutes early for a fag. I'll leave the booing to the slack jawed amongst our number.

I heard from someone the other night that it was 2,700 isn in the first phase

That was the figure they quoted on the radio on Tuesday. Seemed a bit low to me, but the seemed to think the club were quite pleased about it so maybe not

That was the figure Power mentioned in his programme notes on Tuesday.

My bombshell is that after signing up to renew the wife and offspring have decided that they don't want to commit to a ST next year, fucking gutted. I don't want to go on my own and miss out on the Saturday afternoons when my wife will be doing things with our brood and excluding me cause I'm at football. Plus the fact our lad has been accepted at a school of our choice and the annual bus fees are about £600. So assuming I can get the renewal cancelled I have reconciled myself to choosing certain games at home and attending more away games particularly in the shit winter months where there is not much to do outside. Yes I know that can be more expensive but the traveling expense is covered by my company. I will when appropriate get another ST, just not for the foreseeable future. It sucks but my family come first.

Perhaps you should change your name to wed and proud.

There are times when booing is appropriate, no doubt about it. Fans shouldn't just have to put up with mediocre, couldn't give a shit, just there to pick up their wages, effortless bollocks from a bunch of mercenaries who used to be half decent but stopped giving a shit a long time ago.

HOWEVER - This season is not like that. We've got a good, young, honest, talented bunch of lads who are doing their very best. Ball achingly frustrating though it is (so much so that I want to scream out loud), it's not gone so well in the last few games but that's life. You just have to accept it.

Too many people have forgotten what it means to be a supporter...that is, to actually get behind your team when things are going against you and to be able to tell the difference between the players described in the first paragraph from the ones in the second.

I heard Pat Nevin saying the other day about how much of a lift it gives you as a player when you get the ball and a collective 'gasp' comes up from the crowd. Straight away they are behind you. He said it gives you unbelieveable energy and you think you can run through walls. Compare that to making one misplaced pass and some pissy fuckers in the Don Rogers start giving you dogs abuse.

Anyone who has booed the team this season of all seasons is a cunt. There is no argument or debate to be had. I don't want you to bother coming back with the "I've been a season ticket holder for x number of years, I've got every right to give my opinion, how many games of you been to?" argument. It's bollocks. End of.

GET BEHIND YOUR FUCKING TEAM.

100%

Perhaps you should change your name to wed and proud.

How many aways games have you been to this season? How many home games have you been to this season! How many season tickets have you bought this season? How many did you buy last season! And the season before that? I suggest you you keep unfunny comments to yourself, I'm fucked of enough as it is. If 1975 is the year you were born then I've been following the town home and away from the year you were born. I will leave Red and Proud as it is thanks, I am and always will be. I trust you can say the same?

There are times when booing is appropriate, no doubt about it.

No there isn't.  Boo the opposition, the referee and linesmen, but never, ever your own players.

No there isn't.  Boo the opposition, the referee and linesmen, but never, ever your own players.

I'd boo an individual player if he's acting like a cunt. (Not for lack of ability though)

That's another thing. It's more about attitude than ability. You couldn't possibly boo the players when they were in the Prem as they were so obviously out of their depth and everyone knew it.

My bombshell is that after signing up to renew the wife and offspring have decided that they don't want to commit to a ST next year, fucking gutted. I don't want to go on my own and miss out on the Saturday afternoons when my wife will be doing things with our brood and excluding me cause I'm at football. Plus the fact our lad has been accepted at a school of our choice and the annual bus fees are about £600. So assuming I can get the renewal cancelled I have reconciled myself to choosing certain games at home and attending more away games particularly in the shit winter months where there is not much to do outside. Yes I know that can be more expensive but the traveling expense is covered by my company. I will when appropriate get another ST, just not for the foreseeable future. It sucks but my family come first.

I'd boo an individual player if he's acting like a cunt. (Not for lack of ability though)

I don't think it counts if you boo the PC/radio/TV

Lee Powers statement clearly worked. Over 8,000 today when I suspected a 6,000 gate after Tuesday's shambles.