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I thought played very well today. Paynter should have went off. Well done to the wankers that booed Sturrock as he went off even though he had scored your a credit to the club  :roll:

To be fair he was playing against a team that is at his level. He did do well but in a higher league he looks out of his depth.

Yep totally agree, although I still don't believe in booing him, especially after he scored.

True however getting the reception he got when he went off was poor. Paynter sould have gone off IMO. Sturrock did run his balls off.

Totally agree about the booing stance. Why the morons do it is beyond me, he did run the channels well today and probably holds the ball up better than anyone in our team.

The last time i booed one of our own players was Aaron Brown at Barnet away last season when he deserved it. How ironic.

maybe the fans were booing the substitution and didnt think Sturrock should have been taken off?

that's what i thought dv.

That certainly wasnt the case from where I was sitting.

When they announced him as the goal scorer people were booing then!  I couldnt believe it and was so ashamed.  Those dickheads were lucky they werent sat directly next to me or else they would have got an earful.

Hes been left in a bit of a rubbish situation what with Luggy leaving but hes making the most and trying his best which is what Id expect anyone to do in a Town shirt.

really?

very poor showing by town fans there then.

It wasn't many but to the right of where I was sitting there were definitely boos when he was announced as scorer.  That made me unbelievably angry.

Seems like even if he scores its not enough.

we have some special fans in our midst don't we?

We do indeed and its disheartening.

There was people saying thank fuck when he went off. Paynter was poor. The only logical explanation as to why he stayed on was so if he scored he got a bit of confidence back. Think Blair is being treated unfairly. Ok he is not great in League One we all know that but he worked hard today.

Like it or not, He has scored 4 goals this season.

I thought Blair did well today. I can see why Paynter was left up front and not taken off though. HOOOOOFFFFF!

Any cunt who was booing Sturrock deserves to have their head smashed in with a baseball bat.

Sorry, I nearly forgot.







FACT!

his departure was greated with ironic cheers and boos.
i thought he was pretty poo today but he does his best.
no worse than alot of em today.
heard a few bellends booing pook when team sheet called out.
i've said it before and i'll say it again.we have a high proportion of absolute pricks following stfc

i now deliberately cheer pook and sturrock when their names are called out to try and counteract the pricks out there.

I was doing that with Zaboub and Sturrock today.

How did he miss that chance at the start of the second half though from about 2 yards out, most people were already celebrating.

I didn't boo him or anything like that but lets be honest he's not good enough and anyone of us would have been able to finish the chance he scored from today. We just aren't good enough up front and obviously it aint Sturrocks fault as he does his best but running around alot but that isn't the prerequisite to being a good striker.

Zaaboub is awful though. He really gets on my fucking nerves. He gets worse game by game. Was dreadful today. Didn't hear Sturrock boos but i was half asleep as i said in the other thread. I thought Sturrock was OK today but nothing special.

spot on

i'm not saying he's a good player, just that i won't boo him when he is coming on to play - it's hardly going to inspire him is it?

Zaaboub winds me up because we all know he is a good player when he can be bothered. I don't know what motivates him, I noticed him and Byrne had a gay hug at when Zaaboub went off this time soapy tit wank. I wouldnt boo Zaaboub though.

I wouldn't boo anyone Gazz as you rightly say. I don't rate Zaaboub at all. He was great until he got his 18 month contract. He's been average ever since sadly.

The good thing about Boobie is everyone shouts Boob, which drowns out the moron's booing.

Sturrock booing was stupid, yes anyone could have scored that goal, but the fact is he was a better player than Paynter on the day. He's almost an anti-Paynter: not really classy, but tries hard.

The problem is that we have a high percentage of morons at games.

The bloke behind me must have said 'get him fucking off' towards no less than 6 players!

People have got every right to slate players, but booing your own players during a game is the mark of a cunt.

Also agree. By his own standards he did alright. Trouble is his standard is is shit

Paynter is just as bad

Paynter needs a new strike partner more than Fatbury needs a shag...

Sturrock is a credit the way he has carried on, fair play but league two standard.

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sturrock performs to the level he can,he cant do any better.paynters form is more worrying as he is not at the level he should be.he doesn't look like scoring at present

Paynter needs an almighty kick up the arse

he struck it well enough but there were bodies everywhere and it got blocked. not so much a miss as misfortune.

our fans are cunts

Paynter just needs a goal....

For a big bloke he seems to win nothing in the air. He was lucky with his goals when he first came to the cub and has given me no real indication that he can cut it at this level.

only the goal when the defender and keep ran into each other you can count as lucky, the rest still needed some work done before they went in. i think he's just low on confidence, and as soon as he gets one a few more will follow

he says he doesn't like playing as a targetman.

In the same game (?) he also picked up a cross field pass from the defender and left him one on one, good finish though. I just think that our second set of strikers are poor and Sturrock just went for numbers when he signed them.

the one i'm on about happened in teh bornmouth game, the one you mention happeened in the gillingham game. And as you said, it was a good finish. Southend, hull and port vale fans all have good memories of paynter, so he must have something about him

southend fans don't!

do they not? i thought they were a bit upset when we signed him

i heard a couple were going to chuck themselves off the pier but were put off by the long walk.

they thought he was lazy, fat and useless

oh dear. ah well what do they know, for three years they worshipped a gypsie

Now where the fuck did they get that impression from?

dunno, they must have been watching me play football.

actually, i may have the wrong end of the stick a bit - although he was nicknamed fatboy by their fans.

some of them thought he was shit and booed him lots until he left, others thought he didn't get a chance because people booed him lots until he left.

cool.  i'm going to boo him lots til he leaves then if its that easy :D

Whats this obsession with people who boo players being cunts? Pay your money you are entitlled to say the fuck what you want

You don't have to boo players Macca.

I think you're a cunt anyway :D

:D

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because it's fucking stupid that's why

Who they sold for a fair few quid iirc. We got Paynter for fuck all, cos they obviously thought he was worth it.

well Blair was brilliant today, Simply fantastic, shut up all the wankers who have been booing him. Got a standing ovasion and bloody well deserved it.

yes, was the best player on that pitch today...

Very True. Best way to shut people up is to perform and perform he did!  :beers:

No you're not. You're not entitled to boo some poor fucker who is  doing his damned best just because he doesn't happen to meet your particular expectations.

If he is clearly not trying and has consistently shown a piss poor attitude over a period of time then that is totally different. There is no way that any of that applies to Blair Sturrock though. Even his biggest detractors would have to admit he has never been lacking in effort.

very impressive today. reads the game superbly, holds the ball up well and makes intelligent runs. looks as though he'll have a fairly big role still to play this season.

should have hit the target at the least with that second half chance though

Blair Sturrock gave Morgan the run-around, Morgan just couldn't handle him.

Played well today but the problem remains that he won't score goals which is presents a bit of a conundrum. Is lots of effort and running the channels enough? Midtable in this league evidently so but if you want to push on it requires a striker who will score goals.

IMO he has a big role for the rest of the season but come the summer we should start aiming for much better.

he would of scored today if it wasnt for the bloody wind and rain!

he did,  the ball got stuck in the mud though

Reminds me a lot like Peacock last season when he played upfront for us.  Maybe Sturrock could be a future midfielder

I've been an anti blair supporter.
Well I got out of my seat and clapped him off the park today, he was superb.

here here,he ran his socks off and what about paynter got in good positions and was robbed of a screamer by an otherwise efficient ref. :beers:

i think he meant the shit he put over the bar. t'was a tight angle though

 :shock:

in hindsight, that was some impressive sphincter control.

i thought that was a difficult chance, which was quite close for sturrocks standards. not as bad as his header in the first half, which ended up back near the corner flag

Just what you need for the old half a crown/sixpence exercise ... it has to be hindsight

sy spot on. was talking about that shit.