Adver News: Support makes all the difference for Cooper

[Only Me]

The fans were unbelievably patient with Fjortoft as I recall. I remember in about the January of the PL season when he still hadn't scored and there was talk of the Club loaning him out to some foreign team. Round about then, there were a couple of boos (and that's all it was) when his name was read out before a game.

The loan obviously never materialised and he got his first goal not long after then couldn't stop scoring.

I believe he scored hus first hoal at somewhere like Ipswich away

[Only Me]

Personally I can't see the sense in moaning at the players. If they can't give a rats arse (Prutton et al) it ain't gonna motivate them to do so, and if they're suffering from lack of confidence (Williams et al) all it does is fuck them up further.

You shouldn't blindly support your team, but groaning at players or telling them they're shit is not the way to motivate them. Few managers could get that kind of 'motivation' to work, so Joe Peabody and Mister Bloggs in the DRS certainly ain't.

I agree. Well said

[Only Me]

There are a small proportion of our fans who will secretly hope we concede early so they can get on with what they like doing best.

Moaning

you may well be right

[Red Frog]

There are a small proportion of our fans who will secretly hope we concede early so they can get on with what they like doing best.

Moaning

Do you think it would help if all the reasonable people around them told them to shut up rather than just putting up with it?

[inept and tiresome]

Did fans get on Fjortofts back before he scored?

well no they didn't. I think everybody could see our stay in the premiership wasn't going to be a long one and all the players were cut some slack.
 David Moss got a lot of abuse until he threatened to put in a transfer request. The next game the crowd got behind him and he went from strength to strength.