Our fans

[Park Lane James]

Re: Boo Boys.

never once said ive slated booers. In fact I want to boo I just dont do it as I think its wrong but anyone can boo if they want to. As said before bollox to each and everyone of you, I will continue to leave when I like, and stay as long as I like. There is no rule to when you have to leave and I say who the fcuk are you to say when I stay til.

Do you think it inspires the players seeing a swarm of empty seats 5 minutes before the match has finished? No, the fans have given up on the players - the lifeblood of the club has no faith in their ability to get a result just when they need it.

 

[tommysvr]

mine is purely if we are playing brick dude. I have never been pussy whipped and will not be, plus the fact me and my mrs split up a few weeks back anyway so I can stay as long or leave as early as I like and I have no kids.

I left on Saturday because we were awful and I could not stand watching any more of our brick, my brother was driving so I just left him there and went to Mcdonalds to fuel my depression from what I just saw. it was nothing to do with getting home any earlier.

What if we went up the other end and got a winner? Would your McDonalds be enough to comfort you?

People leaving early doesn't affect me too much but it makes me question them as a supporter. You're going to watch a game of football, why can't you make it through another 5 minutes?

 

[Libero]

Re: Boo Boys.

I always get reminded of the day Chris Armstrong scored two against Southampton when we beat them 7-2 at the Lane. Up until that point he was subjected to some horrific abuse. As the second went in the crowd went wild and he just tuned around and walked back to the centre circle with hardly a celebration. Spurs fans fickle? not us!

Chris Armstrong got horrifc abuse and it wasn't just in that fixture that he showed not real delight in scoring either. I think earlier that season he scored a cracking half volley to beat Liverpool 1-0 and barely celebrated then. He took terrible stick for no real reason in my mind, hardly a Rasiak type player was he? In fact, with all his injuries and multiple partners up top and the general dross he was surrounded by, he still managed to average just better than 1 in 3 at Tottenham.

 

[ArnieArdiles]

Re: Boo Boys.

We want our team to be the best, one to make us proud so why is it we don't also want to be recognised as the best supporters?

Imagine if THFC had the undisputed reputation of having the best support in the land , wouldn't that make us all feel proud ?

 

[hodsgod]

Re: Boo Boys.

We want our team to be the best, one to make us proud so why is it we don't also want to be recognised as the best supporters?

Imagine if THFC had the undisputed reputation of having the best support in the land , wouldn't that make us all feel proud ?

No pride in being the best supporters if the team is n the southern league!

I have been going to WHL since Oct 73, and booing has been going on as long as I can remember. I think the manager should use the boos as a demonstration of how badly the supporters feel about the performance, "you are letting the fans down" for example.

You will be telling people when to cheer next! When Aavb does his job properly there won't be any boos, that's the only answer.

 

[Park Lane James]

Re: Boo Boys.

No pride in being the best supporters if the team is n the southern league!

Quite the contrary, IMO - having the best supporters when the team is brick and playing against the like of Hereford United every other week is something to be incredibly proud of. It's easy to support them team when they're doing well; doing so when we're down in the dumps is what makes a supporter base.

 

[Southcote Spur]

Re: Boo Boys.

I tell you what, win, lose or draw against Reading, let's try to make WHL a no boo zone the game after. Do you think that the members of this board who regularly go to games could achieve that??














Umm, I wonder!

 

[Jurgen the German]

Re: Boo Boys.

Chris Armstrong got horrifc abuse and it wasn't just in that fixture that he showed not real delight in scoring either. I think earlier that season he scored a cracking half volley to beat Liverpool 1-0 and barely celebrated then. He took terrible stick for no real reason in my mind, hardly a Rasiak type player was he? In fact, with all his injuries and multiple partners up top and the general dross he was surrounded by, he still managed to average just better than 1 in 3 at Tottenham.

Quite! Les Ferdinand's record for Spurs was terrible, and yet I never heard the Spurs fans give him any grief. Armstrong wasn't a world beater, but I you won't actually find that many Spurs strikers in the last 20 years with better goal records than him.

Gomes and Palacios have also been singled out for awful stick, fans sarcastically cheering them when they do something right, ridiculous!

My take on booing: get behind the team for 90 minutes. Boo the result/performance if you are unhappy at the end. Don't single out players unless it appears that they aren't trying, that for me is unacceptable and deserves stick.

I don't agree with the view that it's never ok to boo and you must be miserable if you do. I've been to between 200-300 games and I've never booed. I've only left before injury time a handful of times, when I've been disgusted with the performance. But if the team are playing terribly, I think you have the right to leave early. As a rule, I give it until injury time for a bad game.

 

[hodsgod]

Re: Boo Boys.

Quite the contrary, IMO - having the best supporters when the team is brick and playing against the like of Hereford United every other week is something to be incredibly proud of. It's easy to support them team when they're doing well; doing so when we're down in the dumps is what makes a supporter base.

Grand words, but watch the support disappear if we were relegated.

 

[Park Lane James]

Re: Boo Boys.

Grand words, but watch the support disappear if we were relegated.

It's a way of separating the true fans, from the ones who ride the crest of a wave. The atmosphere at the Lane would probably get better as people accept a lower level of performance and opposition!

 

[Nutter-Naylor]

Re: Boo Boys.

Hodsgod - at your age you must remember us getting some 50k home crowds in div 2 after we got relegated. Not all the fans fudge off in the face of disappointment.

 

[DubaiSpur]

Re: Boo Boys.

It's a way of separating the true fans, from the ones who ride the crest of a wave. The atmosphere at the Lane would probably get better as people accept a lower level of performance and opposition!

How do 'Pool do it? They've been brick and still had great support, and they've been great and still had great support. How are we such fickle ****s while they're such great supporters?

A laughing stock, sure, but one with great supporters nonetheless.

 

[ArnieArdiles]

Re: Boo Boys.

No pride in being the best supporters if the team is n the southern league!

I have been going to WHL since Oct 73, and booing has been going on as long as I can remember. I think the manager should use the boos as a demonstration of how badly the supporters feel about the performance, "you are letting the fans down" for example.

You will be telling people when to cheer next! When Aavb does his job properly there won't be any boos, that's the only answer.

So I can put you down as not bothered about Spurs support being recognised as the best in the land, not even near the best . As far as you and many are concerned , the Spurs support can be viewed as the worse in the top flight , we're not that bothered.

You're right there have always been people booing or the only time they raise their voices is to verbally abuse a player . I do wonder about some of these people that boo and hurl constant abuse at their own team . I'm sure if they could get away with throwing old fruit at the players, many would.

Also, your last paragraph gives you away a tad, or have you been consistant and also condoned the booing of Redknapp, for example at Wembley in last years semi-final and previous managers for what you see as errors?

 

[southstand1882]

Re: Boo Boys.

How do 'Pool do it? They've been brick and still had great support, and they've been great and still had great support. How are we such fickle ****s while they're such great supporters?

A laughing stock, sure, but one with great supporters nonetheless.

Is this a joke? :ross:

I take it you've not been to Anfield

The support is absolute brick. Sky make it seem great by turning up the Liverpool anthem during YNWA at the start

But believe me, the ground is like a morgue

 

[ArnieArdiles]

Re: Boo Boys.

Quite! Les Ferdinand's record for Spurs was terrible, and yet I never heard the Spurs fans give him any grief. Armstrong wasn't a world beater, but I you won't actually find that many Spurs strikers in the last 20 years with better goal records than him.

Gomes and Palacios have also been singled out for awful stick, fans sarcastically cheering them when they do something right, ridiculous!

My take on booing: get behind the team for 90 minutes. Boo the result/performance if you are unhappy at the end. Don't single out players unless it appears that they aren't trying, that for me is unacceptable and deserves stick.

I don't agree with the view that it's never ok to boo and you must be miserable if you do. I've been to between 200-300 games and I've never booed. I've only left before injury time a handful of times, when I've been disgusted with the performance. But if the team are playing terribly, I think you have the right to leave early. As a rule, I give it until injury time for a bad game.

The booing of any player grates me but the booing of Palacious was the worse considering what everyone knew had happened to his brother. There were a good response too if I remember, with many singing his name.

 

[Gordinho]

Re: Boo Boys.

I tell you what, win, lose or draw against Reading, let's try to make WHL a no boo zone the game after. Do you think that the members of this board who regularly go to games could achieve that??














Umm, I wonder!

Or support the team for ninety minutes. I bet there's more people leave early than boo. Of course, those proper fans who are so proper hardcore that they have to be in the Bricklayers before the final whistle goes could always stay and drown out the booers. Bet they don't though.

 

[ArnieArdiles]

Re: Boo Boys.

Is this a joke? :ross:

I take it you've not been to Anfield

The support is absolute brick. Sky make it seem great by turning up the Liverpool anthem during YNWA at the start

But believe me, the ground is like a morgue

It's true, it's not the Anfield of old but I cant recall H-T Anfield boos directed at their team because they're drawing and not winning the game!


Judging by this thread and when I've read similar on other forums there's a core of football fan out there, that feel it's their right to boo when their team is not performing to the standard that they demand. However, they will sing up when the team is winning, crushing the opponent and looking like Brazil 1970 . That's the deal.

 

[Spursalot]

Re: Boo Boys.

No pride in being the best supporters if the team is n the southern league!

I have been going to WHL since Oct 73, and booing has been going on as long as I can remember. I think the manager should use the boos as a demonstration of how badly the supporters feel about the performance, "you are letting the fans down" for example.

You will be telling people when to cheer next! When Aavb does his job properly there won't be any boos, that's the only answer.

There is actually, before our recent successful streak in cricket we had the barmy army. They were full of pride no matter whether the team win or lose.

They are proud, they supported our team through thick and thin and they went and enjoyed themselves no matter what. (except at Lords, where that sort of thing is frowned upon :lol

Some of the best supporters i've heard in any sport. They sing no matter what.

 

[Robspur12]

Re: Boo Boys.

Dear oh dear. So because we only paid 50p we didn't mind seeing the team that had won the double only 16 years earlier and had dominated English footaball between 1960 and 1967 as well as won three cups and appeared in 4 finals between 1971 and 1974 being relegated? I think we had more reasons to have heightened expectations than anyone does these days. Don't you?

Or are you saying there is a direct correlation between booing and how much money you spend?

Nutty, let me be clear, I have paid £55 for tickets and witnessed some real brick inc the 4-3 against city in 2004, I have never booed and never left early ( I was also at the shower of brick that was Norwich at home last season). The point I was trying to make is that £50 is a lot of money for people like me. If you pay that much for a meal you expect it to be almost cordon bleu brick. If you pay that much for the theatre you expect the show to be great. Likewise if you are going to a football match your expectation is likely to be higher. Its not about passion or how good a fan you are. The thing however, that irritates me most are the self righteous supporters who think it is their place to judge who is a worthy supporter and who is not. Frankly I am not old enough to have seen the relegation but I have supported Spurs through the last 32 years I have suffered enough heartache to justify being angry, disillusioned etc.

 

[parklane1]

Re: Boo Boys.

Well, do you go to matches and slate the team for the whole time, not bring any positivity into the air, and leave early under a cloud of swear words? Those sorts of people are ****s - no-one would want to be their friend or socialise with them if they have such an outlook on life.

I do not know as i would go as far as calling them ****s but they are dingdongheads.