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vs Hamilton; 28/11, 3pm
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TheDean	Nov 29 2015, 10:19 PM Post #31
ALLEGEDLY CALICO Posts: 2,117 Group: Members Member #53 Joined: September 18, 2011	We've had it. Not even a play off with Sevco. We are down. That defence is just horrific. So it's time to start planning for trying to get out of the Championship- that'll be difficult enough, but at least our chairman can start getting the cost base down instead of raising false hope in January. If McKay's any sense, he will have lined somewhere else up by now on the strength of regular scoring for a failing team.



Cobardon	Nov 29 2015, 10:42 PM Post #32
Uncle Smurf Posts: 1,768 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: September 12, 2010	TheDean Nov 29 2015, 10:19 PM We've had it. Not even a play off with Sevco. We are down. That defence is just horrific. So it's time to start planning for trying to get out of the Championship- that'll be difficult enough, but at least our chairman can start getting the cost base down instead of raising false hope in January. If McKay's any sense, he will have lined somewhere else up by now on the strength of regular scoring for a failing team. I'll be sure to cast this post up to you forever if we are safe by February. Ye shall be hanged by it.



Setenza	Nov 29 2015, 10:49 PM Post #33
Knitting with only one needle Posts: 6,057 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: September 10, 2010	vvhatsthatonyourback Nov 29 2015, 05:21 PM Setenza Nov 28 2015, 08:45 PM Games like today are why I sometimes feel like I shouldn't attend games. It was miserable seeing the crowd constantly get on the backs of the players for carrying out the managers tactics - even when it was working. That is the worst feeling. Maybe other teams, perhaps even all teams, suffer from it, but it often feels like we're worse at it than most. As some poster on here exemplifies, every fan has a selection of vocal arseholes which can be difficult to ignore for the majority of reasonable fans. Particularly when things are not going great, the few moaners drown out the many sitting in anxious silence watching change develop. Only cheers drown out the boos, and the team needs to give the fans something to cheer. Set - did you say anything to the moaners around you? Did you feel they were in the minority or that others around you were getting sick of them? The moaners around me have been there for years, and are in general reasonable moaners. There was one new person who got rather angry at the lack of closing down, but he was with his kids, and I've no real desire to speak to angry strangers at football matches anyway. One of the regular shouters did shout at the fans who were moaning though, not that it did much good. There was a lot of general moans and groans from the east stand about the kicking out policy in the second half which was right in front of them. It clearly affected the players. Of course, ideally the players should be able to ignore, but they're human. Then there's the general anxiety in the crowd when ever things go the slightest bit wrong. There was nearly open booing mid match in the first half at the approach, despite the fact we were level, on top and creating chances. That's what I'll never understand. There can't be many teams / countries that boo passing. I don't know if we've worse fans than other teams. There's such a gloom around the place at the moment, it feels like some people want failure to justify their hatred of McNamara / Thomspon and prove how right they've been for the past year.



Cobardon	Nov 29 2015, 10:57 PM Post #34
Uncle Smurf Posts: 1,768 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: September 12, 2010	Setenza Nov 29 2015, 10:49 PM vvhatsthatonyourback Nov 29 2015, 05:21 PM Setenza Nov 28 2015, 08:45 PM Games like today are why I sometimes feel like I shouldn't attend games. It was miserable seeing the crowd constantly get on the backs of the players for carrying out the managers tactics - even when it was working. That is the worst feeling. Maybe other teams, perhaps even all teams, suffer from it, but it often feels like we're worse at it than most. As some poster on here exemplifies, every fan has a selection of vocal arseholes which can be difficult to ignore for the majority of reasonable fans. Particularly when things are not going great, the few moaners drown out the many sitting in anxious silence watching change develop. Only cheers drown out the boos, and the team needs to give the fans something to cheer. Set - did you say anything to the moaners around you? Did you feel they were in the minority or that others around you were getting sick of them? The moaners around me have been there for years, and are in general reasonable moaners. There was one new person who got rather angry at the lack of closing down, but he was with his kids, and I've no real desire to speak to angry strangers at football matches anyway. One of the regular shouters did shout at the fans who were moaning though, not that it did much good. There was a lot of general moans and groans from the east stand about the kicking out policy in the second half which was right in front of them. It clearly affected the players. Of course, ideally the players should be able to ignore, but they're human. Then there's the general anxiety in the crowd when ever things go the slightest bit wrong. There was nearly open booing mid match in the first half at the approach, despite the fact we were level, on top and creating chances. That's what I'll never understand. There can't be many teams / countries that boo passing. I don't know if we've worse fans than other teams. There's such a gloom around the place at the moment, it feels like some people want failure to justify their hatred of McNamara / Thomspon and prove how right they've been for the past year. I think that's a big part of it, the feeling justified in suffering and glorifying when the worst does happen, like you knew it would. Something very Presbyterian about it all, isn't there? Anyway, other clubs are just as bad. I've been to Dens plenty over the past few years and if anything they're worse. They were regularly shouting abuse at the players and booing them for playing possession while they were top of the Championship. They've been pretty active in lately too with their current home record. Oh, you wanted to hear the abuse Hamilton's travelling fans were giving their team up until they equalised. Shouts of 'you don't know what you're doing' at Canning when he subbed Imrie were, however, quickly forgotten when they turned the game round totally once he went off. Edited by Cobardon, Nov 29 2015, 10:59 PM.



Tom_Boland	Nov 29 2015, 11:13 PM Post #35
Ivan Golac Posts: 1,055 Group: Members Member #93 Joined: May 1, 2013	Son-in-law was at the Aberdeen - County game and told me about Aberdeen getting booed off at half-time. I didna take him seriously, but confirmed on Sportscene tonight. Not agreeing with it in any shape or form, but seemed to work wonders for Aberdeen.



Barca87	Nov 29 2015, 11:23 PM Post #36
Gordon Chisholm Posts: 824 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: September 13, 2010	The mob that go on about Thompson are utterly idiotic. Just imagine how happy they would be with all the moaning they could do if we were being run into the ground by some feckless chairman. Scottish football fans do have a strange relationship with teams who want to pass the ball. The truth is, we just don't like our football played that way, and are a lot happier when we're leathering it back up the pitch and handing possession straight back. Oh well.



the.mule	Nov 30 2015, 09:12 PM Post #37
Ian McCall Posts: 611 Group: Members Member #35 Joined: November 23, 2010	Big improvement from weeks gone by, stringing passes together and playing good stuff but you can tell the forwards are freaked out by being one on one ''OMG, kick it!', they're in sheer euphoria about being that far up the pitch, uncharted territory. Yeah, those misses were annoying, but making chances is a luxury. Serious beasting on the cards for Killie imminent.



litljortindan2	Dec 1 2015, 01:22 PM Post #38
Ian McCall Posts: 742 Group: Members Member #55 Joined: October 6, 2011	Quite good attacking but the own goal was bad and defence a bit sparse at the second goal. Going in the right direction though.



TheDean	Dec 1 2015, 08:59 PM Post #39
ALLEGEDLY CALICO Posts: 2,117 Group: Members Member #53 Joined: September 18, 2011	litljortindan2 Dec 1 2015, 01:22 PM Quite good attacking but the own goal was bad and defence a bit sparse at the second goal. Going in the right direction though. Down? Feel free to cast my prognosis back up to me Cob. But We are well and truly b&£&ered. Maybe it was the multi depressive effect of ironing and watching Peter & Roughie's football show on STV Edinburgh, and maybe it hasn't worn off yet. But we are certainly not even too good to go down.



TheDean	Jan 15 2016, 10:26 PM Post #40
ALLEGEDLY CALICO Posts: 2,117 Group: Members Member #53 Joined: September 18, 2011	Cobardon Nov 29 2015, 10:42 PM TheDean Nov 29 2015, 10:19 PM We've had it. Not even a play off with Sevco. We are down. That defence is just horrific. So it's time to start planning for trying to get out of the Championship- that'll be difficult enough, but at least our chairman can start getting the cost base down instead of raising false hope in January. If McKay's any sense, he will have lined somewhere else up by now on the strength of regular scoring for a failing team. I'll be sure to cast this post up to you forever if we are safe by February. Ye shall be hanged by it. <Bump> I'm laughing at that hangman y'know, Cobman


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