BringBack_leGin
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What do we think? An acceptable way to show our displeasure or a destructive reaction which makes a bad situation worse?
Booing during a match…
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spurs mental
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Was part of our most iconic moment since Amsterdam. Sign me up.
Andertons_Right_Boot
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Don't really buy the whole player's confidence thing with booing as they'll know how to deal with it.
I just wouldn't boo full stop and I think it's pretty small time tbf.
Footballers are human, they're not always going to play well and how we want. We pay our money to go and support the team not to have a right to witness mind blowing performances or victories.
Yes, it costs a lot to go and watch these games, it's not ideal but we still pay it.
I just wouldn't boo full stop and I think it's pretty small time tbf.
Footballers are human, they're not always going to play well and how we want. We pay our money to go and support the team not to have a right to witness mind blowing performances or victories.
Yes, it costs a lot to go and watch these games, it's not ideal but we still pay it.
PLTuck
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Personally I think booing your own team is more embarressing and more pathetic than the performance you are booing. It's self centred and your booing is potentially ruining the person next to you's experience, who also paid their money.
Does anyone go to the cinema to watch a shit film and boo all the way through it? You pay the ticket price, you can do what you like right? Does anyone go and watch tennis and boo the player you are supporting off if they lose?
Plus, even if it didn't negatively affect performances (it does), it certainly doesnt have a positive effect.
Its pathetic.
Does anyone go to the cinema to watch a shit film and boo all the way through it? You pay the ticket price, you can do what you like right? Does anyone go and watch tennis and boo the player you are supporting off if they lose?
Plus, even if it didn't negatively affect performances (it does), it certainly doesnt have a positive effect.
Its pathetic.
brendanb50
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Very, very few instances warrant a mass negative reaction from the fans in the stadium. Use your energy to support your team, get behind them to turn a game around.
Joshua shepherd
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Are there any other genuine ways to show your dissatisfaction though?
I was there on Sunday and didn’t boo but lots around me did which I was surprised about seeing as it was Contes first game in charge.
Upon hearing the reasons why though I completely get it. We were absolutely awful and the fans didn’t want to let the players get away with it again. We’ve seen the same thing twice times since poch left, the same tragic players providing a lack of effort on the pitch and at least now they know it won’t be tolerated by us or by conte. If they perform with the intensity of the second half then the boos will be replaced by support, as it was second half.
PLTuck
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Stop paying for something you are not enjoying?
Joshua shepherd
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But the only person that affects is yourself?
mabolsa_ritchey
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I was saying Boo-urns
PLTuck
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Yes. Whats the problem with that? If YOU arent happy. Stop going. It's pretty simple.
Booing has no positive effect on the players. None. Talk of "letting the players know they arent getting away with it" are laughable and self important.
Joshua shepherd
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But what’s wrong with self important?
PLTuck
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Well, it isn't all about you (I don't mean you as such as you said you dont boo). And in the big scheme of things, you aren't important if you are booing the team. Supporting the team WILL have a positive effect. Booing the team most certainly will not. By booing your own team you are basically acting against your own interests.
If you enjoy the pantomime aspect, boo the opposition.
Albertbarich
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You pay your money so if you want to boo go ahead.
It's not like this team have earned much loyalty. Sure it can be counter productive but it also resulted in Nuno going and Conte coming in.
Not like the clubs give a shit about the supporters so I see no harm in voicing your displeasure at times
It's not like this team have earned much loyalty. Sure it can be counter productive but it also resulted in Nuno going and Conte coming in.
Not like the clubs give a shit about the supporters so I see no harm in voicing your displeasure at times
spuradik
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While I'm indifferent to booing, I will say that if you are going to do that, then be prepared to also cheer and express your support for the team until the last minute. Particularly when we're under pressure or closing out a game.
We constantly complain about the mental fortitude of the players and the 'spursiness' of it all, but fail to apply that mentality to ourselves as fans as well. We need to keep pushing the team until the very last minute, which was basically what Conte was trying to get us to do the other day. This is a key difference between us versus say a Liverpool or Chelsea.
We constantly complain about the mental fortitude of the players and the 'spursiness' of it all, but fail to apply that mentality to ourselves as fans as well. We need to keep pushing the team until the very last minute, which was basically what Conte was trying to get us to do the other day. This is a key difference between us versus say a Liverpool or Chelsea.
Bobbins
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I think it's contextual.
90% of the time booing is childish, entitled, and not remotely helpful. Sunday, for example, was totally uneccessary - yes we'd played badly, but this is a new manager trying to get his team to do new things, Leeds were playing out of their skins, and it was clear something would change at half time. Booing because we'd had one poor half of football? Really pathetic.
However, there is a time and a place when it matters. Not really booing, as such - I do find the idea of grown men booing like they're at a child's panto because they're not happy with some blokes kicking a ball incredibly, laughably immature - but if not booing, certainly showing discontent.
One of those times and places when it made perfect sense was at the end of the United game. We had been terrible, passive, and it marked the end of two periods - the fans losing patience with Nuno's football, and more importantly, the fans really needing to send Levy a message that this shite just was not acceptable. With some of the most expensive tickets in world football, serving up passive Nunoball while an objectively awful United team ran rings around us was the last straw. It was not ok, things had to change, and the fans needed to let Levy know that. And ultimately, it worked - Nuno got fired, Levy pushed the boat out for Conte, and we all got what is ultimately the best possible solution for the club.
In those sort of circumstances complaints and real, obvious, public discontent has a time and a place.
But big fat blokes in their 50's booing because Dier mis-kicked the ball or just because some old gammons have agendas against certain players? That's pathetic.
90% of the time booing is childish, entitled, and not remotely helpful. Sunday, for example, was totally uneccessary - yes we'd played badly, but this is a new manager trying to get his team to do new things, Leeds were playing out of their skins, and it was clear something would change at half time. Booing because we'd had one poor half of football? Really pathetic.
However, there is a time and a place when it matters. Not really booing, as such - I do find the idea of grown men booing like they're at a child's panto because they're not happy with some blokes kicking a ball incredibly, laughably immature - but if not booing, certainly showing discontent.
One of those times and places when it made perfect sense was at the end of the United game. We had been terrible, passive, and it marked the end of two periods - the fans losing patience with Nuno's football, and more importantly, the fans really needing to send Levy a message that this shite just was not acceptable. With some of the most expensive tickets in world football, serving up passive Nunoball while an objectively awful United team ran rings around us was the last straw. It was not ok, things had to change, and the fans needed to let Levy know that. And ultimately, it worked - Nuno got fired, Levy pushed the boat out for Conte, and we all got what is ultimately the best possible solution for the club.
In those sort of circumstances complaints and real, obvious, public discontent has a time and a place.
But big fat blokes in their 50's booing because Dier mis-kicked the ball or just because some old gammons have agendas against certain players? That's pathetic.
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It's a relationship. For many a lifetime one. "If you don't like it, just leave" isn't really a healthy answer.
What WOULD be better is a way to engage with the club when we're dissatisfied but the club have reneged on all the agreements/plans that were being put in place (like the fans forum stuff and board representation). That doesn't leave us with much apart from protesting outside the ground and booing from the stands.
mpickard2087
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I think the booing is just a smaller part of the picture. Yes as fans you can be disappointed with our fortunes over the last few years, how and why that has come about, results and the football played etc. but what I’m experiencing is that a large number of our fanbase – wherever you go, whether that’s at the stadium or down the pub or amongst family/friends – are to me overly angry about pretty much everything.
If a pass gets misplaced, complaints. If a player turns out and recycles possession, complaints. If a player tries a through ball but fails, complaints. If a player is “mucking about with it” at the back, shouts to go forward. If he lumps it forward, complaints. If they don’t take a chance and shoot, complaints. If they do take a speculative shot and miss, complaints. Same with Dribbles. Same with crosses. Same with corners. Same with free kicks. I could go on but you get the point – their psyche is now that basically unless every single bit of play is perfect they are moaning, and for some I know upgrade that to ranting and raving.
That doesn’t even get started on the dogs abuse some of the players get, or the manager, or the board. Or favourite topics such as the harking back to like 2016/17 and how we fucked it all up, or that we didn’t buy anyone in 2018, or lack of trophies, or for investing in infrastructure and not the team, etc etc. They will rant and rant and rant.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t have opinions, or forget things that happen, or give everything a free pass. On the contrary, I’m as hyper-critical and hard to please on most things Spurs as anyone you’ll meet. If you don’t like or agree with something or someone that is your belief and you’re entitled to it and that extends to being able to boo if you don’t like the result/performance. But for a lot currently it for me goes further than that and I don’t get those who exhibit so much rage, for the 90 minutes and then for whatever trials and tribulations occur at the football club. It isn’t good, it isn’t a positive in your life, it isn’t healthy. I’d suggest some of our fans really need to let some things go – whether that’s imperfect performances, past mistakes made off the pitch, looking back on past “highs” – and allow a bit of breathing space and see what happens next, for the sake of their own mind and relationship with Spurs/football if nothing else.
If a pass gets misplaced, complaints. If a player turns out and recycles possession, complaints. If a player tries a through ball but fails, complaints. If a player is “mucking about with it” at the back, shouts to go forward. If he lumps it forward, complaints. If they don’t take a chance and shoot, complaints. If they do take a speculative shot and miss, complaints. Same with Dribbles. Same with crosses. Same with corners. Same with free kicks. I could go on but you get the point – their psyche is now that basically unless every single bit of play is perfect they are moaning, and for some I know upgrade that to ranting and raving.
That doesn’t even get started on the dogs abuse some of the players get, or the manager, or the board. Or favourite topics such as the harking back to like 2016/17 and how we fucked it all up, or that we didn’t buy anyone in 2018, or lack of trophies, or for investing in infrastructure and not the team, etc etc. They will rant and rant and rant.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t have opinions, or forget things that happen, or give everything a free pass. On the contrary, I’m as hyper-critical and hard to please on most things Spurs as anyone you’ll meet. If you don’t like or agree with something or someone that is your belief and you’re entitled to it and that extends to being able to boo if you don’t like the result/performance. But for a lot currently it for me goes further than that and I don’t get those who exhibit so much rage, for the 90 minutes and then for whatever trials and tribulations occur at the football club. It isn’t good, it isn’t a positive in your life, it isn’t healthy. I’d suggest some of our fans really need to let some things go – whether that’s imperfect performances, past mistakes made off the pitch, looking back on past “highs” – and allow a bit of breathing space and see what happens next, for the sake of their own mind and relationship with Spurs/football if nothing else.
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