no balls Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Just watching the West Ham "fans" booing their team off after their win. They're in the top half, safe and the subtitution they booed scored the winner. What do they want, to win the World Cup again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burnden Posted April 20, 2008 Members Share Posted April 20, 2008 would never 'ave 'appened if the twins were alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter HomerJay Posted April 20, 2008 Site Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2008 Just watching the West Ham "fans" booing their team off after their win. They're in the top half, safe and the subtitution they booed scored the winner. What do they want, to win the World Cup again? class A cocks, the lot of em... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 (edited) The West Ham fans expect their team to be higher up the league, regardless of whether they are good enough. I think they call it ambition. Edited April 20, 2008 by Callie Call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Bear Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 The West Ham fans expect their team to be higher up the league, regardless of whether they are good enough. I think they call it ambition. they call it deluded.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no balls Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 The West Ham fans expect their team to be higher up the league, regardless of whether they are good enough. I think they call it ambition. Ambition? I call it just plain rude and unknowledgeable (oh and deluded as the Bear says). Just saying like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrandt Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I understand the Chelsea fans boo Grant - thy're only chasing ManU for the title and in the Chumps League semi. And the Liverpool fans would like to hang their Owners - they're not spending enough money apparently. Some people need to get back into the real world ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter victor meldrew Posted April 20, 2008 Site Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2008 The West Ham fans expect their team to be higher up the league, regardless of whether they are good enough. I think they call it ambition. however at least they turn up ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted April 20, 2008 Moderators Share Posted April 20, 2008 I understand the Chelsea fans boo Grant - thy're only chasing ManU for the title and in the Chumps League semi.And the Liverpool fans would like to hang their Owners - they're not spending enough money apparently. Some people need to get back into the real world ..... yeah, and add plenty of ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chim Chimineeee Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 No, we want decent football, and pay through the teeth to see something resembling it. we've made it known home and away for months, if we'd applauded the same negative style that we'd been served up for months now and celebrated it on the back of a win against Derby..... THEN we'd be fickle. the league placing is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffs Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Thats 'Survival First Syndrome'. Get used to it matey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules_darby Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 No, we want decent football, and pay through the teeth to see something resembling it. we've made it known home and away for months, if we'd applauded the same negative style that we'd been served up for months now and celebrated it on the back of a win against Derby..... THEN we'd be fickle. the league placing is irrelevant. You see that's what many Bolton fans thought, but really it plain and simply isn't: Lots of us were bored with Allardyce's football - yet we had consistently good league finishes Up pops Sammy Lee without a negative style and all of a sudden we were rooted to the bottom of the league Guess which we preferred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter HomerJay Posted April 24, 2008 Site Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2008 No, we want decent football, and pay through the teeth to see something resembling it. we've made it known home and away for months, if we'd applauded the same negative style that we'd been served up for months now and celebrated it on the back of a win against Derby..... THEN we'd be fickle. the league placing is irrelevant. out of interest, would you take decent football back in the championship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Up pops Sammy Lee without a negative style and all of a sudden we were rooted to the bottom of the league did you mean positive? if you?re a bit confused, just try the tongue-test..... you'll not forget again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chim Chimineeee Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Homer Jay - yep, I would. Wasn't unduly bothered this time last year - Premiership's overated, over hyped and too bigger percentage of the games are dull affairs, with both teams scared witless about conceding a goal. Moneys ruined it, and enjoyed games just as much if not more in the Championship - might have lacked the quality, but the games were morre exciting, end to end and unpredictable. Also get to visit grounds that still have a semblance of what going to games in the 70s and 80s was all about. Travel all over the shop and over time you meet a lot who've been going decades - nearly all of the same opinion, we're playing the most negative, uninspiring, dull football, that any of us can remember. You cut your cloth accordingly, but Curbishley has spent a shed load of money, employing footballers on high wages even by premiership standards, and while I'm more than happy with 10th, with the players at his disposal and the relative strength of the squad, to say that we could have only achieved survival by employing negative sterile football week in week out is a nonsense. And even if we had had to, that doesn't excuse the fact that since achieving survival, the tactics have become even more dull. You lot saw us at your place - you were desperate for the points, we had nothing to worry about other than finishing 10th or 11th - the team playing the attacking football won 1-0 and deservedly so, given that we went out to try and stifle from the start, and offered practically nothing up front - which has been Curbishley's plan A, B and c, even when safety was assured. A succession of dull, liefeless games where we lose 1-0, or others where they look like they're already on holiday and lose 4-0, news that the third most expensive tickets in the country are going up again, and a scraped victory again without anything much on the attacking front against Derby? You can't be pissed off with some of the most negative tactics you've witnessed for weeks on end, and then jump up and down with joy after scraping an undeserved win at home to Derby - That would make you fickle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I agree with with your post CC, this season watching non league football has been more enjoyable, then some of the games dished up at the Bok, but i will continue watching us grind out results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chim Chimineeee Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Leigh White - I think there's a growing trend of fans of a certain age looking towards non league as an alternative - reckon I'll keep going, but the drinks before and after games, travel with mates etc, used to be a sideshow to the main event, the actual match - increasingly, it seems to be the other way round. Loyaltys the main thing that keeps a lot of us going I suppose, but when the clubs themselves drop a lot of the things that made you loyal to them in the first place, you wonder what it is you're still being loyal to - fellow support and the buzz at away games tops an ever dwindling list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted April 27, 2008 Moderators Share Posted April 27, 2008 Leigh White - I think there's a growing trend of fans of a certain age looking towards non league as an alternative - reckon I'll keep going, but the drinks before and after games, travel with mates etc, used to be a sideshow to the main event, the actual match - increasingly, it seems to be the other way round. agree wholeheartedly, however, with the cost of football, the tv saturation etc etc even the "sideshows" are becoming a rarity as people are stopping going making the whole affair not as good as it used to be or maybe me and my mates are just getting a bit old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter HomerJay Posted April 28, 2008 Site Supporter Share Posted April 28, 2008 Leigh White - I think there's a growing trend of fans of a certain age looking towards non league as an alternative - reckon I'll keep going, but the drinks before and after games, travel with mates etc, used to be a sideshow to the main event, the actual match - increasingly, it seems to be the other way round. Loyaltys the main thing that keeps a lot of us going I suppose, but when the clubs themselves drop a lot of the things that made you loyal to them in the first place, you wonder what it is you're still being loyal to - fellow support and the buzz at away games tops an ever dwindling list. now im as big a bolton fan as anyone, but if myfootballclub bought chorley rather than ebbsfleet i could seriously see myself attending more chorley than bolton games. . . . . . . . . . bollocks, i couldnt........yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted April 28, 2008 Members Share Posted April 28, 2008 Chim is of the same opinion as most of us. Lost it's magic when the money men took over. For those younger ones who have only known us in our Premier league years, you don't know what you missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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