Booing.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

any idea why the atmosphere is poor at VP ?

DOL said we're fickle.

[Matt Collins]

There was no booing at the final whistle. There was booing at HT and I think understandable as up to then it was a terrible performance. I don't boo but fans have a right to do so if they are not pleased with  the team. Fans pay with money, time and sometimes considerable disruption to their day to be at the match.

After seven wins on the bounce and in the middle of a vital promotion push?

Bollocks

[Ad@m]

There was no booing at the final whistle. There was booing at HT and I think understandable as up to then it was a terrible performance. I don't boo but fans have a right to do so if they are not pleased with  the team. Fans pay with money, time and sometimes considerable disruption to their day to be at the match.

After seven wins on the bounce and in the middle of a vital promotion push?

Bollocks

I'm sorry but the first half on Tuesday was absolutely dreadful.  I didn't boo but my god I wanted to!

I'm with Aftab.  Watching a bunch of players you know for a fact are quality for this division jog around and generally look like they couldn't give a toss, while a shitheap like Preston stroll around like they own VP - booing is entirely justifiable.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

This is the second season in the Championship. We've spent a relative fortune. People boo because they expect to get promoted. You don't mind losing if your robbed by the ref, are unlucky, get beaten by a last minute worldy and so on. That's not whats happening though - we're missing a couple of players and we look like we haven't got a plan B.

[garyfouroaks]

I am very surprised that the rules on booing are not better understood. As a paying customer, players who are told for 168 hours a week that they are brilliant offer a window to you of a maximum of three hours a week when you can tell them when they are not. Booing of the home team  is permissible when.

1 Individual players are shite
2 The entire team is shite
3. They have lost when they should have won if they had bothered to run around a bit.
4. They fail to run around a bit in any situation
5. They run around a bit but in entirely the wrong direction
6. The manager has selected a shite player instead of a crowd favourite.
7. The manager has picked a shite team
8. The manager has made a shite substitution
9 The manager has failed to recognise that a shite player requires substitution.
10. A player is either playing well to secure a move, or not playing well to avoid injury to secure a move

I hope that helps.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Shite is a term open to subjective interpretation.
I understand and accept and will abide by these rules when I am at VP but I am still not clear when I can boo.
We need a shiteometer.

[Ads]

Booing is a bit twatty at the best of times.

Have a moan instead, with a few pieces of classic Anglo-Saxon sprinkled throughout.

[in exile]

I'm in the Trinity so I tut

[ChicagoLion]

I hope the atmosphere is lively against Wolves on Saturday.

[ColinMac]

Bit of booing at the end of a crap performance is good fun.

[cdbearsfan]

I usually boo at full-time when they've been atrocious, but find that the effect of the booing is somewhat negated as I'm already half way to the Barton's by then.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't boo (I react to bad results by standing up, hands in pocket, staring at the sky for a few minutes instead).

However, I think there's a difference to booing at half time and at full time, doing it at half time being much worse.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I think a mass synchronous 'oh for fucks sake' would work so much better.

[ColinMac]

People pay a lot of money to watch a game, if the performance at the end of the first half/ full time has been shit then i see no problem with people booing. Players are happy to milk the crowds applause when they play wel, then can have the booing when their performances are shit.

Its when individual players are booed during a match that i think it becomes a probelm.

[papa lazarou]

I've only ever booed at one bloke but that was David O'Leary so perfectly justified.