'When Saturday Comes' on Villa

[Des Little]

This 'we are shit' singing has to stop.  OK, pretending we've scored a goal when we are getting stuffed may have been funny once.  It isn't any more.

[joe_c]

"We've hit the post" was quite funny on Monday night, quickly followed by "We've scored a goal" which was considerably less so.

[not3bad]

Why spend all that money, investment in your own time in the event and the two way journey to not support your own team that early in the game? I respect anyone who makes the effort and goes to away games, but that just seems completely stupid.

I suppose they took a look at the team selection and thought if the club have surrendered pre-kick off what's the point.

[Toronto Villa]

Why spend all that money, investment in your own time in the event and the two way journey to not support your own team that early in the game? I respect anyone who makes the effort and goes to away games, but that just seems completely stupid.

I suppose they took a look at the team selection and thought if the club have surrendered pre-kick off what's the point.

That may well be so, but we actually started the game playing quite well. If it was 3-0 to them go at it.

[brian green]

Win a couple of games and the sad, sick Villa ridicule will disappear faster than Fabian Delph up the M6.

[andrew08]

This is all assuming that a highly paid and motivated professional footballer takes any notice of what his supporters may be saying tucked up in a corner of a stadium. see N'zogbia as an example of one and his Twitter 'bants'.

I think it's more self mocking by our supporters, in that we are actually spending our hard earned cash on watching what is progressively getting worse, without even a hint of improvement, yet still we turn up even for televised away games.



 

[hipkiss92]

Why spend all that money, investment in your own time in the event and the two way journey to not support your own team that early in the game? I respect anyone who makes the effort and goes to away games, but that just seems completely stupid.

I suppose they took a look at the team selection and thought if the club have surrendered pre-kick off what's the point.

That may well be so, but we actually started the game playing quite well. If it was 3-0 to them go at it.

We were 1-0 down after two minutes...

[Toronto Villa]

Why spend all that money, investment in your own time in the event and the two way journey to not support your own team that early in the game? I respect anyone who makes the effort and goes to away games, but that just seems completely stupid.

I suppose they took a look at the team selection and thought if the club have surrendered pre-kick off what's the point.

That may well be so, but we actually started the game playing quite well. If it was 3-0 to them go at it.

We were 1-0 down after two minutes...

We are talking about the game vs Southampton

[frank]

This "How rubbish are we?" chanting is just embarrassing in my opinion and not very funny.  It's sixth form level, self -indulgent shite.   I can appreciate the counter argument that these people have paid their money to follow the team to all corners of England - fair enough - but if you're going to all that time and expense to "support" the club, lift the players as opposed to going along with the prime intention of making the rest of the stadium think you're a cool bunch.

"We've scored a goal, we've scored a goal...how shit must you be, we've scored a goal..."   *Cringe*.

I think you're being unfair to 6th Formers!
The chanting at Southampton and Tottenham was extremely embarrassing and not in the least amusing. The point of chanting, surely, is to encourage the players, and that sort of negativity has the opposite effect. Contrast this with the tremendous support during our good spell in the 2nd half at Spurs and the effect that must have had on the team.
"On the piss" may not affect the players but it's crude and insensitive. It says nothing about Villa and quite a lot about the idiots who sing it.

[hipkiss92]

Why spend all that money, investment in your own time in the event and the two way journey to not support your own team that early in the game? I respect anyone who makes the effort and goes to away games, but that just seems completely stupid.

I suppose they took a look at the team selection and thought if the club have surrendered pre-kick off what's the point.

That may well be so, but we actually started the game playing quite well. If it was 3-0 to them go at it.

We were 1-0 down after two minutes...

We are talking about the game vs Southampton

My bad

[TopDeck113]

Why is it that, whenever a publication quotes a Villa fan, they invariably pick the one that speaks the most bullshit?

An interesting observation considering that the publication in question has a certain Damon Green of this parish as a reasonably regular contributor.

[KevinGage]

As a (misguided) tribute to God, it sort of had merit at the time.

After he went walkies and missed the Exeter cup match in 1994, he could have received far worse stick.

But it sounds dreadful, and the tacked on 'shit support' and all the other bobbins don't redeem it in any way, shape or form.  It does us no favours at all.

 I'd love to see that dirge drowned out with a good hearty boo -something we normally excel at.

[Kingthing]

I had a bloke behind me in a pub at Spurs sing (to the tune of fuck the albion) we're fucking shit, we're fucking shit, over and over and over.

[Dave]

As for the article itself, 97% of football reporting would do well to follow where WSC leads - but that article looks like they've gone the other way and decided to fill space with a sitting-on-the-fence article, saying nothing that could just have easily been lifted from a Metro work-experience kid.

[Rudy65]

The worst at Southampton is that the negative chanting wasn't even as 'creative' as the 'how shit must you be......etc?'

It was literally joining in with opposition chants. Saints fans sung 'You're going down' We joined in singing 'We're going down'. Saints fans sung 'You're f***ING shit' - guess what our witty comeback was?

There's a place for gallows humour, but 10 minutes into a game we aren't even losing,when we'very just sacked our manager, isn't it. I'd also go for a requirement that it's vaguely funny.

The word I eventually came up with last Wednesday was lazy - joining in with the opposition fans to put down your own team. Whats the point? Someone asked last week whether we would rather these moronic chanters supported Man City or Chelsea, & I had a good think about that and came up with the thought that they may as well. They are just glory hunters who'very stayed rather than gone.

After seeing the team line up im not surprised they were chanting negatively

I have no problem with the occasional 'negative chanting', after all there hasnt been anything to shout about recently