When does the Booing stop....

[chrisw1]

I think Gabby is beyond redemption, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hutton, Cissoko, Clark, Westwood, Sanchez, Grealish, Sinclair and Gestede all end up having some role to play.  I'm not saying I would keep them all, but I think replacing an entire squad is totally unrealistic.

None of whom were boo-ed on Saturday.

But the atmosphere is toxic and it is effecting them all whether you think it is or not.  Certainly it wont be encouraging the better players to hang around and give it their best shot next year.  The best thing that could happen now is some positivity behind the team and an improvement in the atmosphere to firstly give us some hope of beating Newcastle and secondly to put us on a better foot for summer transfer negotiations and next season.  So, support the players you want to stay or accept will probably have to stay rather than boo the ones you don't.

[Witton Warrior]

I've got at least 4 years of booing left in me.
Payback!!!!

[Malandro]

I've got at least 4 years of booing left in me.
Payback!!!!

We might have another four years of bad performances yet

[class-of-82]

Let's just boo in the 74th minute then

[chrisw1]

I've got at least 4 years of booing left in me.
Payback!!!!

At the price of any remote hope of beating Newcastle?  Retaining any of our better players?  Hope you enjoy your payback, but whilst you are having you fun bear in mind it can't possibly be anything other than counter productive.  The point has already been made loud and clear.

[Darth Villa]

I've got at least 4 years of booing left in me.
Payback!!!!

At the price of any remote hope of beating Newcastle?  Retaining any of our better players?  Hope you enjoy your payback, but whilst you are having you fun bear in mind it can't possibly be anything other than counter productive.  The point has already been made loud and clear.

This season is the worst I can remember, it’s so unbelievably bad that a win against the Geordies won’t make a blind bit of difference to me. It would be like a last Rolo nestled on top of a pile of dog shit. There are problems at this club way beyond the players but they are accountable for a hell of a lot and if there’s a toxic atmosphere, well, they made their bed’s….

I like booing. It’s fun, it’s simple, it's easily audible and it’s not foul language or vulgar. It shows en masse our discontent for the pathetic attitudes and appalling professionalism of some of our so called players. And for their part it’s easy to make us stop... just put some effort in and stop being dickheads off the pitch.

I'm a selective boo-er only doling it out to those who deserve it the most but if those on the receiving end perform well, then I'll applaud and cheer them too. But they have got a lot of work to do to re-set those scales this season. I also think that no matter what vitriol they get at the last final whistle this season, they'll more than likely receive a cheer before the first kick off of the next. It's then up to them to stay in the cheers based on the very simple rules outlined above.

Booing is just pantomime, I find it cathartic. I'd like to use it more in everyday life. I think it would make me a calmer saner person, no more ranting and raving. Just think about it... Bad service in a restaurant "BOOOO!". Being cut up on the road "BOOOO!". Boss or client being unreasonable "BOOOO!". Your train home is cancelled "BOOOO!". The dog shitting in the lounge "BOOOO!". Overpaid prima donna footballers disgracing your beloved club "BOOOO, BOOOO, BOOOO!!!!”

[Clampy]

things have got out of hand though im more worried about next year we will still have the useless shitcunts here next season.

So you wanted fans to boo when there was still a chance of staying up, but not now that we're down?

[edgysatsuma89]

If I had any money I would wager that all those being booed will not play for the club next season. Guzan, Lescott, Bacuna and I presume Richards got at least a little bit of stick will all go and I think the booing will have played a tiny part in that (even if it's minuscule) so I'm glad it's happening. I don't think Gabby will play for us again either even though I wish he would so he could get the treatment.

That's therefore not asking for 15 new players based on just those being booed. The problem is trying to convince the others who aren't as shit to stay.

[Chris Jameson]

things have got out of hand though im more worried about next year we will still have the useless shitcunts here next season.

So you wanted fans to boo when there was still a chance of staying up, but not now that we're down?

That's what I don't get, giving the "shitcunts both barrels" was encouraged when there was still an outside chance we could stay up but booing them is detrimental when we've been relegated.

[edgysatsuma89]

things have got out of hand though im more worried about next year we will still have the useless shitcunts here next season.

So you wanted fans to boo when there was still a chance of staying up, but not now that we're down?

That's what I don't get, giving the "shitcunts both barrels" was encouraged when there was still an outside chance we could stay up but booing them is detrimental when we've been relegated.

Maybe the barrels he means are the ones in the quality street or roses (whichever one it is)?

[eamonn]

Notwithstanding the whole ''football isn't theatre, entertainment/satisfaction is not guaranteed'' maxim, if there was analysis of season ticket-holders done among all clubs in the world determining cost per home goal/win since the first full season this decade, 2010/11, I reckon we would be rock-bottom or close to it. Paddy-last out of thousands and thousands of clubs.

Add in the many other Villa fans who go to most games, and the rest of us who can't but don't suffer any less watching from afar (I actually find it easier to accept a bad defeat/performance when I see us at VP, for some reason), the fact that the current crop of eejits who represent us on the pitch are getting a bit of boo-ing, ironic cheers and a few dozen paper aeroplanes flown within 50 metres of them is pretty mild in the grand scheme of things. They don't deserve our support or our derision but our indifference. Which is what we've largely got from both the players and the board these past six years.

[Fasth56]

Booing Richards didn't cause him to leap for the ball and miss it completely, it didn't stop Lescott tracking Long who moved five yards off his back to score the first, it didn't cause Guzan to treat the ball like a red hot potato and it didn't cause Bacuna to hit a ball from near the halfway line with no hope of it reaching our box. It could be that the players are just crap but more likely it's because they don't give a shit. If I pay for a meal and it's crap I complain, the only way these twats know I'm not happy with what they are doing is to abuse them loudly.

[chrisw1]

If I had any money I would wager that all those being booed will not play for the club next season. Guzan, Lescott, Bacuna and I presume Richards got at least a little bit of stick will all go and I think the booing will have played a tiny part in that (even if it's minuscule) so I'm glad it's happening. I don't think Gabby will play for us again either even though I wish he would so he could get the treatment.

That's therefore not asking for 15 new players based on just those being booed. The problem is trying to convince the others who aren't as shit to stay.

This is partly my point.  I don't think the ongoing toxic atmosphere is going to help our case here at all.

[chrisw1]

Booing Richards didn't cause him to leap for the ball and miss it completely, it didn't stop Lescott tracking Long who moved five yards off his back to score the first, it didn't cause Guzan to treat the ball like a red hot potato and it didn't cause Bacuna to hit a ball from near the halfway line with no hope of it reaching our box. It could be that the players are just crap but more likely it's because they don't give a shit. If I pay for a meal and it's crap I complain, the only way these twats know I'm not happy with what they are doing is to abuse them loudly.

Shows your utter nativity when it comes to sport.  If you don't think confidence has anything to do with performance, then I can only guess you have never played sport at any level.  Do you think the current atmosphere may not be effecting their confidence at all?  Yes, I know they've been shit all season, but the booing and atmosphere could very well have influenced these exact moments you refer to.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Not denigrating anyone who boos, but  there is something in me that just  cannot boo  a player wearing the claret and Blue,it just feels wrong.