The Twelfth Man

People have rubbished the idea of a demo etc but I think its the only way us mugs are going to get a point over. If they aren't gone after today then we need to do it and get answers! Its disgraceful, it guts me to bits with whats happening to our club, it ruined from top to bottom.

Get everyone in the mainstand behind the dug out and throw P45s into the techniqual area.

the crowd were effectively Newports twelth man today.....i was embarrassed to be a Town fan at times this afternoon with some of the comments chants, jeers and cheers .

I know we are playing cr@p, i know the quality isnt there, i know the manager looks tactically inept but jeering our own team, abusing our own players, the biggest cheers of the day were when certain players got the hook, ironic cheers when Kean caught a ball.....is it any wonder that when we go a goal down that to a man ...the players hide ?

If only 1500 turn up next home game then so be it, get your message across that way but battering our own players isnt the solution.

Quoted from moosey_club

the crowd were effectively Newports twelth man today.....i was embarrassed to be a Town fan at times this afternoon with some of the comments chants, jeers and cheers .

I know we are playing cr@p, i know the quality isnt there, i know the manager looks tactically inept but jeering our own team, abusing our own players, the biggest cheers of the day were when certain players got the hook, ironic cheers when Kean caught a ball.....is it any wonder that when we go a goal down that to a man ...the players hide ?

If only 1500 turn up next home game then so be it, get your message across that way but battering our own players isnt the solution.

Very well put. You can only imagine the scenario....The players get some remotivation from somewhere during half time and get it melted away when they are booed back onto the pitch. It's come to the point where I suspect the players will be glad to get away from B.P. next Saturday.

If players don't show a bit of steel and determination then they deserve to be booed.

You can't serve up weeks of sh1t football and expect to receive a pat on the back. At some point someone has to show some balls. Some encouragement that despite limitations they are trying their best.

It's not the fans fault. The fenty years of decline have not in anyway be resultant of fans booing players.

Quoted from lowerfindus

If players don't show a bit of steel and determination then they deserve to be booed.

You can't serve up weeks of sh1t football and expect to receive a pat on the back. At some point someone has to show some balls. Some encouragement that despite limitations they are trying their best.

It's not the fans fault. The fenty years of decline have not in anyway be resultant of fans booing players.

Where is the evidence that they are not trying? Vernon was booed when he had his effort tipped around the post FFS.
Nobody is suggesting they deserve "a pat on the back" but booing when they come back onto the pitch is absolutely counter productive.

Quoted from moosey_club

the crowd were effectively Newports twelth man today.....i was embarrassed to be a Town fan at times this afternoon with some of the comments chants, jeers and cheers .

I know we are playing cr@p, i know the quality isnt there, i know the manager looks tactically inept but jeering our own team, abusing our own players, the biggest cheers of the day were when certain players got the hook, ironic cheers when Kean caught a ball.....is it any wonder that when we go a goal down that to a man ...the players hide ?

If only 1500 turn up next home game then so be it, get your message across that way but battering our own players isnt the solution.

balderdash

Quoted from barralad

Very well put. You can only imagine the scenario....The players get some remotivation from somewhere during half time and get it melted away when they are booed back onto the pitch. It's come to the point where I suspect the players will be glad to get away from B.P. next Saturday.

I don't know about that I reckon we will get stuffed 3 or 4 nil

Quoted from moosey_club

the crowd were effectively Newports twelth man today.....i was embarrassed to be a Town fan at times this afternoon with some of the comments chants, jeers and cheers .

I know we are playing cr@p, i know the quality isnt there, i know the manager looks tactically inept but jeering our own team, abusing our own players, the biggest cheers of the day were when certain players got the hook, ironic cheers when Kean caught a ball.....is it any wonder that when we go a goal down that to a man ...the players hide ?

If only 1500 turn up next home game then so be it, get your message across that way but battering our own players isnt the solution.

So you would prefer people who have gone for donkeys years to stay away in case they hurt the feelings of the players?

Why not go one further and play the matches behind closed doors? It is the very fans who do go and show their feelings, for good or bad, that deserve the most praise. I have seen poster after poster on here saying they are not going, which is their decision but I have greater respect for those that do turn up.

I gave an ironic cheer to the keeper when he eventually caught something - rumour at the ground is that he is on £8k a week in the Championship so he will just have to put up with some stick.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

So you would prefer people who have gone for donkeys years to stay away in case they hurt the feelings of the players?

Why not go one further and play the matches behind closed doors? It is the very fans who do go and show their feelings, for good or bad, that deserve the most praise. I have seen poster after poster on here saying they are not going, which is their decision but I have greater respect for those that do turn up.

I gave an ironic cheer to the keeper when he eventually caught something - rumour at the ground is that he is on £8k a week in the Championship so he will just have to put up with some stick.

i would prefer us to act like human beings , throwing bottles at the opposition keeper, jeering and abusing PEOPLE .....not very civilised...guilty of it myself as a youth with hindsight... but it just doesnt help.....it feels like people are turning up waiting or wanting  us to lose or a player to make a mistake so they can have a pop....the crowd was pretty quiet up until we went a goal down...then people cant keep quiet ....a guy near me screaming at Kean to kick it straight ! going down with the Barnet , Slade out etc...never heard him say one word of encouragement or anything positive all game.  Baffles me that if people are so anti what they are seeing why actually go ?