Booing

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

I noticed that many supporters actually booed our players during the match today, with some even going as far as to shout abuse at them.

The journalist who interviewed Sam after the match also picked up on this development. He asked Sam about it and Sam said the following:

“I have no problem with them booing us, as they deserved booing. The players should listen to that, as I do.”

Is such behaviour from supporters productive, or is it futile? Does it make our players perform better, or does it play into the hands of the opposition? It's a difficult one.

 

[KaiserEFC]

They’re lucky I didn’t throw my own faeces at them.

 

[Connor]

I’m not booing the players, I’m booing the fat crook on the touch line.

 

[toffee matt]

Been going on for years now. Fully deserved most the time

 

[jtl60]

I booed fat Sam for persisting with 1 up front and swapping tosun and niasse at home to a terrible WBA who were dominant

 

[Adam-GOTTV]

Booing the team at the end of the match if it’s clear they’ve not given 100% is perfectly acceptable, booing individual lads for making mistakes probably isn’t because, above anything else, it doesn’t help.

 

[ADT]

pretty simple really:

dont play like complete frauds=no booing
playing like frauds=BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Toffe3m4n]

It's deserved but yeah, probably isn't helping. Fact is though that the players simply don't help themselves. Pedestrian, negative football simply won't be tolerated at Goodison Park but they persist in playing scared, which only exacerbates it.

 

[Zezti]

I know if I was being booed by thousands, my head would go down and I'd play worse. At the same time, fans need to the club to know what's being produced just isn't good enough.

 

[Tigger]

They wouldn't be booing if we were winning. . . Oh wait.

 

[marsh]

Our fans are embarrassing!

 

[diggerdestroyer]

It has its down side in individual cases when particular players allow it to effect their game.

It has the up side that players and manager know fully well that lack of 100% committment and particular football tactics will not be allowed at our club.

 

[Caolam]

Our fans are embarrassing!

Our Manager is an embarrassment,
Our Board is an embarrassment,
Our players are an embarrassment,
If fans cheered that lot then they would be an embarrassment.

 

[davids]

Forum members of a certain age will remember going 0-2 down to Sheffield Wed at Wembley and the same v Wimbledon at Goodison.Just thankful that our present 'support' wasn't at those games.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

Booing the team at the end of the match if it’s clear they’ve not given 100% is perfectly acceptable, booing individual lads for making mistakes probably isn’t because, above anything else, it doesn’t help.

I tend to agree. When supporters used to single out the likes of Stones and Barkley it diminished their confidence and made them play worse.

However, if a team isn't giving 100% (I actually think our players ARE giving 100% at the moment) then of course the fans should be able to vent their frustration at full-time with a bit of booing.