Goodison's atmosphere.

[Toffe3m4n]

Im a nobhead because I think screaming insults at the players every two seconds is pathetic?

Okay..

It's their right to? Perhaps, but that doesn't make it any less moronic.

 

[Summerskin]

I've just been made redundant, I don't like paying what money I have left to watch dirge.

 

[kenyonl]

Lately, admittedly, we have been unbelievably gash.
It could be said that the players performance impacts the fans 'performance'. But it works both ways, yesterday it was 10 minutes before the boo boys piped up because because of a couple of misplaced passes. If we actually supported the team for 90 minutes, without getting on their backs instantly, and actually made noise, then other teams would feel intimidated like they used to. We were outsung by Blackburn, yesterday, bloody Blackburn, who couldn't fill half their allocation. Look at the atmosphere at places like Wolves and QPR, there was 10 times the atmosphere than we've had in the past year.
So come on, get behind the blues, through thick and thin, and make Goodison loud again.

i am sick of this kind of thinking. vile sick. this is not chicken or the egg question. Paid proffesionals need to wipe their tears, go out and perform their guts out for their own self pride. If they are able to do this, it enables the fans to cheer louder, which can raise the team's spirits a little bit.

False cheering of gash does nothing but makes the fan tired and the player think that ****e performance is good enough. When a **** employee wants a raise you dont give it to him and hope it makes him better, you make him earn it. Anybody who disagrees with me may do so, but they will be dead wrong. END OF, FACT.

 

[Azzurri]

i am sick of this kind of thinking. vile sick. this is not chicken or the egg question. Paid proffesionals need to wipe their tears, go out and perform their guts out for their own self pride. If they are able to do this, it enables the fans to cheer louder, which can raise the team's spirits a little bit.

False cheering of gash does nothing but makes the fan tired and the player think that ****e performance is good enough. When a **** employee wants a raise you dont give it to him and hope it makes him better, you make him earn it. Anybody who disagrees with me may do so, but they will be dead wrong. END OF, FACT.

Say what you want about this man's inability to remember names, he knows the score here.

 

[Brennan]

I'll be one of the first ones in the ground to cheer on good, attacking football. If one of our players does something good, then i'll get behind the team. I am not going to sit there cheering while we play crap football though. Sorry.

They team already get plenty of support without even kicking a ball, 25000+ people show up every week to watch them even though the standard of football is rubbish. They shouldn't need any more than that to give us something to cheer about.

 

[BoysInBlue]

I don't sing and dance at funerals and I won't sing and dance whilst Everton are sleepwalking to an inevitable relegation in the next few years unless there are drastic changes at the club, on and off the pitch.

There's supporting the team - 32000 were there yesterday, despite not one single memorable performance, match or highlight this season, and there's several thousand of us who travel to away games regularly too - but you have to be given something in return.

We are not lower league performing seals, banging drums and singing wacky songs even when we get snotted. We are Everton Football Club, the 4th most successful club in English football club. Some of us still have high standards, and some of us are terribly unhappy at the way our club is being run into the ground.

Maybe other fans should wake up and realise this, and question WHY the atmosphere is so poor, instead of pulling an Elstone and blaming the fans.

 

[peteblue]

Players and manager are obscenely remunerated for their employment.

Part of that comes from the money one spends on one's ticket.

Sometimes that may have been hundreds of pounds paid in advance for a season ticket.

The burden is upon them to perform well and entertain, not on the paying audience to encourage them.

Wholly understandable that when they consistently perform badly, parts of the crowd suspect them of not trying to their full capability, and/or persistent incompetence, undeserving of 'support' unswerving.

Spot on.........

 

[kenyonl]

I don't sing and dance at funerals and I won't sing and dance whilst Everton are sleepwalking to an inevitable relegation in the next few years unless there are drastic changes at the club, on and off the pitch.

There's supporting the team - 32000 were there yesterday, despite not one single memorable performance, match or highlight this season, and there's several thousand of us who travel to away games regularly too - but you have to be given something in return.

We are not lower league performing seals, banging drums and singing wacky songs even when we get snotted. We are Everton Football Club, the 4th most successful club in English football club. Some of us still have high standards, and some of us are terribly unhappy at the way our club is being run into the ground.

Maybe other fans should wake up and realise this, and question WHY the atmosphere is so poor, instead of pulling an Elstone and blaming the fans.

bloody hell, great rant, too right!

 

[Woolly Blue]

Players and manager are obscenely remunerated for their employment.

Part of that comes from the money one spends on one's ticket.

Sometimes that may have been hundreds of pounds paid in advance for a season ticket.

The burden is upon them to perform well and entertain, not on the paying audience to encourage them.

Wholly understandable that when they consistently perform badly, parts of the crowd suspect them of not trying to their full capability, and/or persistent incompetence, undeserving of 'support' unswerving.

Is right.
Similar posts are 100% right too, but there's too many of them to quote.

 

[bullensview]

I know it wasn't meant as a direct insult at me, but you're the one acting like a knobhead.

We're 14th in the table and playing the most boring football in the world, with it being highly likely one of our biggest players is being sold soon without a replacement.

If I want to moan, I'll moan. However, I usually just sit there not saying a word and wishing I'd stayed at home.

Silent, wishing I'd stayed at home is how I've felt every game this season ... Bored sh*tless

 

[Cena]

I don't sing and dance at funerals and I won't sing and dance whilst Everton are sleepwalking to an inevitable relegation in the next few years unless there are drastic changes at the club, on and off the pitch.

There's supporting the team - 32000 were there yesterday, despite not one single memorable performance, match or highlight this season, and there's several thousand of us who travel to away games regularly too - but you have to be given something in return.

We are not lower league performing seals, banging drums and singing wacky songs even when we get snotted. We are Everton Football Club, the 4th most successful club in English football club. Some of us still have high standards, and some of us are terribly unhappy at the way our club is being run into the ground.

Maybe other fans should wake up and realise this, and question WHY the atmosphere is so poor, instead of pulling an Elstone and blaming the fans.

This is a superb post, especially the bit in bold

 

[Mvflusk]

If you went to a cinema and the film turned out to be ****, would you start shouting and booing? You'd get thrown out. So why should you have the right to do that at a football ground where you're supposed to be in the inner circle of people who love the club?

If we actually WERE in a relegation battle, the atmosphere would improve. It would have to. As it is, we are not. We're in the in between bit and there is a stinking sense of entitlement and arrogance floating around the club. Who cares if we're the 4th most successful club? Football doesn't. We don't get given a free creative midfielder every season like a trading card for being that.

What we are is a club who used to pride itself on it's unwavering support, even through the dark years our gates stayed high and our atmosphere remained optimistic, if not defiant. In the absence of a trophy to fight for or a relegation to avoid, too many of our fans have decided that their club owes them something. It stinks.

 

[Brennan]

If you went to a cinema and the film turned out to be ****, would you start shouting and booing? You'd get thrown out. So why should you have the right to do that at a football ground where you're supposed to be in the inner circle of people who love the club?

 

[ScouseBlueBoy]

If you went to a cinema and the film turned out to be ****, would you start shouting and booing? You'd get thrown out. So why should you have the right to do that at a football ground where you're supposed to be in the inner circle of people who love the club?

If we actually WERE in a relegation battle, the atmosphere would improve. It would have to. As it is, we are not. We're in the in between bit and there is a stinking sense of entitlement and arrogance floating around the club. Who cares if we're the 4th most successful club? Football doesn't. We don't get given a free creative midfielder every season like a trading card for being that.

What we are is a club who used to pride itself on it's unwavering support, even through the dark years our gates stayed high and our atmosphere remained optimistic, if not defiant. In the absence of a trophy to fight for or a relegation to avoid, too many of our fans have decided that their club owes them something. It stinks.

If the movie was rubbish you wouldn't want to watch it again.

People can exist without the club. The club can't exist without people. They owe us EVERYTHING and should respect that. They don't and THAT'S what "stinks".

 

[kenyonl]

you can leave the movie after 20 minutes and get a refund if that helps you any.