Well thats my weekend well and truely ******ed up. HOW DARE Warney lead his band of brothers, favourites, and special ones to a win!!!!!!! Got a load, and I mean a LOAD of witty, repetitive, narrow minded critiques to copy and paste on to this site!!! What was Warney and his lads thinking of, a bunch a spoil sports. Never mind will just have to go to the Massives site and stir the pot about late goals! UTM onwards and upwards.
Sounds like Clarke he's injured. Mattock also but got 2 weeks till the next league game. Lets see what Hinds can do in next weeks cup game. Clarke looking like he could be another sicknote, not knocking him just stating a fact. Still like to see Ogbene on the left, Lamy on the right. Happy with the win think we have 2 more away games this month, one home game. Keeps us a contender. I got that right don't start with Morris & Hastie.
We have just played 2 teams at home who are at the top of the league we didn't get a sniff. They must have had a poor game and we worked a bit harder as soon as we meet a team with a bit of quality we have got nothing. As I have said happy with the win I can only echo with what the fans who went to the game why can't we do it at home. I know some of you will mention Sunderland and Ipswich same again were they at there best.
-- Edited by TH MILLER on Saturday 2nd of November 2019 07:30:40 PM
Prior to that we beat a team 4-0 at home who were then at the top of the league.
It's almost as if you don't want to give Warne & the team credit when we win games. Surely that's not the case though, right??
A fabulous away win in difficult conditions. The Smith/Crooks combination shines yet again away from home. A great defensive display with Wood and Ihiekwe keeping things tight and Iversen achieving yet another clean sheet. Lindsay's reputation growing by the game as he puts in another energetic midfield performance. For a week at least, PW proves his doubters wrong and extinguishes the argument that Evans is the better manager.
However, for the usual suspects, a great away performance is tainted with accusations that Gillingham must have been poor - just like Wimbledon, Burton, Ipswich, Sunderland, Coventry etc etc. For those who wonder why we don't perform well at NYS, it may be worth considering that the players might feel inhibited and constrained by some fans who rarely have a good word to say about them, even in victory, but have volumes to say in defeat - and those fans never watch them away from home - is there a correlation?
On a day when we needed a pick up after last weekend and this morning's Rugby, Rotherham provided it and I congratulate PW, his coaching staff and the team. We've obviously got the quality, we just need to find the formula to overcome lesser teams at NYS. Celebration after a great away win would be a good place to start!!
A great win in horrible conditions hundreds of miles from home. Only on here could it get such grudging recognition and even attract criticism from some. A three nil win away from home anywhere in any division is no mean feat. I've just checked the official scoreline after reading Evans' post match comments and was pleased to see that we did in fact win comfortably. He had me worried that I might have imagined it.
The home performances have nothing to do with the fans. We need to be out of the blocks much quicker and not just plod through the game expecting something to happen instead of trying to make things happen.
The atmosphere will improve if we do that and start getting amongst sides like we do away from home. Get the home performances sorted and we will be amongst the top four sides in the division which is where I expect us to be.
We have had only 2 home wins in the league the Bolton match was to easy the manager has to sort it out that is what he gets paid to do. The crowd is quiet because we need something to cheer do not blame the supporters that is a cop out.
See we had no centre back cover on the bench. Morris & Hastie are surplus. Don't care what Gerrard thinks. Told you how to sort home form out play best players for their positions. Lamy on the right. Obgene on the left.
Not after yesterday just hope he can play two games a week. At his age he should be at the peak of his fitness. Heard he had a stomach bug, hope that was the reason for last Saturday's well below standard performance.
The crowd is quiet because we need something to cheer do not blame the supporters that is a cop out.
If only you'd read and try and understand my post, we might be able to have an intelligent debate about it. I said nothing about the crowd being quiet at NYS. My point was that some supporters, and I include you well and truly as one of them, rarely have anything good to say but frequently have derogatory comments to make. Imagine if you had an employer who treated you with no respect regardless of the effort you put in and insisted that he was entitled to your best efforts because he paid your wages. Would you feel inclined to give of your best?
Most successful teams have passionate and supportive followers who realise that football is often a game of fine margins and any advantage - ie.positive encouragement - can be the difference between victory and defeat. When Rotherham play away, they are cheered on by passionate, supportive people who realise that they can, through their encouragement, drive the team on to greater effort and better performances. When they play at-home, they are no doubt aware that there are some in the crowd who are looking for the slightest opportunity to criticise and be negative. This will not encourage the players to give their best - that is my point - nothing about noise but more about the psychology of negativity.
Cop out? Please discuss!
-- Edited by GlennMiller on Sunday 3rd of November 2019 08:20:23 AM
Let see what Saturday brings. It's time the players started to produce the away form. Make new york a fortress again. Unless a performance to get behind, the fans won't get vocal
I think Glenn is absolutely spot on. It is difficult to put a finger on it, but there is a sense of negativity around the fan base. At some point that will feed across to the players and it can't be helpful.
Where I sit at the NYS the moaning and groaning from the people behind me starts during the warm up at home games (I kid you not), and within two minutes the vocal abuse of certain targeted players begins. Smith and Crooks have copped for it in recent games. Against Coventry the guy directly behind me wasn't happy with the first goal because Smith crossed it for Crooks to head in and not the other way round. Unbelievable.
When we win it is because other teams are poor, or the league is crap, or we were lucky, despite a number of those wins being against teams in the top few. Yesterday we won 3-0 away against a mid-table team with The Good Lord Jesus in charge but still no credit is given. We all know that if we had lost Warne would have been slammed and compared unfavourably to Evans, but he gets little credit for a job well done. The criticism after any defeat massively outweighs any credit given for a win. Players are written off if they dare have a couple of indifferent or poor games and sometimes even before they have kicked a ball in anger.
I think what I am trying to say is that I could understand it more if the negativity started half way through games if we are playing poorly, but I get a sense that there is negativity before games start and almost a sense that some supporters (and I use the word advisedly) actually want us to fail so that they can have a good moan.
