Booing our players

[INTERUNITED]

 

[Birdwell Blade]

I seem to have run into several people on this forum in the last day who seem to think booing players in our colours is acceptable.

No matter how much I’ve disliked certain United players I’ve never even thought about booing. Not at a sub (remember the Cresswell one well, pathetic), not when his names been read out and not even a performance. I’ve grumbled at full time and stuff but I couldn’t ever bring myself to boo even under Adkins. The occasional censored word would pop out, with multiple adjectives, but never a boo.

I find the thought of booing United players completely and utterly dumbfounding and completely detrimental to anything we’re trying to achieve. Nevermind even thinking about it with the lads and management we’ve got at our disposal now.

So I’ll take a vote, is it acceptable to boo one of your own?

Can’t believe anyone really gives a shit.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Maybe so, it’s just funny really. Would you do it in front of the TV when watching a game ! Perhaps the collective boo is what makes it acceptable

It’s a bit like farting in church, you hope for a silent but deadly delivery, but you have to be quick with your accusing look at your near neighbour if a rasper flies out. This same accusing look can be used if wallpaper starts to fall off the walls after an SBD.

 

[CharlotteBlade]

No. I might slightly shake my head if I was unimpressed but would boo a united player off

 

[BladeInAustria]

Booing the team is bellendry of the highest order. Whatever your thoughts, there are other ways to express one's dissatisfaction.

 

[true99blade]

Someone didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas...

In all seriousness people can boo if they want. People can have a problem with it. Personally I’ve booed twice. Shrewsbury at home under Adkins, and Scunthorpe at home under Adkins. Do I feel like a “bellend of the highest order”...? No. Would I boo if we simply just lost any match? No. Pointless thread.

 

[I should coco]

For those who want to boo, well, sort your fucking heads out or fuck off to S6, they embrace that shit.

Thanks for that life coach.

Putting on a red and white shirt doesn't instabtly make you an idol. Presumably you'd have clapped Curran on to the pitch and explained to the other 10,000 on the Kop that they were wrong?

 

[Eric Cartman]

Someone didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas...

In all seriousness people can boo if they want. People can have a problem with it. Personally I’ve booed twice. Shrewsbury at home under Adkins, and Scunthorpe at home under Adkins. Do I feel like a “bellend of the highest order”...? No. Would I boo if we simply just lost any match? No. Pointless thread.

Didn’t get what I wanted for Christmas because I think booing the team is counter productive and frankly ridiculous? Ok...

Evidently not considering you’ve contributed to it.
And booing is absolutely bellendry of the highest order. And that’s a fact.

It’s a fucking ridiculous noise to make for a start.

 

[sitwell]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. As a person, just take 5 seconds of your time now to stand wherever you are and start booing, then sit back and realise what an absolute daft twat you’ve just sounded like.

Barmy isn't it ,if a car cuts you up do you sit and boo in the car ,if a trains late do you stand on the platform and boo as it comes in , if your teas a bit burned do you sit in the kitchen and boo the wife ?
Bonkers really.

 

[BigBed]

Nobody mentioned "idol" did they.
If you support a team, you should support the whole team, we all have our own thoughts on certain players, but booing isn't exactly the right way to show disdain.
Do you not think that booing your own team is a little bit sad n pathetic, afterall, getting behind the team, whoever is in the shirt, helps them out.
I'm all for the "Wilder sort it out" chants and the like, but booing is a bit old now, and certainly not the way to show your support for your team, and to be fair, if your old enough to have watched Curran, then surely your old enough to know better by now???

 

[Willglynning]

I’m tempted to boo some of idiots who sit near me sometimes, but I have resisted the urge so far.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I’m tempted to boo some of idiots who sit near me sometimes, but I have resisted the urge so far.

Are you sat on the sofa with the Missus?

 

[Willglynning]

Are you sat on the sofa with the Missus?

Might explain why she left me!

 

[Houston_Blade]

Might explain why she left me!

Hamburg Blade Do you feel guilty now?!

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Hamburg Blade Do you feel guilty now?!

Sounds like he's better off!

 

[snootyfenooty]

You're right, I will try and remember that the next time I boo the mrs for doing a crap job with the hoover.

You're a very brave man. I would be shelling out for a new hoover. That's after I returned from A+E after having it extracted from my ass.

 

[BigBed]

I’m tempted to boo some of idiots who sit near me sometimes, but I have resisted the urge so far.

You could throw a flair at them, I'm sure some on here would think that ok.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

You're a very brave man. I would be shelling out for a new hoover. That's after I returned from A+E after having it extracted from my ass.

Well yes, we bought a new Dyson. And I have private health insurance, so it all went quite smoothly.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Well yes, we bought a new Dyson. And I have private health insurance, so it all went quite smoothly.

You must tell me what brand of lube you use!

 

[Hamburg Blade]

You must tell me what brand of lube you use!

You can only get it in Germany. Blokes here need it to slip into their tight leather trousers.

 

[snootyfenooty]

You can only get it in Germany. Blokes here need it to slip into their tight leather trousers.

 

[BushBlade]

Barmy isn't it ,if a car cuts you up do you sit and boo in the car ,if a trains late do you stand on the platform and boo as it comes in , if your teas a bit burned do you sit in the kitchen and boo the wife ?
Bonkers really.

No, but it sounds like a good idea so from now on I will. I’ll start in Tesco later when the queue for the tills is too long.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Ricky can you sort a section out in the BLUT for the Madine boo boys?

 

[SB_90]

have all you lot become newcomers. as your asking fans to be rational. football is an emotional sport & that with tribal nature added to fact football fans have long memories when it comes to anger. this always going happen. you would be either delusional or naïve if you thought considering how history with madine the 2 or 3 games v Bolton, his 2 ABH & 1 GBH crimes, his spell at Wednesday. that people were just going to welcome him with open arms

but the 1 thing as proven with Danny Wilson, Leon Clarke, Richard Cresswell, Paul Coutts etc. you can be massively unpopular but their is chance to change peoples mind because all 4 of them were boo'd. its often forgotten that if Hammond was enemy no1 under adkins in that fiery Scunthorpe game. then coutts was enemy no 2. but all 4 were loved by the end

 

[Ricky]

Ricky can you sort a section out in the BLUT for the Madine boo boys?

I'm actually in the process of organising a sniper squad but I want to keep it quiet.

 

[BigBed]

I'm actually in the process of organising a sniper squad but I want to keep it quiet.

To shoot Madine or the BooBoys???

 

[Bladesway]

Are we allowed to show any displeasure at all?

Not when we are 3rd in the table in a division where our wage budget is bottom half. That would be stupid. Oh.

 

[Ricky]

To shoot Madine or the BooBoys???

That's classified.

 

[Sheff de party]

In terms of booing the team, I think it’s absolutely acceptable. First of all, you’ve paid your money, you’re entitled to express your opinion and this is a very non-offensive way to do so.

More importantly, not everyone is Billy Sharp or Kyle Walker, a Sheffield lad who loves the club and will continue to follow us long after they stop playing. We are an employer to many footballers and although the current crop look like they really do care, that can’t be said of some of the previous players to pull on the shirt. Consequently, it isn’t their club, it’s ours. Many sign, play for a bit and move on and the rewards they receive are far greater than any of us get, so we have every right to demand effort as a bare minimum. Booing (at half time or full time) is an expression of that not being delivered on and if nothing else, it gives the manager some extra firepower to get them sorted out.

In terms of individuals, point one still stands, but I personally don’t think booing every time they get the ball is helpful. I am well known for voicing my opinion about Ched, but I wouldn’t boo him, I just don’t cheer his name. Not cheering his goals hasn’t yet proved to be a consideration.

 

[Sheff de party]

It’s a fair proportion of our fanbase.

How many “x% of the U.K. think...” polls have you ever seen? I personally haven’t been asked in any of these polls.

Those are usually 1,000 or 2,000 people but they’re always “nationally representative”, I.e they have a mix of ages, locations etc. Everyone has kind of agreed that “nat rep” is a fair version of what the country thinks, but it’s such a small sample I don’t see how it does anything other than make polling companies money, given journalists copy and entertain readers briefly.

I use them all the time at work but didn’t, but personally believe in what they deliver. There are a range of techniques you can use to jazz up your answers for a start.