11 replies to this topic

[RogerTRam]

Right am going to stick my neck out here real long but I have been mulling over this since the Halifax game. I was not impressed by the small minority who where shouting some really demoralising and down right hurtful things at the players from the terrace behind me.

I know you’re all a very passionate breed and I’m with you all the way but please keep the negative comments to a minimum. Firstly because it’s a family game and I don’t wish my junior fans to hear such words and secondly if your wanting the team to play at its best then ripping into them from the stands is a sure way of making them feel cruddy.

[Blind side johnny]

OK guys, positive heckling only from now on.

[Piggy's mate]

Examples please!

[grumpyoldram]

Examples please!

" Come on lads - sixty points is nowt and they're tiring - lets have a big last ten"

[Netherton Ram]

I am quite vocal throughout a game, but only with comments that i feel are constructive. From where we sit we can also shout at the bench at the 'coaches' but all we tend to get is shrugs of the shoulders! I think we are quite in our place to shout out if we are not happy, but only if it doesn't involve swearing and personal insults.

If everybody just sits there in silence we will never get any changes or a new coach, but then again it doesn't work being vocal either!

[S.T.R]

Examples please!

the best I ever heared was a few seasons bac when we mullered Hunslet 83 6
the Huns were shouting we want 7
made me chuckle

[Eddie_Rombo]

I personally think WJ is a s**t 'coach.'

[John North]

a slut ?

[Tom Coates]

People will say that they've paid their money so they can shout what they want, and it's hard to argue against that.

I was taught as a kid to get behind my team even if they were getting stuffed. I was always able to save my criticism of performances for the car journey back or, in modern times, this forum.

I always thought that it was a supporter's job to just that.

One of, if not the greatest fan this club has ever had is Elsie Fryer. And in all the years I've been going to matches I've never once heard her shout anything negative at a player.

And I've always tended to follow her example.

It's very easy to criticise a club that's often failed to deliver the goods on the pitch, but much more difficult to spot a problem and try and do something positive to help remedy it. Like Elsie has and many others do.

[grumpyoldram]

People will say that they've paid their money so they can shout what they want, and it's hard to argue against that.

I was taught as a kid to get behind my team even if they were getting stuffed. I was always able to save my criticism of performances for the car journey back or, in modern times, this forum.

I always thought that it was a supporter's job to just that.

One of, if not the greatest fan this club has ever had is Elsie Fryer. And in all the years I've been going to matches I've never once heard her shout anything negative at a player.

And I've always tended to follow her example.

It's very easy to criticise a club that's often failed to deliver the goods on the pitch, but much more difficult to spot a problem and try and do something positive to help remedy it. Like Elsie has and many others do.

I agree with most of what you say Tom, and while I shout clap and cheer with the best of them when things are going well on the field, I'm afraid I sit in stony silence with a face like a broken pastie when they aren't. Like you, I don't hurl abuse at players or the coaching staff, but I can well understand why some would, when those wearing the shirt show a lack of commitment or pride in the shirt. There are some real heroes at the club (like Elsie), who perform miracles to keep the club going, while many more of us try to help as best we can by commiting to DREMA and Squadbuilder and using the bar on matchdays etc. but there are too many occasions in recent years when even the most commited supporters feel let down - and incidentally, spotting the problems in playing terms is not a problem - doing something about it is unfortunately financially impractical if not impossiblel at this stage. Tomorrow I will go to the match hoping to shout myself hoarse, and to go home with a huge smile on my face, but I can't help but feeling that come 5pm, I'll be admitting to myself that the wife was right, we should have gone off for the day - AGAIN.

[STEVE P]

Right am going to stick my neck out here real long but I have been mulling over this since the Halifax game. I was not impressed by the small minority who where shouting some really demoralising and down right hurtful things at the players from the terrace behind me.

I know you’re all a very passionate breed and I’m with you all the way but please keep the negative comments to a minimum. Firstly because it’s a family game and I don’t wish my junior fans to hear such words and secondly if your wanting the team to play at its best then ripping into them from the stands is a sure way of making them feel cruddy.

I agree with what you say Roger, but its hard to keep quiet sometimes when you are frustrated because the team seems to be performing way below their potential. For the record I saw nothing at all to be negative about yesterday. The team played their hearts out and I lost count of how many sets they successfully defended on their own line.

In the end the work they had done earlier told on them and they let the bonus point slip, but it was a good game of rugby, and with a bit more luck of the bounce they could still have snatched a win right up until the last 10 minutes.

One of the real heroes of the day must have been yourself. How hot was it inside that suit? You must have lost pounds. Well done for sticking it out until the very end.

[funkmaster flex]

I've always wondered how many people that heckle players would collar them outside the game when everyone has gone and say it to their face...

Not many I'd guess