So another weekend, another sub-par spursy performance we've come to expect (or not) over the past 18 months.
Excluding the wooden performance and faceless lack of responsibility and desire showed by some of our players from the reasoning for being beaten at home for twice in a row (and now 4 games without a win), I wanted to address one of the other issues we have been criticised for over the last couple of seasons.
I wasn't at the game on Sunday but reports in the media are yet again commenting on the 'flat' atmosphere at the lane, and not for the first time.
I have absolutely no doubts that the extra man 1882 will bring to the game on Wednesday will force some kind of resolve to inspire us to a hard fought victory typical of the days of old. I expect a similar kind of 'bounce back' to what we experienced against Hull in the Capital One cup last year after AVB was critical of the fans for a lack of support.
If that happens we can be happy that 1882 gave us the extra man our team needed to achieve victory BUT is this enough? How many times are we going to perform woefully to generate this kind of support?
You could debate that the overpaid depraved lazy players of today shouldn't need the penniless supporter to shout at them in order to get them to play with any desire (and I'm not disagreeing with that statement). However if we could at least wash our hands clean of any blame for poor performances at home that would be something, "we've done everything we can, now the rest is up to you" (the players).
The problem is we can't expect our fans (as passionate as they are) to create the atmosphere required when dotted sparsely around the ground, merged into pockets of wooden Paulinho-esque nay sayers, non-singers, and sit downers.
What's to stop 1882 from booking out a stand, a tier or even a block?? Giving the fans one location from which to launch a singing chanting offensive would in my mind add something we are missing at the lane. Organisation is key, I know the club of course would never agree to making entire blocks available for league games but do we really need the club to make that available for us? Is is simply a case of saying, we (1882) will be in block 36, book early, get your seats, we'll be towards the back.
You'll know where we are because we'll be making the most noise.
Excluding the wooden performance and faceless lack of responsibility and desire showed by some of our players from the reasoning for being beaten at home for twice in a row (and now 4 games without a win), I wanted to address one of the other issues we have been criticised for over the last couple of seasons.
I wasn't at the game on Sunday but reports in the media are yet again commenting on the 'flat' atmosphere at the lane, and not for the first time.
I have absolutely no doubts that the extra man 1882 will bring to the game on Wednesday will force some kind of resolve to inspire us to a hard fought victory typical of the days of old. I expect a similar kind of 'bounce back' to what we experienced against Hull in the Capital One cup last year after AVB was critical of the fans for a lack of support.
If that happens we can be happy that 1882 gave us the extra man our team needed to achieve victory BUT is this enough? How many times are we going to perform woefully to generate this kind of support?
You could debate that the overpaid depraved lazy players of today shouldn't need the penniless supporter to shout at them in order to get them to play with any desire (and I'm not disagreeing with that statement). However if we could at least wash our hands clean of any blame for poor performances at home that would be something, "we've done everything we can, now the rest is up to you" (the players).
The problem is we can't expect our fans (as passionate as they are) to create the atmosphere required when dotted sparsely around the ground, merged into pockets of wooden Paulinho-esque nay sayers, non-singers, and sit downers.
What's to stop 1882 from booking out a stand, a tier or even a block?? Giving the fans one location from which to launch a singing chanting offensive would in my mind add something we are missing at the lane. Organisation is key, I know the club of course would never agree to making entire blocks available for league games but do we really need the club to make that available for us? Is is simply a case of saying, we (1882) will be in block 36, book early, get your seats, we'll be towards the back.
You'll know where we are because we'll be making the most noise.