| KM asks for unity? 12:21 - Feb 12 with 6606 views | RIPbobby |
Surely we are the most supportive and on the whole united fan base in the country. I'm a touch surprised he has asked for this. We are also realistic in the fact it has been a tough season. Hopefully we get a bit of luck against them villains and then 3 points is on our way. |  | | |  |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:37 - Feb 12 with 4551 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
The feeling in the ground against Southampton was largely disappointment, and you could feel it, our own support was getting onto Muric every time he had the ball at his feet, every time our midfielders were taking too many touches, and with every pass back the groans were growing and it was frustration.
Hopefully, we can go away in the summer, learn from the recruitment mistakes, and trying to play this style of football with the players we have available to us in the top flight, and review it all if we are promoted again in the future. |  |
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| KM asks for unity? on 12:40 - Feb 12 with 4498 views | Bobbychase |
Largely. But I have noticed the Premier League matches seem to have attracted an entitled element to our fanbase. After two years of hardly ever losing and scoring freely, this new reality has been hard to get used to for some.
Atmosphere at home games was great at the start of the season but has been poor for a while now. Club deserves better after the journey we have been on. [Post edited 12 Feb 12:44]
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| KM asks for unity? on 12:41 - Feb 12 with 4487 views | Churchman |
Given abuse heaped on our players that has caused the Captain and Manager to comment earlier in the season, let alone the father of a player last year, can we really be described as ‘the most supportive and on the whole United fan base in the country’?
We get good numbers and the vast majority are understanding and supportive. The atmosphere in the ground has been good a fair amount of the time too, despite poor stadium acoustics.
I’d be very interested to hear what those who’ve attended away games in the past couple of years think on this. |  | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:45 - Feb 12 with 4416 views | Bobbychase |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:41 - Feb 12 by Churchman |
Given abuse heaped on our players that has caused the Captain and Manager to comment earlier in the season, let alone the father of a player last year, can we really be described as ‘the most supportive and on the whole United fan base in the country’?
We get good numbers and the vast majority are understanding and supportive. The atmosphere in the ground has been good a fair amount of the time too, despite poor stadium acoustics.
I’d be very interested to hear what those who’ve attended away games in the past couple of years think on this. |
Saturday was far more enjoyable than some home games but that's maybe easy when you win a penalty in the first minute. I still detected some moaning when it was 1-1 and even 2-1 as though Coventry, despite being the home team, weren't allowed the ball ever. | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 12:45 - Feb 12 with 4412 views | Jon_456 |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:40 - Feb 12 by Bobbychase |
Largely. But I have noticed the Premier League matches seem to have attracted an entitled element to our fanbase. After two years of hardly ever losing and scoring freely, this new reality has been hard to get used to for some.
Atmosphere at home games was great at the start of the season but has been poor for a while now. Club deserves better after the journey we have been on. [Post edited 12 Feb 12:44]
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I do wonder how many of those ‘entitled’ fans were with us in League one or just new fans jumping on our success and expecting the same results in the prem.
I’d like to think most of our core fan base understands the challenge this year and that relegation was and still is a likely possibility, given our rise in such a short period of time. |  | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:46 - Feb 12 with 4410 views | gsoly |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:41 - Feb 12 by Churchman |
Given abuse heaped on our players that has caused the Captain and Manager to comment earlier in the season, let alone the father of a player last year, can we really be described as ‘the most supportive and on the whole United fan base in the country’?
We get good numbers and the vast majority are understanding and supportive. The atmosphere in the ground has been good a fair amount of the time too, despite poor stadium acoustics.
I’d be very interested to hear what those who’ve attended away games in the past couple of years think on this. |
I'm not sure KM is asking for it in the sense of it's not been there; just making the point that unity will be important moving forwards, come what may. |  | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:50 - Feb 12 with 4361 views | sjg |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:41 - Feb 12 by Churchman |
Given abuse heaped on our players that has caused the Captain and Manager to comment earlier in the season, let alone the father of a player last year, can we really be described as ‘the most supportive and on the whole United fan base in the country’?
We get good numbers and the vast majority are understanding and supportive. The atmosphere in the ground has been good a fair amount of the time too, despite poor stadium acoustics.
I’d be very interested to hear what those who’ve attended away games in the past couple of years think on this. |
We are the most tolerant fan base I have ever come across
We clapped the players off after a relegation FFS | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:53 - Feb 12 with 4325 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
The evidence even on this forum would suggest otherwise, and some people still defend their right to be abusive to players that they are dissatisfied with.
It's certainly true that many are very supportive of the team through the highs and lows of this season, but there is a toxic undercurrent that is disproportionately vocal.
I fear that some supporters are acting like ostriches when it comes to the impact of certain behaviour towards the players. Just one example is the booing after the Southampton game. For many it "didn't happen" because they didn't happen to hear it for whatever reason (may be ground acoustics, may be denial), but since I and others did hear/register it, then the players and manager probably did too.
We should all pull together to help reduce the impact of the negative behaviour. We're in a much better place than we were 5 years ago, and now is when the manager and the players need disproportionate positive feedback, even when a result or performance isn't the best we had hoped for. | | | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 12:54 - Feb 12 with 4309 views | LankHenners |
Just focusing minds to stick together through the run-in as there'll be plenty of nervy moments and times where things aren't going our way, which to be honest is a state where the fans haven't been very good in general imo.
One thing chanting Blue Army several times after getting thrashed but where's that energy in tense matches where the crowd could do something to inject a bit of electricity into the place? More often than not people just sit on their hands and start tutting and moaning. |  |
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| KM asks for unity? on 13:05 - Feb 12 with 4125 views | stonojnr |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:50 - Feb 12 by sjg |
We are the most tolerant fan base I have ever come across
We clapped the players off after a relegation FFS |
But that's the royal 'we', the most criticism now comes from fans who weren't even supporting the club then | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:07 - Feb 12 with 4083 views | stonojnr |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:53 - Feb 12 by SuffolkPunchFC |
The evidence even on this forum would suggest otherwise, and some people still defend their right to be abusive to players that they are dissatisfied with.
It's certainly true that many are very supportive of the team through the highs and lows of this season, but there is a toxic undercurrent that is disproportionately vocal.
I fear that some supporters are acting like ostriches when it comes to the impact of certain behaviour towards the players. Just one example is the booing after the Southampton game. For many it "didn't happen" because they didn't happen to hear it for whatever reason (may be ground acoustics, may be denial), but since I and others did hear/register it, then the players and manager probably did too.
We should all pull together to help reduce the impact of the negative behaviour. We're in a much better place than we were 5 years ago, and now is when the manager and the players need disproportionate positive feedback, even when a result or performance isn't the best we had hoped for. |
I'm not sure if I was more disappointed by those that did boo after the Southampton game, or by the ones who pretended it didn't happen. | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:08 - Feb 12 with 4051 views | Bobbychase |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:50 - Feb 12 by sjg |
We are the most tolerant fan base I have ever come across
We clapped the players off after a relegation FFS |
We've been very loud and behind the team when we were winning pretty much every week. That doesn't equate to great support. All fanbases are like that when the going is good. The litmus test is how we behave in the hard times.
Some applauded the team off after relegation. Many just stopped going. | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 13:15 - Feb 12 with 3981 views | Illinoisblue |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:37 - Feb 12 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
The feeling in the ground against Southampton was largely disappointment, and you could feel it, our own support was getting onto Muric every time he had the ball at his feet, every time our midfielders were taking too many touches, and with every pass back the groans were growing and it was frustration.
Hopefully, we can go away in the summer, learn from the recruitment mistakes, and trying to play this style of football with the players we have available to us in the top flight, and review it all if we are promoted again in the future. |
It was a mostly woeful, naive second half display against the bottom team. Understandable there’d be frustration from the fans. |  |
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| KM asks for unity? on 13:19 - Feb 12 with 3910 views | sjg |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:08 - Feb 12 by Bobbychase |
We've been very loud and behind the team when we were winning pretty much every week. That doesn't equate to great support. All fanbases are like that when the going is good. The litmus test is how we behave in the hard times.
Some applauded the team off after relegation. Many just stopped going. |
I said tolerant, not loud or behind the team | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:30 - Feb 12 with 3774 views | Bobbychase |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:19 - Feb 12 by sjg |
I said tolerant, not loud or behind the team |
What are fans for if not to be loud or behind the team? Even between the Lower North and Block A we can barely get a song going sometimes, and the Sir Alf and West Stand don't get involved.
Given the way we have been spoiled over the past two years, I find the moaning I hear - and it is loud and regular now - to be very intolerant actually. We don't have a divine right to rich, switched-on owners or the best young manager in the land yet we have both. People have short memories. | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 13:43 - Feb 12 with 3638 views | PhilTWTD |
| KM asks for unity? on 12:46 - Feb 12 by gsoly |
I'm not sure KM is asking for it in the sense of it's not been there; just making the point that unity will be important moving forwards, come what may. |
It was part of his reflections on the Southampton match.
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| KM asks for unity? on 13:44 - Feb 12 with 3613 views | smithy69 |
I think we are like every other club personally. We have some amazing fans through thick and thin, some that come and go depending on success, fans who are positive regardless of what’s happening, and fans that are negative regardless of what’s happening | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:51 - Feb 12 with 3535 views | Bobbychase |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:44 - Feb 12 by smithy69 |
I think we are like every other club personally. We have some amazing fans through thick and thin, some that come and go depending on success, fans who are positive regardless of what’s happening, and fans that are negative regardless of what’s happening |
Agreed. We are no better or worse than anyone else, but it's the "most tolerant fans in the land" that has never sat comfortable with me | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 14:07 - Feb 12 with 3413 views | baxterbasics |
Even if we have so much to be grateful for and might still be pinching ourselves that we are in the PL, it's inevitable there will be some grumbling given the crap start to 2025 we've had, particularly the Southampton result. Think KM knows this and is just trying to remind us to keep it proportional and have some perspective and back the team as we largely have been so far. |  |
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| KM asks for unity? on 14:09 - Feb 12 with 3405 views | north_stand77 |
From where i sit in the North Stand Upper , I can never understand why the other stands, particularly Sir Alf never seem to get involved in singing.
As they are closest to the away fans, you'd think they'd want to be heard.
Or is just bad acoustics as for why we can't hear them? |  | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 14:13 - Feb 12 with 3357 views | BrandonsBlues |
| KM asks for unity? on 13:30 - Feb 12 by Bobbychase |
What are fans for if not to be loud or behind the team? Even between the Lower North and Block A we can barely get a song going sometimes, and the Sir Alf and West Stand don't get involved.
Given the way we have been spoiled over the past two years, I find the moaning I hear - and it is loud and regular now - to be very intolerant actually. We don't have a divine right to rich, switched-on owners or the best young manager in the land yet we have both. People have short memories. |
One of the many issues is this
Even between the Lower North and Block A we can barely get a song going sometimes
Despite what people in those areas may think as someone who sits opposite the A block in the west stand. Quite often your singing is not as loud as you think and you do not get the rest of the crowd going.
We have to wait for the lower north to sing to join in and then the majority of the time it is different songs from north and a block.
It is really quite depressing that a and north cannot reconcile their differences and get it together. | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 14:22 - Feb 12 with 3262 views | Bobbychase |
| KM asks for unity? on 14:13 - Feb 12 by BrandonsBlues |
One of the many issues is this
Even between the Lower North and Block A we can barely get a song going sometimes
Despite what people in those areas may think as someone who sits opposite the A block in the west stand. Quite often your singing is not as loud as you think and you do not get the rest of the crowd going.
We have to wait for the lower north to sing to join in and then the majority of the time it is different songs from north and a block.
It is really quite depressing that a and north cannot reconcile their differences and get it together. |
Coventry made a hell of din on Saturday. They have a "singing corner" next to the away fans but it has many hundreds more fans in than Block A can accommodate | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 14:38 - Feb 12 with 3089 views | Illinoisblue |
When did he ask for this? Did you get an email or something? | |
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| KM asks for unity? on 15:18 - Feb 12 with 2903 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| KM asks for unity? on 14:09 - Feb 12 by north_stand77 |
From where i sit in the North Stand Upper , I can never understand why the other stands, particularly Sir Alf never seem to get involved in singing.
As they are closest to the away fans, you'd think they'd want to be heard.
Or is just bad acoustics as for why we can't hear them? |
I'm not going to claim the SAR is as vocal as the North Stand, but I will say a couple of things.
In the SAR it is often hard to hear the North Stand when I know they'll be belting out a supporting chorus and there is often good vocal support in the SAR, that may not be heard by the North Standers.
I do think we struggle more in the SAR, maybe due to more 'tourists' and newer supporters. I think we also have a high number of 'friends and family' seats in the SAR, due to the number of once-off faces I see, who appear to have little interest in the game. But we certainly try our best to get a chorus going... | | | |
| KM asks for unity? on 15:21 - Feb 12 with 2860 views | bsw72 |
| KM asks for unity? on 14:38 - Feb 12 by Illinoisblue |
When did he ask for this? Did you get an email or something? |
He's ringing everyone, based on how big a supporter they are. Not got the call yet? |  | | |
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