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I wasn't suggesting that arriving 5 minutes before a match is a bad thing or shouting down anyone, my main point is that in my opinion shouting abuse at OUR players is unlikely to inspire them to an improved performance, shouts of encouragement might ? Maybe I'm just feeling a bit sensitive at the moment like most of us being so frustrated by the results/league position situation, normally I wouldn't take much note of the shouts as I know its all part of the game. P.S. I've never taken a camera to a football match but I do enjoy watching the team warm up (even in the 1970's when Jim Steele wacked a ball in my face during the warm up, by mistake).

Some of our fans behaviour yesterday was not very 'supportive' to the team. I heard various shouts at players such as: 'Schneiderlin you're s**t' 'Schneiderlin you don't deserve to wear the shirt' 'Bradley 'steal' the ball off them' 'Bradley 'steal' in at back post' I noticed that these people were the normal late arrivers (5 minutes before kick off) who don't bond and support the team during pre-kick off warm up, and seem to take pride in having great venom and un-controllable anger towards anything happening that they don't agree with. These people obviously feel that abusing our players will help the situation, or don't they care ?

Just back from the match and agree with Andy Northern Saint except: Davis 7 Didn't look too troubled, and couldn't do much about the penalty. Thomson 5 poor passing and crossing let him down yes (at times), but did get into some good positions without always an end result. McGoldrick 7 good goal and did some nice touches in mid field Schiederlin 4 I thought that he was poor and deserved the half time substitution. Subs Wotton 5 I thought that he did OK and contributed to an improved performance in the second half. Other points: The penalty was very soft, I thought the referee was going to book the Blackpool player for going over too easily. As he gave the penalty the ref indicated a push, but I didn't see 'the push'. As the ref left the ground after the match I overheard him say that it was a 'frantic' match. I didn't think that it was that frantic, but if he did maybe that's why he booked so many players (6). Saints first half performance was very poor, second half much better and could have won it with the last minute freekick, but Saints never win the last kick of the match do they !! Saints seem to have lost again the free flowing football that they had for the 3 wins in a row and there moves break down too easily. Poor passing, poor running off the ball and lack of pace being major problems.