The boo's that our players are getting must stop, what positive affect does it have on our players - none. If in your day to day job you recieve constant demoralising feedback it doesnt help you perform to your best, it makes you feel like looking for another job elsewhere working in a better enviroment. We have several of our top players off contract at the end of the season, the boo's could cause them to think about playing elsewhere.
Were not playing well at the moment but were not getting 50+ points posted against us every week. There is a full pre season to get it right before the important games start
Boo the ref though by all means thoughg

If 5000 people paid to see me at work every week and I performed badly I'd expect them to let me know about it...

The fans have got behind the players more than any other club IMO.

TWo administrations, 500k of fans money gone and a relegation and still they get better support than most SL clubs.

The fact is Ferres touched a lot of nerves with his comments including mine! We missed a big chance of promotion last year because of mistakes made that most could see except the coach.

Again the fans have travelled in huge numbers brought expensive season tickets (which I am happy to do if we get the performances on the pitch)

But we have won 4 out of 8 games this season and been out played and out enthused by teams that not only had to go to Work during the week, but in the case of Dewsbury probably had to put in a days grind on game day.

We are just so unbelievably poor at the moment. Last year we stuck with the team even during poor periods and Lowes continued with things that weren't working. The booing is the fans way of letting the club know that things aren't right and need to change. A kick up the backside is what the club needs.

This pre-season rubbish is all well and good. But at the moment we're in danger of not even being in the top 4 if we dont improve. Peaking at the end of the season won't matter a jot of we're not in the middle 8s.

I think booing is over the top. At the moment I don’t see a lack of effort at all. I just think some fans are just struggling to vocalise their unhappiness with how we’re playing.

We’re not playing good RL. We have players that look frustrated and unhappy that things aren’t clicking. It’s up to the coaches to address this. Fans don’t have the opportunity to express this to the coaches very easily so it comes out in all sorts of ways.

Fans will get behind the team if they give them something to shout about. They were very much behind them on Monday when we were on the Fax line in the second half. It was only at the end when frustration with our poor play boiled over that there was booing. I thought it was uncalled for – if you could direct it at Lowes and Ferres then fair enough but many of the players tried hard and didn’t deserve it.

Ferres's quote about getting behind the team spectacularly missed the point and probably helped stoke dissatisfaction.

Hi Steve

I personally think Jimmy has lost the dressing room and if he has then all is lost. Our players have not become bad players over the last few weeks, there is more to it than that. When good players such as Gaskell and O'Brian start to appear mediocre then there is something behind the scenes that is wrong and I think we all know what that is. My ultimate respect to JL when he was a player. Nobody was more up for the challenge than he was and he never gave in. This is what makes the attitude of the players hard to understand.

If he has lost the dressing room, there really is no way back for him (or anyone in his position in any sport)

See Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.

There's hardly a raft of players coming out publicly in his defence either....the player silence is deafening on the matter!

So is this a third thread on James Lowes or what?

Not everyone boos, but when they play consistently poorly then always a section of upset fans will boo, just like if they play well (you remember that?) the same fans will cheer. That's how it is, and ever will be, so the thread is pointless Steve.

Whilst I haven't booed I don't have a problem with anyone that does. Like FA says, there is one easy way to stop the booing, play better and recruit properly.

If any player who is in a team that is playing badly really gets upset by a negative fan response to the point where it negatively effects his contribution as a full time professional - then I suggest he should not be a full time professional sportsman.

Are we just supposed to blindly accept below par recruitment and performance? I don't think so. The playing staff and the people responsible for recruitment have it in their own power to change things, so just do it and stop bleating, then you'll get the backing you deserve.

Bull Mania makes a very good point above, of all rugby league clubs in this country we have been through more than most in the past few years and the fans have turned up home and away in good numbers and supported throughout, to question my (our) loyalty as being negative like ferres has done when its not us missing tackles and falling to recruit correctly in key positions, just really, really p!sses me off.

I was here long before him and the current players, and I'll (hopefully) be here long after him and the current players, so I'll damn well call it as I see it about my club. And at the moment its not good enough.

Amen to that.

Maybe I've gone selectively deaf, but I heard very little booing and a whole lot of cheering and chanting at Halifax.

Certainly from where I was (Main Stand) it was more a sense of resigned frustration than any outright booing at the final whistle. I stuck around as the team trudged off (I didn't boo, but I didn't clap them off) and heard almost no booing.

I've heard far worse back in the day. I remember Northern being quite literally booed off the field and then thoroughly abused all the way up to the old changing rooms. I think our team would need counselling if they had to put up with what the team did back in the 70s

I heard a bit of booing at the end but nothing that major. Certainly heard worse in the past too. Thankfully we don't have the long walk to the dressing rooms nowadays. The amount of numpties at games nowadays would mean they'd need a police escort every game.

The worst reception I remember in recent memory was after that 66 point stuffing at home to Saints in 2005. Obviously something was seriously wrong behind the scenes as every player looked well out of sorts. Funnily enough it ended up being a turning point - we hit rock bottom and came back to win the GF.