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.

Its mr ferres to you!

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.

Seconded

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.

So is this proof that booing works?

You get my drift...

I was in the stand behind sticks and it seemed quite loud. Wasn't the whole stand. The fans were behind the team the whole game even after we dropped it from a drop out and Addy threw it in to touch

. But i would say it was 50/50 split between booing and clapping when the players sheepishly came over. But there is definite unrest and i think a lot of fans are fed up with Lowes.

Speaking of getting on the players' backs, I have re-read what was said after the Dewsbury game.


So, Ferres said that OUR ENTHUSIASM LEVELS were NOT WHERE THEY SHOULD BE. Ferres thought they looked insufficiently bothered. And to the extent that he said so publicly!

That is an alarmingly damning public indictment from your MD. It means he thinks they weren't trying hard enough. Not bothered, Put it whatever way you want, that's the inside view.

Lowes said:

So, arguing in the camp, people blaming each other? "Unacceptable" stuff?

Isn't the booing from some fans just their way of making the same points?

If I go to a restaurant and my food comes out cold, I will complain.

If I buy a dvd from a shop and the disc fails to work, I will complain.

If I pay to have a utility company provide service to my home and that service is interrupted through nothing I have done, I will complain.

Why then should I not boo if the team I'm paying money to support performs at a less than adequate level?