All I could hear around me was the sons of people complaining because the Giants had switched off.

Come on, IIts whats know n as spotmanship

Yes, but why aren't we 'sporting' towards Wigan, Wire, Leeds, Saints etc and applaud their tries..thats my point, no other set of fans i have ever come across applaud the opposition either onto the field or when scoring tries, so why do we feel the need to do it !!

This infuriated me. Would they have been clapping if they'd scored another 2 tries and were in front?

Absolutely effing ridiculous. I was apoplectic for the second try they scored second half from the up & under to the corner. All the seals flapping their arms seemingly oblivious to the fact we were still in the changing rooms and that they were actually cheering on the opposition.

That's exactly what i said mate, when will the clapping stop ? would they still have been 'sporting' towards the opposition if they had actually took the lead ? very strange thing to do in my eyes !

When the opposition run out at the start of each half I will give them two or three claps as a courtesy. Aside from that unless they do something extremely good indeed I will not acknowledge anything they do aside from moaning they should be onside, that they have thrown a forward pass or that they're holding us down.

If one of theirs does a great tackle, throws a superb pass etc then yes I will acknowledge it. But I am biased. I am there to watch my lot win. Handsomely, hopefully. But it doesn't happen now because we don't aim up when the weaker teams come to town. London should have been nilled yesterday yet score 4 tries. That's terrible from us, it really is when you think how we used to pride ourselves on our defence. We concede too many points, full stop, and it's because we don't work as hard for each other (that old chestnut, but a valid point) as we used to. it's like they're not as tight as a group as they used to be because they've fallen in love with themselves onanistically rather than being best mates and standing shoulder to shoulder with them fighting for the collective.

And 800 more than Wakey got against Wigan, but yet there is a thread on their board mocking our crowd !!! Brilliant

i wanted us to nil them yesterday, be ruthless, show no mercy, smash em to pieces, it didn't happen though.
i was disappointed we conceded that first try and would imagine most of our supporters were too, yet people were generously applauding the fact that we had let poor opposition in for a try, to say i was surprised is an understatement!
i have no problem applauding any team if they score a wonder try, but to just give the opposition a token/sympathetic round of applause after they have scored is poor, like daz said, what will our players think when our own fans are applauding the opposition when one of our aims is to stop them scoring!

Giants won yesterday without getting out of second gear and although we'd have liked to have scored more points it's the result that matters, although I'm hoping we play better on Thursday.

spot on, winning is a habit, winning gets you points on the board, playing brilliant rugby doesn't

welcome by the way.

Thanks for the welcome, I've been reading this forum for years but never actually made an account up until now, it will be nice to have an input on proceedings.

Welcome Giantsfraz

Cheers daz

Wuzz and I have had many discussions about this - I will not clap the opposition under any circumstances (well apart from the obvious of an injured player going off/getting up or as has been said an exceptional try). Our home games should be under gladiatorial conditions and the opposition should be 'bricking it' not expecting tea and cake..

spot on fifi, of course we should be sporting when it's needed but not applauding the opposition when they score against us!