Quote: CyberPieMan "I'd qualify that with "unless they are so abject, apathetic, lazy & careless as to deserve every bit opprobrium heaped on them". I'm going back about 10 years but the only time I've felt so angry towards the team was at home with Giants when they really were that bad.
Never [iexpect [/ia win & it is [ionly [/ia game (ducks for cover), but we have a right to let them know when they don't come up to muster surely? How else are we supposed to do so, get the green ink out & write to the chairman of the board?'"
I know what you mean. But one of the great things about our game is that the players usually don't give in. I've seen teams 70 points down and still tackling as if their lives depended on it. The loss at Cas was unusual because under Madge and Waney we haven't had that sort of scoreline against us at all really. SW described it as his worst game as a coach and I believe him. However I don't think we threw the towel in at all. We were just poor.
So I would still argue that the players know without being told by the fans that it wasn't good enough. I was frustrated throughout the game, but I kept quiet and clapped them off at the end. I respected Faz and the others for coming over to us - it must have been hard.