Times our fans have acted daft

The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Not really.

How do you suggest a fan throwing his season ticket had an impact on the ability of professional footballers to win games.

I dropped a cup of tea on my lap at that game, and ate a wagon wheel for the first and last time, it could be argued that either of those events had a role to play in our improvement.
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The incident was the culmination of some terrible performances and results. Relegation looked a real possibility. The season ticket throwing along with a young Cattermole's tears really brought the situation into focus.

I seem to remember Gibson said he understood the fan's frustration. And prompted him to also say that as a fan himself he too wanted to see more attack minded tactics.

Also, after the game he asked McClaren up to his office, and David O'Leary was already there. McClaren thought he was his replacement but Gibson reassured him otherwise. A not so subtle bit of mind play?

We beat Chelsea 3-0 in the next game so you never know.....
 
Rofesleg said:
The incident was the culmination of some terrible performances and results. Relegation looked a real possibility. The season ticket throwing along with a young Cattermole's tears really brought the situation into focus.

I seem to remember Gibson said he understood the fan's frustration. And prompted him to also say that as a fan himself he too wanted to see more attack minded tactics.

Also, after the game he asked McClaren up to his office, and David O'Leary was already there. McClaren thought he was his replacement but Gibson reassured him otherwise. A not so subtle bit of mind play?

We beat Chelsea 3-0 in the next game so you never know.....
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So between the idiot throwing the season ticket Gibson somehow thought of the David O'Leary ploy and got him up to his office, as well as being perfectly happy with the way thing were going before then and never telling McClaren what he, as a fan, wanted ?

I'm sorry but that fan, someone unable to control himself in the same way as the rest of the crowd managed to, was not somehow responsible for our upturn in fortune - that was down to the players, the coaches and the chairman.

All that fan did was embarrass himself, and the club.
 
Rofesleg said:
The incident was the culmination of some terrible performances and results. Relegation looked a real possibility. The season ticket throwing along with a young Cattermole's tears really brought the situation into focus.

I seem to remember Gibson said he understood the fan's frustration. And prompted him to also say that as a fan himself he too wanted to see more attack minded tactics.

Also, after the game he asked McClaren up to his office, and David O'Leary was already there. McClaren thought he was his replacement but Gibson reassured him otherwise. A not so subtle bit of mind play?

We beat Chelsea 3-0 in the next game so you never know.....
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We beat Sunderland 3-0 in the game immediately before too. I know 4 is now par for the course, but 3 is hardly terrible, is it?

I know fans say the football was dull that season, but in addition to the UEFA cup final and the FA cup semi, we beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Man U at home, Fulham 3-2, Bolton 4-3, and drew 3-3 with Spurs, along with some more prosaic wins. I just think our fans had gotten unrealistic expectations that football should be thrill a minute every week.

I know we bombed 7-0 at Arsenal a few weeks before, but if I remember rightly, that was a very young team due to injuries.
 
Otto42 said:
Might be unpopular, but the three points chant at the start of the 1997 Cup Final (mistaken by Mellor as Sieg Heil!)......had always dreamt of seeing us in an FA Cup Final and wanted to enjoy all the build up etc....., did we think Graeme Kelly would hear it and say 'ok you can have em back lads'
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still get goose bumps to this day thinking of that and I was only 9! Didn't really understand it at the time but can still feel the atmosphere when I think back to it.
 
Sergio said:
still get goose bumps to this day thinking of that and I was only 9! Didn't really understand it at the time but can still feel the atmosphere when I think back to it.
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Whole Cup Final was an anti-climax for me, probably because I had built it up so much as a kid growing up in the late 70s and early 80s
 
I remember years back maybe 1995 ish some irish female singer sung a disney -esqueballad type song on the pitch at half time in inclement weather and alot of the crowd booed her throughout. I found it embarasding and cringed for her going through that.
 
Choose any big away following at a northern ground with 4k plus in attendance and you will witness some awful behaviour from some of our 'fans'. Zero interest in the game, just wanting to get as drunk/drugged and antisocial as possible (to their own included). It can be grim being anywhere near them.
Give me a far flung fixture with a hardcore 1k away fans in attendance any day.
 
Otto42 said:
Whole Cup Final was an anti-climax for me, probably because I had built it up so much as a kid growing up in the late 70s and early 80s
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I remember crying my facepaint off when Di Matteo scored and can remember the booing for the 3 points still, as for the rest of the match/experience its all gone pretty much.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
So between the idiot throwing the season ticket Gibson somehow thought of the David O'Leary ploy and got him up to his office, as well as being perfectly happy with the way thing were going before then and never telling McClaren what he, as a fan, wanted ?
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Exactly right. You explained it much better than me. Thank you.
 
Frozen Horse said:
We beat Sunderland 3-0 in the game immediately before too. I know 4 is now par for the course, but 3 is hardly terrible, is it?

I know fans say the football was dull that season, but in addition to the UEFA cup final and the FA cup semi, we beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Man U at home, Fulham 3-2, Bolton 4-3, and drew 3-3 with Spurs, along with some more prosaic wins. I just think our fans had gotten unrealistic expectations that football should be thrill a minute every week.

I know we bombed 7-0 at Arsenal a few weeks before, but if I remember rightly, that was a very young team due to injuries.
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It was a crazy amazing rollercoaster of a season.

Definitely not fully appreciated at the time.

Will be never be another like it.
 
Frozen Horse said:
We beat Sunderland 3-0 in the game immediately before too. I know 4 is now par for the course, but 3 is hardly terrible, is it?

I know fans say the football was dull that season, but in addition to the UEFA cup final and the FA cup semi, we beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Man U at home, Fulham 3-2, Bolton 4-3, and drew 3-3 with Spurs, along with some more prosaic wins. I just think our fans had gotten unrealistic expectations that football should be thrill a minute every week.

I know we bombed 7-0 at Arsenal a few weeks before, but if I remember rightly, that was a very young team due to injuries.
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The Sunderland win was our only win in the previous 10 league games. And bear in mind that was their 15 point season so it doesn't even count really.
We were one place above the relegation places.

Thank goodness that chap with the season ticket book galvanised the season. Otherwise:
We would never have experienced the highs of Eindhoven.
McClaren would never have been able to parade his brolly at Wembley.
We wouldn't have had the opportunity to groom Southgate for England.
And the perennial question of whether Scotland's best strikers are good enough for the Championship would never be answered.

The Butterfly Effect eh.....
 
Frozen Horse said:
There was always a vocal minority who "genuinely believed" Mark Crossley should have been our first choice.

Nothing against Crossley; decent keeper and probably the best back up we've had in my time following Boro, but he wasn't in the same class. He also has an excellent selection of Brian Clough impressions/anecdotes that are well worth looking up on YouTube
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I thought he was a better keeper than Schwarzer.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
This is what I was going to post. It was absolutely excruciating hearing people singing that to someone who’d been missing in action for large swathes of that season. It was an insult to those that gave their best every week. That squad had a few shirkers in it but the reason we went down was a general lack of quality, not a lack of effort.
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No we should have sang we haven't got any players. Spineless performances all round
 
Humpty said:
He wasn’t.
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I know most Boro fans will have the same opinion as you but I thought Crossley was an upgrade on Schwarzer at the time and was disappointed when Crossley lost his place when Schwarzer returned from injury. The Booing of Schwarzer was ridiculous but it was a reflection of just how well Crossley was playing. Cloughie was a big fan of him and he wasn't a bad manager.
 
Fans chanting for Brad Guzan to be sent off vs Southampton.

Fair enough we were already relegated and it may have been done tongue in cheek, but would the same fans have found it funny if one or our players had deliberately scored an own goal, and said they'd done it for the "banter".
 
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