Matthew The Rover said:
Still backing Brian Little and I will continue to get behind the team for 90 minutes. Completely agree with Birchy telling those chanting for Little out to shut up and get behind the team during the game and they did that second half and I think it gave everybody on the pitch a lift as they were slightly better.
Sorry mate, couldn't disagree more. I'll continue to support the club but I'm not continuing to support the manager. I paid £22 to see that crap today. First half was a shambles. A non-event. Well, slightly untrue. Rankine had a good shot tipped over the bar and erm, that was the first half over.
Second half, we continued in the same vain. No passion, no commitment, no enterprise etc etc.. However it was clear that the team were inspired more by the substitution on the field rather than the chanting off it. As soon as Zola came on for O'Leary, the team whilst certainly not looking like scoring, certainly tried harder and provided more testing moments for the Oldham back line.
Quite why Little hadn't made a change at half time I dont know. You clearly should not and cannot be satisfied with what was witnessed in the first half. Baffles me more and more each week. I have lost all confidence in the bloke.
Anyways, back to the game of sorts.
Not one player really stood out. Rankine worked hard with little effect as per usual, and agree with the poster that sai Greenacre and Facey were not reading from the same script.
Zola looked hungry when he came on and was quite impressed with his work rate, trying at least to get us back into the game.
Ohh yeah, and Oldham were shite! ANother shite team we've lost to. Ohh, when will the decline stop ??
Lastly, I'd like to mention the away support today. Some of them were a disgrace. Of course, I don't think the alcohol helped at all, but fighting with their own supporters and generally behaving like knobs. Very sad to see.
I dont have a problem with people voicing their opinions. They have every right too. And in fact, that's what the 10-15 of them were doing, with chants of "Little Out" and other more choice words, too which some people replied with "There's only one Brian Little". All this was mostly taken well, until the second half when it got a little more physical.
Why do they have to behave like idiots though? Voicing an opinion, fair enough, but then scrapping with stewards and turning on their own supporters who disagreed with them. And let me also make a point that it wasn't just kids who were involved in this, their were grown men acting like children which was most disappointing of all. You kinda of expect this from kids, but not grown men. :roll:
It made me very aware though that patience is running very thin now with some supporters as we now sit 3 points off the drop zone. If the team was playing well, then as least we would have something to cling onto, but the last 3 matches have been awful to witness. How can this get any better? It will certainly get a lot worse if something is not changed soon.