Not enjoying the football/tactics but cheering a spawny win has long been a tradition. I want us to go up and will support us as we struggle in the Championship (as we did and probably will again) and I’ve seen some terrible and yet wonderful games over the years at Adams Park…I think my disappointment stems from the quality of players we have now compared to the GA years.
I can see myself in the website pictures of the Taylor goal…I am not groaning.
I will be happy if we win the rest of our games 1-0 to put pressure on Deadpool Utd and have enjoyed this season on the whole…if any of the players have been triggered by the 100 of us on the Gasroom I apologise…but if you can’t moan about Luke Leahy on here every game…
Absolutely right and I find it utterly astonishing that some people ‘don’t want us to go up because we’d be battered every week.’ What evidence is there to support that? With a much weaker squad we almost stayed up the last time we were in the Championship and would have survived if the EFL had imposed a points deduction on Derby that season rather than the next. Also, who knows how MD might alter his approach with the benefit of starting a season from the beginning rather than halfway through? What is the point of supporting a football team if you don’t want them to succeed?
Maybe not so ridiculous. Here are two quotes from different posters in the same thread:
‘I want us to get promoted and I believe everybody in the crowd wants it as well. To say that some people were disappointed that we won the game and it spoiled there afternoon is frankly ridiculous.’
‘Listening to many fans on Saturday I have to agree that I hope we don’t go up as if we carry on like this we will get battered every week.’
We’re all different eh
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Exactly. Oxford finished on 76 points last year, and look like they should now comfortably stay up in the Championship after making a handful of shrewd signings. Our squad is already on 81 points
I don’t think it was a spawny win. We deserved it over the course of the game. If you think our wins have been spawny, Wrexham have been getting the spawniest of wins all season. They are 9th in the Expected Points table (based on quality of chances created vs conceded) even with all of the outrageous decisions they’ve received. We’re joint top with Birmingham
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Just catching up with this thread, I note the criticism of Norris and “that kick” and @commoner talking about his frustration at the slowing down of the game. I understand the frustration, but some of this, surely, is just about managing the pace of the game - it being our 5th game in 2 weeks. Although, that said, the pone area where I am a little disappointed in Dodds is his unwillingness to make more changes to the starting line up and then by way of substitutions, just to ease the load on the players. This should be doable with the depth of squad he has. As at least one other poster has mentioned, Humphreys looked out on his feet by the end on Saturday and could really have done with a break, by way of example.
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Clearly if we change our methods we MIGHT not. Watching the Championship highlights it appeared that they moved the ball quicker and were a lot more rapid in thought, hence the statement. 
Why are we still going on as if it was so much booing on Saturday? It was about five to ten blokes in the entire terrace that boo’ed, many of them were stood near me singing and getting behind the team for 95% of the game. It was nothing compared to Orient away last season. Being blown well out of proportion. I believe the players are using it as a form of gamesmanship. We have low attendances and we are a fairly quiet fan base so it’s a unique idea of our players to play into an “us vs them” mentality. Very clever from our club captain and I’d expect nothing less from Grimmer. He’s one of the most experienced players in League 1.
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I don’t think that anyone ever wants their team to not succeed, but you have been fortunate to have supported two clubs who generally have been a lot more successful than not.
Supporting teams who have less limited experience of success can lead to something like gallows humour where supporters can revel in their mediocrity (but once inside the ground support their team positively and vociferously).
There is also the cathartic effect of a good, old-fashioned, moan (I have been in Yorkshire too long), which can be about:
The referee, the manager, the players, the opposition, the weather, the owner, etc, etc, which is best articulated for other peoples suffering either at home, at work, in the pub or more commonly these days, on a football forum.
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It’s a shame you are not planning to be at either the Bolton or Charlton games @Shev, I know that Kristján (?) from Iceland is in the UK to attend these two matches over Easter.
You could have had an international meet up.
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If you read it, I did not say all our wins have been spawny but, in my opinion, that one was.
If you think we won via a controlled tactical masterclass that meant a goal was inevitable that’s okay too.
I was originally going to do Charlton but it has not worked out as viable, so Orient it is. Hopefully next year back at Adams Park!
I didn’t hear any booing on Saturday
Not did I hear any jeering
Not beyond the realms of possibility that players were reacting to random things shouted out by individuals mind. We have got a few idiotic supporters who say all sorts of stupid things during games
Mostly though I was struck by how the crowd stuck with the team right until the end
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We’re you in the Family Stand on Saturday, @eric_plant ? I was in the Eddie Monsoon memorial/old gits section of the terrace, as usual and was aware of some relatively*strident moaning at the point of Norris’s decision not to play the ball early and then his kick to the Borough goalie. That moment aside, though, it seemed pretty patient and reasonable to me.
*Relative, that is, to other games at Adams Park. Not to West Ham, Millwall or Spurs.
No, I was behind the goal
Yeah, there was some disquiet at that moment but I think it was an isolated moment
The point is that Wycombe was very much a united club when I left Adams Park on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately the debate now continues because players, head coach and club officials have commented on negativity (which couldn’t be more different to the picture I and many others had), the club tweeted about it and The Sun ran a page lead on it on Monday. I’m pretty disappointed with the whole saga to be honest.
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And absolutely this.
Only a few years ago it was a ‘band of brothers’ and the fans united against the world. And now it’s a group of players pretending the fans hate them.
That’s a plot twist I wasn’t expecting.
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Serves you right for reading The Sun
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