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Abuse Doesn't Help Our Players
at 23:11:21

Your article has spurred me to a first time post Nick, so thank you.

I agree with Saintpaul120 and others in saying I didn't hear anything negative shouted towards Bart AT ALL. It was a terrible error but as you say Nick, it happens. And certainly the immediate crowd around me understood that.

I sit in Kingsland, near Northam and I amongst many others applauded when he occasionally kicked solidly in the second half and cleared well under pressure from a couple of back passes. This was to get behind our player and encourage him.

But the point of your article is the ironic cheers and, in the ironic cheerers defence, sort of, I would say it was 'supportive' ironic cheers, not hostile ones, however misplaced that logic may be. It sounds silly but you pick up on a crowd vibe, you can easily feel what they are feeling and I certainly wouldn't say the vibe was hostile toward Bart or anti Bart in any way. I wouldn't choose to express myself that way, but I really don't think it was designed to embarrass him or abuse him.

He made 22,000 people nervous right from the off and that's impossible to hide but his reaction to us - and our reaction to him - at the final whistle showed no hard feelings from either side I think, we analyse and we move on (as our great leader tells us every week!).

I'd also love to think we NEVER get on the backs of our players as much as the Geordies do when the players aren't performing to our expectations.

Keep up the good work on this excellent site Nick. Just like the lads on the pitch. They are doing us proud this season.

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