When I see Saints supporters chanting abuse at one of their own players it astounds me.
My thoughts on Dan Harding as a left back are well documented, in truth others have made it more of an isssue that perhaps I do, but although I do not rate harding, I reserve my comments about him for this website, I dont spent my whole time at the game frothing at the moth and hurling abuse at him.
In recent weeks certain sections of the crowd have hurled abuse at Guly, its been quite isolated, but is seems whenever Guly makes an error the gasps from parts of the crowd are a lot more audible than they are for other players gaffes.
On Saturday at Doncaster however I saw and heard something that I have rarely seen in 40 years of following the team, a group of Saints supporters, probably in their early to mid 20's started to chant "Guly youre F*cking shit" it didnt catch on but this little group were clearly hoping that it would.
Now Guly didnt have a great game on Saturday, but then again who did, and Guly was better than most in fairness, despite being isolated up front for long periods with virtually no service, he still cleared a ball off his own line, made space and had a fine shot that their keeper had to deal with and push over for a corner and made our only dfence splitting pass of the day to put Schneiderlin one on one with the keeper, but still this wasnt enough for the boo boys behind me.
A run to nowere with a ball to nobody would draw the funny once "steeeeeeeve" cry from them but every time Guly touched the ball it was abuse, the Brazilian must wonder what he has to do to achieve the same hero worship as De Ridder or indeed others who have contributed much less, with 7 goals and 8 assists to his name this season, his contribution has been a lot better than some of our bigger names and although at times he has stuggled to get into games, on Saturday he looked like our only player who might change things despite thechaos going on around him.
I dont think Guly is brilliant, but I do recognise what he does for the team and how he often has to play out of position to keep the formation intact, some it seems dont see it that way, thats their perogative, however whatever our thoughts on players, (Or managers & Chairman for that matter) surely we should support the team during the 90 minutes and moan about who we think played badly down the pub, on the way home or on websites such as these.