| Your club chairmanFebruary 27 2008 at 10:33 PM | Formby Fan |
| - Is it any wonder your club struggles for decisions off referees given the abuse that your fans throw at any official or oppsition player when things dont go your way?
I have been to about 6 or 7 of your games now and its always the same.
Im suprised you dont take the matchball home with you halfyway through, as you spit enough dummies out for 90 minutes if your not getting every decision.
What I do find shocking, is the worst offender for this abuse and apparent ring leader amongst his own small flock off followers, is that I have now discovered, this person is infact your Club Chairman, which I find is frankly appaling. Not a very good example to be setting of your club and im sure watching league officials would ahve noted this.
Just because you once played at a much higher level, it does not automatically make your club any better than any other NWCL clubs and the contempt your supporters and officials show is disgusting.
It also, does not give you a devine right to win games.
The sooner some of you, your Chairman especially, realise this, the better. |
| | Author | Reply | Tufty
| Canal Street | February 28 2008, 10:20 AM |
Its a good job yoiu never visited Canal Street. The abuse directed there to oppotion players and mach officials was a hundred times worse.
Teams dredded playing there, especially the likes of Barnet and Kettering.
On many occasion it was a ood job the players tunnel was constructed as it was, or many a ref would ahve come in for a lot more than verbal abuse or the occasional spitting at them.
One of the worst decisions they ever made at Canal Street was to mve the dugout in front of the main stnd, as its Popular Side location gace the more pasionate of home fans he ideal place to levy abuse and often had oppostion managers/coaches/subs etc rattled.
Barry Fry still to this day describes it as the worst pace he has managed a team.
Perhaps at this level, abuse towards match oficials can work against the team. Not a game goes by without the Official forum blaming every defeat on poor refereeing, you do start to wonder if they can have a poor referee every single week or its just an easy target and excuse.
The abuse directed at them might encourage them to keep giving decisions against Runcorn, as some officials will eb all to keen to play up to it.
It also seems to impact on discipline of the team. Players hear fans blaming the ref for everyhting and some become involved themselves, distracting them from their game. |
| Alan Coleman Jnr
| Formby Fan | February 28 2008, 7:21 PM |
You raise a valid point to a degree. There are a few supporters who are dismissive of the level we are playing at. The language used by some of the supporters is also crude and unnecessary most of the time.
However, you appear to be making a sweeping generalisation that all Runcorn supporters are like this and this is wrong. Don't tar everybody with the same brush. |
| jimmy
| football pyramid | March 7 2008, 9:51 PM |
the people running Runcorn Linnets are at the highest level they have ever been at.
Please do NOT consider them at the level we were when Dave Robinson was Chairman.
He carried the role off superbly.
I think he may be available to take the Chair again, perhaps then respect would follow. | |
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