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The recent comments of Jim Magilton got me thinking. He made the point that the players were "nervous". The instant reaction was to point to the fact that players should not be nervous, but feel excited about playing in front of our crowd. The reality, as proved this season our better performances have been away from home and it can only be, that the level of expectation is lower when go on our travels to say when we are playing the likes of Blackpool or Peterborough United and the players so far seem to thrive on playing away from Loftus Road.
Over the years loftus road used to be reconised by many professionals as one of the most intimidating places to play in the country, that has long evaporated. Some will point to the off the field situation and others will simply say its the not the same as the good old days. Seating at the stadiums has made alot of difference to the atmosphere generated, but Loftus Road is hardly a scary place to play nowadays. Also, fans are more critical, as it is barely a working class game anymore and a larger proportion of our income is spent on watching the club we all love and that makes more critical, when a simple pass goes astray or the team underperform we boo and or scream obscenties with our level of expectations being much higher. We look over at the board we have and this leads to great disappointment, when things don't pan how we expect.
Players thrive on an atmosphere and you only have to go back a few years to see what an impact we can make. Would be great to get this back, postivity from the crowd does filter down to the players. its so easy to boo and its become the norm in todays modern football, but wouldn't it be great to generate such an atmopshere, it can in many circumstances give that edge of opposing teams. I wish the club would encourage all the singers into one area. For some reason the "p" block is empty and it would be great to get another 200 loud people in that section? maybe advertise, the vocal support section. I'm sure many fans are isolated trying to get some kind of atmosphere going, where they are grouped in ones and twos.
I know its very difficult to bite your lip, when we are losing. I find that very difficult!! but, I'm sure the players feel that added pressure, with a slightly uneasy feel to our home crowd. No-one is expecting to return to the days of "kness up mother brown", but the mighty roar of "Come on your r's" or "we love rangers" very rarely happens. You can see how players get lifted when we are behind them, someone like Buzsacky must feel like a million dollars when his song gets sang. End of the day, we are like all other championship supporters, we sing when we are winning and groan when are losing. I just think, the club should maximise the efforts of the fans who want to get the atmosphere rocking, by advertising the fact that a certain area is designated for singing.
I'm sure, once the players can feel, that we are totally behind them, in turn the nervousness might disappear. We will never get rid of the booing and finger poitning at players, but the place needs to be a bit more of a positive place to visit for home supporters. I'm sure if we have any aspirations of a play off spot, we the fans can contribute postively
Over the years loftus road used to be reconised by many professionals as one of the most intimidating places to play in the country, that has long evaporated. Some will point to the off the field situation and others will simply say its the not the same as the good old days. Seating at the stadiums has made alot of difference to the atmosphere generated, but Loftus Road is hardly a scary place to play nowadays. Also, fans are more critical, as it is barely a working class game anymore and a larger proportion of our income is spent on watching the club we all love and that makes more critical, when a simple pass goes astray or the team underperform we boo and or scream obscenties with our level of expectations being much higher. We look over at the board we have and this leads to great disappointment, when things don't pan how we expect.
Players thrive on an atmosphere and you only have to go back a few years to see what an impact we can make. Would be great to get this back, postivity from the crowd does filter down to the players. its so easy to boo and its become the norm in todays modern football, but wouldn't it be great to generate such an atmopshere, it can in many circumstances give that edge of opposing teams. I wish the club would encourage all the singers into one area. For some reason the "p" block is empty and it would be great to get another 200 loud people in that section? maybe advertise, the vocal support section. I'm sure many fans are isolated trying to get some kind of atmosphere going, where they are grouped in ones and twos.
I know its very difficult to bite your lip, when we are losing. I find that very difficult!! but, I'm sure the players feel that added pressure, with a slightly uneasy feel to our home crowd. No-one is expecting to return to the days of "kness up mother brown", but the mighty roar of "Come on your r's" or "we love rangers" very rarely happens. You can see how players get lifted when we are behind them, someone like Buzsacky must feel like a million dollars when his song gets sang. End of the day, we are like all other championship supporters, we sing when we are winning and groan when are losing. I just think, the club should maximise the efforts of the fans who want to get the atmosphere rocking, by advertising the fact that a certain area is designated for singing.
I'm sure, once the players can feel, that we are totally behind them, in turn the nervousness might disappear. We will never get rid of the booing and finger poitning at players, but the place needs to be a bit more of a positive place to visit for home supporters. I'm sure if we have any aspirations of a play off spot, we the fans can contribute postively
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