Alby wrote:
Think this is the sort of game we have to take on the chin. I’ve always said I can take losing if we put our all in and I think they did. I think they deserved a clap off. Sometimes you lose and the circumstances aren’t always a bad referee or a bad performance etc. It’s just the way the game went.
100% this. Except somehow we seemed to decide not to turn up as fans today, the cowshed looked emptier than ever, and then the brigade of early leavers seemed to be massively increased such that when I and my young family stayed to clap the players (something I encourage them to do, assuming they've put in a shift) it felt like we were lone clappers in the family section and not much more in the cowshed.
Is it because it is the FA cup and people don't want to pay for a ticket? Attendance just seemed poor and embarassing to have same/more away fans. We all criticised players/Neilson for not clapping and yet when Micciche comes out to do so we've all gone, what a welcome.
I was disappointed with our turnout tbh, I expected not less than 8,000 from us but hoped for more but as you say the cowshed was sparse in places.