Wimb Good performances and effort from players is what gets fans noisy, players just can't have it both ways anymore. They can't claim thousands because they're marketed as 'entertainers' while still hoping to instantly have unwavering support from thousands of strangers they have no real connection with when they actually fail to entertain week after week.
How do they build those connections with fans? Again, it's through effort, hard work and producing something worth watching.
Why do people get behind Pog? Because they see him busting a gut. Why do they support Alfie? (even if at ridiculous times) because he scores goals, Guthrie? Because he pings 30-yarders. Go back in time and you had big backings for Gilkes and Kebe because they bombed down the flanks, Quinn, Forster, Kitson and Doyle because they scored goals, Parky because he charged around, the list goes on and the formula to getting fans behind players isn't rocket science.
Whenever a player has a pop at the crowd it makes me think they're looking for someone else to blame for their own poor form or insecurities. Crumbs if they can't produce when a couple of hundred Reading fans are giving it a muffled boo, what hope do they have of producing when 70,000 are on them at Old Trafford?! Small wonder that the two players having a pop are Cummings, who was subbed at the break for a teenage winger and McCleary who's also lost his place in the side (albeit somewhat unfairly IMO).
Not saying there's no room for improvement from the crowd, who should be trying to help players as much as possible but this group of players has a lot of work to do before they can just expect unwavering support.
Personally I'll try and back players as much as I can, even when they make the odd mistake but if they keep making that same stupid mistake multiple times in a game then a bit of grief from the crowd should be expected in the same way that your boss would probably get annoyed if you made the same error four times in a day despite having done your highly paid job for years.
Agree, I feel little connection with this side and posted similar elsewhere about this team lacking players like those you mention above... but at the end of the day though, I can't be bothered to turn up and sit and wait for something to happen, it makes what is already bloody dull even worse.
Not sure it's about giving the players themselves unwavering support, but more about having a bit of pride as fans and saying "alright not happy with what i'm seeing but i'll show my pride in the club even if the players aren't showing it on the pitch."
