[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]course he is serious se9. Why would he not be serious. If you got booed doing your job you wouldn feel bad?
We don't do our jobs in front of 17,000 fans who have paid to be there. It comes with the territory; it's a spectator sport and we pay them.
Those who do their jobs in front of millions of shareholders have their performance measured via share price - those who play football get their feedback from the crowd.
MOGster - Give it a big "boo" next time you walk into a branch of Lloyds, move your account, sell your shares, write to the Ombudsman or picket their Head Office - you will get your dissatisfaction across to those at fault.
Aside from offering verbal applause or derision I have no other communication channel with the Charlton players when they subject me to the tosh we all witnessed on Saturday.
One much preferred tool is silent feedback (win, lose or draw / playing well or not) and that seems common place in SE7 - but not for me.
I think comparing football to a "normal" job is problematic. They get paid more because they work in difficult conditions. Being a football supporter isn't like a normal customer. If I go to a restaurant and get a bad meal, I won't go again. As a football fan, I keep buying a season ticket year after year, despite often not being happy with what has been served up. In what other sphere of life would you choose to do business with the 50th best service provider available to you, and one with shaky finances to boot. So to the football fan boo-ing is pretty much the only sanction that they have. Yes you wouldn't want to get boo-ed while you did your job, but then again you'd bloody love to get cheered for doing your job, and that wouldn't happen either.
Now on Saturday people boo-ed a pretty good, but unlucky first half, and that's a bit harsh. But then again if you look at Charlton fans we were pretty tolerant about what has been served up to us over three seasons (and maybe too tolerant - maybe more decisive action would have been taken to right the ship if our dissent had been more apparent). Attendances are good and people don't moan too much. If a club, say Blackburn, that often finished below us in the good old days, found themselves where we are, the very few punters that showed up would be doing nothing but moaning.
So I think that on the whole Parky should be looking at the relatively easy ride that he's had from us and reflect that a bit of grumbling as we went off at half time was as much to do with what had happened the week before, and indeed the season before, as the 45 minutes that we'd just watched.
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We don't do our jobs in front of 17,000 fans who have paid to be there. It comes with the territory; it's a spectator sport and we pay them.
Those who do their jobs in front of millions of shareholders have their performance measured via share price - those who play football get their feedback from the crowd.
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Aside from offering verbal applause or derision I have no other communication channel with the Charlton players when they subject me to the tosh we all witnessed on Saturday.
One much preferred tool is silent feedback (win, lose or draw / playing well or not) and that seems common place in SE7 - but not for me.
Now on Saturday people boo-ed a pretty good, but unlucky first half, and that's a bit harsh. But then again if you look at Charlton fans we were pretty tolerant about what has been served up to us over three seasons (and maybe too tolerant - maybe more decisive action would have been taken to right the ship if our dissent had been more apparent). Attendances are good and people don't moan too much. If a club, say Blackburn, that often finished below us in the good old days, found themselves where we are, the very few punters that showed up would be doing nothing but moaning.
So I think that on the whole Parky should be looking at the relatively easy ride that he's had from us and reflect that a bit of grumbling as we went off at half time was as much to do with what had happened the week before, and indeed the season before, as the 45 minutes that we'd just watched.