Good point, Gobstopper, which we seem to have to repeat every season, as it’s been going on for years particularly aimed at the younger players, it seems. I wonder how many players confidence is affected in both the short and long term by this? Some might say that if it does affect them that much then they aren’t cut out for professional football, but it remains a pretty poor show when it’s your own fans getting on the backs of teenage players.

We could all produce a list of the boo boys favourites who were jeered ONTO the pitch never mind when they were being substituted. By all means criticise performances in print (hopefully in a constructive manner) or react to a disappointing team performance, but if I made a mistake at work I didn’t have 3,000 people telling me they could do a better job in less than constructive ways! Oh, and just to be clear, the vast majority of them wouldn’t have known where to start!

Get behind the lads, every one of them every week. And frankly, it doesn’t matter whether their contracts are up at the end of next month or in 10 years time, they are still playing for OUR club and OUR team.