Martinez: Everton players fear Goodison Crowd

[ClausThomsen]

Martinez: Everton players fear Goodison Crowd, by GrandOldTeam

“We’re a team who knows exactly what it is doing."

'Kinell Roberto - if that's on purpose you and the players have seriously lost the plot. Even Franny Jeffers didn't swallow the hype like Stones has this year.

 

[DanEFC92]

I heard they were passing out Tim Howard pinatas around the top balcony, beating them to a pulp every time he made a mistake. Shocking if true.

 

[Elong]

The adage, "The customer's not always right, but they ARE the customer" has some weight here.

 

[orly]

That's impossible the Lower Gwladys is full of sleeve tattooed chavs under the age of 30 who only support the team because their dad was a glory seeker.

Yes but

Like I say, when you are at the game, something you don't do, you can see the little bits players do.

If people are going, then surely they understand the game enough to be correct enough to boo?

There is a picture begin to emerge here - the home crowd don't understand that everything is actually going right, those who don't go (and go to the pub but pretend to go fall into this category), the away fans that have seen us win 8 away games in a season and a half (including 5 out of 19 last season and watch us draw 3-3 at Bournemouth) they don't understand it either.

There's a lot of people not understanding the Everton way at the moment.

 

[Ashtonian]

ffs the crowd are only hostile when the team are performing badly on the pitch..

try giving them something to cheer about any maybe they won't be so negative

 

[EddyKent]

Spanish Brendan Rodgers is right.

The reason the crowd is nuclear is because he speaks utter wham, continues to play a clown in goal and simply results have been total garbage for nearly two years.

 

[Stan Lee Park]

A very sad day for Everton, which may turn out to be a watershed for our poor, incompetent manager. How desperate has he become to blame the fans for such inept performances over the last 18 months.

 

[efcfanwirral]

He is literally the spanish brendan rodgers, always a excuse.

Fed up of his excuses now, he never takes the blame for his own mistakes it always someone else, not him and not his players.

He's playing a very risky game, he's allowing the players to be disrespectful to the fans [howard] and now he's trying to blame the home fans for his ineptness.

Losing the plot.

What did Howard do? Was that today?

 

[orly]

What came first I wonder, the crowds discontent and nervousness, or the team underperforming.

What's really weird is that when the crowd were singing 'Allez Allez Oh', they were knowledgeable and right and a Good Crowd. But now they have decided to boo and question the performances they are clearly a Bad Crowd.

 

[lancs blue]

Ita easily rectified.Play behind closed doors if the fans worry the players

 

[DanEFC92]

If only we sang '60 grand, 60 grand Seamus Coleman' a few more times it would have gave him the confidence to stick it in from 2 yards out. Shame.

 

[nsno-chris]

The state of this comment.

3 home wins all season and he's blaming the crowd, just like last year when we were awful and he said that fans who were critical of the team were not real Evertonians.

 

[lancs blue]

Martinez is looking for scape goats. a sign of losing the plot

 

[RomEFCRom]

Think he's got a point tbh.

Even if he does have a point, you don't say it publicly, never ends well criticising the fans

 

[The Esk]

Martinez: Everton players fear Goodison Crowd, by GrandOldTeam

Roberto Martinez reckons his Everton players play with doubt and fear at Goodison Park and has suggested “we need to make it comfortable for our players”.

Everton have only won three games at home all season, and when asked about their defensive mishaps against Swansea, he replied: “It happens at home more than anywhere else. I don’t think we have that sort of doubt and fear [away from home].

“We’re a team who knows exactly what it is doing. We’ve got really good individuals with fantastic character who care about what they do but our defensive record at home this season is not good enough.

“It doesn’t go along with what we are as a team and doesn’t go along with what we produce away from home. It’s clearly something we need to work on.

“We have six games left at home and they’re vital games for us. We need to make it comfortable for our players. We need to make sure we find a way to perform at Goodison.”

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Not wishing to be a pedant, but where does the article say "the players fear the Goodison crowd"?