Midfield player Will Hughes is back to his best for Derby County in victory over Huddersfield Town

“Booing is no use to anyone. Waste of energy for the booer and we actually want the team and players to perform well, not make them feel bad.
However, if you pay me in excess of £100k p/a for c10 hours work per week and want to boo me from 30 yards distance, then feel free. I would take that on the chin as an occupational hazard due to the very generous renumeration on offer.”

“Johnz - paying or not paying isn't the issue. Just because someone pays, whilst they might think it gives them the right, the effect on the player whilst trying to do his job is a negative one.

And that's the point about fan stupidity - expressing their frustration by booing the team or a player just makes even more uptight and less able to perform the simple tasks well. What's the next course of action - boo even louder and make things even worse?

The analogy stacks up. Getting on someones back when they're having a hard time is a stupid thing to do.”

“Whats Garner on nobody booed Will at all we had this last season with Method saying we were booing after 30 seconds of the kick off well i sit about 10 feet from the dug out and i never heard it”

“I dont agree with booing, but the work ****agy doesn't work because people dont pay money to watch most of us work. And I daresay that fellow players are more critical during the course of a game than work colleagues ever would be.”

“Sounds more like it. I guess booing is so easily misinterpreted - it's an instant reaction to something someone isn't happy with - could be the fact he was withdrawn, could be the timing, could be the player he's being replaced with etc. It's just a noise of expression.

Because of the misinterpretation, it's something I've always reserved exclusively for refereeing decisions or foul play by the opposition. One thing is for sure, if our team or an individual player isn't playing well, booing is only going to make it worse.

That's the bit that I think, shall we say, the more intellectually challenged football fan doesn't seem to get!

I wonder sometimes how such people would feel if they were surrounded whilst they're working and maybe having a hard time, with all their customers or work colleagues shouting abuse, whether they think they'd perform any better?

The answer of course is that they wouldn't - they'd go to pieces - but it's a point that seems to escape some.

Agree with the point about all clubs having a proportion of such people following them. Doesn't make it right. Also would like to think that in the case Garner is referring to, he misinterpreted that reaction big style.”

“that's nonsense! there is no way we booed hughes off. if there was any booing (and I actually dont remeber any at all) it's because we were 3-0 down at home and clough decided to go like for like in his subs and didn't change the formation or systemthat had faield catastrophically all game by bring davies on.

if you're going to riticse at least get it right.

ps pete, some PEOPLE are brain dead. it makes no odds what football team they support. and football fans are notoriously fickle up and down the country, we are no different.”

“Booing Hughes off the field? If true, it really does confirm how brain-dead some of our fans really are!”