Years long debate

[sinfinbovril]

For years on this forum, we have debated whether the team lift the crowd or whether the crowd lift the team. Or whose job it is.

Ten minutes into the second half today at Fleetwood I finally found the answer.

We'd been dire in the first half. We'd been dire for months. I was feeling very negative and I wasn't alone.

Bobby Kamwa got the ball close to their goal (I'm not joking) and I immediately thought "Here we go. This goes in. We then draw level and go on to win this game." Come on you Brewers.

It came to nothing.

So there you have it. Its the players' job to influence the crowd. The Brewers supporters were fantastic today (as good as against Cheltenham) and it had zero influence on the players.

Problem solved.

[Fred Andrews]

I agree, what happens on the pitch influences the crowd a lot more than the stands influence the pitch.

A few shots at goal or some sustained attacking play can certainly wake up a crowd, unfortunately we've seen very little of that this season with very defensive and frankly dead football. Even Carlisle scored more than us, and despite Cheltenham not scoring for the first dozen or so games they ended up scoring more over the season, only Shrewsbury and Rotherham had less than us out of the 72 league sides.

I mean in certain situations the crowd can have an impact, more-so towards the end of a game if for example you're chasing a late winner and going at the opposition, I'm sure that can give a boost/make the opposition players a little tense & nervous.