It's not clever and doesn't help the young players, I'm sure, but this is hardly something new. I remember when a Brian Gayle own goal was cheered in a Hull win at Portman Road in the desperate Duncan days. Duncan was gone a couple of weeks later...

Totally agree. Couldnt believe the mentality and short-sightedness of the spectators around me. Have they no idea what effect it would have had on the young kids on the pitch? Dont we want to encourage them and give them cofidence so that they may then play well? You could visibly see the players panicking as soon as the fans turned. It was shameful.

Its exactly the same as when your team are getting hammered and you score or get a corner etc its just bit of sarcasm but it was a big push to Roy Keane of what we expect our own team to be doing pass and move!!!!

It was just the horrible end of free speech and democracy taking place.

Agree with the majority of fans on this one, but surely the fault is Roy Keane. The quicker the younger element on this board see he is no Cult Hero and see what he is doing to our club. Marcus Evans must be blind to see what he has underachieved, see how the attendances are falling.
As for Radio Suffolks yes man..... Kevin Beattie !! It was very refreashing to hear James Scowcroft telling the fans how it really is and not just agreeing with the fans.

I don't think booing or cheering the opposition in a sarcastic manner helps....but if we were as bad as it would appear it is kind of understandable.

Totally agree. Shameful behaviour. Those involved should be ashamed. In the words of h32 - there can be no excuse.

The "ole"ing was pathetic and obviously didn't help our players.I also think there are some very arrogant attitudes towards some of the so-called inferior sides that come to PR. Mark Robbins said after the game that as far as he was concerned that was by far the best performance by his team since he had become manager. I have to accept that as true as I can't say I have seen many Barnsley games (apart from at PR).What I can say is that I thought they were superb on Saturday - they passed the ball as well as any team we have played this season and thoroughly deserved their win. We were not very good but I can definitely think of quite a few equally poor or worse Ipswich performances and not just since RK has been manager.Their goalie had an excellent game plus they scored their first goal when we were down to 10 men (Eastman ordered off the field for a blood injury), their second happened when our boys were still shellshocked and came unluckily off Fulop's back.
Having said that,as I said,Barnsley played very well and deserved to beat us. Lets give credit where credit is due.I have seen no posts giving Barnsley any praise at all just comments disparaging them. We have no divine right to beat any side in this division unless we play at the top of our form.

This is an absolute LOW in morale. As a supporter from the days of the 3rd Division South and someone who played cricket against John Cobbold at the age of 90(he, not me) (!), I feel that we need to respect our greatness in the search for total football on a wonderful playing surface. I don't think that the Robson players were expensive and the small adjustment from Jimmy Leadbetter to Arnold Muhren as supplier was quite logical, in the post Crawford/Phillips years.
And now there is a great oppôrtunity for creative players like Townsend and our midfield players to link between a solid back row (which we do not have) and definitive finishers, which need to total say 4 (think John Wark, etc) So we have a strange position where we have the makings of a good team, but the managerial spirit is meagre. I don't think we can have JOY or FOOTBALL with Keane. His psyche is embattled/defensive.Sorry.

Agree with Kevin Beattie. Should not boo the team at all. Support the team through thick and thin. I was ashamed by the cheering for the opposition team, never heard it before and should never hear it again. Support the team whatever like true blues do. Yes we played crap but that does not mean cheer the other team! Those who did cheer Barnsley on saturday disgust me.

Sorry but all those who cheered I admire there guts. People have been booing since Keanes rubbish start last season and nothing came from it. Keane is wasting another season, itfcs money, my money and time, week in week out. I support town and always will but if people cheering barnsley for a few seconds ( when the game was dead and buried) will get Evans and Cleggs attention so be it. Booing at the end of the game is pointless nowadays, Evans Clegg would be long gone by then having free drinks and food. I'm bloody certain that the cheering would have got their attention and shown more than any Booing. So to all who cheered well done, to those moaning about it, go back to your blinkered view of town and relish the fine football you see through rose tinted glasses.
My dad passed away 2nd Oct 2010 and was true blue for 62 years, I'm so glad he never saw what dire crud is being served up under Keane these days.
Ipswich till I die, ever more so when Keane departs.

was unbeliveable when i heard people were cheering the other team , you need to get behind ur team whatever , cheering the other team isnt gunna make it any better , although 3-1 isnt exceptedable , but u dont cheer the other team ffs

Sorry but all those who cheered I admire there guts. People have been booing since Keanes rubbish start last season and nothing came from it. Keane is wasting another season, itfcs money, my money and time, week in week out. I support town and always will but if people cheering barnsley for a few seconds ( when the game was dead and buried) will get Evans and Cleggs attention so be it. Booing at the end of the game is pointless nowadays, Evans Clegg would be long gone by then having free drinks and food. I'm bloody certain that the cheering would have got their attention and shown more than any Booing. So to all who cheered well done, to those moaning about it, go back to your blinkered view of town and relish the fine football you see through rose tinted glasses.
My dad passed away 2nd Oct 2010 and was true blue for 62 years, I'm so glad he never saw what dire crud is being served up under Keane these days.
Ipswich till I die, ever more so when Keane departs.

Beat, I didn‘t appreciate what I watched. In fact I was disgusted. Watching the opposition humiliate us put my head down and affected my enjoyment.

As others have said, many commentators on the fans behaviour on Saturday have totally failed to understand that the cheering was ironic. The standard of football on show under Roy Keane is the only disgrace at Portman Road.

irony bypass. It's hardly a "disgrace". Get a grip.

Oh come on ... someone get a grip! I was only listening on the radio but to me it just sounded like ironic "oles" when Barnsley were doing what we should've been doing i.e. passing it around.

It has happened a number of times and it WAS funny. It was meant as a joke and to highlight that we'd like to see passing football. Anyone who couldnt/cant see that either wasnt there or has had a sense of humour failure.

As much as the Beat is a legend I am sure anyone who has heard him on Radio Suffolk will know if the next interviewer had expressed an opinion that it was justified and funny he would've agreed them too.

It appears that a common refrain in this argument is that because supporters pay good money they should be allowed to express their disdain in this manner.

However, I don't beleive the cost of the ticket determines how a supporter should behave towards their own team. Saturday's cheering of Barnsley's passes was, at worst, patheitc, and, at best, a misguided attempt at irony. It was not only surprisng but shameful.

I'll add that as a supporter based outside Europe, I don't attend games; I have the utmost repsect for the dilligent away support which follows Town throughout the country, and the season-ticket holders who pay large amounts to watch Ipswich. But wouldn't it be best if the select few who decided to applaud Barnsley's passing simply illustrated thier disgust by not attending games at Portman Road?

Albeit rather churlish of the fans to have (very briefly) cheered Barnsley's touches of the ball in the second half it helped relieve much frustration and was not meant to be taken seriously!

Agree with you TJ. The whole point of the cheering was it's irony.

Rightly or wrongly, the fans are entitled to their opinion. End of story. Booing or cheering the other team can be counter productive but Kevin must agree that that performance was absolutely woeful.

Looking forward to the day real soon when Keano retires/walks/pushed/spits dummy out and our football WILL improve.

Well said TJ. At least some ironic vocalising is better than the passionless too-reserved-to-make-a-squeak support of a lot of Portman Road regulars.
Town fans desperately want something to cheer about.

I know it's gonna happen someday... Please wait, don't loose faith...

When was the last time Barnsley managed to put 30-40 passes together away from home? Surely this must deserve applause.

A bit like a cricket match really, you still applaud the oponents when they score centuries.

Did you have to PAY to watch that crap Beattie?

Divided opinion on here with some agreeing with what the Beat is saying others that state that they have the right to cheer ironically for the wonderful passing of the opposition because they've paid good money to watch dross. Yes, the football was shockingly bad but for me, the 'Oles' and boos epitomise the current dreadful support that we supporters provide for OUR team. We sit in stony silence even when we're winning e.g. against Millwall, now that was pretty embarrassing! I too am dismayed by the standard of football but booing and 'oleing' the opposition is counter-productive. Like most I'm incensed by the team set up and substitutions, the picking of Eastman at RB (poor young lad has had some shockers) the continuing hoof ball, the continuing use of Leadbitter to take corners and free kicks, the continuing use of long throws by Edwards and Wickham etc etc but I truly believe booing serves no purpose, so I suppose I agree with what the Beat has said.

When we lost 3 in a row there was the same clamour for Keane to be sacked. We then won three in a row and all was silent on the sacking front, which just goes to show how fickle many of our so called supporters are. I fear that another 3 defeats will now follow, to add to the current 2, so the clamour for Keane to go will only intensify.