I appreciate, as no doubt many fans do, that the last few games haven’t been anything to cheer about, but as has been mentioned before there have been a number of changes to the team and it takes time to find the right selection of players that work most effectively together. It is easy to point fingers at Mark Burke, however the players are also responsible for the performance as much as the management team. In my opinion, getting behind the team during the lows will only help to rebuild confidence ahead of the next game. I have no doubt some of the players read this forum too and it isn’t great when the fans are picking apart a run of poor performances without any comments on how there is opportunity to improve. It is frustrating for everyone, but I feel fans are meant to support and inspire the team to push forward. Also, as you mentioned, we did have some good performances earlier on in the season, so it hasn’t been a completely dismal start all around (just a few weeks of disappointing results).
As for the away support who are loyal Hitchin fans, it is easier to comment after a win or draw with a positive tweet as it is short and sweet. After a loss, in my opinion it is best to take some time to reflect before putting things on platforms that may later be regretted, therefore I don’t think you can criticise the fans and accuse them of being ‘scared to comment’. These fans give up hours of their time to travel to/from the away matches, and sometimes if you have nothing nice to say it is best to say nothing at all (especially so shortly after a defeat when emotions are high, and I doubt people wish to immediately jump to Twitter to reel off their concerns on the performance without taking some time to reflect on it).
Your assumption that people have money to burn is unreasonable, especially in today’s climate. All Hitchin supporters spend their hard-earned cash on both season tickets and tickets and to accuse people of ‘burning money’ seems a little dramatic. I know this is a fan’s forum but not everyone wishes to be as vocal as others, and no doubt this is the same as Twitter. People are entitled to reflect and analyse the game as they wish, whether that is through documenting their concerns and emotions on a social media forum, or whether they prefer to rant to other fans, or alternatively say nothing at all.
I appreciate you wish to use this forum as a way to ask the difficult questions (which no doubt others do too), but I feel that everyone is entitled to express their views and concerns in their own manner without it being called out as a negative.
If all of us were the same, then it would be a very boring world to live in
