To be blunt: people are mixing up disappointment with entitlement. The draw hurt, and the way we sat off at times certainly invited what happened. But the louder issue for me is how some supporters react as if we’re owed victories. That attitude does nobody any favours.

We invited the trouble

Look, you can see why frustration bubbles over. When a side sits off and gives opponents time, mistakes become more costly. All it takes is one loss of a back-post header, one sloppy second ball, and you’re pegged back. It’s easy to point fingers at that moment, and we should. The manager will, I’m sure, take note. But there’s no point turning a single error into a moral failing for the whole club.

Entitlement does more harm than good

What really got to me was some fans acting like a draw was a crime. Since when are we entitled to beat every team? We aren’t Real Madrid, we don’t have an automatic right to three points every week. Expectation is fine — we want to win — but entitlement is corrosive. It makes supporters shout and snipe; it changes the atmosphere; it can even affect the players. That’s the danger.

Realism and moving forward

I’m not saying the draw was acceptable — far from it. I’m just saying we ought to be realistic. A team probably deserved something from the game and we didn’t do enough to stop it. Use it. Learn from it. Moaning into the ether changes nothing. We can’t rewind the match, but we can insist we don’t sit off like that again and that our reactions don’t become a problem in themselves.

Truth is, the club thrives when supporters push the team forward, not when we condemn it out of a misplaced sense of entitlement. Keep your anger focused on improvement, not on throwing everyone under the bus.

Written by Angus1812: 11 March 2026

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