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Colchester player confronts fans | Forest Green wave off Colchester’s Jay Mingi after red card

One Colchester player confronts his own club’s fans and Forest Green decided to wave off Colchester’s Jay Mingi after his red card.

The frustrated travelling supporters in the away end faced Connor Hall after his side were thumped 5-0 at The New Lawn on Saturday afternoon. Both the player and fans end the post-match scenes applauding each other after seemingly reaching common ground.

It came after they witnessed not just the thrashing, but also were rather red faced when a number of Forest Green Rovers players were seen cheekily saying bye to Colchester midfielder Jay Mingi after his sending off.

Forest Green Rovers climbed off the bottom of the League Two table by smashing five past 10-man Colchester.

Callum Morton, Kyle McAllister, Matty Taylor and a brace from Matty Stevens sealed the hosts’ third league victory of the season to move them up to 23rd in the table. 

Colchester fall to 22nd, lvel on points with FGR, but have a game in hand over them.

Jay Mingi was sent off in the 47th minute, receiving a second bookable offence, to which two Forest Green players waved him off.

 

Colchester United head coach Ben Garner, who previously managed former Bristol Rovers, Swindon and Charlton before being appointed at Colchester in March, said post-match:

“If players aren’t going to take information on (board) or do their roles within a structure, then we’re all in a tough place.

“We got booed off last week, rightly so, no problem. But we got booed off (at Forest Green) at half-time, our players are getting slaughtered by their own fans, I’m getting verbally abused walking off the pitch at half-time when we’re 1-0 down and in with a chance of getting back in the game, it doesn’t help anyone.

“I share their frustrations, even more so because of the amount of work we put in in the week. But there’s no point turning on the players – we’re having players cheered when they’re taken off, it makes things harder. We need to turn it around but we need the supporters as well,” he told BBC Essex.

“My last words to the two players on yellow cards at half-time were ‘be really sensible, don’t do anything reckless’ and within three or four minutes of the start of the second half, we’re down to 10 men and gave ourselves a mountain to climb,” said Garner.

“There’s no hiding place here. I’m not making excuses. We have to take it full on the chin and show we have the work ethic and character to come through this.”

He continued: “There’s a losing culture at the club, and there has been for a long, long time now. We keep changing players, changing head coaches and we’ve got to try and turn that round.

“That’s been a lot harder than I expected it to be, but I still want to do it, I’m still going to put the work in and I still believe we can turn this season around.

“There’s still lots of games. This isn’t disastrous by any stretch but we’re not achieving what we should be achieving at the moment.”

Forest Green Rovers boss David Horseman said on the first home win in the league in 202 days, as per GloucestershireLive:

“It is for everybody, more the club than particularly me, like you say 202 days I do not know how long I have been here probably 60.

“It is more the belief in the crowd and in the boardroom and everybody coming now. You just tick things off that stop the negative talk.”

On Morton scoring his first goal for the club: “He took it really well and I was delighted for him.

“What I thought he did was he added speed and we could stretch the opposition and go a little bit longer when we needed to, but with passes and not just kicking it long we will not do that. It was an important goal for him, he has not played loads of football since the end of May.”

On McAllister’s performance, Horseman said: “Kyle is a fantastic person, we love having him around, talented boy and particularly earlier in the season our standout player probably so we challenge him to get more goals and assists and I thought he took his goal fantastically well, I am delighted for him and hopefully there is more to come.”

On where it leaves them in the table: “We understand where we are at and we understand where we think we could get to, I just wanted the fans to enjoy it because they have been through a lot and the majority of them have stuck by me since I have come in and have been absolutely amazing.”

This is how Twitter users reacted as a Colchester player confronts his own fans and Forest Green wave off Colchester’s Jay Mingi after his red card…

@Ben_H2101: Trying to apologise and getting a lot of verbal back in a nutshell

@DanJB1983: @ColU_Official are a young side so understandable how they can fall apart after going down to ten but credit to the players that went over to the fans at the end 👏🏼 #ColU

@_kieranbl: Tunnel Jump for Garner? Fraud of a manager 😂

@ijozhh: Joke of a club changing manager won’t do nothing we will just forever be going down hill . Every week I question more and more if it’s worth going to the games and why I support this joke of a club

@cmbaker100: He had the balls to come over and apologise and said he’s trying his best as the captain of the team and got a lot of abuse from pathetic so called supporters

@samcook90_: Didn’t even know it was possible to play forest green and not score. Let alone lose 5-0, fair play

@NormalNeco: Great to see, not many teams would go out and get battered by Forest green and then put a show on for the cameras 🤩

@shaunmartin1979: For Connor Hall to come over to the fans and say they’re trying is an insult to the fans. We know what we’re watching and the players aren’t trying their best. Losing mentality starts at the top and filters all the way down the club…. PLEASE SELL UP COWLING

@stokeacola: I do miss Connor, top player. #PVFC

@tomscott1996: Just come back Connor ☹️

@Jon_Chalk1: This is brilliant 👏

@JB16___: Worrying, no matter what changes. Manager? Players? I don’t even know. Bigger problems in this club

@MissLSW: Of course we’re the first team to give them their first win in ages 🙄

@cllrsammccarthy: No discipline, whatsoever. What the hell is going on? I desperately want to trust Garner but something is seriously wrong. #colu

@jonCUFCwhiting: I don’t even know where we go from here.

@allgas1883: The Ben Garner effect….get rid before it’s to late

@emilyjanelawson: can’t wait to hear garner say the same thing he says every week

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