Is it time to end One Minutes Applause for supporters who have passed.

[inchy14]

We'll be clapping through the entire game if some of our fans had their way. Too many grief mongers in society these days. I've no issue with people paying respect, but for all home games this season we've had a prompt for a minutes applause.

It's in danger of becoming tacky. We'll be like the candle bearing dippers soon, grieving the death of a chicken.

The club have always done the minute silence around Xmas and they even list the names of former blues and fans who have passed in that year. Let's leave it like that

Totally agree mate, we'll end up clapping for 90 minutes if we're not careful. Plus, without wishing to cause any offence, i don't know any of these people i'm applauding, and what am i actually applauding them for? Being daft enough to have supported us for x amount of years. Never understood why it's done, people who know them should grieve not every Tom, Dick and Harry.
The Geordies used to wind me up clapping for the 2 lads on the Malaysia flight, they did it every bloody week too.

Minutes silence at the end of the year was always good enough and is what we should return to.

 

[chaddblue]

They'll problem is that it IS starting to happen at most games. I'm pretty sure there have been requests to do one at our last 3 home games and I've already seen one starting to appear on social media for one in the 19th minute of our game at Palace.

There'll probably be a minutes silence for the Croydon Tram crash victims at Palace

 

[jimharri]

It's getting ridiculous now. I know it's heartbreaking for people to lose a loved one. But a minute's applause/silence to remember a fan who has passed away is a bit much. Surely that can be covered by the silence we have at the home game around Christmas, to remember ALL the people we've lost during the year.

 

[kaz7]

I agree once a year is enough,if people put foward the names to the club and they are put on the screen at christmas,i suppose everyone still think that football is a family but i'm not too sure that is true anymore,we should honour players when they die but thats all i think

 

[CTID1988]

Imagine what its like at the scum, with 600,000,000 fans its a wonder they manage to get any football played

 

[blue ranger]

It's got ridiculous now. Families and friends should pay their respects at funerals. And fans can pay their respects to all blues, family and ex players at Xmas.

 

[bluemike]

Let's keep it at the Christmas fixture only. And a minutes silence, no clapping.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Let's keep it at the Christmas fixture only. And a minutes silence, no clapping.

The Christmas silence was poignant, but has slowly morphed into applause which just isn’t the same.
However, I suspect that the majority of fans don’t understand or appreciate the difference


Even at Wembley tonight, the PA had to instruct the fans on what to do, and when to be quiet.

 

[Corky]

The Christmas silence was poignant, but has slowly morphed into applause which just isn’t the same.
However, I suspect that the majority of fans don’t understand or appreciate the difference


Even at Wembley tonight, the PA had to instruct the fans on what to do, and when to be quiet.

Odd that a poorly played bugle is considered silence also.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

In my opinion it would be great if we had a Remembrance section to this forum.

At the moment a passing of a blue gets posted in the main forum and is soon forgotten.

I'm on a Pink Floyd forum and they have a section called "Gone But Not Forgotten".

Only a suggestion thats all, at the end of the day I remember my late father in a very private way.