Trouble in the East Stand??

[SWP's back]

I'll boycott a game. Get it arranged and i'll post a link to a thread on the FB group for you. Dont want anything to soon. Maybe after the derby.

Awful idea.

was just a suggestion to try and create maximum impact, I'm more than open to other suggestions/ideas.

Surely anything other than a boycott. If it worked (and people stayed away) it would be more likely to hurt the team.

More than likely though (and given the fact we keep selling out all league games) is that some others wouldn't belive their luck at getting seats in 109 near the noisey section. As they weren't regulars, they'd probably sit down and showsec would have an easy night.

 

[Skashion]

Sorry to be pedantic but were there people on Row A who had sat down?

Yes, he was on the frontline at the point. The instruction was not unreasonable. People were not stood in front of him when the stewards started to have words. There were people to his left and his right standing though.

 

[SWP's back]

Up to page number 93 at the moment. For all those slaggin off the old guy, and the posters who are sticking up for a fellow blue.

This male was asked to sit down, when those around him were still stood up. Im the steward, you sit on the 2nd row. The front row is still stood up, but im telling you to sit down on the 2nd row. Now you and i both know that when you sit down, youre going to see fuck all, and waste the money you have spent on buying your ticket for the game.

Gonna sit down are you? Am i fuck!

Read faster as you're not correct.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Fucking PMSL at "A boycott". You absolute donkeys.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I see no difference with the standing issue. Prestwich Blue is talking about 'nods and winks', all well and good, but City are caught between a rock and hard place every week.

I agree it's very unfair if your dad was singled out, presumably because he was an older man and not part of a crowd of 20-something lads who would put up a fight. However it's no defence to breaking the law.

Plus it's all about proportionality and making choices. With standing they can choose to ignore it and are probably wise to do that if the alternative would be a large scale disturbance that would endanger people's safety far more than leaving them standing would.

If someone chooses to stand when everyone around him doesn't want to then you'd expect action. I saw this at the semi-final when some blokes were standing and others were asking them to sit down. The steward handled it appallingly badly and it nearly kicked off, at which point he disappeared. My son complained about this and was nearly the one hauled out because he was an easy target rather than half-a-dozen blokes who were already very aggressive.

 

[BufordUSABlue]

I'll boycott a game. Get it arranged and i'll post a link to a thread on the FB group for you. Dont want anything to soon. Maybe after the derby.

Awful idea.

was just a suggestion to try and create maximum impact, I'm more than open to other suggestions/ideas.

So the lads are top of the league with our best start to the season ever and playing some of the best football i personally seen us play ever and what are we suggesting..........a boycott of a game! YCNMIU !!

Football is indeed a funy game it seems!

Can you imagine someone trying to explain why no one is in the ground to Aguero or David Silva..........priceless.

Come on chaps, i agree with some actions against Showsec based on the evidence ive seen and heard but a partition to the club requesting a firm and positive response should do it...... we have a history of listening to the fans.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Sorry to be pedantic but were there people on Row A who had sat down?

Yes, he was on the frontline at the point. The instruction was not unreasonable. People were not stood in front of him when the stewards started to have words. There were people to his left and his right standing though.

Cheers mate. Clear now.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Awful idea.

was just a suggestion to try and create maximum impact, I'm more than open to other suggestions/ideas.

Surely anything other than a boycott. If it worked (and people stayed away) it would be more likely to hurt the team.

More than likely though (and given the fact we keep selling out all league games) is that some others wouldn't belive their luck at getting seats in 109 near the noisey section. As they weren't regulars, they'd probably sit down and showsec would have an easy night.

fair points.

it's just turning up and putting money in the coffers of people who treat us poorly seems to defeat the principle of wanting change.

and it comes back to people valuing a game of footy over the welfare of other fans, I mean I can't believe that City aren't good enough to not be able to win without our support, going off topic but that's a poor mentality if they really rely on us that badly for confidence/motivation, there's a line between feeding off support and being unable to perform without it.

 

[jrb]

Well.

Should be interesting tomorrow night.

Standing in the SS, 111, 110 and the away end.(relocations) That leaves 109.

Will the club force the issue or relent?

 

[M18CTID]

Calm down skippy.

Nah, your right, I shouldn't consider homophobic chants offensive.

Nor be bemused by the sight of some fans getting their jollies taking the piss out a rival fan for the majority of the second half against Brum.

Funny how you interpret that one-off, one line post, as moaning. It clearly resonated with you, I wonder why...

I should just man the fuck up, like you, hard man, who can't debate the issue in question, without letting your petty jealousy making it personal.

You missed my point entirely. If you could bother engaging your brain for more than a millisecond, then you'll see my beef wasn't anything to do with your issues about homophobic chanting or fronting up away fans but everything to do with you spitting your dummy out about the banter with the Birmingham fan the other week.

Oh, and the reason why that resonated so much with me is that the comment was completely out of touch with everything else in the thread. It was fuck-all whatsoever to do with petty jealousy about your ITK status you fucking sad twat.

You are the one who continues to take this debate into a personal direction, read it back.

You are the only person citing banter with a Birmingham fan, the only one bringing my supposed ITK status into the equation.

In fact, you've brought nothing else to it apart from the beef you seemingly do have, with me.

Just ignore me, I'm a sad twat after all.

Whatever.

And I think you'll find that I have added something to the debate - if you could be arsed looking back through the last half dozen or so pages you'll find my comments aren't just confined to addressing you.