What's it matter who they where throwing them at? Bottles where still thrown by our fans at other fans inside the ground... Did you really say they just need telling lol! You can't honestly think them being told to stop would make any difference at all ( just out of interest where do you sit in the ground and how much time did you spend watching the idiots to come to the conclusion that nobody said anything ) If what the club is doing isn't the answer then What is the answer? The club have moved away fans further away to try and stop trouble and gave some of the space in the north back to home fans and how do the fans react.... Like absolute bellends! If we don't stop this idiotic behaviour in our stands soon then the FA will start taking action. The only thing pathetic about this is the behaviour of our apparent fans and responses like yours to what happens that play it down and slate the club's response ( wasn't you having a dig at me/others yesterday claiming we use things to put the club down?.... hypocrite springs to mind)
I think the response is correct but from personal experience kids like this will respond to being told by some older heads as I witnessed at Sheff Utd when they were doing much worse.
What is a bottle? Heavy glass newky brown bottle Large 2 liter bulmers cider bottle Plastic 1/2 liter water bottle Full or empty
I think all the old crustys in E1-3 need to shuffle along the East Stand and let the new bloods take over.
We’ve all been young and daft. At that age me and my mates just wanted to fit in with the more edgy older lads in their late teens/early 20’s and took their lead on how to act at football. If we didn’t have such a dearth of that demographic due to the last few years there’s no way they’d be letting a load of school kids make us look like clowns.
He was also about 10. The blame for that is solely with the parents. What ****ing idiot tells their small child to run on the pitch and get a photo? It’s a football wide phenomenon that need stamping out. Not because I think it’s dangerous, but I just hate the entitled nature of it. Same with begging players for shirts.
At £2 a ticket the “supporter” can walk out when things start going bad and they haven’t lost much..plenty of them on Saturday.
**** off, I'm not moving. A+ is my blood group and it's old school, no allergies or other modern guff.
I don't know how old you are but for me kids nowadays are often nothing like kids when I was one. Too many have next to zero respect for anything or anyone. It's worrying. Not tarring all with the same brush.
This is a really weird post. I don't think it's anything to do with the club. I'm sure they'd sell every seat if they were allowed. If they're not selling them in North any more, it will be because police or SAG or whoever hasn't let them. That's who's pathetic. I didn't expect to be arguing about this, but I was in E1 right next to them, stood there thinking what are them weirdos up to. I did say I didn't want to defend them as such, it's just there's a distinction between what was going on there and when people throw stuff as an aggressive act. They were playing a weird game, being very juvenile. Stewards were watching it and nearby police were watching it and filming them and others. There was no attempt to approach them by anyone in authority. You'd hope that making it clear that it wouldn't be tolerated would be enough. If they reacted with hostility to that then throw the ****ers out or whatever you need to do. But what actually happened wasn't even disorder, it never got that far, it was literally just some kids pissing about in a way that was over the top, and no one challenging them on it. Ending your post by going back to yesterday and comparing your playing down of our historic crowds to me being disappointed by the police response to this incident is baffling. Not sure how to respond to that.
We didn’t either and I reckon most generations generally didn’t going at least all the way back to the 70’s and likely beyond. I don’t think it’s a modern phenomenon, but what has changed is that everything kids get up to nowadays is plastered all over social media, and thus far more people find out about it. Not that that’s a bad thing, just it changes the perception of todays youth vs yesteryears.
Talk to teachers and they will typically tell you things have gradually been getting worse with each year that goes by. My wife has worked in schools for around 25 years now and often comments how dramatically behaviour, standards, respect, etc have gradually worsened during that time (kids and parents).
Sorry I misread your post as I was rushing getting on a plane and responded to what I thought you put.
When I was a lad... It was coins, bolts, and anything sharp / heavy that could be sneaked into the ground... plastic bottles pah...
