Well I think your stance on Allam and his preposterous name change is explained here as you've clearly only started going this season. What a plonker.
I want new fans to come in to the club. But when a new fan starts demanding unprecedented changes and is constantly snide about people who have been going for most of their lives and what they’re passionate about - they can **** right off. Not needed at Hull City.
Embarrassed at "the greatest football team the world has ever seen" what the **** are you on. Now if you had said "mauled by the tigers" maybe, but every club sings the greatest.
Someone needs to sit on your head and fart loudly. I'm guessing you got on board this year, welcome to the bandwagon. "Hull Tigers LTD are by a very long way the greatest football team the world has ever seen" Bet you sang it loud & proud all the way home on the bandwagon. " the rest of the chants seemed good fun." Oh jolly hockey sticks, let's play some rugger rah rah rah. I've got one brewing, where's your head?
I didn't really read this properly until someone else quoted it and it confuses me a bit. You seem to be saying that folk, who buy a ticket for a seat, in a sitting only stadium, are wrong to ask those who decide to stand to sit down, indeed they are wrong not to have anticipated the location of all of the Standers (I understand you speak of home games). I agree there are two camps of preference, but surely it is the wit of those who stand that needs to be addressed - that is, until someone can provide an option for standing without impeding the view of others. It's a sitting only stadium, so perhaps, rather than relying on the legal Sitters to use their wit, the illegal Standers should form a campaign group (maybe Standing Till We Die or something catchy like that) and fight for safe standing and the right to stand at the back and abuse no-one - perhaps they could organise, through the campaign group, a block booking of Standers and negotiate a discount so they can have eleven pints and a periscope to see over their shoulders. Just a thought from the terraces. Does the simple act of common courtesy not come into the reckoning somewhere?
Illegal is a wrong term. There is no law against standing at a football match. No one can be prosecuted for it. It is a ground regulation and you can be ejected if it is causing a problem. For some reason we seem to have more people who it causes a problem with than other clubs. Presumably they don't have as many old, infirm supporters as us or kids who can't stand. Or maybe we have a majority of fans who only started going after we moved into a shiny, new, all seater stadium.
i was in 110 thought they were a good mixed bunch and to me it seemed a good atmosphere, ive got a bad throat today though
Snap, I was in 115 & no one had any problems near me, although I couldn't really hear that much due to my shouting.
I was in 112 an old boy twice reported two lads for standing during "If your Hull City stand up" plus was verbally abusive towards them. I dont know what happened but the old boy moved seat to the end of the row, harmony then once more returned.
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Thanks, yes, I choose a weak term to explain my point; I should have used compliant and non-compliant, as in terms of their admittance T&Cs. I've been around a fair few grounds and persistent standing in sitting areas pisses most folk off. The standing is against the law, but only within the bounds of civil law, rather than criminal law. The abuse and physical violence is against criminal law and the day will come when it will be implemented, unless someone gets some sense and sorts the system out. I think the first part of your final reasoning is probably more correct than the second, or maybe a lot of these Standers are arseholes who face you more than they watch the game and will have no idea of what happened until they see the highlights - some of those hooligans who keep the so-called myth alive. Edit: This offers a decent explanation: http://www.fsf.org.uk/campaigns/safe-standing/the-legalities-of-standing/
Yet at Liverpool, on this weekend of all weekends, 12,000 people on the Kop stood for the whole 90 minutes. As loads do at other grounds without all the fuss it causes amongst our fans. Even when we don't sell our allocation at away games and there blocks of empty seats people who want to sit don't move. Away fans at the KC are nearly all stood up, whereas we will probably win an award for the most away fans sitting. When away fans at the KC don't sell out their allocation they seem to manage to end up with all those wishing to stand and get behind the team congregated together. Why can't we manage the same?
