Language ban!

[peterc1992]

Theres a new rule in lissywolen and its that if anyone is heard using abusive or foul language is to be removed directly from the stadium!I dont like it!Any some of the fans have held a silent protest!

I would like to know what you think about this "ban".....how would ur fans react?!! i doubt it would work i Dublin.....no negative criticism allowed at all!!Maybe if the manager did something decent we wouldnt have to critisice him! tell me what u think!

[pineapple stu]

It's a rule in all grounds. Never enforced though.

[Raheny Red]

That's a joke! When did this come about in Athlone?

[harry crumb]

Probably easier to enforce at grounds where there are low attendances.

[Sam_Heggy]

Thats Paul Hegarty buggered then, he hasnt a hope unless he's already suspended. :p
Athlone fans travelling up on friday will see what i mean :cool:

[DmanDmythDledge]

A ban on foul language is ridiculous. I can see where they're coming from with the abusive part as you don't want that getting too out of hand but if they try and stop people saying "For **** sake linesman" or stuff like that then it would daft.

[Kildare Lad]

Yeah its been enforced in Station Road recently. Its not too bad, like they dont mean you cant ever curse but try to cut down on it like, we are not allowed use chants with curses in them, but the odd "f**k sake ref" is acceptable!

[shero]

Does that mean a player or manager will be removed from the pitch for using bad langyage. What is the world coming to when you can't go to the football and shout abuse.

[Celdrog]

Does that mean a player or manager will be removed from the pitch for using bad langyage. What is the world coming to when you can't go to the football and shout abuse.
Its already a bookable offence on the pitch is it not?

We should do a deal, if the refs get a grip and start making half decent decisions then we'll stop swearing at them

[The Rebel Ram]

you silly billy ref, that old so and so took the legs from clean under him. He is nothing but a bold boy!
The referees a nuisance!:D

It'll catch on alright!:rolleyes:

[L37Ultra]

Theres a new rule in lissywolen and its that if anyone is heard using abusive or foul language is to be removed directly from the stadium!I dont like it!Any some of the fans have held a silent protest!

I would like to know what you think about this "ban".....how would ur fans react?!! i doubt it would work i Dublin.....no negative criticism allowed at all!!Maybe if the manager did something decent we wouldnt have to critisice him! tell me what u think!

Thats F.u.c.k.i.n.g. stupid!! How can they encourage fans to be passionate if they cant use so called bad lanuage!!

[BohsFans]

on the plus side, you might have more people going to away games just so they can curse! :p

[gunner1]

Its already a bookable offence on the pitch is it not?

We should do a deal, if the refs get a grip and start making half decent decisions then we'll stop swearing at them

maybe!!! if you stop making mistakes on the pitch, you won't need a ref,and everybody will be happy(a**hole)

[Bluebeard]

I would have thought that the ability to be abusive and malcontent on the terraces was one of the things that football provided as a service to society - spleen vented before ever caused violence in an ordinary setting, a katharsis if you will. (For those of you who do not speak ancient Greek, the word you might recognise is "Catharsis")

[superfrank]

It's ridiculous. AFAIK, something similar is being undertaken at the Carlisle. There's a sign at the last match pinned to the stand saying, iirc, "Family is the only F word". I personally think this is utterly unfair. We should be allowed say what we like, this type of censorship is ridiculous. I assure you, if I get thrown out of the Carlisle by my team, I won't be coming back. It's disgraceful the way certain fans (families) are getting preferential treatment while others (in our case the fans that sing and create the atmosphere) are getting tossed aside. If they keep it up, the Carlisle's going to be a graveyard.

I know I'm drivelling on but this is one subject that really annoys me.

[OneRedArmy]

If this is enforced I suspect I'll never see 90 minutes of a match.

Football is supposed to be a release ffs...... put all the kids and sensitive souls in one place out of harms way (like Cork and their family stand).

One of the great things about EL football is that it isn't the plastic, souless, alternative to going to the cinema that the Premiership has become. I'm very worried that the FAI, rather than trying to market the EL as real football, are going to try to implement the Premiership template lock, stock and barrel....

[Sheridan]

I would have thought that the ability to be abusive and malcontent on the terraces was one of the things that football provided as a service to society - spleen vented before ever caused violence in an ordinary setting, a katharsis if you will. (For those of you who do not speak ancient Greek, the word you might recognise is "Catharsis")
Katharsis isn't possible without kathexis, maybe there's not enough to get worked up about in Athlone.

If this is enforced, it's preposterous. They used to have a big NO FOUL LANGUAGE PLEASE! placard at Home Farm, which even the huddle of ancient flat-capped codgers in the corner of the stand used to flout.

[TheSaint2002]

Its stupid the whole LOI will end up like that picnic in father fed

[Bluebeard]

Katharsis isn't possible without kathexis, maybe there's not enough to get worked up about in Athlone.

:D:D:D

[Tir Oilean]

ah for **** sake thats a load ******** ****ing *******!!!:) Going by the last game I attended in Athlone (admittedly in Smels) they'd want to get rid of the ******* throwing stones/bottles at away fans and damaging their cars/slashing tyres and generally giving Town fans a bad name.

[Jerry The Saint]

There's a sign at the last match pinned to the stand saying, iirc, "Family is the only F word".

You should have told them to family off. Stupid familyers.

[Bluebeard]

AFAIK, something similar is being undertaken at the Carlisle. There's a sign at the last match pinned to the stand saying, iirc, "Family is the only F word".
Looks like Bray aren't expecting any high scoring games this year...

[Ash]

Careful now ... Down with that sort of thing

[alltogethernow]

Remember a gaurd trying to enforce it in the Carlise last season........he wasnt helped when every Bohs fan there started singing ''we f**king hate Rovers'':D

[bellavistaman]

silent protest! if i were ye id organise a loud curing protest let them kick the hole stadium out see how they survive then, within a week the rule would be forgotten about,

[Bluebeard]

silent protest! if i were ye id organise a loud curing protest let them kick the hole stadium out see how they survive then, within a week the rule would be forgotten about,

Something like this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c7GaCNK76DI)?

[Battery Rover]

silent protest! if i were ye id organise a loud curing protest let them kick the hole stadium out see how they survive then, within a week the rule would be forgotten about,

All Athlone Town flags were hung upside down and the silent protest went ahead with the Cootes going sshhhhh everytime someone in the ground made a noise

[galwayhoop]

All Athlone Town flags were hung upside down and the silent protest went ahead with the Cootes going sshhhhh everytime someone in the ground made a noise

problem with that is it will last a week or two and then people forget about it.

i think the loud swearing protest would be far more effective. let them throw out all of their regular supporters and see just how many of these family types they are protecting from these obsenities.... answer: fcuk all!

we have to lose this PC bullsh1t from our game. stand up and curse & spit & shout to your hearts content. we are not the premiersh1t we are the EL, home to real football culture - not sanitised merchandising fancy dans!

here's a song i made up to get you going:
fcuk, sh1t, b@stard,
w@nk, w@nk
fcuk, sh1t, b@stard
w@nk, w@nk

imagine the stewards trying to throw out a couple hundred fans for singing that :D:D

[L37Ultra]

problem with that is it will last a week or two and then people forget about it.

i think the loud swearing protest would be far more effective. let them throw out all of their regular supporters and see just how many of these family types they are protecting from these obsenities.... answer: fcuk all!

we have to lose this PC bullsh1t from our game. stand up and curse & spit & shout to your hearts content. we are not the premiersh1t we are the EL, home to real football culture - not sanitised merchandising fancy dans!

here's a song i made up to get you going:
fcuk, sh1t, b@stard,
w@nk, w@nk
fcuk, sh1t, b@stard
w@nk, w@nk

imagine the stewards trying to throw out a couple hundred fans for singing that :D:D


Well said boys!! the FAI are trying make the Eircom League attractive to the Prawn sandwhich type and I dont like that!! so stick with the real fans and lets say F.U.C.K all we want!!

[Needtoknow]

Well said boys!! the FAI are trying make the Eircom League attractive to the Prawn sandwhich type and I dont like that!! so stick with the real fans and lets say F.U.C.K all we want!!

Ah yes the new organisation against the Family element

F.U.C.K = Fans United Cursing Kids. :D

[Partizan]

Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you filthy bung, away!

heres one for Hilda -

Thou misbegotten folly-fallen barnacle!

[peterc1992]

The fact that there was no atmosphere last night,we all got to hear,what came out of the amnagers and players mouth.....in teh case of the new"law" he sud have been ****ed out!along wit the whole squad!How can anyone be ****ed off if we shout something on teh pitch if the players are actually at it themselves!

[GuisaSaigon]

It's more of this family friendly, PC, create a rugby style atmosphere bullsh!t that's attempting to "clean up the league". They are fining clubs for smoke bombs FFS. They'd be better off concentrating on the schooligans throwing rocks at buses than pulling people up on "foul language" It seems some people will never stop in their missions to eliminate atmosphere at LOI games.
Its time to reclaim the game!.......... before its too late!

[Jerry The Saint]

Remember the testimony of the Crystal Palace fan on the receiving end of Cantona's Kung Fu assault when he was explaining what he shouted at him.


"Off! Off! It's an early bath for you, Cantona!"

:D

[NavanBohs]

Its stupid the whole LOI will end up like that picnic in father fed

Ya fuppin' gr*******, this is my fuppin' seat! :mad:

[The Sheliban]

The use of certain "foul and abusive" words can be humorous in certain contexts. However, the fan who just bellows out a constant stream of filth can be odious in the extreme. I imagine this is what the powers that be are trying to cut out.
I'm no psychologist but I would imagine the (predominantly) male need to use bad language at matches could be interpreted as some kind of basic herd aggression thing and aggression on the terraces should be discouraged (I'm just trying to work out the reasoning for it)
Was it Brian Clough who tried to implement something similar at Forest years ago and the fans sung "What the flipping hell was that?" in response?

[feo123]

fare play to athlone, there should be no fcuking cursing at matches

[superfrank]

I'm no psychologist but I would imagine the (predominantly) male need to use bad language at matches could be interpreted as some kind of basic herd aggression thing and aggression on the terraces should be discouraged (I'm just trying to work out the reasoning for it)
I know in my case it's just that I curse an awful lot in my everyday life, not just at football matches. A lot of the people I know that curse heavily at matches are ones that curse a lot in their everyday life also.

People shouldn't be punished for the way they live their lives.

[The Sheliban]

We used to have a song that said "We're not Barcelona but at least we're not Pats"
This, over time, got altered to "We're not Barcelona, thank fcuk we're not Pats"
Why? The word change added nothing to the sentiments but it was perceived as being more laddish, I presume.
I curse a fair bit too but I would curb it when talking to a priest, or my granny, as I would imagine, would most people. What I'm saying is that its not instinctive.

[sniffa]

" The referees independent ". :D

[damoGUFC]

A funny chant:

Bad language woohhhooo
Bad language woohhhooo
you try to make us stop
but we dont give a Fcuk
Bad language woohhhooo!!!

thought it was funny in my head!:D

[SolitudeRed]

This sounds like a daft plan, how the hell can you enforce it, the majority of people at matches swear do you kick them all out!

Although I suppose it is a good reflection on the behaviour of EL fans when the worst thing the authorities have to worry about is fans swearing!

[peterc1992]

Not once have i seen a travelling family to away games......The cootes are always there....So they are ****ed off with us,and will **** most of us out and yet if we didnt go to away games,there would not be any fans there!

[peterc1992]

A funny chant:

Bad language woohhhooo
Bad language woohhhooo
you try to make us stop
but we dont give a Fcuk
Bad language woohhhooo!!!

thought it was funny in my head!:D

I like it,**** us all out!! and see how they get on,the atmosphere was **** yesterday!,all there was was the few occasoinal claps,and a someone told me that there 8 year old son wanted to leave at half time because he was'nt enjoying it!

[galwayhoop]

Not once have i seen a travelling family...

now i hate pidgeon holing people but i would have thought that them kind of families wouldn't have too much of a problem with swearing at football matches! ;):D:D

[galwayhoop]

I curse a fair bit too but I would curb it when talking to a priest, or my granny, as I would imagine, would most people. What I'm saying is that its not instinctive.

i disagree here. you probably, like me, make a concious effort not to swear when speaking to these people (although i don't think i have met your grandmother). when i am talking freely to friends and family i swear quite a bit. even more so at football matches. i don't think i'm am trying to appear more 'laddish' - it's just how i speak. therefore, quite the opposite from your post, i feel that i do use swear words impulseivly and am restraining myself from swearing at other times.

i use the word fcuk fairly often when i speak as i use it to emphasise certain things.

eg:
i haven't a notion of going to your work do.
i haven't a fcuking notion of going to your poxy work do. ;)

[L37Ultra]

I think theres a major difference between shouting at the players and the ref every two seconds saying fcuk u, fcuk this and roaring and shouting abuse at every move of a certain player and having a song with a bad word in it and saying come on lads for fcuksake!! its the first example that the club is trying to get rid of id say!! I dont see the problem its only a f.ucking word and many people say it when they are passionate about something!! The FAI will just get rid of the proper passionate fans who add a bit of an atmosphere to the EL matches!!

[Battery Rover]

Well from what I hear the use of the word "w*nker" will have you removed from the ground. Bit extreme in my opinion

[L37Ultra]

Well from what I hear the use of the word "w*nker" will have you removed from the ground. Bit extreme in my opinion

too extreme!! Just dont turn up and see if they like that!!

[GuisaSaigon]

Well from what I hear the use of the word "w*nker" will have you removed from the ground. Bit extreme in my opinion
They'd be better off removing the w@nkers(themselves) from the ground.

Certain chants are part and parcel of football, LOI clubs would be better served by trying to attract new supporters not alienating the small numbers already coming through the turnstiles.
Sorry to hear about the Athlone "Cootes" supporters club giving up. From what I could see last season at Dubarry Park the Cootes lads were the only proper football people there. The stewards, cops, and schoolies had no business at a football game.