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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!
It's a rule in all grounds. Never enforced though.
That's a joke! When did this come about in Athlone?
Probably easier to enforce at grounds where there are low attendances.
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:
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.
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!
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by shero
We should do a deal, if the refs get a grip and start making half decent decisions then we'll stop swearing at them
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:
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!!Quote:
Originally Posted by peterc1992
on the plus side, you might have more people going to away games just so they can curse! :p
maybe!!! if you stop making mistakes on the pitch, you won't need a ref,and everybody will be happy(a**hole)Quote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
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")
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.
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....
Katharsis isn't possible without kathexis, maybe there's not enough to get worked up about in Athlone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebeard
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.
Its stupid the whole LOI will end up like that picnic in father fed
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Originally Posted by Sheridan
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.
You should have told them to family off. Stupid familyers.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Looks like Bray aren't expecting any high scoring games this year...Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Careful now ... Down with that sort of thing
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
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by bellavistaman
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 noiseQuote:
Originally Posted by bellavistaman
problem with that is it will last a week or two and then people forget about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
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
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Originally Posted by galwayhoop
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 elementQuote:
Originally Posted by L37Ultra
F.U.C.K = Fans United Cursing Kids. :D
Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you filthy bung, away!
heres one for Hilda -
Thou misbegotten folly-fallen barnacle!
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!
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!
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.
:DQuote:
"Off! Off! It's an early bath for you, Cantona!"
Ya fuppin' gr*******, this is my fuppin' seat! :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSaint2002
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?
fare play to athlone, there should be no fcuking cursing at matches
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Sheliban
People shouldn't be punished for the way they live their lives.
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.
" The referees independent ". :D