pastythegreat
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How did those protests work? Did "those owners" leave?
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Will our fans behave at County? (11 Viewers)
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Nick
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So running on the pitch to celebrate a goal or getting into the playoffs is mindless but if they say they are doing it because of sisu it's completely different?
I'm specifically talking about the tennis ball one at the Ricoh, I was watching the joy on people's faces while they threw them on. Bouncing about with happiness and were chuffed, not much different to when they went on the pitch on Saturday. Id also have money on the majority being the same people.
The younger generation have grown up thinking it's cool.
Genuine question, have any other fans done it to the extent ours have this season? Can understand the end of the season when promoted like wycombe, accrington etc but just for a normal game?
I wasn't trying to suggest protests are completely to blame either. However last year it was cool and people for respect for running on the pitch, this year it's mindless because we are winning more games.
Great_Expectations
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No, it’ll be full of idiots unfortunately. Nick is right - it’s all about getting kudos. If my life was that pathetic I had to run on a pitch to prove something, I’d be pretty unhappy to say the least.
Saying that, I’ll still be going. Idiots won’t put me off such a significant game.
Saying that, I’ll still be going. Idiots won’t put me off such a significant game.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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I’d be surprised tbh
Only needs 2,000 STH to take up and I’d imagine most will be asked in advance.
Bennosdancingfeet
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It’s cringeworthy to watch blokes in there forties run onto the pitch. Achieves fuckall and makes them look like complete cocks.
However....
If we put 5 past county Saturday night I might just join them
However....
If we put 5 past county Saturday night I might just join them
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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No but managed another relegation under their tenure.
pastythegreat
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Yes, and dropping points at protest games (Charlton, Sheff Utd and Bolton) certainly helped in the cause of that relegation!
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Cavan O'Doherty
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Yes but of course that was down to the fans rather than the players:banghead:
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Your opinion funny how our team was always the one affected,strange that.
Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue
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There’s a hell of a lot of similarities between this fixture and when England played away in Amsterdam on a Friday night two months ago.
A Friday night 7:45pm kick off under the floodlights, in Nottingham - filled with bars and pubs, cheap trains, coaches running from local pubs offering to stay until 2am, biggest game in years...
The ELB Verdict: Get yourself down to Tessuti pronto, whilst there’s still stock left!
A Friday night 7:45pm kick off under the floodlights, in Nottingham - filled with bars and pubs, cheap trains, coaches running from local pubs offering to stay until 2am, biggest game in years...
The ELB Verdict: Get yourself down to Tessuti pronto, whilst there’s still stock left!
Tommo72
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Very true.
Would you agree that plenty will travel without tickets given how difficult it might be to get them?
Bennosdancingfeet
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I agree with a previous poster, should we win over the two legs next Friday they’ll be mayhem, should we lose I predict chaos!!!
Hope not but we all know in big games we attract the bellend brigade
Hope not but we all know in big games we attract the bellend brigade
Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue
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Absolutely. Nottingham is an attractive night out for the under 30 and the game is on SkySports, so even if you can’t get in the Away end or the Home end, there’s still tonnes of pubs that will have it on!
I already know 5 lads who are resigned to not getting a ticket in the Away end and who are doing the above. You’ll still get the pre-match atmosphere even without a ticket to the game. Recipe for carnage!
Think we're being a bit dramatic. There were 12 in our group for the league game, we were in Nottingham at 10am. This time round we're all going by cars at different times after work. Train times are tight, especially if there is extra time so not many will do that. I don't expect any major issues personally. It'll be boisterous with the odd idiot but the I don't buy the predictions of carnage.
pastythegreat
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I think a lot will travel. Especially if we have a decent advantage going into it. They'll sit in hooters or similar and watch it on the Tele. Just to be part of the atmosphere before and after.
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Londonccfcfan
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They don't have a good record in front of the cameras this season. Lost 7 nil one match.
Sky Blue Harry H
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No way. It was a respectable 8-1 at Swansea!
Irish Sky Blue
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If the sole purpose of the protests was to remove the owners then you are right, they didn’t work. For me, and I think for lots of others, they were a way of saying that what this crowd have done and are doing to this club is not right. The alternative was to sit back and just watch. The protests did put pressure on Sisu, gave them publicity that they did not want and again raised the issue of poor owners at a national and parliamentary level. I think that most of the people who took part in protests would be like me, just wanting their club to be run and owned by people who love their club like the fans do. I didn’t see anyone taking part in marches or the pig protests etc who were doing it for the kudos or for “the back slaps” (favourite phrase on here by some when discussing protesters). All I saw were people who love their club and who were trying to do something to try and get it back.
I’ve no time for those who run onto the pitch after a goal or feel the need to take a selfie on the Ricoh pitch. Their motives for being there are completely different to those involved in the protests. I would very much question their love of CCFC, something I have no doubt about when thinking of the thousands involved in the protests.
Irish Sky Blue
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Funny how the Charlton fans protested at both games and they picked up four points to our one. If you are a Charlton fan the obvious think to do is protest more as it helps the team.
There is no proof at all that any of the protests contributed to the team’s failings. Look at how many other soft or late goals we conceded last season without the help of any protest.
The fact is that until Robins returned we were a poor team prone to losing goals and matches at any stage of the game.
Adge
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Lets seperate the 2. I was at Cheltenham(not sure if you were there or not) and there was an arse who keep running across after every goal was scored from one stand to the other. So from that perspective that was just rediculous and like you say mindless. Please don't embarrass yourself and label the people who went on last season against Sheffield Utd "mindless" aswell because they wanted to be seen as "cool".
skybluepm2
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Blue smoke bombs everywhere
With the cringeworthy status of ‘No pyro No party’ plastered over social media. Knobs.
Not on here I might add
Nick
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But if he was in the Telegraph saying he wanted to get the plight attention he would be lauded.
That's my point.
I used the tennis balls example as that was more mindless.
Last season somebody runs on the pitch with smoke bombs when we aren't doing well and they are martyrs.
This year when they do after a goal they aren't
Londonccfcfan
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I called their corporate hospitality earlier as a lot my friends won't get tickets. Non season ticket holders. They do a hospitality box for 8 for 360 which isn't bad.45 quid each. Not extortionate. But problem is they still got them reserved till 9am Thursday. As that's the deadline for their corporate sponsors to 're book by. Then they will be released to us punters and they arnt fussed who they sell them too. She told me she sold quite a few to Luton fans last week.
Irish Sky Blue
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Thousands of people took part in marches or various protests last season. If they were doing it for getting their face in the telegraph or for getting those “back slaps” then most of them failed. I remember the older chap in his wheel chair who had been following the team for so long he had seen Carrie Bourton play and who was on the march from Foleshill Park. Was he protesting for attention or because he was sick of Sisu? What about the elderly lady who I saw at nearly every game last season who, as the teams came out, held up a handwritten card saying “Sisu Out”. She was only there for the back slaps? They were the sort of people I saw at protests. People who cared about and who loved this club. To say that they are the same sort of people with the same motivations as the thick necked forty somethings who have been cavorting on the pitch lately is doing them and other people who protested a disservice. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and to actions that they did or didn’t take with regard to Sisu. Why is it that some choose to sneer and try to belittle people when the only motivation for things they have done is love of their club and complete dismay at the things being done to it?
cov4theprem
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MK never made general sale. There was around 500 that made it to match package holders and they went in 5 mins.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Cheers for clarifying
I guess the 6 per STH meant it was pretty much general sale.
Adge
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So you were quite happy then last season to watch the demise, while quietly ridiculing othes (on here or otherwise) who were trying to bring attention to the fore in the best interests of the club, while yourself and others continued to maintain the Status Quo and bumble along come what may?
Sky Blue Harry H
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Shall we change the thread title to 'Will our fans behave on the forum?'
lifeskyblue
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Says far more about the players we had last year than the fans who have followed us for years
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Legia Sky Blue
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It clearly means we can't trust season ticket holders to wisely use the extra tickets they get entitled to. May as well just entitle season ticket holders to their own ticket and no more as the borish behavour at Cheltenham, Forest Green & MK was obviously all down to Season Ticket holders & their mates!
Sick Boy
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Someone was caught with a smoke bomb there and jailed for 28 days!!
I've said before though that I've been surprised that we've not been fined yet.
Cranfield Sky Blue
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I’m in my fifties so I would look so cool.... if I could muster the energy to get pitchside!
Liquid Gold
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I might be in the minority but I actually quite like the smoke bombs. Been to plenty of games on the continent where they use them without bother and it can add to the atmosphere.
Johhny Blue
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Wouldn't it just be full of balls by the end of the game?