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MortimericianMortimerician
edited October 2008 in General Charlton
...did a good job today, but it was interesting that Magilton had picked up on our high plastic quotient and specifically mentioned in the press conference that Charlton is a place that you can come and silence the support by getting on top in the first half. True, certainly, but sad that it is so obvious to an outsider. My blood boils when I read some of the comments on here and when I watch people walking out of the N Upper with 5 minutes to go, when we're 2 -1 up.

Get behind the team or get f**ked and support Man U or whatever you plastics do, your whining and lack of support is dragging the club down and is now forming part of the opposition team talks. You people are an utter embarrassment and disgrace. We'd be better off without you, it's official.

Thanks,

Morts
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  • Off_itOff_it
    Easy there Morts - otherwise it's a one way trip to the A&E for you!

    For what it's worth, I didn't think our support overall was that good today - but then I think that was probably understandable as there was definitely a tension in the air. And fug me, it got a bit cold second half didn't it? Last home game I had shots on, this one I was tucked up under an overcoat. Thank the Lord for my flask!
  • MortimericianMortimerician
    Why?
  • Off_itOff_it
    Ooops - I didn't mean you were in for a chinning Morts!

    I'm just sensing some cardiac strain with that outburst.

    Take it easy, chill, pour yourself a strong one and come along for the ride. It's what we seem to do best!
  • Chirpy RedChirpy Red
    In the context of where we are, I thought today's support was excellent. They brought more than Shef Wed but made less noise.
  • Stu_of_KunmingStu_of_Kunming
    [cite]Posted By: Mortimerician[/cite]Get behind the team or get f**ked and support Man U or whatever you plastics do, your whining and lack of support is dragging the club down and is now forming part of the opposition team talks. You people are an utter embarrassment and disgrace. We'd be better off without you, it's official.


    Couldnt be more true.
  • Valley_floyd_redValley_floyd_red
    Having been to few away game this season I have to say that our home support is pretty bloody good this season. The Ipswich fans were much more reserved than the Wednesday fans, I got chatting to a few of the Sheffield lot in the liberal club and they were a great bunch. The Ipswich fans seemed timid by comparison.
  • raddickleraddickle
    When our 'supporters' started booing the team at half time I started thinking that Simon Jordan has a point.
  • CHGCHG
    [cite]Posted By: raddickle[/cite]When our 'supporters' started booing the team at half time I started thinking that Simon Jordan has a point.
    I could not believe that either, senseless.
  • Friend Or DefoeFriend Or Defoe
    [cite]Posted By: Mortimerician[/cite]...did a good job today, but it was interesting that Magilton had picked up on our high plastic quotient and specifically mentioned in the press conference that Charlton is a place that you can come and silence the support by getting on top in the first half. True, certainly, but sad that it is so obvious to an outsider. My blood boils when I read some of the comments on here and when I watch people walking out of the N Upper with 5 minutes to go, when we're 2 -1 up.

    Get behind the team or get f**ked and support Man U or whatever you plastics do, your whining and lack of support is dragging the club down and is now forming part of the opposition team talks. You people are an utter embarrassment and disgrace. We'd be better off without you, it's official.

    Thanks,

    Morts
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    This is the best post of the season so far. I couldn't of said it any better myself.

    At the start of the second half was it me or were some fans booing Bouazza & Youga? Some blokes near me were shouting 'don't be so xxxxxx negative' I think as supports it is something we can sort out.
  • ShootersHillGuruShootersHillGuru
    Spot on Morts. Twats were booing behind me as the players went off at half time. I just despair really.
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  • leftbehindleftbehind
    Yeah heard a few boos whats wrong with these pricks?

    People streaming out when we are winning is amazing saturday afternoon !!! NO EXCUSE FOR IT
  • bingaddickbingaddick
    I hate it when people boo the team. I accept that people have that right, I just wish they wouldn't exercise it because it is soooooooooo counter-productive. I have not seen a game this season where the players have not given less than 100% (even against Palarse when they out muscled us). I thought in did go a bit quiet after the scored but we picked it up again in the second half. Having a muppet of a Ref helps though as he wound everybody up and got us going again.
  • cafckevcafckev
    I was in the club shop before the game yesterday. There was a young kid about 7 or 8 with a group of adults.
    He got all excited when he saw the horns that you blow, and asked his dad if he could have one. His dad said no because if he blew it too much all the people sitting around him would be annoyed, and complain!
    The poor kid was gutted. But what does it say about our fans complaining about a young kid having fun at a football match?
  • MortimericianMortimerician
    [cite]Posted By: bingaddick[/cite]I hate it when people boo the team. I accept that people have that right, I just wish they wouldn't exercise it because it is soooooooooo counter-productive. I have not seen a game this season where the players have not given less than 100% (even against Palarse when they out muscled us). I thought in did go a bit quiet after the scored but we picked it up again in the second half. Having a muppet of a Ref helps though as he wound everybody up and got us going again.
    To be fair I'd have even less hair if I was a Palace supporter, I've never seen such a gash home support.

    The ref was vile and it does help having an obvious hate figure - the good refs against Palace and Weds took the wind out of our sails a bit.
  • leftbehindleftbehind
    [quote][cite]Posted By: cafckev[/cite]I was in the club shop before the game yesterday. There was a young kid about 7 or 8 with a group of adults.
    He got all excited when he saw the horns that you blow, and asked his dad if he could have one. His dad said no because if he blew it too much all the people sitting around him would be annoyed, and complain!
    The poor kid was gutted. But what does it say about our fans complaining about a young kid having fun at a football match?[/quote]

    sums up the new modern football fan

    shame
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    hey there are enough people on here who are in the " sit down at the front" mafia. Its not long --after all the ooooooooooooooo sooooooooooo naughty songs are banned and people wear seat belts when in the ground that after a win people will stand up clapping and shout enchour (sic), opera glasses will be behind every seat.-------------------------------- once we were warriors, ate mad cow pies, pissed in o hole in the ground and got wet when it rained -----------sign tisk tisk tisk.
  • Kap10Kap10
    I thought today the crowd were ok, got behind the players at the beginning, but we are as tense as the players were when we went 1-0 up. I feel overall the crowd do back the team, with a few exceptions, but there is not just an onus on the fans lifting the players buit also the players doing their bit for the fans, its hard to keep going when you feel here we go again. There has been precious little to sing about for four or five or more seasons at home, but we can do it.
  • LedgeLedge
    [cite]Posted By: cafckev[/cite]I was in the club shop before the game yesterday. There was a young kid about 7 or 8 with a group of adults.
    He got all excited when he saw the horns that you blow, and asked his dad if he could have one. His dad said no because if he blew it too much all the people sitting around him would be annoyed, and complain!
    The poor kid was gutted. But what does it say about our fans complaining about a young kid having fun at a football match?


    I would have bought 2
  • lancashire ladlancashire lad
    We used to be a ST holders in the Lower West and I know we gave it up as having moved North we can't afford the travel costs but the one other thing that really pi##ed me off was when I shouted "Come on Charlton" ( which I do quiet a lot, usually when the cowd is quiet) I got supporters turning round and frowning at me, and as singing VFR - not many joined in.

    But I s'pose the reality is thathe club needs the money from all types people and it is up to us supporters to keep the true support going - see some of you at Birmingham!

    COME ON CHARLTON!
  • reservesreserves
    When I go to a game, I'll do what I like thanks, If I want to leave 30 mins I will do, I pay my money (when I do pay).

    If I want to boo I will too.

    Being a fan isn't supposed to be a prison sentence, people get different things out of it. I'm not as fanatical about Charlton as I was 5 years ago, I'm 5 years older and other things have taken priority, does this mean I have to support Man U now?

    btw I never leave early and can't remember the last time I booed (but if I could of booed directly in Pardews face last week at Palace I would have done, half time and full time)
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  • leftbehindleftbehind
    maybe move all the ones who want to sing in the North Upper or Lower boring plastic's in the East & West.

    Anyone caught in the North frowning tutting & shouting Sid downnnnn will be frog marched to the East
  • Barn Door VarneyBarn Door Varney
    I don't tell people not to boo they don't tell me not to sing, it works both ways.

    As reserves says, you get what you want from it. Personally If I got to the point where all I was doing is moaning for 90 minutes as some do, I'd save my money and find something elase to do with my saturday afternoon but each to their own. I don't understand it but it is their right.
  • Chirpy RedChirpy Red
    [cite]Posted By: leftbehind[/cite]maybe move all the ones who want to sing in the North Upper or Lower boring plastic's in the East & West.

    Anyone caught in the North frowning tutting & shouting Sid downnnnn will be frog marched to the East

    More people left the Upper North at 85 mins than the East and West combined on Sat. FACT.
  • KetmanKetman
    Must admit I was in North & loads were streaming out before the end, probably the same clowns that Booed at Half Time !
  • WilmaWilma
    My nephew asked me if the game had finished at about 85 mins and when I said no, he said "But everyone is leaving".
  • SaladSalad
    booing and leaving early - not only pathetic but dumb since it was a really good game
  • Valley11Valley11
    I 'you tubed' Charlton the other day and there was a highlights package of the Play Off final. They had an interview with Richard Murray at the end which I found interesting and could help to explain the makeup of our supporters now.

    Murray said the Play Off game was the best possible advert for Charlton as it gave about 20,000 (plus those who watched it on TV) new supporters the perfect image of the club.

    We'd just increased The Valley to 20,000 and the newbies who witness that amazing game were clambering to get a seat the following season.

    I mention this because I think a lot of the booers are those who started supporting Charlton at Wembley.

    They've got that game ingrained as their idea of Charlton, as much as the rest of us have playing Grimsby on a Tuesday night in front of 3,000 at Upton Park etc.

    Supporting Charlton for me has always been about being an underdog. But for the post-Wembley fans it's about one of the most incredible football matches the game's ever seen.

    I live in Bristol now so don't get to as many games as I used to but I went to Wolves a couple of weeks ago with a Spurs season ticket holder friend of mine - and to be honest, I was embarrassed of our supporters.

    It wasn't only the boo's and rants, it was the total lack of passion.

    One bloke sat behind us was willing Wolves to score because ‘Charlton deserve it'....I mean, come on!

    My mate said it all seemed like a nice day out but totally passionless. He said he got the feeling that a lot of people didn't really seem to care much either way - win or lose - and I agree with him.

    What has happened to the atmosphere at The Valley?
  • stoneroses19stoneroses19
    Worst guy on saturday was just behind me and spent the 2nd half shouting negative comments to zheng, including 'f**k off back to china'.

    Disgraceful.
  • LenGloverLenGlover
    In my experience Valley 11 the "booers" tend to be fans who claim to have been around for donkeys years and also claim to go to plenty of away games rather than the "new breed." I am not saying you are wrong but just mentioning my own observations over the years.
  • Valley11Valley11
    Interesting Len. As I say, I haven't been a regular at The Valley for a couple of seasons now.

    Perhaps what I saw and heard was just symptomatic of football supporters the country over. By becoming more PC and family friendly, perhaps we've lost some of that passionate support from yesteryear.

    Perhaps I've just got my rose tinted specs on, I don't know.

    The atmosphere just seemed so laboured and disinterested - apart from the knobs who wanted to slate the team.

    What happened to player songs?

    And where's the drummer?
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