I was near the front yesterday, where somebody who sat next to me stood up to give a clap to Solly after a quality tackle. After the man stood up a 78 year old man, who reiterated his age numerous times, who sat behind the man standing up started shouting a hell of a lot of swear words at the man who stood to clap Solly. I was just wondering what everybody thought about standing/sitting at away matches. My opinion is that if you go to away games you should standas it builds a better atmosphere, for the people who may say well you should have moved to the back where there was standing, but then you get the problem of people sitting/standing in their incorrect seat.
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Usually at away games we stand where we want (usually at the back) and let the people that want to sit down go down the front, that way everybody is happy.
I think it depends on the situation. If you're sitting in the front row and there are people behind who want to sit then I think one should be respectful of that. However, I do think sometimes too much effort is put in by stewards trying to make the back few rows sit down when everyone's happy and they're not doing any harm.
I don't think it's right to expect everyone to stand at all away matches as this excludes certain people from going which then isn't fair.
Of course, if we had safe standing this wouldn't be an issue...(tin hat)
I don't do it as much now I'm a little bit older! If you want people in front to sit down because its a bit of a struggle to be on your feet all game, or because you can't see then its fair enough. Have a quiet word and be polite about it, shouting "SIDDAARRNNN" isn't going to get you far.
There was a lot of standing initially last night and we were a row in front of an 86 year old who was being accompanied by people telling everyone they had no respect etc (if we had sat down, we'd not see anything). One of our group went out of his way to get a steward to see if there was a few seats near the front (which there were) but the old fella and his mates preferred to keep on moaning rather than move.
It's a difficult one but people don't seem to want/be flexible.
We just haven't got the personality as a fanbase to all stand for the match
Also, the "standing makes a better atmosphere" point always baffles me. It's not physically impossible to sing/shout whilst sitting down, so why do we always sing more when there's a larger standing contingent?
I avoided last nights game for this reason.
no one has to tell us to sit down, shut up.
Controversial as it may sound the development of this will always be pegged back by Hillsborough and the PC nature of UK society.
On a lighter note, I said to my daughter, "You should stand up when we chant 'Stand up if you love Charlton'."
Her reply, "But I don't love Charlton. When they chant 'Stand up if Charlton is your favourite team' I'll stand up."
Just not often enough
I still prefer to stand so gravitate towards the back. Do get a bit annoyed when someone gives it the 'siddarn' when you've spontaneously jumped to your feet at an exciting bit of action. Sometimes you just can't help but react.