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Too many spectators

fenn3098fenn3098
in General Charlton
I have noticed the demise of fans around the Valley for many years now. And the increase of spectators and bystanders. I take my boys and encourage them to clap sing and cheer and enjoy themselves and get behind the team. Unfortunately too many people want to sit back a watch the game while talking about t.v shows etc.
rant over.

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  • brogibbrogib
    Grrrr
  • floydroadfaithfullfloydroadfaithfull
    fenn3098 said:

    I have noticed the demise of fans around the Valley for many years now. And the increase of spectators and bystanders. I take my boys and encourage them to clap sing and cheer and enjoy themselves and get behind the team. Unfortunately too many people want to sit back a watch the game while talking about t.v shows etc.
    rant over.

    Not much going on the pitch to talk about
  • ricky_ottoricky_otto
    Halix said:

    Everyone goes to football for their own reasons, not everyone wants to spend their time being vocal, people pay their money and make their own choice.</blockquote

    Exactly right.

  • ricky_ottoricky_otto
    fenn3098 said:

    I have noticed the demise of fans around the Valley for many years now. And the increase of spectators and bystanders. I take my boys and encourage them to clap sing and cheer and enjoy themselves and get behind the team. Unfortunately too many people want to sit back a watch the game while talking about t.v shows etc.
    rant over.

    I don't usually make it as far as my seat. I usually prop myself up at the bar and listen.
  • BedsaddickBedsaddick
    There are always lots of Scandinavian supporters at our matches and I've spoken to quite a few on match day . I'm proud that they come to our games and most buy merchandise as well.
    Long may it continue.
  • ShootersHillGuruShootersHillGuru
    Group of six Eastern Europeans v Brighton. Or is this the wrong thread.
  • se9addickse9addick
    Bedsaddick said:

    There are always lots of Scandinavian supporters at our matches and I've spoken to quite a few on match day . I'm proud that they come to our games and most buy merchandise as well.
    Long may it continue.

    What's the origin of the Scandinavian support ? Claus, Romedhal, JJ or does it go further back than that ?
  • RaplhMilneRaplhMilne
    They think we are Arsenal , and no ones got the balls to tell them otherwise !
  • bobmunrobobmunro
    se9addick said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    There are always lots of Scandinavian supporters at our matches and I've spoken to quite a few on match day . I'm proud that they come to our games and most buy merchandise as well.
    Long may it continue.

    What's the origin of the Scandinavian support ? Claus, Romedhal, JJ or does it go further back than that ?
    Bjorn Borg
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  • CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Lots of Germans in the West Upper against Brighton.
  • I_was_FloydI_was_Floyd
    se9addick said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    There are always lots of Scandinavian supporters at our matches and I've spoken to quite a few on match day . I'm proud that they come to our games and most buy merchandise as well.
    Long may it continue.

    What's the origin of the Scandinavian support ? Claus, Romedhal, JJ or does it go further back than that ?
    Hans Jepson?
  • Brendan_O_ConnellBrendan_O_Connell
    Callumcafc said:

    Lots of Germans in the West Upper against Brighton.

    Bet they can't wait to come back.........
  • UboatUboat
    fenn3098 said:

    I have noticed the demise of fans around the Valley for many years now. And the increase of spectators and bystanders. I take my boys and encourage them to clap sing and cheer and enjoy themselves and get behind the team. Unfortunately too many people want to sit back a watch the game while talking about t.v shows etc.
    rant over.

    Halix said:

    Everyone goes to football for their own reasons, not everyone wants to spend their time being vocal, people pay their money and make their own choice.

    I can sympathise with both viewpoints. I sit in the upper west because I like the view (of the pitch, obviously) and because I'm with my teenage daughter and don't want her exposed to the lower classes (joke - don't write in). I would love it if everyone there was a bit more passionate, sang more etc, but they don't and I'm not going to be the lone nutter. We have some excellent banter, in the genuine sense of the word, but no influence whatsoever on the occasion. At away games I'm a stander and a singer, so environment and culture clearly plays a large part in it.
  • StigStig
    I think we get a bit of footie-tourism from people who come to London and then find that tickets for Premiership teams are hard to come by unless you are absolutely minted. If only we had a way of keeping hold of them.
  • BaldybonceBaldybonce
    floydroadfaithfull said:

    fenn3098 said:

    I have noticed the demise of fans around the Valley for many years now. And the increase of spectators and bystanders. I take my boys and encourage them to clap sing and cheer and enjoy themselves and get behind the team. Unfortunately too many people want to sit back a watch the game while talking about t.v shows etc.
    rant over.

    Not much going on the pitch to talk about
    There must be something to talk about as the amount of chatting going on in the north upper was noticeable last week.

    and, have we lost a drummer?
  • ShootersHillGuruShootersHillGuru
    soapboxsam said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    There are always lots of Scandinavian supporters at our matches and I've spoken to quite a few on match day . I'm proud that they come to our games and most buy merchandise as well.
    Long may it continue.

    The Scandinavians love a good dark drama where there's never a happy ending and it always ends in tears.

    Born Bjorn to be Charlton fans.



  • CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    Callumcafc said:

    Lots of Germans in the West Upper against Brighton.

    Bet they can't wait to come back.........
    It was amusing listening to their thoughts on the game. I don't claim to know the German language inside out but I do know what they mean when they say "ahhh das ist Scheiss!".
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  • AbsurdistanAbsurdistan
    Stig said:

    I think we get a bit of footie-tourism from people who come to London and then find that tickets for Premiership teams are hard to come by unless you are absolutely minted. If only we had a way of keeping hold of them.

    Lock them in the museum.
  • fenn3098fenn3098
    I just loved it when the valley was rocking. I hate when you hear the reporters comment on how great palace fans are.
    I do understand what you say about reasons, I find it a bit embarrassing when it's silent and away fans sing 'this is a library'.
  • Kap10Kap10
    We ahve our moments in the Upper West I can remember flapping my blanket !!!! a few times!!
  • Fanny FanackapanFanny Fanackapan
    Kap10 said:

    We ahve our moments in the Upper West I can remember flapping my blanket !!!! a few times!!

    Baked beans for lunch again, Kap ?

  • DennisEastStandDennisEastStand
    fenn3098 said:

    I have noticed the demise of fans around the Valley for many years now. And the increase of spectators and bystanders. I take my boys and encourage them to clap sing and cheer and enjoy themselves and get behind the team. Unfortunately too many people want to sit back a watch the game while talking about t.v shows etc.
    rant over.

    The way English football is now...just look at the comments lol. Your doing the right thing and make sure you let them know the true values of football, kids now growing up thinking football is a TV show
  • PL54PL54
    Looks like HE'S back !
  • floydroadfaithfullfloydroadfaithfull
    Give me some pride and passion on the pitch and I gladly sing clap and cheer
    And also get out my flask blanket and sandwiches
  • stonemusestonemuse
    PL54 said:

    Looks like HE'S back !

    not sure it's him yet ... still awaiting the 'ultra' comment
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    No it is.

    Dennis / Dan / Matt / Mark / Peter / steve / David, Alice etc

    No more please, we have made clear you are now excluded from this forum. Please no more applications or we made have to take further (which we don't want to)
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