severnside gull
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Wonder how long until someone uses social media to create a false "fan death" which will be taken at face value and then held to ridicule by some **** off the Holmesdale End
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Applauding fans who have passed away
- Thread starter Couldn't Be Hyypia
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Return of the Rev
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What about applauding the esu each game just in case?
maffew
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What about a minutes applause on the 08:07 to Victoria for a regular commuter who passed away
Originally scheduled for 08.07, but delayed until 09.58
The Sock of Poskett
The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)
- Jun 12, 2009
- 2,803
This with bells on. I can totally understand family wanting to see a brief tribute when they've been a lifelong fan, but it's getting too much too often, particularly as often very few in the stadium actually know the person concerned. Once a season, with a collage of photos up on the screen, and a minute's applause, would be fine.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,184
Maybe we could have a "in the event of my untimely demise I do not require a minute's applause" tickbox registered against our Fan Number on the club's database 
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Yes, he can have a clap at the end of the season if we get promotion.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
That would be worthy of a minutes applause simply if the train turned up.
I don't see what the big deal is. If a supporter has been attending matches for 40+ years or been an active member of AITC or REMF for example. What's wrong about acknowledging that with a minutes applause? Who cares that I didn't know the person. I never met Graham Taylor but it didn't stop a minutes applause up and down the country this last weekend.
That's fine. You pick a minute of any game and start clapping. You're bound to be remembering somebody.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,184
The big deal is that the more it is encouraged, the more people will bombard the club with requests (and take instant umbrage on social media if their requests are knocked back), the more devalued the whole thing becomes. Applause compassion fatigue seems to have already set in, and rightly so IMHO. Save it for the programme and/or a pre-match round-up before the last home game of the season. It's just getting silly now.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 11,726
a) Because it becomes a more a habit than a genuine act of remembrance.
b) Because it devalues 'genuine' silences and celebrations - e.g. Poppy Day, Shoreham
c) Because we have 20,000 ST holders, and so realistically should be doing 12 or so people a game (assuming we die at a constant rate over the next 70 odd years)
d) Because it's symptomatic of a wider trend towards overt public Dianaesque 'shared' grief, as opposed to private reflection.
Lush
Mods' Pet
To be fair, I don't think this is a generation snowflake thing. Anyone can lose a sense of perspective when they're grieving. And anyone can feel that, when they've lost someone, they want to 'do' something to make it better.
Jimmehh
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Well considering his mate is 16 (The person who posted the email reply) i'd guess around 16-17. I'm 19 and I think it's pointless! We're not all the same
HitchinSeagull
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- Aug 9, 2012
- 414
Err who are you claiming is the greatest generation? I agree they are being self indulgent but the rest of the vitriol seems a little unnecessary.
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wardy wonder land
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- Dec 10, 2007
- 763
- 1 game wrap-up of all dearly departed from the last 1 game wrap-up
= make it half time of the final (only) home pre-season freindly (get it out the way from important leaugue/cup games)
- montage of pictures on the big tellys
- Make it a Charity game with donations for the club charities (ATIC etc)
- Make the kit "special" for the game - i.e. names of the dearly departed listed in the blue stripes
= make it half time of the final (only) home pre-season freindly (get it out the way from important leaugue/cup games)
- montage of pictures on the big tellys
- Make it a Charity game with donations for the club charities (ATIC etc)
- Make the kit "special" for the game - i.e. names of the dearly departed listed in the blue stripes
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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The act itself is no hardship on anyone. However it has COMPLETELY lost it's meaning (In my opinion, of course).
When I was 12 and first started going to the Withdean I remember the sheer CHILLS it sent down my spine hearing a deadly quiet football crowd for a 1 minute silence or the weird, yet dignified, feeling of a minutes applause with no cheering whilst the game still went on.
It was so rare that it felt truly important and I would reflect on the reason I'm doing it.
Now, it feels we like football fans are applauding every week for people in specific minutes. Again, the act is no effort, but you can see people are just clapping like robots now, often turning to each other saying "whats this one for?". To me, that completely destroys the whole point of doing it in the first place.
People die. We have 25k people coming each week. Someone in that crowd will die every now and then. It's not nice but it's the reality. The first game of the season we will probably have to schedule in 10 rounds of applause for people who have passed over the summer.
When I was 12 and first started going to the Withdean I remember the sheer CHILLS it sent down my spine hearing a deadly quiet football crowd for a 1 minute silence or the weird, yet dignified, feeling of a minutes applause with no cheering whilst the game still went on.
It was so rare that it felt truly important and I would reflect on the reason I'm doing it.
Now, it feels we like football fans are applauding every week for people in specific minutes. Again, the act is no effort, but you can see people are just clapping like robots now, often turning to each other saying "whats this one for?". To me, that completely destroys the whole point of doing it in the first place.
People die. We have 25k people coming each week. Someone in that crowd will die every now and then. It's not nice but it's the reality. The first game of the season we will probably have to schedule in 10 rounds of applause for people who have passed over the summer.
pearl
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Maybe we could have a "in the event of my untimely demise I do not require a minute's applause" tickbox registered against our Fan Number on the club's database
