The minute's silence today.

[GoldWithFalmer]

They were led by the Royal British Legion standards. I think the club and all concerned did us very proud. Stop trying to pick holes in it, you are knocking the club and extremely unjustly.

One of the guys in a suit with the medals on yesterday had a pressing engagment prior to the match and got to the game and just in time to be there and give up his time and is off to London today and also giving up his time,not cheap at all and is a fine citizen how others can knock the club is beyond me..

Edit: i was in agreement with [MENTION=5200]Buzzer[/MENTION]

 

[Bozza]

As I have said on here many times an escort of serving personnel gives recognition to those serving at the moment, many of them local and Brighton supporters, who until very recently were involved in active service in Afghanistan. I am not degrading the Sally Army trumpeters just trying to promote our serving soldiers, sailors and airmen.

You are a remarkable individual, you really are. Yesterday was both classy and respectful in equal measure and the club should be lauded for how they marked the occasion, and they have been by many. Not you though, oh no. You have be snidey wherever possible, looking for fault and blame where there is simply nothing to find. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Either that or you are a parody account.

 

[Beach Hut]

Another nice touch was the display on the electronic perimeter advertising during the silence

 

[BensGrandad]

My assumption of cost was based on the fact that most military bands charge, what that charge is I dont know and have no idea whatsoever. What people do not seem to be able to grasp was that yesterday there was no recognition of the people who are serving at the moment many as I said local and Brighton supporters; unlike most clubs seen on the FL Show who had a number of serving personnel to represent them. Despite what you say Edna it is not a knock at the club as such, merely an observation that could have made it even better.

 

[nwgull]

As I explained it was not a knock at the club but I do think the club could have perhaps provided an escort of serving personnel to lead the players out or similar. Not a big thing but it is the little things that have helped keep the good name of this club.

Yes you are. You're picking holes in the tiniest of things to criticise the club. I'm fed up of so-called supporters like you.

 

[BensGrandad]

Ok I am wrong lets just forget those serving now and any that could lose their lives in the very near future, they do not deserve or warrant recognition.

 

[Buzzer]

Ok I am wrong lets just forget those serving now and any that could lose their lives in the very near future, they do not deserve or warrant recognition.

Even for you, that's low. Very low. Have a word with yourself.

 

[Dandyman]

I thought the minutes silence was wonderfully done. Dignified and moving without the need for overt militarism.

 

[BensGrandad]

That is exactly what you lot that are saying about me 'knocking the club' are insinuating I have said all along it is and would be my way of showing recognition to those people and I think the club should have done so also.

 

[Creaky]

Ok I am wrong lets just forget those serving now and any that could lose their lives in the very near future, they do not deserve or warrant recognition.

Not at all but but Remembrance services are NOT military ceremonies - quite the opposite.

 

[Triggaaar]

dont understand why it always the Army not Navy or RAF, but what did we have The Salvation Army at probably little or no cost to the club. Whist not wishing to knock the club it is indicative of our club at the moment everything as cheap as possible.

That is knocking the club. It would be like me saying 'whilst not wishing to be rude, you are a ****ing ***' (that's is an example, I'm not actually saying it or thinking it). Everyone seems to be of the opinion that the remembrance part was done well, no one else seems to think the club should have done more.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

All three services are represented for remberance day be it past present or future...

This is my understanding,further perhaps it's best to agree to disagree and move forwards for all posters on this thread.....it
would be petty and disrespectful to continue to argue and sqauble on a subject with such pain and suffering throughout history to allow it to continue...

could the thread be locked at all?

 

[Soulman]

I thought the minutes silence was wonderfully done. Dignified and moving without the need for overt militarism.

I totally agree. Well done to all concerned.

 

[Everest]

I thought Remembrance was to remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty, not to remind us how many idiots there are about.

 

[edna krabappel]

That is exactly what you lot that are saying about me 'knocking the club' are insinuating I have said all along it is and would be my way of showing recognition to those people and I think the club should have done so also.

Nobody else has "insinuated" anything. The only person on here who has insinuated anything (and I'd suggest it wasn't so much an insinuation as an outright accusation) is yourself, with your words- and I quote- "it is indicative of our club at the moment everything as cheap as possible".

I'm labouring the point, I realise, and for that I apologise to other NSC users. But I am just genuinely staggered that even you would use the Remembrance weekend commemorations as an excuse to have a cheap and entirely unnecessary pop at all the good that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club did yesterday.

 

[Hillian1]

The remembrance of the fallen was very well observed by all but watching the FL show I did notice that most Championship clubs had a military presence. dont understand why it always the Army not Navy or RAF, but what did we have The Salvation Army at probably little or no cost to the club. Whist not wishing to knock the club it is indicative of our club at the moment everything as cheap as possible.

BG, I mean no disrespect by this post but I am genuinely worried about you, your posts over these last months have become increasingly odd.

 

[El Presidente]

He is banned again for having the audacity to suggest that the club should have recognised current serving soldiers etc in yestedays commemoration. Pathetic action by El Presidente perhaps Harty is correct about the mods and censorship of anything said against the club.

Alternatively he wasn't banned but instead was given an infraction for hijacking a thread in relation to the minute's silence yesterday.

Do you agree with his view that those presently serving don't deserve recognition?

 

[Hillian1]

On another note:

I've just got back from The Burgess Hill Rememberance service, I swear it gets bigger every year.

It's very good to see.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Why the implication that a Salvation Army bugler has less of a standing at a remembrance service than one from the armed forces. The Salvation Army have supported our men and women in conflicts from the Boer War to present day.

Well said, Creaky.
When my Dad's ship was sunk in the Med in WW2, it was the Sally Army who sorted out all his lost papers, and those of his shipmates as well.

 

[flying high]

Absolute rubbish he is saying the exact opposite the serving soldiers werent recognised and should have been just by the attendance and appearance of a small escort. He is a very proud man remembering his grandfather led the burial party at the tomb of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey