What are the things you hate regarding fitba?

[TheScarf]

On 22/05/2020 at 12:04, Melanius Mullarkay said:

The ever ending greeting amongst “fans” about the lack of a “match day experience”.

Have a couple of pints, get into the game, be subjected to abject misery for 45 mins, maybe a half time pie, repeat abject misery, couple of pints after the game.

What more do you fucking want?  Heards of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the pitch at half time? Mount Krakatoa erupting from the top of the main stand whenever there’s a corner? Milfy nurses dotted strategically about the stands to mop your brows? 

Just saw this, theres a guy on CaleyThistleOnline who is always bleating like a wee hoor about this.

'Make it a good atmosphere outside the ground, have stalls selling food, a beat the goalie, tables and benches for eating food, something for the kids etc'

Something for the kids is what soft play areas were invented for m8, not outside a football ground. Take your kids there if they're bored at the football.

[ArabGaz]

5 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

Just saw this, theres a guy on CaleyThistleOnline who is always bleating like a wee hoor about this.

'Make it a good atmosphere outside the ground, have stalls selling food, a beat the goalie, tables and benches for eating food, something for the kids etc'

Something for the kids is what soft play areas were invented for m8, not outside a football ground. Take your kids there if they're bored at the football.

Must admit that a guy suggesting ‘beat the goalie’ outside stadiums amused me somewhat. Fine if it’s a 1980’s summer gala, perhaps not so much in a stadium carpark in the January sleet.

[TheScarf]

3 minutes ago, ArabGaz said:

Must admit that a guy suggesting ‘beat the goalie’ outside stadiums amused me somewhat. Fine if it’s a 1980’s summer gala, perhaps not so much in a stadium carpark in the January sleet.

That's kind of what I was thinking too.  Where is all of this going to take place?  On the pavement next to Stadium Road?

[Sergeant Wilson]

41 minutes ago, Smurph said:

Digitally wearable shirts

 

I hope it comes in big sizes.

[Charles Stiles]

I went to a Man City game and found the City Square 'pre-match experience' as underwhelming as most fans there. Not many were paying any attention to the stage with the DJ, local band and interview with some unheard of former player. A big screen with old match highlights faired little better. All that mattered were the beers and food bits. It's going to take clubs a lot longer than they think to Americanise the UK fan's desire for a couple of beers and a chat with your mates as the preferred build up when actually going to a match.

[highlandcowden]

On 02/08/2022 at 12:43, Charles Stiles said:

I went to a Man City game and found the City Square 'pre-match experience' as underwhelming as most fans there. Not many were paying any attention to the stage with the DJ, local band and interview with some unheard of former player. A big screen with old match highlights faired little better. All that mattered were the beers and food bits. It's going to take clubs a lot longer than they think to Americanise the UK fan's desire for a couple of beers and a chat with your mates as the preferred build up when actually going to a match.

Football historys littered with business types totally failing to get what makes supporters tick 

[tamthebam]

1 hour ago, highlandcowden said:

Football historys littered with business types totally failing to get what makes supporters tick 

Hiya FC Edinburgh, Hiya pals! 

[pozbaird]

On 02/08/2022 at 12:43, Charles Stiles said:

I went to a Man City game and found the City Square 'pre-match experience' as underwhelming as most fans there. Not many were paying any attention to the stage with the DJ, local band and interview with some unheard of former player. A big screen with old match highlights faired little better. All that mattered were the beers and food bits. It's going to take clubs a lot longer than they think to Americanise the UK fan's desire for a couple of beers and a chat with your mates as the preferred build up when actually going to a match.

I go to London every year for the NFL International games, and the pre-match ‘razzmatazz, outside Wembley or Spurs works. It works because no matter who the two teams playing are, there will be 60,000 to 80,000 NFL fans there wearing jerseys of all 32 NFL teams. Not a tribal situation involving a home team, and a long standing, mostly unliked (or stronger) visiting rival.

The fan zones and beer trucks, stages and cheerleaders etc ramps up the excitement at Wembley for Jacksonville Jaguars v Philadelphia Eagles (or whoever), and I’m well up for joining in, wearing my Denver Broncos jersey even though they’re not playing, and there’s no aggro, no issue.

It would do absolutely fcuk-all for me in the car park at the SMiSA Stadium for a midweek game against Ross County in January, in the pissing rain and freezing cold.

[DiegoDiego]

Fan zones (a horrific phrase which has unfortunately stuck) do work for football in many other countries, including ones with far colder winners than us.

The only thing which would prevent it being done well here would be nanny state/think of the children/NIMBYism.

[Sergeant Wilson]

17 hours ago, pozbaird said:

I go to London every year for the NFL International games, and the pre-match ‘razzmatazz, outside Wembley or Spurs works. It works because no matter who the two teams playing are, there will be 60,000 to 80,000 NFL fans there wearing jerseys of all 32 NFL teams. Not a tribal situation involving a home team, and a long standing, mostly unliked (or stronger) visiting rival.

The fan zones and beer trucks, stages and cheerleaders etc ramps up the excitement at Wembley for Jacksonville Jaguars v Philadelphia Eagles (or whoever), and I’m well up for joining in, wearing my Denver Broncos jersey even though they’re not playing, and there’s no aggro, no issue.

 

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

[pozbaird]

Just now, Sergeant Wilson said:

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

Fair enough. I’d rather stick pins in my eyes than watch horse racing or cricket.

Each to their own though.

[Miguel Sanchez]

On 02/08/2022 at 11:45, Smurph said:

Digitally wearable shirts

 

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The more I read, the less I understand.

[Miguel Sanchez]

They've done the same for Real Betis

Note the gibberish, teamed with something inherently worthless, teamed with the apparent scarcity of something which is a digital image

We have a new winner for the thread

[Charles Stiles]

18 hours ago, pozbaird said:

I go to London every year for the NFL International games, and the pre-match ‘razzmatazz, outside Wembley or Spurs works. It works because no matter who the two teams playing are, there will be 60,000 to 80,000 NFL fans there wearing jerseys of all 32 NFL teams. Not a tribal situation involving a home team, and a long standing, mostly unliked (or stronger) visiting rival.

The fan zones and beer trucks, stages and cheerleaders etc ramps up the excitement at Wembley for Jacksonville Jaguars v Philadelphia Eagles (or whoever), and I’m well up for joining in, wearing my Denver Broncos jersey even though they’re not playing, and there’s no aggro, no issue.

It would do absolutely fcuk-all for me in the car park at the SMiSA Stadium for a midweek game against Ross County in January, in the pissing rain and freezing cold.

It's tribal in that there were still 2 competitors plus there were 32 tribes represented, you being the Denver rep. They just mix better than sections of football fans. 

That set up actually sounds a  bit similar to the old days at Murrayfield when there were picnics/parties in the car park before internationals. 

[Busta Nut]

On 09/07/2022 at 20:49, Mr. Alli said:

There's a Motherwell poster on here who keeps naming the manager as 'Grezza' in all their posts. 

I've went from a size 11 feet to a size 4 as my toes curl that drastically every time I read it.

I dunno who it would be but for what it was worth I am pretty sure that would have been done sarcastically.

[Derry Alli]

5 hours ago, Busta Nut said:

I dunno who it would be but for what it was worth I am pretty sure that would have been done sarcastically.

It was @Kapowzer. 

edit : he said it about a million times over the forum. No danger was it done tongue in cheek or sarcastically.

Edited August 5, 2022 by Mr. Alli

[highlandcowden]

On 03/08/2022 at 22:40, tamthebam said:

Hiya FC Edinburgh, Hiya pals! 

What's the craic there Tam?I (think) I know about the name change situation but iirc you were posting for years as an EC supporter&now you seem very anti fc Edinburgh.que pasa?

[tamthebam]

25 minutes ago, highlandcowden said:

What's the craic there Tam?I (think) I know about the name change situation but iirc you were posting for years as an EC supporter&now you seem very anti fc Edinburgh.que pasa?

One of the cardinal rules of football: You don't change the name of the team to make a fast buck without consulting people who have followed the team for nearly 30 years, from playing on a public park when you had to scrape "dogs' eggs" off the pitch, through being steward, programme editor, committee member, match secretary, turnstile operator, half time draw seller, bus convener, sponsor, photographer, decorator of changing rooms and all round mug ready to part with cash without said people being ever so slightly peed off about it.  As an example imagine Cowdenbeath announcing they were changing the home colours to black and white stripes to try and attract more Pars fans.. 

And you especially don't pee off people who were Meadowbank Thistle fans and had the experience of the whole franchising the club to Livingston farrago and have already had to walk away from one club because they weren't wanted. It gets easier the second time round, believe me. 

[Alert Mongoose]

This just seems to some sort of emperor's new football strip.

If my great, great grandson is reading this in the year 2180, I'm sorry Son but I just didn't understand it.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, Alert Mongoose said:

This just seems to some sort of emperor's new football strip.

If my great, great grandson is reading this in the year 2180, I'm sorry Son but I just didn't understand it.

ALso check your great great granda's hard drive.