Aplauding during one minutes silence

But I suppose the applause is better than having the 2 mins silence ruined by a few knobheads shouting out - as often seems to happen.
 
Sohofox said:
But I suppose the applause is better than having the 2 mins silence ruined by a few knobheads shouting out - as often seems to happen.
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Yeah, you're right. Why not go the whole hog and play 'Heroes' on the bugle
 
Well it is pretty horrible when thickos start calling out during the 2 mins silence.
Them you get other people telling the miscreants to shut up and the whole thing is ruined.
A 2 minute applause stops all that.
 
mickyhoss said:
The new craze has now crept into the remembrance matches and the last post. Doesn't feel right to me. Applaud the passing of a footballer by all means but applauding fallen war heroes, wrong, oh so wrong.
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Absolutely - completely wrong. What were they thinking ... perhaps they weren’t.
Not seen anything to the it’s done at the KP.
Give them something to hold up - then they can’t clap.
 
Micky - I agree with you. And when we were kids the 2 mins silence was always totally respected. No one would have dared to to make a noise during it.
But standards of behaviour have plummeted since then.
 
Sohofox said:
Micky - I agree with you. And when we were kids the 2 mins silence was always totally respected. No one would have dared to to make a noise during it.
But standards of behaviour have plummeted since then.
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I have to say that it’s remarkably well respected at the KP. I’m not sure whether it’s the Vichai effect when on that terrible day when we all got together as one for the Burnley match changed things but for me it doesn’t matter. What other clubs do doesn’t matter to me. It’s poor and embarrassing but it’s not my club. We do the whole thing so well. I particularly love the poppy tifo which we’ve done for years.
 
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Sohofox said:
Well it is pretty horrible when thickos start calling out during the 2 mins silence.
Them you get other people telling the miscreants to shut up and the whole thing is ruined.
A 2 minute applause stops all that.
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Happened at the Arsenal match last week - fairly certain it was from the away lot.
 
It’s clearly very hard for many ( not a few) people to understand a very simple instruction.
As the card that everyone was asked to hold up last Saturday said, once the last post was finished, a 2 minute silence would follow.
& what happened? As soon as the last note of the last post had left our ears a big roar from the crowd put paid to a single second of silence.
 
One problem Essington around me was a lot of us oldies were finding it a bit of a struggle holding their cards up for the Last Post (which must have been 3 minutes).
I know my arms were aching.
Another 2 minutes of holding the card overhead would have made it 5 minutes in all. Not possible for many.
So I think it came as a relief to be able to relax and cheer and put the cards down.
 
Sohofox said:
One problem Essington around me was a lot of us oldies were finding it a bit of a struggle holding their cards up for the Last Post (which must have been 3 minutes).
I know my arms were aching.
Another 2 minutes of holding the card overhead would have made it 5 minutes in all. Not possible for many.
So I think it came as a relief to be able to relax and cheer and put the cards down.
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Not an excuse really when the old veterans can hold the banners at dip for the whole time 😉
 
Sohofox said:
One problem Essington around me was a lot of us oldies were finding it a bit of a struggle holding their cards up for the Last Post (which must have been 3 minutes).
I know my arms were aching.
Another 2 minutes of holding the card overhead would have made it 5 minutes in all. Not possible for many.
So I think it came as a relief to be able to relax and cheer and put the cards down.
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FFS Soho. Do you need to work on your upper body and arms. You can’t hold a paper card up for 5 mins 😳
 
Brighton just done the same as us last week.
"Last Post" on the bugles. Crowd holding up plastic bags to make poppy motif.
Clapping at end of "Last Post".
Nowt wrong with that.
Sounded great.
 
LGFOX said:
I have to say that it’s remarkably well respected at the KP. I’m not sure whether it’s the Vichai effect when on that terrible day when we all got together as one for the Burnley match changed things but for me it doesn’t matter. What other clubs do doesn’t matter to me. It’s poor and embarrassing but it’s not my club. We do the whole thing so well. I particularly love the poppy tifo which we’ve done for years.
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It's not a competition as to which club can put on the most ostentatious display or who is wearing the biggest poppy. It's about remembrance and different people remember in different ways, some privately and shouldn't be chided for not putting on a "show".

I can't remember if we actually did it but a few years ago there was talk of landing a helicopter on the centre spot at the KP to deliver a wreath turning the whole thing into a bloody air show.

My parents' generation served in WW2 and taught us how to observe Remembrance Sunday in a more dignified and less attention seeking manner than seems to be the way now.
 
OldFox said:
It's not a competition as to which club can put on the most ostentatious display or who is wearing the biggest poppy. It's about remembrance and different people remember in different ways, some privately and shouldn't be chided for not putting on a "show".

I can't remember if we actually did it but a few years ago there was talk of landing a helicopter on the centre spot at the KP to deliver a wreath turning the whole thing into a bloody air show.

My parents' generation served in WW2 and taught us how to observe Remembrance Sunday in a more dignified and less attention seeking manner than seems to be the way now.
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Exactly.
What will happen in the future....'and now the remembrance section sponsored by Pepsi '.
 
OldFox said:
It's not a competition as to which club can put on the most ostentatious display or who is wearing the biggest poppy. It's about remembrance and different people remember in different ways, some privately and shouldn't be chided for not putting on a "show".

I can't remember if we actually did it but a few years ago there was talk of landing a helicopter on the centre spot at the KP to deliver a wreath turning the whole thing into a bloody air show.

My parents' generation served in WW2 and taught us how to observe Remembrance Sunday in a more dignified and less attention seeking manner than seems to be the way now.
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Of course it’s not a competition but I just feel at our club without bias that we fully respect the whole thing. The poppy show is a lovely touch and our crowd do their bit which is simply respect the silence. Simple but correct IMO
 
Although clapping has to be better than the booing and other disruption displayed by Celtic fans at Dens Park today. But I suppose that’s what you come to expect from them.
 
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