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20 minutes ago, Three Lions said:

Read it again and that St George flag and St Georges are part of our footballing culture and traditions something you our culture warrior mate to laugh at and look down but important to many.

Like normal with you on here, you need to read it again and stop trying to stir.
 

If you think he was laughing at the flag and not the irony of the two posts from the same poster there you’re either immensely dense or just trying to be offended.

17 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Let's not get all caught up on different terminologies. That's petty. 

Where ‘terminologies’ means your original statement that Nike chose pride colours as entirely incorrect? Best not get hung up on that hey….

11 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

The original design was for it to be in the pride colours but the Fa vetoed that. 

 

Has anyone confirmed this? Haven’t seen it anywhere other that in this post.

24 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Let’s be honest this is it isn’t it? This is the real reason for some people being upset - just have to see Joey Barton’s tweet (the one in which he put them side by side and actually proved it’s not the same at all).

Some have jumped to a conclusion about its meaning and got up in arms, had a mate straight away trying to talk about having enough of virtue signalling 

The proof that it’s just an artistic play on colours is literally in the away kit where they’ve done the same thing (albeit inside the shirt) with the away colours.

The irony being a lot of people see it as an opportunity to virtue signal about how patriotic they are….

3 minutes ago, Cowshed said:

Defacing a flag is a hate crime. 

Jesus Christ 

Absolutely pathetic.

12 minutes ago, spudski said:

Perhaps the England flag means nothing to you. 

But yes really. It's our national shirt and represents us. It's our flag. 

With your mentality it gives the go ahead to interfere with flags of other nations as well. Before you know it, all flags will be changed in colours. 

 

 

No it doesn’t, 2 plus 2 does not equal 5.

12 minutes ago, Robbored said:

It’s woke because of Nike being concerned about the reaction of certain elements of English society. Nike are trying to placate the minority but it’s backfired.

Who?

6 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

How is it 'woke gone mad' what is even woke about it at all?

Looks to me like a designer just redesigned something for the sake of it, they have to earn their crust somehow!

I agree that the plain red/white cross would have been a better option there, but it really isn't woke. It's just the horizontal bar looking like it's based on the colours of the away kit and the vertical bar based on the reds that are often involved as well, so just the colours generally included on the kits. Certainly not a rainbow or anything like that.

Just another example of 'woke' meaning 'something I don't like'.

37 minutes ago, spudski said:

I don't think anyone is outraged anymore. It's just another case of rolling eyes at the drip drip drip of everyday standards dropping. 

There are plenty of things that evidence our standards dropping but a flag on the back of a shirt, really?!

1 hour ago, phantom said:

I'm sure this would help speed up the peace process

 

Oh come on, you may have posted this as a joke but it’s very silly. I agree it’s an odd/silly move to change the flag but this isn’t even in the realms of the same.
I don’t think it’s helpful at all and smacks of people trying to poke other people they don’t like rather than just say they don’t like the change. 

Quite a hike for me in the south stand with two kids tickets. 
 

Think it’s very odd to attempt to get more pay on the day in the South Stand in this way. As people have suggested on here before, if you want more pay on the day/less gaps from ST holders who can’t attend - give us a way of releasing our tickets for sale and chucking us a few loyalty points in exchange. Gets you both rather than people questioning whether they want to renew. 

So slow in attack - especially second half. Uninspiring.

10 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Fixed it myself.

If you go on your Personal Details there is a section for Relationships. If your daughter is down as “Friends and Family” then you can’t get access to buy her tickets. I had to delete my kids relationships, then readd them as “Customer to Customer” - that then meant their seats were available to purchase.

 

You sir are a legend, thanks! Works for me now.

2 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

I’ve logged in and although my kids are showing as associated to me on my profile their seats aren’t available for me to purchase!

One of my kids is available but the other isn't for some odd reason.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Lucky to get through that first 20 mins but the sort of win we don’t grind out often enough.

Get in! 

Incredible detective work from OTIB'ers here.

Frustrating but some good performances. Had a lot of openings before they equalised without creating that many clear chances. 

37 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

I do like a nice adult debate.

Step away from the blue Smarties.

Your post didn’t give anything to debate - just a very odd attempt at justification of people fighting over football, in a thread about someone dying no less. What debate do you think you were starting and do you think this was the right place to start it?

15 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

Some blokes like fighting and football offers an opportunity to do that in company.

It's okay to disapprove as there are plenty of negative consequences from it but I don't see why it's particularly "pathetic" and how their age matters.

Is it perfectly fine for a teenager or adult to spend hours a day on a games console? That's something I would regard as pathetic personally.

Jesus Christ. What an insane attempt at justification. 

The report I read implied it was due to an 'altercation' after the game. Awful regardless. Just horrible to think, as you say, no one should lose their life going to a football match. 

Most complete performance I’ve seen from us for some time. So many excellent performances.

48 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

If there was a mass effort to duplicate tickets, then someone obviously organised that...

It’s not explained in the post from the club but I’d assume that they were using a duplicated E34 ticket to get into that stand rather than using a duplicate ticket to enter the ground. I imagine they had valid tickets just not for that block.

49 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

 

How many actual season ticket holders are being ‘turfed out’?..It can’t have been many looking at what seats are available. 

 

I’m not sure the volume matters that much other than meaning that if this is all done properly in future there is a chance they can be located elsewhere if they agree. 

20 minutes ago, Mr Chappers said:

I think that if I paid for a seat and found it occupied by some self-entitled youth, or my view impeded, I’d be a tad cross. The selfishness of some, and lack of respect for older/ less able fans is really poor. 
There’s also policing to consider, quite sure the ‘atmosphere’ will involve flying seats at some point.

The intentions may be good, but the manner it’s being done is so wrong, and so little respect for other supporters.

It’s this largely (I think the flying seats is a bit of stretch). I’m torn as there’s nothing wrong with improving the atmosphere and people making an organised effort to do so and the pro-activity is good. However IF the anecdotal reports in here are true of people not being able to get to their normal seats - that’s clearly not ok. Unfortunately as much as we all like atmosphere, the fact you sing/shout and someone else chooses not to does not give you a right to their seat.