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Post by tockyterrier on Sept 9, 2022 13:52:32 GMT 1
I'd gladly show respect by observing a 2 minute silence before kick off and having a day off for the funeral. But dont really follow why it's ok to work in a factory, but not to watchbor play football on Saturday. Because your betters know football has some power, this puts football money, back under the older wealth. They know tens of thousands of the proleteriat would have gone to football, this proves they can stop that happening, you are subtely being told your position under the money. Nothing to do with respect for the Queen. It's been cancelled by the FA. Think it's more likely to be because they are set of old duffers who cant read the room than anything to do with the proletariat infiltrating Wembley and St George's (IMO)
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Post by einediemengedochsen on Sept 9, 2022 13:57:45 GMT 1
Many terminally ill people get a lot of comfort and enjoyment out of sports events etc in their last days. But bollocks to them I suppose.
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Post by einediemengedochsen on Sept 9, 2022 14:02:42 GMT 1
I'd gladly show respect by observing a 2 minute silence before kick off and having a day off for the funeral. But dont really follow why it's ok to work in a factory, but not to watchbor play football on Saturday. Because your betters know football has some power, this puts football money, back under the older wealth. They know tens of thousands of the proleteriat would have gone to football, this proves they can stop that happening, you are subtely being told your position under the money. Nothing to do with respect for the Queen. I doesn’t agree with the decision - see above. But your conspiracy theory brainwashing is deep if you think this has anything to do with a bigger picture keeping the proles down for goodness sake.
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Post by orinoco on Sept 9, 2022 14:10:02 GMT 1
Sport does not need to be cancelled, the day after my mum passed we went to watch Town, she was a Town supporter and we devoted the match to her memory. That was a perfect and beautiful tribute to your late mother orinico - and while I didn’t go to a Hibernian match (her team) after ma wee granny passed away I was very glad to get back to the distillery for a week on 6-2 shift 28 years ago this very week ! She slept away peacefully Thursday 1/9/1994.. we did the wake old style - her bedroom was the viewing parlour for a day and night stream of visitors, drams and music and munchies in the lounge below for all that called at her cosy and homely wee house... Same on the Friday till evening when we took her to the church.. Saturday was the funeral - plenty whisky, biscuits and cheese at Nerabus cemetery as is the centuries old tradition there and then the pub wake at Lochindall Hotel - her favourite pub ! Sunday was photos at the flowers of her resting spot followed by a family dinner to celebrate her 81 years and plenty drinks at her favourite Lochindall Hotel - and yip I was glad when the 6-2 shift on Monday 5th Sept came round quick as it was the first wee bit of closure and normality ! (RIP Granny Lack) Bella 🥃 - xx - Mum lived in Blackpool but had a season ticket for 6 seasons, used to come and stop at ours via a train go back after a few days she stopped due to health at 73. Peter Clarke got her a signed shirt, he was quite amazed at what she did at her age, was an emotional game that, me my 2 kids n an empty seat
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Post by galpharm2400 on Sept 9, 2022 14:32:43 GMT 1
Because your betters know football has some power, this puts football money, back under the older wealth. They know tens of thousands of the proleteriat would have gone to football, this proves they can stop that happening, you are subtely being told your position under the money. Nothing to do with respect for the Queen. I doesn’t agree with the decision - see above. But your conspiracy theory brainwashing is deep if you think this has anything to do with a bigger picture keeping the proles down for goodness sake. Its the use of another 'incident or crisis' by those who know better. You are told how to react, you are then made to react wether you agree or not. Football attracts tens of thousands who are now told, again, the games are off and you cannot go, where respect for the Queen comes into that, I cant tell you and neither can they but they dont believe they need to explain. Had they played the games the respect for the death of the Queen would not have gone up or down by a cock hair. The fact thousands may have paid out money to attend games does not register with these people, its another opportunity to tell us what we must do for some sort of virtous nonsense.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Sept 9, 2022 15:10:39 GMT 1
Simpson might be fit by the time we play again
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Post by townarentbest on Sept 9, 2022 15:11:45 GMT 1
Kids were both looking forward to their u12 and u8 matches too this weekend which have also now been cancelled as a “mark of respect”. I find this more annoying than the pro game taking a decision. From my experience of a youth team collectively deciding to go ahead with a Sunday fixture after a team mate had died at the start of a week, and having a few words, and a minutes applause etc, I would say kids are MUCH more likely to understand and appreciate and respect and learn from this kind of thing if they have that collective 'grown up' experience to be part of. As it is, your U12's and U8's are just going to be playing out or gaming or watching telly or annoying parents or whatever young kids spend their time doing, they might as well be playing organised football.
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Post by townarentbest on Sept 9, 2022 15:27:09 GMT 1
FWIW, George VI died on Wednesday 6th of February 1952 and was buried on the 15th. No games were missed, Town played the following two Saturdays, 9th and 16th...at the time we were rock bottom of the 22 team 1st division. We stayed in the relegation zone (where we'd been since October) through until the penultimate game of the season. The final game of the season was away at already relegated Fulham. We had to match or beat Stokes result at Middlesborough to guarantee survival (would have been same points but we had a better goal average). Stoke won. Fulham, who had not won in 11 games since the Kings death, beat us, and we were relegated
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Post by sapphireblue on Sept 9, 2022 15:42:29 GMT 1
Instead of being on the train to London this aft, I went to my mum's for a couple of hours. She was stunned the game was off (but glad I went to see her)
Her view.
"Well, some of the older end might be a bit upset, but the rest of us should just carry on"
My mum is 90.
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Post by Captainslapper on Sept 9, 2022 15:44:22 GMT 1
Absolutely not. Its a daft , badly thought out decision and id be amazed if it was something the queen herself would have wanted at all.
Pay respect by millions of people NOT being able to do what they enjoy doing on a weekend after a hard weeks work?? It would have been a perfect opportunity for large crowds to ACTUALLY show respect with a minutes silence.
It will cost football clubs a load of money and all others associated businesses that rely on match day income. It will cost fans who have bought tickets or made travel arrangements money and inconvenience.
Its just more pointless symbolism and virtue signalling and im a big royalist saying thats what it is. This is the sort of thing that just causes resentment against the royal family.
The cynic in me wonders if this decision isn't more to do with whoever made it getting a gong further down the line than anything else?
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Post by orinoco on Sept 9, 2022 15:45:15 GMT 1
Giants game is on apparently.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Sept 9, 2022 15:46:50 GMT 1
Instead of being on the train to London this aft, I went to my mum's for a couple of hours. She was stunned the game was off (but glad I went to see her) Her view. "Well, some of the older end might be a bit upset, but the rest of us should just carry on" My mum is 90. Brilliant...
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Post by einediemengedochsen on Sept 9, 2022 15:49:10 GMT 1
I doesn’t agree with the decision - see above. But your conspiracy theory brainwashing is deep if you think this has anything to do with a bigger picture keeping the proles down for goodness sake. Its the use of another 'incident or crisis' by those who know better. You are told how to react, you are then made to react wether you agree or not. Football attracts tens of thousands who are now told, again, the games are off and you cannot go, where respect for the Queen comes into that, I cant tell you and neither can they but they dont believe they need to explain. Had they played the games the respect for the death of the Queen would not have gone up or down by a cock hair. The fact thousands may have paid out money to attend games does not register with these people, its another opportunity to tell us what we must do for some sort of virtous nonsense. That may be so but nothing to do with your original conspiracy. Who are these ‘betters’ and did they order the FA to call of all the games if so why not the cricket and golf and rugby and others?
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Sept 9, 2022 15:56:26 GMT 1
Absolutely not. Its a daft , badly thought out decision and id be amazed if it was something the queen herself would have wanted at all. Pay respect by millions of people NOT being able to do what they enjoy doing on a weekend after a hard weeks work?? It would have been a perfect opportunity for large crowds to ACTUALLY show respect with a minutes silence. It will cost football clubs a load of money and all others associated businesses that rely on match day income. It will cost fans who have bought tickets or made travel arrangements money and inconvenience. Its just more pointless symbolism and virtue signalling and im a big royalist saying thats what it is. This is the sort of thing that just causes resentment against the royal family. The cynic in me wonders if this decision isn't more to do with whoever made it getting a gong further down the line than anything else? It’s not cynical. It is exactly to do with the ugly self gratification of certain people.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Sept 9, 2022 16:01:33 GMT 1
People are caught up in symbolism for the sake of it.
Yet to have thousands of supporters observing a minute of silence isn't symbolic enough? None of those games when replayed will have that minute of silence.
Sport is having selective cancellations. The cricket now becomes a 3d test. The golf will continue but cut to a 54 hole comp. RL continues as planned. The St Leger will run a day late, the commentators on the radio suggesting it will provide a fitting opportunity for people to pay their respects.
For the poster who suggested we're being disrespectful by suggesting the game went ahead, I don't think they could be further from the truth...
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Post by Captainslapper on Sept 9, 2022 16:05:17 GMT 1
She loved horse racing! Shed be outraged they've stopped it in her name.
What do these people think people do instead? Go home and spend the day staring at a photograph of her with a tear in their eye??
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Post by sabailand on Sept 9, 2022 16:10:22 GMT 1
We've decided we're going to use our train tickets tomorrow and go to London and do some sight seeing go on a pub crawl, im quute sure she would have approved, her mum was quite partial to a few gins apparently.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Sept 9, 2022 16:11:10 GMT 1
We've decided we're going to use our train tickets tomorrow and go to London and do some sight seeing go on a pub crawl, im quute sure she would have approved, her mum was quite partial to a few gins appatantly. :) Appatantly? I think you've started already... :-)
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Post by sabailand on Sept 9, 2022 16:14:00 GMT 1
Fixed.
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Post by Dan on Sept 9, 2022 16:16:08 GMT 1
We've decided we're going to use our train tickets tomorrow and go to London and do some sight seeing go on a pub crawl, im quute sure she would have approved, her mum was quite partial to a few gins apparently. Exactly. Win win for Town fans, go and have a good session in London without Town ruining the day.
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Post by turbo2 on Sept 9, 2022 16:21:26 GMT 1
We've decided we're going to use our train tickets tomorrow and go to London and do some sight seeing go on a pub crawl, im quute sure she would have approved, her mum was quite partial to a few gins apparently. Exactly. Win win for Town fans, go and have a good session in London without Town ruining the day. I’d never thought of it like that 😂😂 Brilliant
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Post by galpharm2400 on Sept 9, 2022 16:31:13 GMT 1
Exactly. Win win for Town fans, go and have a good session in London without Town ruining the day. I’d never thought of it like that 😂😂 Brilliant We are off to Whitby tomorrow instead of watching footie and watching the scores coming in. If that disrespects the Queens death, tough. We will have a gentlemens toast to her life, maybe more than one and hope she brings us some luck in the fishing.
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Post by henryc on Sept 9, 2022 16:31:59 GMT 1
Absolutely not. Its a daft , badly thought out decision and id be amazed if it was something the queen herself would have wanted at all. Pay respect by millions of people NOT being able to do what they enjoy doing on a weekend after a hard weeks work?? It would have been a perfect opportunity for large crowds to ACTUALLY show respect with a minutes silence. It will cost football clubs a load of money and all others associated businesses that rely on match day income. It will cost fans who have bought tickets or made travel arrangements money and inconvenience. Its just more pointless symbolism and virtue signalling and im a big royalist saying thats what it is. This is the sort of thing that just causes resentment against the royal family. The cynic in me wonders if this decision isn't more to do with whoever made it getting a gong further down the line than anything else? Whoever made the decision should be gone by the end of the day whether the intention was good or not. As you say this is only going to cause resentment, which within itself is the biggest form of disrespect after her passing. No national holiday but you can’t go watch the football after working and having this bad news. This country fucking stinks.
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Post by turbo2 on Sept 9, 2022 16:36:00 GMT 1
I’d never thought of it like that 😂😂 Brilliant We are off to Whitby tomorrow instead of watching footie and watching the scores coming in. If that disrespects the Queens death, tough. We will have a gentlemens toast to her life, maybe more than one and hope she brings us some luck in the fishing. I’m actually going to watch the giants. Don’t go very often. Going to have a load of beer and I’m not going to show any respect as these knob head’s have caused me to be resentful. 🖕
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Sept 9, 2022 16:38:53 GMT 1
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Post by HTAFC Darren on Sept 9, 2022 16:44:50 GMT 1
Absolutely not. Its a daft , badly thought out decision and id be amazed if it was something the queen herself would have wanted at all. Pay respect by millions of people NOT being able to do what they enjoy doing on a weekend after a hard weeks work?? It would have been a perfect opportunity for large crowds to ACTUALLY show respect with a minutes silence. It will cost football clubs a load of money and all others associated businesses that rely on match day income. It will cost fans who have bought tickets or made travel arrangements money and inconvenience. Its just more pointless symbolism and virtue signalling and im a big royalist saying thats what it is. This is the sort of thing that just causes resentment against the royal family. The cynic in me wonders if this decision isn't more to do with whoever made it getting a gong further down the line than anything else? Whoever made the decision should be gone by the end of the day whether the intention was good or not. As you say this is only going to cause resentment, which within itself is the biggest form of disrespect after her passing. No national holiday but you can’t go watch the football after working and having this bad news. This country fucking stinks. Yeah you're not wrong, everyone I know my age from back home or in uni either doesn't particularly care about the royal family or has some sort of resentment towards it. When you then start to cancel things days after that people do care about then that will cause annoyance rather than sympathy. Like I understand this is a sad moment for a lot of people, but why does that mean you can't have something to look forward to on the weekend? Maybe it's me being ignorant but I'm just a bit confused.
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Post by malcolmbrown on Sept 9, 2022 16:48:48 GMT 1
How is it not showing respect? At what point are you happy that we've shown respect? Two days, five, 2 weeks? The queen could have been honoured properly at football matches and the last night of the proms. Opportunity missed in my opinion I don't like it any more than the next fan, but it's the right thing to do. IMHO. Might be a generational thing... There was no mourning period for my mum when she died, and she had a much tougher life than the Queen. I'm no republican but I think there needs to be some common sense applied here.
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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 16:50:43 GMT 1
After 70 years dedicated service to the country, surely the least us mere mortals can do is put up with no football for a couple of days.
Plus as we are shite it gives a few more says for the new signings to bed in and potentially improve us.
The pomp, ceremony, and heritage is what makes Britain great, and sets us apart from all the lesser countries.
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Post by stevvy on Sept 9, 2022 16:52:16 GMT 1
Not for the reasons given of showing respect. That can be done by having a minutes silence, playing the national anthem or whatever.
I don't see how stopping sport is showing respect, and I don't see how carrying on with things as normal is showing a lack of respect.
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Sept 9, 2022 17:06:16 GMT 1
After 70 years dedicated service to the country, surely the least us mere mortals can do is put up with no football for a couple of days. It’s not the point Mids. What correlation does QPR v Town have to the passing of the Queen? What is the benefit of that being postponed?
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