[gareth1980]

Its called fun !!!!!

[Westbars Spireite]

metallilad, on 18 September 2012 - 12:17 PM, said:

Who the f**k are you to tell me how to raise my son?
This is one area you or anybody else better not remark on.

I'm sure there's no need to get the 'ump.

[Goku]

metallilad needs a punching bag lol

[metallilad]

Westbars Spireite, on 18 September 2012 - 04:27 PM, said:

I'm sure there's no need to get the 'ump.

Nobody has the right to comment about the way I raise my son.
I don't get riled easily but that is one area that will bring out a bad reaction from me. I'm never gonna apologise for what I posted but I am sorry that I reacted to a post like I did.

[Bluebelle]

KevoBMMD, on 18 September 2012 - 12:35 PM, said:

I think the point people are trying to make is NO it doesn't have to start in the Kop. That is just old tradition and the place the Drummer Boy is.

How would that work when the Kop sing, "East Stand, Give Us A Song"

Regarding the kids I think if you ask them about the singing they would sooner be on the Kop singing than in the Family Stand sitting quitely.

There is nothing agressive about the majority of songs sung on the Kop. Most are echoed in the Family Stand and probably in the Car on the way to and from matches.

Carnival De Paris
Ring of Fire
Oh When The Blues
Sailing
Come on You Blues
Come On Spireites
Barmy Army
Super Jack Lester

All are sung to motivate the players and I'm sure there are very few Parents that would object to their kids singing.

Just get behind the Team, Clap if you want to clap, Sing If You Want To Sing but don't dictate who and where the singing should start.

could anyone provide the words (well a printable version !) for those of us relatively new - I know some members of the board will now write me off as a glory supporter (ha!) but we all have to see the light at some point. Diction isn't always that clear from the kop after a little lunchtime refershment !

[Search & Destroy]

That family stand is not the place to take children, not because of the noise but because the view is awful for little ones, having to look the length of the pitch over hundreds of large heads, they can't see a thing especially of you're stuck at the front, the higher up seats are usually showing as unavailable even though last night there was no one in them, probably sold as cheap season tickets and not attending as it was a school night.

Its with paying the nine quid and sitting higher up in the middle.

[RN Blue]

metallilad, on 18 September 2012 - 12:21 PM, said:

The whole debate is going off topic here.
Its whole poinnt is that the atmosphere always has and should start in the kop, there hasn't been any atmosphere coming from the kop.
Not like it use to.
To try and turn it round into saying that the atmosphere should start from the family stand is pathetic.

Presume you don't mean I’m pathetic as I don't believe on re-reading my post I said anywhere within it that the atmosphere should start from the family stand?

What I did intimate is that children aren't as precious as you make out, certainly not lily livered enough to be intimidated by a man in the family stand joining in a bit of chanting at a football match, lets have a bit of a reality check here.

Yes the Kop is where 99.9% of the vocal support comes from and always has, but it doesn’t have to be that way, I remember cheering a few times on the Kop when the main stand joined in – more often than not those singing hardest were the kids in the corner.

[Search & Destroy]

My lad is six, he'd jump out of his skin if some big fella suddenly stood up and started screaming next to him, family stand is for kids to join in, if they want to.

[Bluebelle]

Search and Destroy, on 19 September 2012 - 01:32 PM, said:

My lad is six, he'd jump out of his skin if some big fella suddenly stood up and started screaming next to him, family stand is for kids to join in, if they want to.

well all kids are different - just small people after all
one of my eldest sons fondest memories is being picked up and shaken overhead by a complete stranger at a Man U/leeds match when Leeds scored ! (kids were born and spent their formative years in Leeds, sadly )

Can see how that could freak some kids out though ! But a bit of singing is fine, surely. And by the time they've been at school for a year they'll have heard all the rude words whether you know it or not. I don't think the singing in the family stands is aggressive. Abysmal, maybe