Worst ever away day

newyddion said:
people just drink more before the match and take coke. there’s no point having bars in the concourse if you can’t get served. paint the walls black, get done lasers snd disco valls.. we can just serve water and glow sticks!
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Personally I dont use alcohol but its effects impact on others - as do illicit drugs.
Alcohol is available with a bottle of milk at the corner shop.
Q? Do we need to sell it at the ground?
 
r00fie1 said:
Personally I dont use alcohol but its effects impact on others - as do illicit drugs.
Alcohol is available with a bottle of milk at the corner shop.
Q? Do we need to sell it at the ground?
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We don’t need to sell anything at the ground.. but if we do, we need to do it well.

It’s part of the social aspect of going to the football, very much hand in hand. Cocaine unfortunately has become part of that just as it has in pubs and clubs across the UK.

If you’re a sporting club promoting sporting excellence.. do you want to be selling burgers and chips? Do you want to promote gambling?

I think we’re kind of on the same page here in that we, the club, society need to take a look at drug use and see how we can limit it’s damaging effects by talking about root causes, offering alternatives, education and perhaps even decriminalisation of certain drugs.
 
newyddion said:
We don’t need to sell anything at the ground.. but if we do, we need to do it well.

It’s part of the social aspect of going to the football, very much hand in hand. Cocaine unfortunately has become part of that just as it has in pubs and clubs across the UK.

If you’re a sporting club promoting sporting excellence.. do you want to be selling burgers and chips? Do you want to promote gambling?

I think we’re kind of on the same page here in that we, the club, society need to take a look at drug use and see how we can limit it’s damaging effects by talking about root causes, offering alternatives, education and perhaps even decriminalisation of certain drugs.
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Yes.
The gambling thing is a real no! no!
How our club can accept plastering "32 Red" across shirts [and Ramsdens before that] and around the club is hippocritical.
It needs to be banned just like smoking.
Forest Green Rovers are an excellent leader in supporting good health - I agree with you: as a sporting club, why promote gambling, fat-drenched "food" and alcohol?!
Crackers.


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On match days, we serve our award-winning Q Pies, delicious plant-based burgers, spicy pasties, vegan fajitas and plenty more, all made using locally sourced ingredients. Just like Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi, Venus Williams and Lewis Hamilton, our players benefit from improved performance thanks to a vegan diet.
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r00fie1 said:
Yes.
The gambling thing is a real no! no!
How our club can accept plastering "32 Red" across shirts [and Ramsdens before that] and around the club is hippocritical.
It needs to be banned just like smoking.
Forest Green Rovers are an excellent leader in supporting good health - I agree with you: as a sporting club, why promote gambling, fat-drenched "food" and alcohol?!
Crackers.


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Another Way | WE ARE FGR

www.fgr.co.uk www.fgr.co.uk

100% Vegan​

Livestock farming has a huge impact on carbon emissions and on animal welfare, which is why we decided to become a vegan football club back in 2015. That might seem strange to fans used to burgers and pies at half time but as a vegan club we offer our players, staff and fans healthier food that tastes great and is better for the planet.
On match days, we serve our award-winning Q Pies, delicious plant-based burgers, spicy pasties, vegan fajitas and plenty more, all made using locally sourced ingredients. Just like Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi, Venus Williams and Lewis Hamilton, our players benefit from improved performance thanks to a vegan diet.
In 2017, we were recognised as the world’s first vegan football club when we were certified with the Vegan Trademark by The Vegan Society.
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The vegan stuff is getting nicer and nicer.. by that I mean I had a vegan burger that tasted like a tinned ‘meat’ burger.
 
newyddion said:
Much more damaging than cocaine.. that’s why you have a lot of under 40 males dropping dead of heart attacks. Long term damage will be horrific
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I had a heart attack at 41 when one of my valves spasmed shut. While in A&E a doctor asked me if I'd had any cocaine the night before. I've never had any in my life but I'd been in Boro the night before and I still wonder if someone had spiked me.
 
Thank you for the replies to this. It shook my boy up a little as he was quite quiet and within himself first half, he’d been belting out ‘Sweet Caroline’ very happily only 10 mins prior, and seemed ok after half-time. I wouldn’t argue aggressively or fight in front of him so it was a shock for him to see his dad getting offered out and shouted at and I think he was worried for me as well as having taken a knocking about himself. I still am absolutely furious that they thought it was ok to knock into him.

As someone else has alluded to it was because there was about 20 of them trying to fit into about 12 seats, obviously wanting to stand with mates in one sense, but in a packed away end this wasn’t going to be possible, and then they started taking it in turns to go see a lad in the middle and huddled up so they could take a line. Absolutely disgusting. I even heard one lad moan saying “move down” to his mate and the lad said “I can’t as this lads seat is down” as he was stood up on it to see the pitch, which stopped them from shuffling along but the other lads still tried pushing and shoving them along so the lad was barging into my son and eventually knocked him off. I simply said calmly “oway lads, can’t you see you’re knocking him, Calm it down”. Only to be told “well f******** move him them ya dafcun. Tell me what to do again, I dare ya, and see what happens” right in my face. Obviously it was really crowded and cramped and with me getting started on my boy got upset, crying, not hysterical, but you could see tears and he started asking to move. I didn’t want to move out of principle so stayed another minute or two but when he got hit again I took him into the row behind, moved along and then went down right to the front making sure to tell them they should be ashamed of themselves, only to be laughed at and given sneers. ****..

Boro fans later throw stuff over our heads at Preston players when they scored the second, we had the pr*ck who didn’t throw the ball back at the end of the first half, we had yet another stupid dad encouraging his boy to run on the pitch after the whistle and congratulating him on his return, hundred of fag ends in the toilet sinks when I went at the end, and on Twitter someone told me another group of lads were trying to smash up seats towards the back at the end and he was given abuse when he told them to stop so despite loads of Preston fans saying we were “the best supporters at Deepdale” I take they mean noise wise as our scum element really are one of the worst. Thankfully it is a small minority but still far too big and something MUST be done.

Myself and the boy have been to 12 away games this season and had a similar problem at Old Trafford when 4 lads tried standing in the space for two seats but they were respectful of my boy and when they realised it was too tight one lad went off to stand with some other mates, and also I was given a mouthful and offered out at Coventry by Boro youngsters when I told a group to stop throwing coins into the Coventry fans so this is not an isolated incident.
 
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RedAsABeetroot said:
I had a heart attack at 41 when one of my valves spasmed shut. While in A&E a doctor asked me if I'd had any cocaine the night before. I've never had any in my life but I'd been in Boro the night before and I still wonder if someone had spiked me.
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There was a guy arrested after spiking drinks in flares apparently he was known for doing it!
 
NortonExile said:
Thank you for the replies to this. It shook my boy up a little as he was quite quiet and within himself first half, he’d been belting out ‘Sweet Caroline’ very happily only 10 mins prior, and seemed ok after half-time. I wouldn’t argue aggressively or fight in front of him so it was a shock for him to see his dad getting offered out and shouted at and I think he was worried for me as well as having taken a knocking about himself. I still am absolutely furious that they thought it was ok to knock into him.

As someone else has alluded to it was because there was about 20 of them trying to fit into about 12 seats, obviously wanting to stand with mates in one sense, but in a packed away end this wasn’t going to be possible, and then they started taking it in turns to go see a lad in the middle and huddled up so they could take a line. Absolutely disgusting. I even heard one lad moan saying “move down” to his mate and the lad said “I can’t as this lads seat is down” as he was stood up on it to see the pitch, which stopped them from shuffling along but the other lads still tried pushing and shoving them along so the lad was barging into my son and eventually knocked him off. I simply said calmly “oway lads, can’t you see you’re knocking him, Calm it down”. Only to be told “well f******** move him them ya dafcun. Tell me what to do again, I dare ya, and see what happens” right in my face. Obviously it was really crowded and cramped and with me getting started on my boy got upset, crying, not hysterical, but you could see tears and he started asking to move. I didn’t want to move out of principle so stayed another minute or two but when he got hit again I took him into the row behind, moved along and then went down right to the front making sure to tell them they should be ashamed of themselves, only to be laughed at and given sneers. ****..

Boro fans later throw stuff over our heads at Preston players when they scored the second, we had the pr*ck who didn’t throw the ball back at the end of the first half, we had yet another stupid dad encouraging his boy to run on the pitch after the whistle and congratulating him on his return, hundred of fag ends in the toilet sinks when I went at the end, and on Twitter someone told me another group of lads were trying to smash up seats towards the back at the end and he was given abuse when he told them to stop so despite loads of Preston fans saying we were “the best supporters at Deepdale” I take they mean noise wise as our scum element really are one of the worst. Thankfully it is a small minority but still far too big and something MUST be done.

Myself and the boy have been to 12 away games this season and had a similar problem at Old Trafford when 4 lads tried standing in the space for two seats but they were respectful of my boy and when they realised it was too tight one lad went off to stand with some other mates, and also I was given a mouthful and offered out at Coventry by Boro youngsters when I told a group to stop throwing coins into the Coventry fans so this is not an isolated incident.
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I hope you an your lad are ok with going again?
If its any consolation - at home in the South Stand we sometimes get the same problem - where kids try to bunch in together.
Around us we are all season card holders and adults. When they see us and we tell them to shift - they move.
Its clearly a much wider problem - the issue at away games is the random allocation of seats [me thinks].
Its a pity there isnt an app or a number for anonymous reporting of "incidents" at each away ground.
Most "Stewards" dont have the nouse or training to understand what you are telling them if you need help.

Take care and hope you dont get that treatment next season.
 
RedAsABeetroot said:
I had a heart attack at 41 when one of my valves spasmed shut. While in A&E a doctor asked me if I'd had any cocaine the night before. I've never had any in my life but I'd been in Boro the night before and I still wonder if someone had spiked me.
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The odds on anyone spiking you with Cocaine are minimal to zero
 
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