Post by broadfielddave on Aug 25, 2022 9:14:34 GMT
The funny thing about the pitch invasion was it was almost all from the south terrace, so will largely have been the same people who were chanting for Betsy to be sacked on Saturday.
It's great to see anyone turning up to Crawley games but we do seem to have an alarmingly large number of dopes in our ranks, especially behind that goal. Hopefully after last night they might collectively grow up a bit and continue the support they showed during the game, even when the team is having an off day.
What a brilliant night, and just what was needed after the incredible low of Saturday.
The funny thing about the pitch invasion was it was almost all from the south terrace, so will largely have been the same people who were chanting for Betsy to be sacked on Saturday.
It's great to see anyone turning up to Crawley games but we do seem to have an alarmingly large number of dopes in our ranks, especially behind that goal. Hopefully after last night they might collectively grow up a bit and continue the support they showed during the game, even when the team is having an off day.
What a brilliant night, and just what was needed after the incredible low of Saturday.
Not much longer and they will all be back to School !!
It probably didn't help that some Crawley players were posing for selfies with some supporters on the pitch. It might be seen as encouraging the invasion or condoning it.
It probably didn't help that some Crawley players were posing for selfies with some supporters on the pitch. It might be seen as encouraging the invasion or condoning it.
I mean Preston tweeted to allow them to rush the pitch😂
The funny thing about the pitch invasion was it was almost all from the south terrace, so will largely have been the same people who were chanting for Betsy to be sacked on Saturday.
It's great to see anyone turning up to Crawley games but we do seem to have an alarmingly large number of dopes in our ranks, especially behind that goal. Hopefully after last night they might collectively grow up a bit and continue the support they showed during the game, even when the team is having an off day.
What a brilliant night, and just what was needed after the incredible low of Saturday.
These are the fans we got, however! Yep they are capable of great emotional extremes and I think Preston's tweet was mostly about the attitude 'OK we work with what we've got, even though it will cost us a few official sanctions'.
I'm personally reluctant to go down the road of battering easily impressionable young kids who wanted to have some kind of carnival because they felt good, I'd kind of feel old fogeyish doing that. The concern I'd rather flag up is all the negativity against Betsy and the club before we even kicked off this season that was so prevalent online from much more older, experienced fans and that inevitability seeped into the brains of these over-excitable younger fans, so much so that we've had them on the backs of players even when those players have been busting a gut to rescue games for us recently.
I still maintain that if older, wiser Crawley fans just avoided the online campaign bandwaggoning of the type that targeted Tony Craig last season and has aimed at Betsy this season, our younger fans would be primed with less ammunition to go off on ones
Obviously the club will do their best to stop any fans being banned and I reckon will cop a extra heavy fine for doing that. Am sure we'll have to promise to be good boys in future and Preston may be forced into a grovelling statement. When the tannoy announcement was made about us getting fined and the fans instantly started singing we're going on the pitch, nothing was going to stop it happening, we just don't have the number of stewards to even get near doing that
Have to say I'm a bit annoyed by all this current furore about pitch invasions. Just because one group of fans elsewhere behaves like total bellends and attacks players, another entirely seperate group of fans shouldn't be held responsible for that just because they want to celebrate in a good humoured way. This is how politicians and Establishment nobs have always treated football fans, it's collective punishment for all of us rather than punishing the individuals who do bad shit. We are all just a faceless, amorphous lump of proles to them to be condemned and punished in the same way
We need to go back to the days of the Town Mead pitch. You went on there at you own peril!
Theres a legend about a lost Roman legion in Britain. I sometimes wondered if they could've been in that mud pile!
I dont like pitch invasions. It often means the players running for the dressing rooms and, after a good result, they don't get to round the pitch milking the applause.
It probably didn't help that some Crawley players were posing for selfies with some supporters on the pitch. It might be seen as encouraging the invasion or condoning it.
I mean Preston tweeted to allow them to rush the pitch😂
Identify what 500+ fans? A bit of common sense here is required. Fulham fans had already left and the handful left were sensibly contained away from Reds fans by a line of Stewards. Fans were hardly going to strike out. There was a togetherness in the celebrations. Arguably announcing keep off the pitch was a cue to go on the pitch!
Identify what 500+ fans? A bit of common sense here is required. Fulham fans had already left and the handful left were sensibly contained away from Reds fans by a line of Stewards. Fans were hardly going to strike out. There was a togetherness in the celebrations. Arguably announcing keep off the pitch was a cue to go on the pitch!
How times have changed. In my early years of watching Crawley (at Town Mead), a few kids used to jump on the pitch at half time and have a kickabout in the goals.
Unusually, I was on quite a lofty perch on Tuesday evening, and couldn't see any Fulham players feeling threatened. However, it only takes one idiot...
Have to say I'm a bit annoyed by all this current furore about pitch invasions. Just because one group of fans elsewhere behaves like total bellends and attacks players, another entirely seperate group of fans shouldn't be held responsible for that just because they want to celebrate in a good humoured way. This is how politicians and Establishment nobs have always treated football fans, it's collective punishment for all of us rather than punishing the individuals who do bad shit. We are all just a faceless, amorphous lump of proles to them to be condemned and punished in the same way
Easy to say Steve but what if the stewards hadn't stopped some of the more excited fans from getting to the Fulham end? An earlier post from Alex I think said it would have been nice for everybody if players could have gone around the pitch - I agree - much better than having chaos which is always likely to lead to trouble. (Proles or not!)