Why can't football fans be more like rugby union?

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  1. Tyk

    Tyketical Masterstroke Well-Known Member

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    Tyketical Masterstroke, Nov 22, 2021
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    I laughed but if it had been George I'd be incensed.
     
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    Least he had some emergency anti sick safety goggles on ,if you will buy tickets in the cheap seats then you expect to get a bit of sick on you ,that’s why they had sawdust down in the 3rd class carriages in the 19th century ,it’s always been the same
     
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    I went to the Scotland v Japan game on Saturday. First time I've attended a Rugby Union match, and the people I encountered were a totally different breed. In a good way.
     
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    were you supporting Scotland or Japan?
     
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    Old Gimmer Well-Known Member

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    Neither. Have to say that the interaction between the few Japanese supporters in attendance and the Scots was a pleasure to behold. Also, the ability to take drinks to your seat (which some people were taking full advantage of!!) was eye-opening. Not a hint of trouble. All in all an uplifting experience.
     
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    I watched the Ireland v Argentina game. When an Argentine player was sent off for violent play he went over to shake the hand of the Irishman he had tackled as he walked off.
     
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    Id have left straight away, yuck.
     
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    What's Dan Jarvis playing at. :)

    Saturday's match between Wales and South Africa was marred by a supporter who ran on to the pitch and disrupted an attempt from the home side to score a try, prompting him to receive a lifetime ban at the stadium.
    During the previous weekend's game against New Zealand, serial pitch invader Daniel Jarvis joined the All Blacks' anthem line-up before being thrown out of the venue.
     
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    Would be on the national news if a football fan vomited on another football fan.

    Remove the privileges of the peanut-huggers, as they can't behave themselves.
     
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    I was in Edinburgh at the weekend (not for the rugby) and the atmosphere in the centre after was phenomenal. I'd been told by someone at work that Edinburgh is a fantastic place to go when the rugby is on, but seeing everyone in such good spirits without a hint of trouble was incredible.
     
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    Unlike the other home nations, Welsh Rugby Union is predominantly working class.

    Wonder if the vomitor came out with the classic line..."I don't remember eating that".
     
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    really interesting at Fulham Saturday. Most pubs home and away fans mingling and the entrance to the stand was for both home and away fans again with mingling (and drinking together) inside the stadium. Didn't see a hint of trouble. Is this a) because its posh in that neck of the woods? or b) they treat fans like human beings who can interact with each other without an immediate need to kick the living daylights out of each other? My money is firmly on b. Now those bloody inflatable clappers on the other hand.....
     
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    When we took over 3k a few years back. The local MP wrote to Dan Jarvis and stated how brilliant our fans were on the Day. And the best to visit the cottage. Never seen a hint of trouble every time I've been. (Pity it's not like that all the time. Not many home fans are that welcoming)
    I guess they never see trouble or they'd put segregation in place.
    It's a bit expensive on the food side mind.
     
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    Probably an odd post for a football forum. But I don't go to many if any football games, just find the overriding emotion for many fans is anger. Anger at the away team, the away fans, the ref, the home team, their own support, taking the knee, etc, etc. It's simply not an emotion you see in anywhere near the same way at a rugby game - elation and disappointment for sure, but extremely rarely does this turn into anything unpleasant.

    Appreciate loads of people are now going to pile in with examples of rugby folk behaving badly, but that doesn't change how different the match day experience is. Same with cricket, rugby league, basketball, you name it.
     
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    I've never seen anything approaching bad behaviour at a rugby union game.
     
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    Except on the pitch of course.
     
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