| Clapping 12:24 - Nov 3 with 5118 views | GosportHoops |
Why can't people just be quiet and observe the 2 minutes silence instead of clapping like seals, pathetic | | | |  |
| Clapping on 12:30 - Nov 3 with 3809 views | Watford_Ranger |
To drown out people stumbling in after eight pints oblivious to a silence. | | | |
| Clapping on 12:31 - Nov 3 with 3801 views | Match82 |
When you have 15,000 people in the crowds you are going to get some absolute weapons among that who don't have the level of respect they should and think interrupting is funny. If everyone is clapping it doesn't give them the oxygen and attention they crave. | | | |
| Clapping on 12:36 - Nov 3 with 3766 views | HantsR |
I commented on this on the match thread. Some folk were still clapping when the Last Post was played and I even had to politely ask some supporters behind me to stop chatting.
I think it was because the names of players from both sides who died in the wars were read out before the 'silence' and it has become increasingly common to honour the deceased with applause. Nothing wrong with that, but it was not appropriate for a Remembrance Day ceremony. | | | |
| Clapping on 12:53 - Nov 3 with 3704 views | GosportHoops |
I appreciate and understand the points made about attention seekers people on the drinks etc but we live in a world of noise just 2 minutes once a year, it's not alot to ask/expect! I just don't like the clapping instead of silence for any occasion but especially remembrance! An | | | |
| Clapping on 12:58 - Nov 3 with 3658 views | slmrstid |
I'd probably say a lot of people don't listen, when it was explained that they'd read the names out, have the silence, then the Last Post, people just started clapping after the names because they hadn't listened, then once a group have started lots of extras just then all join in.
Controversial point but I actually find the whole performative stuff this has become really uncomfortable, particularly when, as we're frequently not, not actually playing at home on Remembrance Weekend. | | | |
| Clapping on 12:59 - Nov 3 with 3657 views | Hastings_Hoops |
IMHO - Society has changed now and everyone is doped by social media, phones, constant visual stimulation… people struggle to focus and embrace silence.
…sadly one day people will ask why the phrase ‘silence is golden’ was ever a thing. | | | |
| Clapping on 13:05 - Nov 3 with 3618 views | Watford_Ranger |
They could just stop people coming up the stairs at 2:57 probably. Some safety nonsense perhaps stops that. Have some signs up reminding people what’s happening before the game. | | | |
| Clapping on 13:10 - Nov 3 with 3585 views | Hayesender |
I blame the death of Princess Diana for all this clapping nonsense. Is it really that difficult for some people to keep their mouths shut for a minute? | |
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| Clapping on 13:15 - Nov 3 with 3563 views | connell10 |
I blame X factor | |
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| Clapping on 13:33 - Nov 3 with 3506 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
Was just about to write this. Ever since Diana funeral it seems people can't just keep a lid on it. All this gushing and wailing.
What happened to the good old British Stiff Upper Lip? | | | |
| Clapping on 14:10 - Nov 3 with 3365 views | stevec |
If they ever get the sound system to work in SAR we will have a much better idea of what’s going on.
Joined in the clapping yesterday as it spread through the stadium, protocol went out the window sadly. | | | |
| Clapping on 14:11 - Nov 3 with 3363 views | slmrstid |
Maybe foggy memory for me, but wasn't it George Best's death that heralded the arrival of the minute's applause? People felt uncomfortable with the silence due to his issues so decided to applaud for his career instead? Something like that anyway. | | | |
| Clapping on 14:34 - Nov 3 with 3290 views | Westy75 |
Totally agree with OP. Drives me mad. It used to be a meaningful thing to have an entire football crowd fall silent for a full minute. The announcement was clear again “one minute’s silence” but you knew what was coming… | | | |
| Clapping on 15:34 - Nov 3 with 3125 views | Match82 |
To be clear I completely agree with this, I don't understand why people are incapable of showing respect for a couple of minutes, not difficult and the very least we can/should do IMO.
But if you're in a situation where that's the case, I understand why clapping (another way of showing appreciation albeit one less fitting for the tone of the occasion) is the solution | | | |
| Clapping on 15:36 - Nov 3 with 3115 views | Match82 |
Not sure if this happens everywhere but I've had that happen to me during the national anthem in the US. They stopped people going up and down the concourses. | | | |
| Clapping on 16:24 - Nov 3 with 3001 views | Logman |
Agree with para 1
Para 2 - yes, it can be a bit contrived when its 9 days before Remembrance Day but for me its important, the club organise it very well and it serves a good purpose [Post edited 3 Nov 16:26]
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| Clapping on 17:09 - Nov 3 with 2895 views | HantsR |
Yes, George Best that's what I thought. It's interesting how times change events like Remembrance Day. In my youth, with many families including my own, having lost loved ones relatively recently in WW2, it was a very solemn occasion and I can remember being in Trafalgar Square when everything and everyone stopped still and silent at 11 am on the day. It was just the one day then, the Sunday, now it seems to last two or three weeks. | | | |
| Clapping on 18:48 - Nov 3 with 2706 views | kensalriser |
The obvious factor is that as we get further away from living memory of war there's less visceral connection to the meaning of Remembrance Day. But I think event expansion creep isn't helping. Remembrance Day wasn't yesterday, it's next week. Better to do it on the day, only on the day, and universally.
Clapping is entirely inappropriate and crass. It's a time for reflection and private thought. [Post edited 3 Nov 18:54]
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| Clapping on 19:00 - Nov 3 with 2654 views | daveB |
In the lower loft the speakers don't work on the concourse so no one had any idea what was going on if it was a minutes silence or applause, it was quite hard to hear if the last post was bering played as well | | | |
| Clapping on 19:22 - Nov 3 with 2601 views | Northernr |
Agree with the OP.
It's fcking grim. | | | |
| Clapping on 19:35 - Nov 3 with 2544 views | daveB |
has it always been done like this at football? Seems to have become a thing in the last 10 year that you lay flowers, last post etc at the nearest home game, before that you just did a minutes silence on the weekend of remberance sunday | | | |
| Clapping on 19:41 - Nov 3 with 2523 views | Northernr |
My memory is if your home game happened to land on the weekend of Remembrance Sunday you had a silence, and the last post. And that was it. | | | |
| Clapping on 19:56 - Nov 3 with 2429 views | FrankRightguard |
It’s always a minutes silence. | | | |
| Clapping on 06:50 - Nov 4 with 2091 views | BushRanger82 |
I've never understood this modern penchant for breaking out in applause, as a means of honouring someone who has died. To me, it's innapropriate. A minute, or two's silence, is much more dignified, solemn, and way more apropriate for such an occassion. | | | |
| Clapping on 06:53 - Nov 4 with 2081 views | Loftgirl |
Virtue signalling. Like flowers on the side of the road where someone has died. | | | |
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