| Crazy Fans 21:01 - Feb 28 with 5608 views | Hitch |
Iam a colonial, my sports are Union, League and for some strange reason QPR. Can anyone tell me why football fans are so hostile. This isn't a dig, just an observation. |  | | |  |
| Crazy Fans on 21:04 - Feb 28 with 5600 views | Boston |
You trying to start... |  |
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| Crazy Fans on 21:13 - Feb 28 with 5569 views | loftboy |
We aren't hostile and we will kick anyone's heads in who says different!! |  |
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| Crazy Fans on 22:06 - Feb 28 with 5506 views | NgaiTahu_Hoop |
Not sure if they are all that hostile but I see you are from Godzone too and if you are considering a challenge to my "QPR fan who lives the furtherest from W12" status it could kick off! | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 22:09 - Feb 28 with 5494 views | oddball |
tribal innit. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 22:38 - Feb 28 with 5446 views | Hitch |
| Crazy Fans on 22:06 - Feb 28 by NgaiTahu_Hoop |
Not sure if they are all that hostile but I see you are from Godzone too and if you are considering a challenge to my "QPR fan who lives the furtherest from W12" status it could kick off! |
Ruanui, Taranaki. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 05:13 - Feb 29 with 5323 views | timcocking |
Because in England, the posh people watch rugby, the paupers and the rabble support football teams... |  | | |
| Crazy Fans on 07:31 - Feb 29 with 5267 views | GetMeRangers |
| Crazy Fans on 05:13 - Feb 29 by timcocking |
Because in England, the posh people watch rugby, the paupers and the rabble support football teams... |
But that isnt true, unless you have never visited the West Country. If you do, then get yourself down to Kingsholm and onto the terraces. The fans mix, ordinary working people... and most with excess beer on board. Yet it is good humoured. Occasionally there are scuffles, but these are no different from those between drunken idiots rather than being tribal. You rarely see anyone wearing football shirts in Gloucester... Cherry and whites... nearly everyone... especially on match day. Football is barely played down in the West Country. Union is the main gig... including in schools
For the most part, football is trouble free and rival fans mix easily without problems. Some clubs excepted, of course [Post edited 29 Feb 2016 7:33]
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| Crazy Fans on 21:37 - Feb 29 with 5025 views | NgaiTahu_Hoop |
| Crazy Fans on 22:38 - Feb 28 by Hitch |
Ruanui, Taranaki. |
He mihi nui ki te maunga teitei o Te ika a Maui. Ko Taranaki! I guess as someone else mentioned it is definitely tribal when it comes to football fans so we can relate that passion to iwi rivalries in a sense. How did you become attached to the mad house that is QPR bro? | | | |
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| Crazy Fans on 21:45 - Feb 29 with 5005 views | Snipper |
| Crazy Fans on 21:37 - Feb 29 by NgaiTahu_Hoop |
He mihi nui ki te maunga teitei o Te ika a Maui. Ko Taranaki! I guess as someone else mentioned it is definitely tribal when it comes to football fans so we can relate that passion to iwi rivalries in a sense. How did you become attached to the mad house that is QPR bro? |
I spent some time in Hawera, Taranaki in 1989/90.
Loved New Zealand. |  | | |
| Crazy Fans on 21:53 - Feb 29 with 4991 views | SydneyRs |
| Crazy Fans on 05:13 - Feb 29 by timcocking |
Because in England, the posh people watch rugby, the paupers and the rabble support football teams... |
When it comes to rugby union, that's not much different in Australia. Definitely one for the Tarquins. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 22:05 - Feb 29 with 4964 views | NgaiTahu_Hoop |
| Crazy Fans on 21:53 - Feb 29 by SydneyRs |
When it comes to rugby union, that's not much different in Australia. Definitely one for the Tarquins. |
Yeah true we are lucky in NZ, very few Tarquins here and rugby is not really segregated that way | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 00:10 - Mar 1 with 4915 views | Hitch |
| Crazy Fans on 21:45 - Feb 29 by Snipper |
I spent some time in Hawera, Taranaki in 1989/90.
Loved New Zealand. |
That's my town, where were you friend. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 00:34 - Mar 1 with 4906 views | Hitch |
| Crazy Fans on 21:37 - Feb 29 by NgaiTahu_Hoop |
He mihi nui ki te maunga teitei o Te ika a Maui. Ko Taranaki! I guess as someone else mentioned it is definitely tribal when it comes to football fans so we can relate that passion to iwi rivalries in a sense. How did you become attached to the mad house that is QPR bro? |
Kei te koa au ki te tutaki I a koe. I started following QPR after seeing them in the FA cup one year. I really liked the Kahurangi and Ma stripes, so here I am. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 01:28 - Mar 1 with 4894 views | QPR_Jim |
| Crazy Fans on 00:34 - Mar 1 by Hitch |
Kei te koa au ki te tutaki I a koe. I started following QPR after seeing them in the FA cup one year. I really liked the Kahurangi and Ma stripes, so here I am. |
We don't use the S-word around here, they're hoops!
*or at least they should be if we could get our kit right. |  | | |
| Crazy Fans on 03:14 - Mar 1 with 4874 views | Hitch |
| Crazy Fans on 01:28 - Mar 1 by QPR_Jim |
We don't use the S-word around here, they're hoops!
*or at least they should be if we could get our kit right. |
Ill give myself an uppercut | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 07:10 - Mar 1 with 4835 views | qprichard |
| Crazy Fans on 00:10 - Mar 1 by Hitch |
That's my town, where were you friend. |
Small world.
Played in goal for them for 3 seasons, early 1970s | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 20:12 - Mar 1 with 4701 views | Hitch |
| Crazy Fans on 07:10 - Mar 1 by qprichard |
Small world.
Played in goal for them for 3 seasons, early 1970s |
wow, any names from that era | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 20:31 - Mar 1 with 4688 views | Rs_Holy |
| Crazy Fans on 20:12 - Mar 1 by Hitch |
wow, any names from that era |
Cheese? |  | | |
| Crazy Fans on 22:39 - Mar 1 with 4621 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Crazy Fans on 07:31 - Feb 29 by GetMeRangers |
But that isnt true, unless you have never visited the West Country. If you do, then get yourself down to Kingsholm and onto the terraces. The fans mix, ordinary working people... and most with excess beer on board. Yet it is good humoured. Occasionally there are scuffles, but these are no different from those between drunken idiots rather than being tribal. You rarely see anyone wearing football shirts in Gloucester... Cherry and whites... nearly everyone... especially on match day. Football is barely played down in the West Country. Union is the main gig... including in schools
For the most part, football is trouble free and rival fans mix easily without problems. Some clubs excepted, of course [Post edited 29 Feb 2016 7:33]
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True enough, though I think you underestimate the importance of the top-of-the-conference clash that is El Glossico. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 23:18 - Mar 1 with 4598 views | GetMeRangers |
| Crazy Fans on 22:39 - Mar 1 by CiderwithRsie |
True enough, though I think you underestimate the importance of the top-of-the-conference clash that is El Glossico. |
El Glossico? | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 07:40 - Mar 2 with 4540 views | qprichard |
| Crazy Fans on 20:12 - Mar 1 by Hitch |
wow, any names from that era |
Can only remember a couple of full names, Charlie Holm who was an electrician and Mike Chapman who was an accountant. Can remember a few first names chap called Tony who worked for the Hawera Star was there for a season, and Charlie had a brother I think was called Bob.
Football had just started to really catch on at the time and a number of the players were from England a number who were there only a short time as they moved round looking for somewhere to settle, but then some very promising young players were coming from the local school by the time I left. | | | |
| Crazy Fans on 09:38 - Mar 2 with 4511 views | CiderwithRsie |
Cheltenham Town v Forest Green Rovers.
Actually, as I'm sure you know, no-one much cares, but the county does have the two top sides in the Conference this system.
First leg of El Glos was a draw. | | | |
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