Don Rowing in corporal punishment rant...

http://www.barnsley-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=471363

A little embarrassing coming from a football club official, even if I do agree with the sentiment.

 

Very strong but is it strong enough

I also believe that Scum fans who don't break the rules too should be birched.

 

I have to agree with him 100% and I believe his comments are in context with the statement he was making so he is justified in making them. I say well done to him (clap)

 

Embarrasement to the club..

IMHO

 

RE: Embarrasement to the club..

Not at all. To combat the thuggery that feral youth inflict on the innocent public, I firmly believe a return of the birch and borstels will shortly be a necessity. Too many Barstewards are being born today due to the breakdown of morality in society caused by liberal/left wing thinkers and educators from the '60s onwards.

 

Nut

Professor

 

Was it so much better...

...in the 60's and 70's? Or do you just think it was?

 

Agree 100%.

Because it was done in the confines of a football stadium is irrelevent. It shouldn't have happened full stop.

How anyone can say what Mr Rowing said was embarrassing, needs their head testing.

 

First impression I get from that is that he (and therefore barnsley fc) believe that 'change is not good' and wish it was still 40 years ago when things like the internet weren't invented. A bit worrying for a business in the 21st century

 

Really?

Wow, and here's me thinking he's just another normal bloke who wants something doing about these hate filled cretins who roam this land, thinking and more times than not, getting away with murder. Society today is a disgrace. It's got nothing to do with not agreeing with change, but everything to do with just wanting a bit of normality and positivity back into the world.

 

And the 60s and 70s had no crime? Things like this didn't happen back then? Because I'm sure i've read that football hooligans were much worse in the 70s and 80s and surely the perpetrators were of the age that would have been physically punished at school. It isn't someone realising that the world is a much more dangerous place now than it was, it isnt someone seeing a crime and realising that would NEVER have happene in his day, it is someone with a very short memory

 

I think you are correct in the interpretation of his statement

... however to hark back to the halcyon days of the seventies is wide of the mark. The football violence that went on then was horrendous and makes today's stuff seem like a minor altercation.

 

Why are you getting all worked up?

Ok, if you don't agree with Don Rowing, then fair enough, that's your choice.

The fact of the matter is, that this type of violence goes on far too often. I never said it didn't happen in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's and I don't recall Don Rowing saying that either. All he's trying to say (In my opinion) is what many people are thinking. The world, today, as we know it, is an hate filled place. It really is. This 'minor' incident, in the grand scheme of things of course, typifies just that. 15/16 year old 'kids', who are working for a measley few quid at a football ground, should not be coming in for a tirade of abuse, both verbal and physical, not from anyone, and certainly not from grown adults, who probably have wives and children. No one should. Sadly, there isn't much we can do about it, because there are far too many idiots out there, who, for some obscure reason, feel as though this type of behaviour is perfectly acceptable.

 

My (and apparently a fair few others) point is that this kind of crime was even ore frequent and in fact worse in the years of the birch than it is now so calling for a return to those times is very short sighted

 

Fair enough.

That was probably a little over the top on his part, but the point is still the same; these idiots need punishing, and time and time and time again, they get away, as free as birds to do this type of thing again and again.

 

I can't believe that I'm going to say this but...

I agree with Supertyke. It's nothing to do with 'whacking' people, it's a breakdown in family discipline and a lack of respect for authority figures.

 

Oh I agree that the punishment should be more severe but I don't think a return to the 'good old days' would be the answer. The good old days had a lot of crime in it just as there is today from football violence right up to the murder of children, it is no more common now than it was before, we just hear about it more now.

 

"A lack of respect for authority figures"...

Hahaha.

Thank you. Genuinely, thank you. I haven't laughed like this for a long time.

 

Oh, without doubt. The news controls everything.

If they want to make you believe that knife crime is on the up, then they'll show you a knife crime, every SINGLE day.

If they want you to see how hundreds upon hundreds of people are dying in Afghanistan, then they'll show you it everyday.

I don't think humanity as changed one iota since the dawn of time. We really are a sick, twisted, hate filled race, and nothing the government or Don Rowing does or says will change that. It will never change. For all the good and positivity that we can offer this world, and do offer this world and others in it. We have moronic imbeciles such as these people, and others, who do far greater evil roaming around with us. We won't change. It's in our nature. It's just so damn frustrating; pathetic and sad.