Then their is no middle ground 2,000 (an estimate based on the gate and your 5 to 1) fans wanting to go onto the pitch is a significant number</p> Their wishes and your wishes seem to be totally opposed, and their is no middel ground. I've never really been one to go on the pitch in the past, there are plenty of seasons I've not bothered and a couple of occasions when I have.</p> What I was suggesting was a way of managing what seems to be inevitable - based on the fact they never seem to manage to stop it happening - and coming up with something that is structured and fulfil the need a significant group have to go on the pitch and greet the players once a season.</p> If you can't see any middle ground, then expect to continue to be disappointed at the end of each season for some time to come.</p>
Got my maths wrong I should have said 50 to 1 as I reckon there were no more than a couple of hundred. I won't be disappointed for many seasons to come because I go to the last home game of the season expecting various people to run around on the pitch. I would be ecstatic though if, for one year, they didn't. I've never invaded the pitch although that could well be because I can't, even if I wanted to. Would I have invaded at any time when I was younger? Who knows?
Your not fecking Italian!!!! seriously do you actually have any links to Italy? (besides going on holiday there)
some ppl should know better the amount of middle aged men even some quite older veterans were also on the pitch, so it isnt just the younger end to blame, ppl who should know better, i know quite a few ppl who just goto the last match of the season just so they can invade the pitch, yes i have done in the past but excepentinel circumstances ie.. Bardford city (promotion) and walsall away, but yesterday i think would have been much worse if charlton would have brung more than the bus load full that they did, the stewards and club might have done more if it would have been a much larger away following
Then you are almost unique The pictures I've seen of the day show the pitch almost entirely full of criminals and spoilers, and from what I remember hardly anyone in the stands
fulfil the need a significant group have to go on the pitch and greet the players Sorry, I can't agree with that at all.</p> The main reason the vast majority go on the pitch at Oakwell is because they know they're not supposed to.</p> They're selfish and ignorant and just want to stick fingers up to authority.</p>
I have good reason to be almost unique How many of those on the pitch after the Bradford game, or any other for that matter, were disabled? Like I said before, I don't agree with the invasion, although after games such as Bradford I can understand it, because it prevents me from showing my appreciation. I have to accept though that my desire to see them stay off the pitch could be seen as selfish as I see the couple of hundred or so who chose to invade.
and people always want to do what they aren't supposed to You might well have hit on something there</p> Take away the bloke with a mega phone shouting not to do it, and I bet you take away half the incentive.</p> Make it organised and acceptable, and I bet you have hardly anyone bothering</p>
I sensed from one of your earlier posts That you might be disabled, hence me attempting to be slightly ambiguous when asking about the Bradford game and saying "You didn't fancy going on the pitch".</p> I don't follow the logic that it's sort of OK/understandable for some games, but not once a season. Where do you draw the line? Chelsea, Walsall, Bradford, when is it and when isn't.</p> I think if you made it organised and took away the blokes shouting don't do that ... you'd take away half of the attraction as well</p>
Whilst I don't like it I can understand it at times such as after the Bradford game or Chelsea game when we've achieved something memorable. I can, in those circumstances understand how emotion can over rule the head & cause people to want to run on the pitch. What I can't understand is why people should want to invade the pitch when all we've achieved is mid-table obscurity which has happened in the past. I'm not saying that this season has been mid-table obscurity but I hardly think that yesterdays game was in the same category as Bradford or Chelsea. Also, I suspected that you'd twigged about my disability which is why I answered your post "Not really". I didn't feel like invading because I knew I couldn't. I've never been in a situation where I could so it's difficult for me to say whether I would or not if I had been able.
Bit hard considering there is a dry moat down orange side and screens up behind goals!!!! Forza Inter, can't wait to see em clinch title and virtually deny Milan a chance of Champions League next sunday See Matrix today, i bet he'd only touched ball 3 times before he bobbed 2nd in "TUTTI PAZZI PER MATERAZZI"