Scabs......

approx 30 years ago......time to move on chaps.......never forget but move on time for me.

hth

 

You're not wrong. 15 year old kids shouting "scab" is rather embarrassing.

 

thereev rarely is!!

 

I hope you've got your tin hat ready Bob.

 

I can't even begin to imagine the hardship and misery the striking miners and their families went through under Thatcher, but it is tiresome hearing it every single time we play Forest, and I assume County and Mansfield were given the same treatment in the past.

Saying that, no-one can stop people from chanting it and if the people affected still feel the need to then so be it. I wish the little chavs who have no idea what the chant stems from wouldn't though.

 

So because you have moved on everyone must

Yeah right

If you don't want to shout scabs don't simple

But many will and that's up to them


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Exactly.

 

another well thought out response....which of course you are entitled to....part of our fine country's policy

 

Each to their own I suppose. I've never shouted it as I don't fully understand what went down during the miners strike, I wasn't born until the late 80's and to be quite honest I have no interest in finding out.

But when supporters younger than me, are shouting it, it's rather embarrassing because they also have no affiliation to its meaning. And worse still, a large contingent of the supporters they're shouting it at have little understanding of its meaning.

I'll always remember one match day about 7 or 8 years ago. I was about 18 at the time and had a large Brazil flag that I occasionally took to games and hung from the gangway behind us. This one particular day, a bloke in his 50's told me that I had no idea where I came from, that I should 'take that **** down' and replace it with something that represented my town, something with a pithead on it. I've not taken my Brazil flag to a game since.

It obviously still causes grief to some, but it's not something which should be forced upon future generations in my opinion. Sadly it has been.

 

Scabist

 

Sounds like you met a right bellend on this one particular day.

 

I'll be at it at the top of my voice.

There won't be much else to cheer...

 

It's alright saying these young lads have nothing to do with it and they don't know what they are chanting about but it's their future jobs and areas that suffered when the pits were closed surely....

How many of them young lads would have walked into a job or an apprentaship down the pit were they still up and running? I'm 27 and must admit it I don't shout it but I can understand some of them shouting as I know my dad went through the strike and always said to me that I could have had a job for life had the pits still been open.

3 generations of my family were miners and I can understand the anger people who went through the strike and finally when the pits shut still feel. 30 years on it's still a big part of a lot of people's lives and the feelings will stay with my dad and a lot of other ex miners till the day they die.

 

Well said. I shout it and always will do. I was 18 at the time of the strike and although I didn't work at the pit, I went along to marches and sometimes picket lines with my dad who was a miner. It doesn't matter how many scabs are there. Every son or daughter of a scabbing Notts miner should hear it and feel shame for how their father let down his fellow workers.

 

Went on hols to Benidorm in '86 with a few mates. Met 2 lads from Nottingham in hotel and spent the fortnight getting blathered with them. They came up here for a weekend and we went down there.

Went in one of their locals and got introduced as some mates from Barnsley. Straight off one bloke playing pool asked if any were miners. I said "Me". "Did you strike then?" "Yes, out till the end" says I. " Daft b@st@rds,should do like we do ,carry on working and get all the benefits afterwards anyway" he said with a wink.

Never forget the scabbing b@st@rds

 

So when do you think people should stop shouting it

1 year after 10 years After or 30

It's about personal opinions and just because you think people should move on doesn't mean everyone else should


Not having a go at you just think people are entitled to move on when they decide to





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Mebbes not but the day after tuesdays are called Massives aren't they?

 

Yeah, I suppose most of the population of Germany should be in constant shame about what their fathers and grandfathers did as well.

 

Don't forget tho' the Notts miners have a history of 'scabbing'