Why so much hostility?

[St.Kristopher]

I have been reading a lot of very depressing posts recently - full of hostility towards any and everyone.

When I was young neither of my parents we football fans so I would be taken along by other friends and family to , tynecaste, meadowbank, easter road and park head on the odd occasions.

Though I did make a decision at one point to support Hearts and got a strip. Though at about the age of 12 or 13, I went with a cousin to Easter road to watch a 0-0 game against Raith and fell in love with Hibs - cause the fans I was sitting next to were all good humoured and were there for a laugh.

I then went through my teenage years (the ones where you love to hate someone cause it gives you some identity) and shouted with vitriol at all other fans from the terraces - as if my Hibee mates and I were somehow superior to other people.

I am pleased to say I have mellowed and it now really grates me to watch grown men show so much anger towards other fans. I just wish they would channel their efforts to being funny.

The SPL experience would be 100 times better if this was the case.

[CMcP]

I have been reading a lot of very depressing posts recently - full of hostility towards any and everyone.

When I was young neither of my parents we football fans so I would be taken along by other friends and family to , tynecaste, meadowbank, easter road and park head on the odd occasions.

Though I did make a decision at one point to support Hearts and got a strip. Though at about the age of 12 or 13, I went with a cousin to Easter road to watch a 0-0 game against Raith and fell in love with Hibs - cause the fans I was sitting next to were all good humoured and were there for a laugh.

I then went through my teenage years (the ones where you love to hate someone cause it gives you some identity) and shouted with vitriol at all other fans from the terraces - as if my Hibee mates and I were somehow superior to other people.

I am pleased to say I have mellowed and it now really grates me to watch grown men show so much anger towards other fans. I just wish they would channel their efforts to being funny.

The SPL experience would be 100 times better if this was the case.


:top marks

[Zorro]

I have been reading a lot of very depressing posts recently - full of hostility towards any and everyone.

When I was young neither of my parents we football fans so I would be taken along by other friends and family to , tynecaste, meadowbank, easter road and park head on the odd occasions.

Though I did make a decision at one point to support Hearts and got a strip. Though at about the age of 12 or 13, I went with a cousin to Easter road to watch a 0-0 game against Raith and fell in love with Hibs - cause the fans I was sitting next to were all good humoured and were there for a laugh.

I then went through my teenage years (the ones where you love to hate someone cause it gives you some identity) and shouted with vitriol at all other fans from the terraces - as if my Hibee mates and I were somehow superior to other people.

I am pleased to say I have mellowed and it now really grates me to watch grown men show so much anger towards other fans. I just wish they would channel their efforts to being funny.

The SPL experience would be 100 times better if this was the case.

I cannot tell you how red with rage this has made me!! Tolerance?? Tolerance you're suggesting??!! Tolerance to another human being when they dare to support another football team?? Crazy. :wink:

(but we Hibees are superior, we all know that :greengrin)

[Spike Mandela]

I am pleased to say I have mellowed and it now really grates me to watch grown men show so much anger towards other fans. I just wish they would channel their efforts to being funny.

The SPL experience would be 100 times better if this was the case.

Tell us a joke then.......:greengrin

[Rougier45]

This forum is full of angry idiots who in real life wouldnt say boo to a goose but under the annoniminity of the internet can spout of a lot abuse to all and sundry who dont agree with their warped thought process.

This type of cyber bullying has increased over the last few years and for that reason I am out of here--no more posting pour moi.

[Spike Mandela]

This forum is full of angry idiots who in real life wouldnt say boo to a goose but under the annoniminity of the internet can spout of a lot abuse to all and sundry who dont agree with their warped thought process.

This type of cyber bullying has increased over the last few years and for that reason I am out of here--no more posting pour moi.

Come over here and say that you f******g w******........:wink:

[Peevemor]

Come over here and say that you f******g w******........:wink:

Shut yer puss!

[Hank Schrader]

Mon then, I'll take all of yous on.

All of you GTF ASAP!!!!:grr::grr:

[Kojock]

I have been reading a lot of very depressing posts recently - full of hostility towards any and everyone.

When I was young neither of my parents we football fans so I would be taken along by other friends and family to , tynecaste, meadowbank, easter road and park head on the odd occasions.

Though I did make a decision at one point to support Hearts and got a strip. Though at about the age of 12 or 13, I went with a cousin to Easter road to watch a 0-0 game against Raith and fell in love with Hibs - cause the fans I was sitting next to were all good humoured and were there for a laugh.

I then went through my teenage years (the ones where you love to hate someone cause it gives you some identity) and shouted with vitriol at all other fans from the terraces - as if my Hibee mates and I were somehow superior to other people.

I am pleased to say I have mellowed and it now really grates me to watch grown men show so much anger towards other fans. I just wish they would channel their efforts to being funny.

The SPL experience would be 100 times better if this was the case.

LTYF:wink:

I pay my money for a season ticket and Im a PM on here if I want to be angry and show anger to all fans then thats my perogative thats why I pay my cash. Dont you dare come on here and tell me to mellow. Would you be brave enough to say that to my face. GGGGGRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! :wink:

[St.Kristopher]

Tell us a joke then.......:greengrin

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.

[MSK]

This forum is full of angry idiots who in real life wouldnt say boo to a goose but under the annoniminity of the internet can spout of a lot abuse to all and sundry who dont agree with their warped thought process.

This type of cyber bullying has increased over the last few years and for that reason I am out of here--no more posting pour moi.So you hide behind your keyboard & complain about cyber bullies spouting abuse but you call folk on here angry idiots !!! ...:kettle: ...

Deary me ...:greengrin

[Craig_in_Prague]

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.

I think the older days of mainly terracings helped generate better atmosphere and fun around grounds, this sitting down pish, makes human nature feel like we are at the cinema or something and are 'waiting to be entertained' and the fact they are not, they get humpty........just an opinion.

I stand at games watching my local team, who are no better than hibs, as equally frustrating, yet there's never any negativity from the crowd, constant singing and support for the whole game. How it should be.

[Just Jimmy]

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.

try a comedy club then? mibbie that's where you're going wrong?

[greenlex]

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.
If its entertainment you want can I quote a rather rotund manager from a decade or so ago and "go to the cinema"

[Spike Mandela]

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.

Surely the current Hibs team provide enough comedy moments for you:greengrin

[Houchy]

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.

Well go to the ***** comedy club then instead of boring us with sh••• posts:greengrin

[green&left]

I think the older days of mainly terracings helped generate better atmosphere and fun around grounds, this sitting down pish, makes human nature feel like we are at the cinema or something and are 'waiting to be entertained' and the fact they are not, they get humpty........just an opinion.

I stand at games watching my local team, who are no better than hibs, as equally frustrating, yet there's never any negativity from the crowd, constant singing and support for the whole game. How it should be.

I'll agree with that.

The prices we pay also being a factor. If fans are paying £22 which is alot of money and the team aren't trying, playing s***e etc, fans are rightly gonna get pissed off due to the top dollar they've paid (Hamilton v Hibs a few weeks back for example), if for example it was only a tenner, your expectations aren't as high, thus less fussed about the outcome.

This internet mass media day in age doesn't help aswell. Forums like these give people an outlet to spout nonsense and pick up on any slight mistake made by a player. We're also constantly getting the top quality fitba rammed down out throats every day like the Premier League and Champions League, so when Wetherspoon isn't playing like Messi, Brown isn't playing like Van Der Sar and Miller isn't playing like Lampard, people start going off their nuts! You actually here people trying to compare the SPL to top leagues down south and abroad. Mental!

[Dinkydoo]

This forum is full of angry idiots who in real life wouldnt say boo to a goose but under the annoniminity of the internet can spout of a lot abuse to all and sundry who dont agree with their warped thought process.

This type of cyber bullying has increased over the last few years and for that reason I am out of here--no more posting pour moi.


Your comment above would hold more weight if you hadn't just recently spat the dummy out because 3/4 of Hibs.net disagreed with your sentiments about Hibs and Celtic being cut from the same cloth.

Take it on the chin, deal with it and move on.

No need to be a wee girls blouse about it. :wink:

[hibiedude]

Your comment above would hold more weight if you hadn't just recently spat the dummy out because 3/4 of Hibs.net disagreed with your sentiments about Hibs and Celtic being cut from the same cloth.

Take it on the chin, deal with it and move on.

No need to be a wee girls blouse about it. :wink:

:thumbsup:

Great reply

[Pete]

Your comment above would hold more weight if you hadn't just recently spat the dummy out because 3/4 of Hibs.net disagreed with your sentiments about Hibs and Celtic being cut from the same cloth.

Take it on the chin, deal with it and move on.

No need to be a wee girls blouse about it. :wink:

He's spot on.

Even a few years ago he would never have taken all that. It's to do with more people joining and the mob mentality. There's still no need to leave though.

...Anyway, I'm off to another thread to declare my intention to leave for good.

Please read it.

[H18sry]

you missed my point. I want to pay for other people to make be laugh.

Well pay your tenner and become a private members, there are loads of jokers in there :wink:

[St.Kristopher]

Well go to the ***** comedy club then instead of boring us with sh••• posts:greengrin

your post made me laugh, well done...do you polish shoes as well? I need a chap to do that for me as well.

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

It is the grit in the oyster that makes the pearl.

[Fantic]

Tossers

[sadtom]

It is the grit in the oyster that makes the pearl.


Not according to QI!:greengrin
Mind you they have managed to establish themselves as official dispellers of myths and purveyors of truth, so they could probably tell us any old tom kite and it would be treated as gosple.

[The_Todd]

Football represents the triablism in human nature. As long as it doesn't go OTT and is done and dusted after the 90 minutes is up its probably quite a healthy release. IMO of course.

[iwasthere1972]

If the opposition players or fans for that matter deserve abuse then that's fair enough but if it's done just to draw attention to yourself then that's a different matter.

I'm saying that because I had the displeasure of sitting behind a Hibs fan (last game of last season at Easter Road against the huns) in the FF lower who every minute or so got off his seat, waving his hands in the air, and ran all the way down to the goals to give McGregor dogs abuse. Before anyone says "Why didn't you say something to him instead of posting it on here" well I did. :greengrin After about half and hour of him ranting and raving and generally spoiling my view and p*ssing me off I told him to shut up take a seat. Not surprisingly I got the abuse instead of McGregor but I can take it. I think he just liked the attention that he was getting from his mates and other Hibs fans around him. I even think he was sober so couldn't have been the fault of alcohol.

At half time I changed seats to get as far away from him as possible but even from a distance I could see that he was still up to his old tricks. Instead of McGregor (who was a bit too far away) he turned his attention to any of the hun players who were within shouting distance.

Attention seeker and :asshole: :devil:

Rant over.