Leisure wrote:When has there been a picture on the screen of someone on a drunken holiday in Benidorm?

13/02/16

fidelcastro wrote:I'd be surprised if they did, when people had stopped clapping due to 'applause fatigue'.

So really you don't know.

Leisure wrote:So really you don't know.

Do you know that they were deeply moved?

I wouldn't have been, if a relative of mine had been shown after three others, where the desired effect of a minutes' applause had been diluted.

fidelcastro wrote:Do you know that they were deeply moved?

I wouldn't have been, if a relative of mine had been shown after three others, where the desired effect of a minutes' applause had been diluted.

No I don't but so what?

People were laughing and making jokes - “av we had an outbreak of Typhoid” and “I wish I was an undertaker” being two of them.

Leisure wrote:Many people - how many is that? Such a proportion of people - please quantify?

It can't be quantified...obviously. Observe the sentiment on here and at the ground. That should give you an idea. Count the majority view on here if you like. I wont be.

Leisure wrote:No I don't but so what?

Then why have a go at the majority of people commenting, who think this is a stupid OTT idea, and makes the club look a bit daft?

Leisure wrote:Chill.

Calm down pal.. You are making yourself look like a right tit with your grief mission.

Stick to what you are good at, organising supporters away travel

Just a thought you could organise a grief bus with the faces of all fallen Claret fans in masks, that would be fukin awesome

I thought the disruption was apparent today, some Burnley players looked bemused waiting to ko after a Chelsea goal and a ripple of applause went round the Turf. Surely we do not need that, there were enough distractions today.

And the club certainly doesn't need the money.

DCWat wrote:I’d stop all the fan announcements on the screen - so what if it’s Albert’s ******* 60th birthday.

It’s properly tinpot, even more so when we are in the money league, charging fans for the privilege of showing them on the screen, invariably from some drunken holiday in Benidorm.

Use the screen for football purposes and at a push commercials for the proper revenue.

Those commercial adverts will usually be between personal messages so get even more exposure and therefore we can charge more for those businesses to be on there.

I saw my old company on the scree today just after hampstead appeared on there. Never seen them on prior to today.

taio wrote:It can't be quantified...obviously. Observe the sentiment on here and at the ground. That should give you an idea. Count the majority view on here if you like. I wont be.

20,000 on the ground, how many on here traumatised by the clapping?

dougcollins wrote: And the club certainly doesn't need the money.

The money goes to BFC in the Community not the club!

Leisure wrote:20,000 on the ground, how many on here traumatised by the clapping?

None. You are using the word traumatised - no one else

taio wrote:None. You are using the word traumatised - no one else

Ok then upset, unhappy. whatever!

There were groans all around me when the 3rd applause started.

Top Claret wrote: Just a thought you could organise a grief bus with the faces of all fallen Claret fans in masks, that would be fukin awesome

Really classy. I'm not sure that the families of Clarets fans who have passed away would appreciate that.

Swizzlestick wrote:There is no better time because it’s happening every home game now.

Hardly surprising:
17,000 regular/season ticket holding fans x 14 days between games = 238,000 days/652 years, divide that by an average of say a 75-year life expectancy and you're'd statistically expect 8-9 supporters to pass away between each home game of the season; probably the higher of the two as more people tend to die in winter than in summer.

AfloatinClaret wrote:Hardly surprising:
17,000 regular/season ticket holding fans x 14 days between games = 238,000 days/652 years, divide that by an average of say a 75-year life expectancy and you're'd statistically expect 8-9 supporters to pass away between each home game of the season; probably the higher of the two as more people tend to die in winter than in summer.

It'll cause a problem if two of them are the same age.

My grandmother was 94 when she died. What if there hadn't been enough injury time?

agreenwood wrote:There were groans all around me when the 3rd applause started.

Same. A bit of bemusement too. Whatever it was, it wasn’t solemn respect. But then we were watching a football match at the time.

Calm down Leisure they are not going to take your tickets away.

£500 an appearance advert on its own, £5000 of its sandwiched between death notices give over

Look at the state........

dsr wrote:It'll cause a problem if two of them are the same age...: )

No, clap's easily shared.

dsr wrote:It'll cause a problem if two of them are the same age.

My grandmother was 94 when she died. What if there hadn't been enough injury time?

Mine was 106 so would have had to wait for a cup game with extra time.

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Look at the state........

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Jesus!!!

dsr wrote:It'll cause a problem if two of them are the same age.

My grandmother was 94 when she died. What if there hadn't been enough injury time?

Clock stops at 90 regardless of how much added time


You’d need a cup game that goes to extra time but you’d be best doing it the first game we have otherwise you’ll have to wait till the next season

All this clapping business is getting a bit Scouse.

When I die can everyone who knows me please remember I don’t want to be displayed on a massive screen in front of 20,000 complete strangers, no matter what passions in life we may of had in common, I would like to be remembered in socially appropriate places only, where my passing won’t intrude in any way. Many thanks.

I even clapped the Team off...

stateofthenation wrote:When I die can everyone who knows me please remember I don’t want to be displayed on a massive screen in front of 20,000 complete strangers, no matter what passions in life we may of had in common, I would like to be remembered in socially appropriate places only, where my passing won’t intrude in any way. Many thanks.

Whether you like it or not, you're getting a Vuvuzela chorus when you pop off.

stateofthenation wrote:When I die can everyone who knows me please remember I don’t want to be displayed on a massive screen in front of 20,000 complete strangers, no matter what passions in life we may of had in common, I would like to be remembered in socially appropriate places only, where my passing won’t intrude in any way. Many thanks.

Ok but your loved ones may want to ignore your wishes and commemorate you on the big screen! Unless some on here get their way!

Leisure wrote:The money goes to BFC in the Community not the club!

You seem to know more about it than the club are prepared to say. It’s done by the club’s marketing department with no suggestion of it having anything to do with the community.

Sorry, and I don’t mean to cause any offence, but that today was embarrassing and downright ridiculous.

Leisure wrote:Ok but your loved ones may want to ignore your wishes and commemorate you on the big screen! Unless some on here get their way!

That'd be a bit disrespectful, for his loved ones to ignore his dying wishes, wouldn't it?

Jesus

I dont get what all the fuss is about to be honest. Clap or dont clap it's hardly a sin or harming anyone. If it gives only a handful of people some solace in what must be a difficult and emotional time its absolutely fine by me and long may it continue

when leicester had their game against us, it commemorated their owners passing a year ago, thousands of scarves left by their club for the fans to display a communal grief. It looked orchestrated to the point of mawkish. this isn't what respect is supposed to be about.
Just a peek at the news most days shows how much chaos and devastation there is worldwide, anonymous tragedies for countless thousands.
Corporate displays of mourning are shallow, and meaningless.
encouraging strangers to rise and fall from their seats at specific times has become facile, let's get back to something more real, and let those that are in genuine pain express themselves appropriatley and with dignity.In private.

Let’s say there are 30000 lifelong clarets.
Let’s say we all live an average of 100.
That is still 300 dying every year.
We only have 20 home games. (Rounding to make the maths easier).
It still means we should average 15 announcements each and every match.

It is why the bigger clubs cant even think of doing it.

Also why we should stop doing it.

Leisure wrote:Being forced how/by whom?

I got called a “disrespectful c#nt” today, I just ignored it and watched the football.

Should really have been stopped after the applause for a dead baby a few seasons ago. That took mawkishness to a new level.

What happened to a minutes silence,I can't quite get my head round, around of applause because someone has passed away.

I can understand why the club go along with it, can you imagine the criticism they say ‘no’

Remember is the fans who request for the message to be displayed and the club don’t instruct anyone to clap.

I’m not a fan of these minutes applauses either, I think they should only be given for the passing of very young supporters and cases where someone connected to the is very ill in hospital or coping with grief. It’s a case of showing solidarity and support.

Is it appropriate to have applause for everyone who has passed away? I think a mention in the programme is more apt.

That’s my opinion anyway.

It was even more farcical than expected yesterday and even ended up annoying some people when we were on the third one. Agreed it’s not really the club’s fault. A lot of the well followed social media accounts share these applause appeals so it sort of just stems from there.

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Blackrod wrote:It’s getting ridiculous and meaningless and it shouldn’t be. It’s not fair to the people or their families. Other clubs don’t do this. Put a note in the programme and keep the one a year day we have to remember all the people on the last year that have passed away.

Correct

Those of us who sit near the back of the JHU, towards the Bee Hole end, didn't have a clue what was going on because we can't see the big screen.

Leisure wrote:When has there been a picture on the screen of someone on a drunken holiday in Benidorm?

Been quite a lot tbh. As long as you pay and it's legal basically.

lakedistrictclaret wrote:Those of us who sit near the back of the JHU, towards the Bee Hole end, didn't have a clue what was going on because we can't see the big screen.

Count yourself lucky.

Just seen this thread and it does make me thankful that I gave the game a miss yesterday. I’ve long since thought there seems more births, marriages and deaths on the Turf screen than there are down at the registry office.

One game a year for memorials is a nice touch, and another day for Remembrance Sunday. I am of course hugely sympathetic for those losing loved ones at other times, but there is a time and a place and Turf match day isn’t it.

Having to explain to a very young child why everyone is clapping is not what that child needs to be thinking about. The club have to give their heads a wobble, and while they are at it, they should stop all the birthday announcements, adverts and other stuff. We’re the only club to do it to this degree and given the clubs current income it looks cheap, pointless and distracting from the game. It seems I only have a 1 in 5 chance of looking up and seeing the team sheet when I need to.

Has there ever been a goal during a minutes applause?

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:Has there ever been a goal during a minutes applause?

There nearly was yesterday. The third one happened as we were about to kick off after the third goal

Bloke near me just said f#ck me not another one.
He wasn't being disrespectful just distracted from the game. If people want that for their deceased loved ones then so be it, wouldn't do for me or mine.

Already seen 2 advertised for saturday. Whens it ever going to end