Amazing wot a link to the petition on NextDoor can do, innit.

What CW said. Forgivable maybe while we’re away from home but we won’t have more than one person near them when they’re playing it around at the back.

We sit so deep these days that no one will be close enough to the keeper to close them down

That's marvellous, Pete. Especially good news for nick of this parish. 🍺 🍻

Huddersfield are shocking passing out from the back no matter who is goal for them, they all love Nicholls over Goodman but he’s just as pony with his feet - as someone has said “have we got anyone who will chase them down?”

Sounds like great news, Pete!

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Anyone else notice on their Huddersfield ticket that the girl in the photo appears to be being goosed by the guy on the left?

I didn’t mean the mods OI 😊

If 'Mum and Dad' are the moderators Trigger, then one of them totally agrees. I think such discussions are actually the norm here and as far as I can see very few posts have been removed or edited while I have been involved. It is also hard to get banned, you have to go against gentle and then stern warnings to achieve it.

I agree it’ll be tough… Would be great if we could put a decent run together right now, it’s just hard to imagine that happening…

He’s been up to his old tricks of gifting goals a bit recently I think. Do we have anyone who will be there to pounce though?

Trigg - if it’s 5-0 I’ll be so angry, am currently on a train to stay with a mate who’s a Huddersfield season ticket holder and is hosting us till Sunday… If Goodman has a great game, that will also be so bloody annoying….

My dad used to take us up to Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph when I was pretty young (I guess mid 1960s) - his experiences must have still been raw in the memory, and at that age I probably couldn’t conceive of the feelings that must have been running through him at those ceremonies. His medals, whilst of little monetary worth, are probably the most valuable things I own, plus a letter written to him some years after the war by Montgomery…

"Mum and Dad" will be proud if they're reading this - a disagreement conducted amicably and respectfully on the unofficial and soon maybe only forum for Wimbledon fans and DT members.

I agree Spartan - the ex-players thing is easier for fans to deliberately disrespect and that's why it changed to applause. I think silence is fitting for Remembrance and it makes me proud to see it observed impeccably at football grounds up and down the country.

I think you’re correct, Sparty, plus I think that if a couple of people start to clap, it’s kind of infectious and just spreads as more join in without really thinking about it…

My great-grandfather drowned in the North Sea after his destroyer was hit multiple times by German battleships. If I saw anyone trying to get PR value out of a silence I'd be firmly on NickD's side in stopping that. I just don't see it that way.

I think that the confusion for people about the minute's silence might be, that when we have a minute's silence for ex players who have passed away, it often turns into a minute's applause and that seems to be more the norm these days.

I always respect the last post and subsequent silence in memory of my dad and his colleagues - he was just 19 when he went across a few days after D-Day and his regiment made its way through France and Holland and Belgium pushing back the Germans, a far cry from my time as a 19 year old studying for my degree, but my freedom to do so is precisely what my dad served for. He lost fellow tank crew, killed or maimed by German shells on the front line, and that stayed with him throughout his working life once he returned to civilian life - the least I can do is to reflect on that sacrifice for a few minutes every year and hope that we don’t get dragged backwards towards the same sort of regime that he and all of our forces fought and died to repel…

... with it being done numerous times not with the underlying sentiment

... and I observe it on all occassions Trig even I disagree

Yes I do Trig

Amen.

For clarity, I mentioned the clubs remembrance ceremony, (which I fully support and I instigated the laying of a wreath at the Wimbledon war memorial on behalf of the football club) because of the mess that the observation was. Unfortunately people seem to think that you need to clap everything and once the last post was played the applause started. As the end of the last post signifies the start of the silence there was confusion with the clapping and people then started chanting and shouting. It took around half a minute for some people to realise that the players were standing with their heads bowed and still observing the silence. Perhaps it is because our PA is so poor but I’m not sure if there was an announcement explaining what was about to happen (which is clearly required). This isn’t the first time that this has happened either. I think it is important to honour the people who have given their lives so we are able to have the choice to attend a football match and two minutes silence isn’t too much of a difficulty to most people.