Immaculately observed, and a credit to all.

Spot on KS. Strange how those that insist on keeping the poiltics out of it are usually those that have already lost the argument.

Hi,
I am a lifelong Leeds RL fan and I am a serving member of the Armed forces - your armed forces. I totally understand the sentiment of the original post. Do we hold 1 min silence for just about everyone? Probably - maybe. Does it mean a hell of a lot to us to have 17k plus people standing for our fallen comrades then singing OUR National Anthem as Kev kicks off? You had better believe it. Yes we chose our job, we work for the same government we all voted in. We know the risks, we can not go on strike cos we dont agree with what we are about to do. What keeps us going is knowing that what we do is working to keep our freedom and way of life intact. A freedom and way of life that allows boards like thus and the original poster to do so without fear of repression or torture.

Nice post.

For what its worth I think that "Baldrick" would agree with you too.

On the whole it was ... With 17K in there, you could actually hear the birds singing in the trees behind the scoreboard.

Having said that, after the John-Holmes-Dont-You-Dare-Let-Your-Mobile-Phone-Go-Off 'advice' that went out for his silence ... It seems there are quite a few people with serious lung problems considering the amount of coughing that was going on.

Whilst I'm not saying is that there should be no coughing (and I know there is a bit of a chest infection going around at the moment), it seems that the use of terminal hacking during a silence is now the vehicle of some of the attention seeking muppets.

It would be interesting to know how many of them were habitually coughing once the game kicked off ...

Perhaps they were getting practice in before the World Snooker Championships commence at the Crucible?

On the topic of reluctant hero John Holmes, that was a far more appropriate context for an arranged minutes silence.

I wear a poppy every year,I even wore it over here where I now live.I wear it out of respect to my father's generation and those of wwI ,but the point I was trying to make is ,it seems when I see these media people and so called" celebrities" they want to be the first ones seen wearing them.I thought I had seen them wearing them slightly longer than two weeks before remembrance day

I was only stating what law guidelines we have to follow because we get asked many times when delivering why we can't deliver them sooner and "officially" we can't sell them until the day of the launch.

I think that post has to be about the best thing I ever read on these boards .

Well bloody said !