It was for a while, and I think it was a good thing. Purely for selfish reasons that we can waltz into The Shed just before kick-off. It was becoming the case that Leeds and Hull got in there early and took it over.

:O No freakin way. When going gets tough, the tough get going... And besides, we have more than enough "young bucks" in our ranks, myself included I guess, who merely need some leadership and guidance... That's where the old guard come in! We can't possible leave the new generation in charge of the remaining time we have in the shed. TIME FOR ACTION ME THINKS!

Hmm. Still reckon it'd be great if they came back. I mean, it's not like we don't have the room for a few away fans is it? (I bet the club are squiriming at this suggestion. Don't worry, I can't see it happening somehow.)

I WOULDNT SAY IT WAS 20 OF THEM MATE. ID SAY IT WAS ABOUT 6 OR 7 DOING THE V'S. ME AND MY BROTHER WAS IN THE MIDDLE AND CLAPPED THE CRUSADERS. JUST HOPE THAT BECAUSE WE STOOD NEAR THEM WERE NOT PAINTED THAT WELL ASWEL. I WAS THINKING OF BRINGING MY SON ON FRIDAY NIGHT BUT I WOULDT EVEN DREAM OF IT NOW WHEN YOU HEAR SOME OF THE LANGUAGE OF FANS, WHICH IS A SHAME BECAUSE I THINK HE WOULD HAVE ENJOYED IT OTHERWISE

For me the shed needs to get more intimidating like it used to be. Lets give it to the away team when they come on the field for the warm up, give it them when they leave, they won't want to come out again and when they do then give it them again for the start of the game. We can do this as well as getting behind our team, for me the shed now is more hostile towards our own players than the opposition and it shouldn't be like that. We need to make teams hate coming to the willows like they used to. The atmosphere needs to start before the players even come out because believe me you can here the fans in the dressing room I've been in there. Remember the Boulevard? No one liked going there, the hull fans got on top of the away team straight away and got behind their own team at the same time often putting visiting teams off. I'm not saying lets all become a bunch of thugs for from it, but atmosphere for me isn't all about singing nicely nicely songs about your team thats only part of it, its also about having banter with visiting supporters/teams.

Imagine the Bradford team running out to a torrent of hostile boo's on a cold February evening I'm sure they could think of better places to be. Then when Salford come onto the pitch everyone getting behind the team and showing some true passion. Then at the end of the game even if we get beat we can say "fair enough, we were beaten by a better team" But, we as Salford fans have still given it everything to put them off and get behind our own lads at the same time.

I'd welcome it if they just stuck to the right side.



I also remember a bottle throwing incident from the right side accelerating the start of segregation.

Well I can't provide evidence of the numbers involved but your second sentence says it all.

Dear Salford City Reds,
Have a read of the above post and see what a negative image of the club is being painted by a minority.
Yours,
Red Preacher.

As long as it's done intelligently and appropriately. See Iain's last post.

Dare I say it, there is one issue the vast majority of The Shed are united on: the coach.

Thing about these morons is they will probably join in if it starts getting going, could actually get them on side if the shed gets as bouncing as it used to be.

DOES ANYONE SUGGEST RINGING THE CLUB TO SEE IF ANYTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT THEM? CANT DO ANY HARM CAN IT?

A few points, FWIW...........

TR - [i"At salford over the last three years there has been a right side of the shed, and a left hand of the shed"[/i


Well let's all move into the middle then (where some of us still stand) and join forces. At OT you'll often find a chant started in K stand that dies on it's ar$e by the time it reaches the SE. From what I can tell we're all in agreement that SOME of the central shed dwellers are the problem. There doesn't appear to any beef between the left and the right sides so let's all cuddle up

in the middle and the non-singers can inhabit the flanks.

JJ - [i"I'm a bit old for singing at games"[/i
Lame excuse gramps



. Have you seen some of the old farts knocking out a choon on "Songs of Praise"? I'm a great believer that your voice gets better with age so loosen them vocal chords man!

The Op - [i"we'd all usually make fools out of ourselves at one point but we all laughed with each other and nobody laughed at anyone else expense regardless"[/i
Spot on. I remember trying to start a chant in the San Siro in '99. Believe me, I'm no Pete Boyle and when my first effort went down like a lead balloon for a couple of minutes I felt like a right tw*t! Maybe it was the beer inside me that persuaded me to have another go but lo and behold 5 minutes later the whole end joined me in a rousing rendition of "Keano's f*ckin magic". Still one of my proudest moments to this day.



[i"The only thing we lacked in the past was numbers, at the moment its enthusiam and numbers, its up to us the supporters to grab the bull by the horns and drag the match day experience forward to where it was and even higher"[/i
Exactly. 150 Salford fans belting out "Oh when the Reds...." or 13,000 Pie fans chanting "Wiiiigan, Wiiiigan."?No brainer.

BF - [i"I think it's hilarious when the "Yorkshire, Yorkshire" chant from the Leeds fans in the North Stand is met with a resounding "Baaaa" from the shed - long may it continue"[/i
Agreed. Bad language/prejudice(in the loosest sense

) has it's place in sport (in moderation). Most normal human beings know where to draw the line and a bit of "banter" about Yorkshire/Humberside/Merseyside/Wales has it's place. Sport is tribal and as long as fans know where to draw the line a bit of un-political correctness is fine by me. If fans want a lifeless dump fook off to the DW/Galpharm

. If/when we move to Barton we need to take some of The Shed's "soul" with us otherwise it's just gonna be another soulless steel pit

And as my MLK quote touched so many hearts yesterday here's my thought for the day..............



=#FF0000[iIs it Right or Wrong?
Try to Find a Place!
We can all Belong...
'Be As One'
Try to Get on By #
If we unify?
We should really Try![/i
Sweet Harmony, The Beloved