Slightly off topic to start with, but brearley posted a comment to which I replied [agreeably], neither of which are now present!

I can't be bothered reposting the whole lot, but part of it was something along these lines:

Even some of the oldies, much maligned by certain posters, were encouraging others to start chanting. This was not as successful as it could have been mainly, I think, due to the spread-out nature of our fans.

I will start encouraging people to sit together via HGSA meetings and I will even ask that HGSA Examiner chappy to plug there.

I like to join in with the chants but for me it's not the be all and end all of enjoyng the game.

Why does everyone need to sit behind the sticks?

We have lost a few generations of fans unlike the clubs who have had recent success, most vociferous are the young teen/early 20's groups with a smattering of old gits who try yo rekindle their youth (like me!)

Some of the chants the fans from differnet clubs are great, some are monotinous drivel.

the mixing of the fans and the love of the game shone through for me over the weekend, it was a tremendous affair for all concerned.

The problem is the media (mainly London based) hardly ever mentioned it, which for me is a disgrace.

We were in the reserved 2nd tier and while we had a couple of attempts at singing and chanting there was no support from, the mainly older, fans around us. I am an OAP so age should not be an excuse. It was great to see the swathes of claret and gold int the sun on the other side.

Must say that in that hat you didn't look it!

Yes, quite some Sombrero! Quality bit of kit

good piece in todays examiner HGSA section

Cheers.

Is it online as i dont read the Examiner?

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cheers, spot on as well but i fear next year will be the same too as the majority of our fans seem to have no interest in sitting with other Giants fans and getting behind the boys in preference for having 'a good seat in the sun' !!
We can hope though.

need to get the chanting going early too like the other teams do while the game before is on

We were...but with only 15 of us and no-one else willing to come and sit with us it was a bit hard

Why should the "majority of fans" change to suit the minority??

Maybe the minority could get there a bit earlier to get the good seats in the sun?

And fwiw, for the 15 fans that went behind the goal and expect everybody to move to them, there were plenty of seats in blocks 104-106 right up to the Giants kick-off

there was 15 in our group but loads more outside that were scattered around. Personally it doesn't bother me wether i'm sat in the sun or not...the issue is about trying to get all our fans sat together, blocks 104-106 where a lot of the giants fans were was alsdo heavily populated with neutrals and there may have been plenty of 1 or 2 seats but none so groups of friends/families could sit together cos we went and checked.

yes we could have all got seats in the sun in blocks 104-106 but it would have meant that even more giants fans would have been split up amongst the neutrals.
like daz says the discussion is getting as many giants fans together in the same block, like at most away games, and most other fans did ,rather than scattered in between neutral fans.
if people want to sit in the sun then fair enough, but it seems there is a few people who also wanted to sing and chant and be amongst fellow fans.