blue_forty

so,you didn't miss the drum!!!???

 

thats great!!!

the drum was there but the gestapo would not let it in and its even bigger

im the drummer.... just to point out that i thought it was a great atmosphere at forest.. i did take my drum but they wuldnt allow it into the ground.. anyway well done to the 200 or so latics fans. great support. please carry this to home games also.

i was just wondering if anybody could arrange to get the big flags out for the leeds game...

definately.. when travelling in car to away games we have 2 scarves and a flag

im the drummer.

ive decided that i will not bring my drum to the game v southend and we will see how it goes atmosphere wise. but i did try this v bristol rovers and the atmosphere was dead.

The drum is totally pointless! It DOES kill the atmosphere! I love singing home and away, but when that drum starts I cant be bothered because I know no one can hear anything but that bloody drum!

i am the drummer. can i just point out that no matter who tried starting songs of last night, nobody would get a response. a lot of people wouldnt sing because it was a simple matter of accrington away. when i didnt take my drum to the bristol game nobody at all was singing. the atmosphere was dead. even at half time the guy on the tannoy was begging every1 to sing.PS i would like to say that i never once booed our own players of and to be honest with u we all might as well have gone home in that first half.

Does the poll at the beginning of this thread count for nothing? Over 60% of us don't rate the drum, regardless of the personalities involved. If the LDB is to continue, (and I can grudgingly put up with it), how about he compromises even further and just drums to start some chants. That way, his blistered hands should heal up too. Everyone's a winner.

this is gonna be mylast post on this subject and probably on this site . Near the end of the season just after these events it was suggested that my son doesn`t bang his drum as much he took this advice and did calm it down a bit also he was moved to another seat which every one was happy with. Today he has been to the club and changed his seat number to a more convenient place for hopefully everyone .HE`S DOIN HIS BEST TO ACCOMADATE YOU ALL SO HOW ABOUT CUTTING HIM A BIT OF SLACK . thankyou for reading and good bye (bac to the exciting latics mad board i suppose )

What exactly was that police advice? I'm no great fan of Greater Manchester's finest, but I find it hard to believe that they would encourage you to deliberately provoke people.

 

Also, I'm struggling to picture a manoeuvre by which a person can grab another person's ear and shout abuse down it without it being assault. Sometimes, when I'm feeling frisky, and if she's been good, I pin Mrs. 24hours' head to the floor and lick her ear. Was it like that? Mrs. 24hours calls the cops after such incidents, and I have to go to court to defend myself, but I don't really have a leg to stand on.

 

If it was how you say it was in point 2, surely there would have been charges?

no comment, i said i would answer quiestions honestly and unbiased goodnight

dont know what u mean touching on the liable, were just saying it as it is. what about deleting all the insulting comments towards my son that have appeared on this post. all my answers have been done with honesty and respect.

also is it not liable when u call my son a scallie/ hooligan/ his cronie gang. my son is an A grade student and has been brought up to respect people and not lie.

Ok I have deleted the post from MUM because as for as I am aware no charges have been brought against anyone and therefore we are now touching on liable.

 

I WILL delete the entire post if this continues

dont know what u mean touching on the liable, were just saying it as it is. what about deleting all the insulting comments towards my son that have appeared on this post. all my answers have been done with honesty and respect.

Even before the blow up, I would have strongly urged you not to buy a bass drum, let alone bring it to the match. Also - I don't mean any offence - I've heard better drumming.

 

In a way, it doesn't really matter how good you are or how much you practice because footy songs have enough rhythm of their own and a strange tempo. Everyone takes their lead from the people next to them or the people they can hear loudest. It's impossible to stick to a set rhythm, no one does, so the drum breaks the rhythm and tempo of the song. IMO.

 

However, the main issue on the thread is the row and the fact that, because of it, one long standing fan and his family won't be going to the game because of it. Some of us think that it isn't right.

ill bet you that the first home game v swansea that guy and his mates will be there

just a couple of points that I would like to clarify :

1) Mr LDB senior told his lad when he was summonsed over by LDB early on in season to carry on banging it, and bang it as loud as you can. Fact.

2) the only times my mate can remember anything strange happening is that walking up sheepfoot lane after a match to get a ticket for an away game, he saw LDB and his mum. my mate made what he says was a light / amusing comment about the drum in a way that should have brought a smile or 2 - but he says that LDB's mum (presuming it was LDB's mum, apologies if not) gave him a filthy look and said she was getting him a bigger drum so he could make even more noise. Not a bridge-building statement IMHO. Anyway, it was weeks after that when mr plod called on my mate with allegations of assault. My mate cannot for the life of him recall where any possible allegations could have come from but thinks its pure malice because of the early comments made to LDB.

 

I do remember at a game where LDB moved right over from where he was sitting and planted himself right in front of my mate. My mate tapped him on his shoulder and politely asked him to move - LDB ignored him and banged his drum as hard as he could - sheer, unadulterated wind-up provocation. All my mate did was to chant very loudly 'sheridans blue and white army' behind LDB but he did nothing else. If tapping someone on the shoulder is assault then I need to be arrested 50 times a day and there would be no one left in the Chaddy.

 

Either get an agreed place for the drummer so everyone knows in advance and can act accordingly or ban it. it needs sorting before the season starts as feelings are already running high and no one wants any escalation of this situation.

obviuosly you are mates with this man so theres no point discussing it with you. you have heard his side and nobody else's. your friend did not just tap him on the shoulder, he grabbed his ear and screamed down his ear hole at the end of the game when most people had left. just for the record it was not us who pressed charges, it was the police who took it on them selves to talk to your mate (dad)

You seem like a reasonable person, so perhaps you are best placed to tell LDB to cease and desist. (My mum loves me playing the guitar, but she tells me not to bother anyone else with it, because, truth be told, I'm a bit rubbish.)

 

Anyway, I have two questions, for openers:

 

1. Is it true that you told LDB to bang the drum so as to deliberately wind people up? See previous post.

 

2. Was there physical contact in the "dispute", or was the "assault" a vexatious allegation designed to get a fellow fan in trouble with the law?

 

Simple questions, simple answers please.

answer to number 1. yes it is true i told him to bang it as loud as possible after provication from the said man.. and on the advice of the police. but not deliberately to wind other people up

2.yes there was phyicall contact, the man grabbed my sons ear and screamed down it a lot of abuse.

However, the main issue on the thread is the row and the fact that, because of it, one long standing fan and his family won't be going to the game because of it. Some of us think that it isn't right.

thats totally his decission but the fact is that he did pull my ear and shout abuse into it.. its not my fault of the circumstances. i didnt go out to make us lose a "life long fan"

im the drummer on my dads account.

first of all id like to say that i mean to cause no trouble at all at football matches, just get behind my team.

secondly if i could afford a bass drum i would gladly buy one and move to a suitable place were everyboday would be happy.

however i wish not to be known as a scallie hooligan wannabe as somebody quoted in an earlier post.

Also in an earlier post somebody quoted that we soon dropped charges on the man when statements from witnesses were issued. we never intended taking further action on the man as it was over the top, we didnt even know of and statements.

also i have recently purchased my new season ticket, it was initialy in the middle of the singing section of the chaddy end on row k. after seeing this post i am now going to the club to ask for a suitable seat with my mates "not cronies" so that i can say if anyone complains that i have been put here. as for the rhythm side... well theres nothing i can do about that, i have been rehersing my new drum beats.

just a few facts about (little) drummer boy and the truoble and abuse he recieved not caused!

firstly i have just joined this site hoping to have some interesting conversations with latics fans and have just read all the posts about MY SON yes the drummer boy is my son .

I will gladly answer any questions regarding this episode and i will be tottally honest and not biased

A lot of the post are way of the mark about what happened and it seems to me there has been a lot of roummer mongering goin on

so come on guys and girls fire away

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