I believe this has already been tried. You'll have to ask the club as to why they haven't been dealt with...

Love it Fungus.

You know, I thought I wasn't imagining things with regards to the number of morons in that group. The pink cowboy hat brigade were bad enough on their own but they certainly seem to have grown in number of late.



Amen to the rest of your post... overwhelm these muppets with intellectual noise... Would love another STAND UP/SIT DOWN CHANT...

One of the most humorous chants i remember coming from The Shed was when we nilled Catalan and we so nicely cheered them off with "nil points...you only scored nil points" in French accents!

Tbf i don’t think the club have any reason to ban them, yes they shout and sing inappropriate songs at inappropriate times but that doesn’t give them any reason to get banned i think that is just OTT imo. I agree about there being a divide in the shed it seems certain people will only join in if it is their group of mates that start the song off, the people at the front start songs trying to get behind the team and because the group at the top don’t like them they wont join in & vice versa. That needs to stop if the Shed has any chance of being rectified.



The way I look at it is like a school yard; everyone has their own little cliques and will only join in certain games when "their mates" do. Then they go and grass to the teacher when they do something wrong to get them in trouble/detention, but in this case it’s getting people banned! It’s childish FFS everyone needs to grow up a little. I'm talking about everyone, not just the so called "hooligans" at the front!



Lets face it Salford can’t really afford to ban any fans, we need all the fans we can get at this crucial time for our club.



We're all Salford fans and all though we have different ways of expressing our feelings we want the same thing, Salford to be successful in super league.



Ill stop there before i bore you all to sleep.

I don't understand that point of view. Just because some don't balloon around for 80 minutes, or because others feel like they've grown out of ballooning, doesn't mean they don't share the same beliefs about supporting the team, nor does it mean they won't sing or get behind the side.







Do they? I used to hate that when I was going to Old Trafford - people refused to get off their backsides and support the team unless they were playing well. "It's up to them to get me excited enough to sing." Nonsense. It's up to a supporter to get behind the team and raise them. If they don't react to it, sod it, just carry on regardless.



I do hope all of this leads to an improved atmosphere in the Shed and the ground in general. Going to the match has become a chore, even away days don't hold the same prospect anymore. I think we may well attract more people back to the matches if the atmosphere improves in general.

Imo to generate an atmoshpere or even a feel good factor you need feed of other peoples energy,you find if enough of you "are up for it" and are willing to look a bit of a tool to try and wip it up into a frenzy it gets quite contagus then everyone is up for it spreads like wild fire, what is happening now imo is everyone is just sat on their hands looking for somebody or somthing "get it going" it doesnt work like that.



It only my opinion GT you obviously have a different opinion on it which is fine, but i feel ive been beaten down by too many of my fellow salford supporters you included saying " How can you be so positive Bobbie we are rubbish?" and "You living in a bubble Bobbie the clubs in ruins ect"



I feel im at the 3rd stage of my salford supporting life, at first when i started i believed we beat anyone anywhere and at every match we'd have a ball nobody bothered about who was looking or what was going on it was all about fun fun fun.

Then we got relegated and that hurt me so much more than i can ever explain on here because "my salford" wernt good enough to be in the top divison at the time even though they had given everything, we came back up luckly and it got a bit serious/ professionally run both on and off the field which in the big picture needed to be done it wasnt "my salford" anyone but a "professional salford" but it wasnt as fun it was all about the winning not the fun, We went down again and at the time it didnt hurt because i knew the players wernt good enough, they didnt care because it was a job and it didnt matter as the club and i had started to drift apart.

Now im here where i feel i dont have a connection with the playing staff, i listen everyweek to people winging (which they are intitled to do) which makes me not want to go anymore and it it wasnt for reading this thread and red preacher and and one of the stoke on trent reds i wouldnt be going to leeds because we all know deep down we'll get panned and we'll all have a good winge unless leeds dont turn up.



I Just cant see the point in paying £20 and just sitting on your hands, thats all if i wanted to do that id stay in the pub, the problem is if i started to sing salford songs in the pub by myself ill look odd so from now on as long as im having fun i dont care how we go on and thats how im dealing with where the remains of "my salford" is now.



Without the atmosphere and the feel good fun "my salfords" dead because that is all that is left and thats why im hoping we can revive it.

Unfortunately, the ground will remain empty until the product on the pitch improves. Attempts to inject life will always be undermined by a good drubbing on the park. We have a poor team and play dull rugby. All in all 18 pounds to watch a game represents relatively poor "value for money".



If we are being honest we have had a minority of buffoons following the club for years. That is one of the reasons I stopped attending away games. Yes they are annoying and should be dealt with but it is not their fault that the club on and off the field is in a mess. They are a symptom rather than the cause of the current problems.

Well done, Bobby. You've missed my point completely. I'm not saying you should go into the ground and sit on your hands, I'm saying we shouldn't get behind the team and I'm not saying we shouldn't enjoy ourselves as much as we can (although that's getting harder and harder with the state of things at the moment.)



What I am saying is that you don't have to act like a balloon, you don't have to 'whip up a frenzy' or anything like that. To be honest, that's more likely to put people off at times. If some see people ballooning around they often think 'Christ, what are them nutters on? Pack it in.' But, if you just get on with supporting the team without trying too hard you're more likely to get the odd casual singer joining in with you.



Take Uniteds away support through the late nineties and early 2000s. No ballooning, no over-excited jumping around, no scarf waving, no waving your hands around in a funny manner. Just a few thousand people stood up singing. No fuss, no frenzy, no nothing. And the players were lifted by it. Then you get the Geordies 'support', ballooning, shirts off, acting up in a 'frenzy'... And the rest of the country think they're a bunch of f*ckwits.



Ballooning around does not automatically equal getting behind the team in a positive manner. In the same way, not ballooning around does not automatically equal not getting behind the team in a positive manner.



As for being beaten down for trying to be positive, can you blame people? The club's stuck in a serious rut at the moment and there's a whole list of things that people have a gripe with. To attempt to go on blindly thinking everything's okay at the moment is a bit silly. But whilst that shouldn't hinder you getting behind the team for 80 minutes, it also shouldn't stifle people from saying what they see and aiming criticism and the club, staff and players.



Turn up, don't take it so seriously, relax and just sing. Don't worry about having a connection with the players, they come and go, don't worry about people whinging, that'll happen regardless, just concentrate on supporting the side during the match. You'll feel a lot better about life, trust me.

Not entirely in agrrement with you there GT although you do raise some valid points imo.



I think what we are seeing here, in observation of yourself and Bobby is a contrast in characters. A mild introvert in opposition to a strong extrovert. Hmm, just about to write a piece on the subject for you to read but I think I'll save it for another day. Back to my homework for now.

People arnt machines GT, you just dont plug em in and they will keep singing till the batteries run out, there were probably a few hunderad who were living the dream having a ball and everyone just got sucked in, Frenzy is the wrong word, when somebody is in a frenzy it usually means Violent imo, it helped a lot that United had a winning team and when the crowd needed lifting the team did it.



You cant expect to create a buzz if you aint willing to give a bit, Leigh away good friday, everyone got soaked, nobody cared, nobody went hiding in the seats, we wernt gonna melt because we got a bit wet so we all got on it we all just lived the dream and rode the wave of enthusiam that night and it still remains one of my best memories watching salford, if it was sunny and walm that wouldnt have happened wouldnt have happened