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Every club has idiots like this, we're lucky in that our minority is very small. The vast, vast majority of our fans are fine. We're a friendly club ;)

rudolph_hucker wrote:Are these the same few that were trying to intimidate (using very threatening language) the Oxford fans then ran to the bus leaving innocents to walk through the aforementioned fans?

Didn't see that, wasn't on the coach so I don't know what happened.

As for our support yesterday it was top class, outsung the Oxford fans easily. 380+ is good for us, especially on a Tuesday night. If 200 don't go to Mansfield it'll be quite dissapointing.

the **** what broke a chair was standing next to me trying to look 'hard' and then took abit of the broken chair on to the bus and was showing everyone :x

I think anyone who did misbehave will have a bit of a wake-up call. Whereas the Stevenage CCTV system struggled to identify the culprits, Oxford, being an ex-league club, have a football league quality CCTV system - and it was pointed directly at the away fans, rather than the angled one at Stevenage, as some of us saw last night.

I wonder if the culprit(s) will be identified and interviewed directly, or whether there will be a need for the stills to be printed in the ET / Diamonds Programme in order to identify them - or maybe the culprits will realise, on sobering up, what the best course of action should be.

The main point is that we should try to root out such needless destruction which will only serve to bring discredit to our club.

[Edited by DF, please see your PMs ]

How do we do that? People do mindless, pointless, things like that without any encouragement, and the poor so and so beside them dont even know they were going to do, whatever it is...ripping chairs etc....so how would you be able to stop it? You cant stop and search everyone.....that would take time and money...most clubs need every bit of cash they can get.

rushandd wrote:so how would you be able to stop it?

The stuff banning orders were made for. See how clever you are when you can't get into a ground.

Formic wrote: on sobering up, what the best course of action should be.

The one infront of me that did it was only about 15

godber wrote:

Formic wrote: on sobering up, what the best course of action should be.

The one infront of me that did it was only about 15

They were all about 15. Lad infront of me did it but I wasn't really paying attention. If I wasn't concentrating so much on the game and getting behind the lads, he'd get a swift kick in the face for being a ****.

Cotty wrote:The main point is that we should try to root out such needless destruction which will only serve to bring discredit to our club.

I agree. These mindless idiots need to be identified if this happens again and reported to officials at RDFC. I would even go so far as to photograph them, with a mobile phone, for evidence in any dispute.