Roker's Paddock boo boys

The Hunter

The Hunter

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I'm prompted to post this by posters' memories of the stick dished out by fans to Steve Whitworth 40 years or so ago.
In those days the club regularly reserved a seat for the local police superintendent and he usually sat to the right of the aisle next to George Taylor, the Tune Tees TV veteran. We scribes had noticed z
Pardon the interruption!
....a particularly foul mouthed paddock fan below us dishiing out fearful abuse to SAFC players, such as Roly Gregoire, and the home dugout. If was vicious.
We deputed Doug Weatherall of the Mail to have a word with the superintendent and have the fella ejected.
Nothing happened...why? We later discovered the knob was a serving but off duty officer! A quiet word was promised but that was it.
Any others have tales of our fans behaving badly in terms of our own players and staff?
 
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The Hunter said:
I'm prompted to post this by posters' memories of the stick dished out by fans to Steve Whitworth 40 years or so ago.
In those days the club regularly reserved a seat for the local police superintendent and he usually sat to the right of the aisle next to George Taylor, the Tune Tees TV veteran. We scribes had noticed z
Pardon the interruption!
....a particularly foul mouthed paddock fan below us dishiing out fearful abuse to SAFC players, such as Roly Gregoire, and the home dugout. If was vicious.
We deputed Doug Weatherall of the Mail to have a word with the superintendent and have the fella ejected.
Nothing happened...why? We later discovered the knob was a serving but off duty officer! A quiet word was promised but that was it.
Any others have tales of our fans behaving badly in terms of our own players and staff?
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Cambridge Corner was apparently the players name for the corner of the ground (Roker End?) where the fans who missed kick off for a couple of extra pints in the Cambridge would tip up twenty minutes after kick off and dish out abuse to our players. I remember Bobby Kerr saying he hated taking corners from that part of the ground as he would get allsorts of abuse when he went over.
 
Sneech said:
Cambridge Corner was apparently the players name for the corner of the ground (Roker End?) where the fans who missed kick off for a couple of extra pints in the Cambridge would tip up twenty minutes after kick off and dish out abuse to our players. I remember Bobby Kerr saying he hated taking corners from that part of the ground as he would get allsorts of abuse when he went over.
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Good group in the Cambridge late 80s early 90s
 
The Hunter said:
I'm prompted to post this by posters' memories of the stick dished out by fans to Steve Whitworth 40 years or so ago.
In those days the club regularly reserved a seat for the local police superintendent and he usually sat to the right of the aisle next to George Taylor, the Tune Tees TV veteran. We scribes had noticed z
Pardon the interruption!
....a particularly foul mouthed paddock fan below us dishiing out fearful abuse to SAFC players, such as Roly Gregoire, and the home dugout. If was vicious.
We deputed Doug Weatherall of the Mail to have a word with the superintendent and have the fella ejected.
Nothing happened...why? We later discovered the knob was a serving but off duty officer! A quiet word was promised but that was it.
Any others have tales of our fans behaving badly in terms of our own players and staff?
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Never mind this, what about the vitriol poor Kevin Ball had to suffer??????
 
Sons of The Wear said:
Best fans in the world.
30k fourth season in the third tier.
19 and 15 points.
Moyes Bain Byrne Grayson etc..etc..
None better.
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Absolutely correct.
But when we have so many good 'uns, loyal to the core, there will always be the tiny dullard minority who are capable of bad behaviour (and, by the way, downright poor support).
The same is true on this board.
That's just human nature, unfortunately.
 
The Hunter said:
Absolutely correct.
But when we have so many good 'uns, loyal to the core, there will always be the tiny dullard minority who are capable of bad behaviour (and, by the way, downright poor support).
The same is true on this board.
That's just human nature, unfortunately.
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I’ve seen players getting abused in all the 44 years I’ve been going to Roker park all the way now to the Sol. I believe most of the ones producing all this vitriol are lads who are hen pecked by their wives, get out once and a week and take it out on what are probably the worst player on the team, cos they dare not open their mouths to any one else outside of football or their wives. All of them are arse holes and an embarrassment to the club.
 
Paul Hardyman got plenty of stick for a couple of years, kept his head down, turned it around and got the crowd back onside - then was promptly dropped for the FA Cup Final.
 
The Hunter said:
Absolutely correct.
But when we have so many good 'uns, loyal to the core, there will always be the tiny dullard minority who are capable of bad behaviour (and, by the way, downright poor support).
The same is true on this board.
That's just human nature, unfortunately.
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Know what you’re saying but not the time to bring it up with sour events along the road. A few boo boys pales into insignificance-at least we haven’t lost our soul.
 
The Hesford Diet said:
Paul Hardyman got plenty of stick for a couple of years, kept his head down, turned it around and got the crowd back onside - then was promptly dropped for the FA Cup Final.
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Did he? Don't remember that, promoted in his 1st season when he scored a couple of important goals, second season we went down (maybe he got stick that season?) 3rd season was when we got to the cup final when he probably should have played and then he left just into the next season? Maybe it's me memory, just don't recall him getting stick for a couple of years, I remember thinking he was an upgrade on what we'd had previously.
 

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