Swearing in the stands? At a Rugby match?!?

The shock, the scandal, the gall... The absolute down right audacity! What on earth has become of our game... Nay; our society as a nation to which some people think it to be acceptable to use expletives? The club shall be hearing about this, mark my words.

Can't wait to quote this if we manage to get the 2 points over them.

Don't get me wrong, I also on occasion swear like a trooper. However, the gentleman in question continued for the full 80 mins.He seemed incapable of shouting a single sentences without one or two swear words....and most of what he was saying was bullocks.

Nobody reported him?

Imagine Grassing someone up for swearing...

If he was that bad in front of my lad I would.

.....this forum is generally about us complaining about what we have no control and little influence over.
His mouth isn't one of those. I'd have bubbled him up.

Would you not just move your lad away? Or even better explain to your lad that he is going to hear swear words in life and that there is a time and a place.

Isn’t the starting point to tell him to shut the f**k up?

So 3500 all move into another stand while he stands alone.
Give your head a wobble.

When my dad took me to games, football and rugby, when I was young I was told that I was going to hear some naughty words and that I was to never repeat them. If you're that concerned take them into the family zone. The new seated corner was the designated family zone if I remember correctly.

It's OK to swear on this forum (or try to). But not at a rugby match.

Quote ="rubber duckie".....this forum is generally about us complaining about what we have no control and little influence over. His mouth isn't one of those. I'd have =#FF0000bubbled him up.'" I had to google that one. Strange.....Much prefer the 2nd explanation https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... ubble%20up

Quote ="rubber duckie".....this forum is generally about us complaining about what we have no control and little influence over. His mouth isn't one of those. I'd have =#FF0000bubbled him up.'" I had to google that one. Strange.....Much prefer the 2nd explanation https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... ubble%20up

I've texted the grass number about the phantom farter

I was stood next to a woman in her 60's. She had a right potty mouth. Her son told her to be quiet at one point.

I think "movin on" is being much too kind to someone who swears constantly/loudly and upsets people. It's pathetic and puts some off going to a game.

Spot on IMO and there is also a bit of an opportunity of some self policing by a rugby crowd if it becomes a bit too much for example if there are kids/ladies present and the unruly behavior is incessant or beyond the pale.

Although I've yet to understand how that acceptable level is set, one of life's great mysteries is that ironically it was probably easier to define in the un-PC world of the 60's/70's than it is today, where people seem to feel the need to be outraged about most things
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Too right.
The odd mild swear word here and there is ok with many and often amusing, guilty myself but sometimes the extreme use of Cs Fs Ts crosses the line.

There was this miserable guy there on Friday night at the top of the stand, constantly effing and jeffing and blowing his top every time Atkins lost the ball or Wigan slipped through a missed tackle. It didn’t end until he left to do his post match interview... I was quite pleased he was angry to be honest

I'm pretty sure I just said move your lad.

I don't have a tele.

Exactly the same for me. City from 6 years old on the old Kippax and at away games, I remember my Dad saying "you'll hear some naughty things and you can even join in with them in a few years but they are for the football and football only"... even now as a 35 year old i still do not swear in front of my Mother and work in a job where i have to talk professionally with no swearing and do it with no problem despite hearing the worst of the worst from 6 years of age on the old football terraces. But i do swear at both the footy and the rugby now and always will and so will generations of fans in the future.

The ladies who were stood behind me on Friday were worse than a lot of the men... "tW@ him" "eff off Tomkins you ****" were just a few of the ones they used. To look at them they looked like nice, mild mannered girls in their twenties with their Mother/Auntie who looked in her 50s.

From ladies to ladettes then, confusing times indeed especially for me, a bit of a 'Gene Hunt'. The boundaries might not be where they are now and are definitely lower, but, at least you knew where you stood.

There is a line.
Repeated C T cross it for me.