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Sir Ralph

Sir Ralph

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The point is that Board is not representative of the fan base. The Club have decided in their wisdom to obtain advice from a number of people who proportionately don’t reflect our fans.

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SW11_Saint

SW11_Saint

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1 hour ago, Turkish said:

can you quote the homophobic posts please? 

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

whelk

whelk

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19 minutes ago, SW11_Saint said:

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

You know if you’re not a lad wrapped up in Stone Island uniform you can’t be a real football fan?

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whelk

whelk

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I can imagine Turkish’s joy when he realises he can change the Trainline app. Decisions, decisions 

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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1 hour ago, SW11_Saint said:

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

Nothing against it at all but is this you “coming” out ?

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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1 hour ago, SW11_Saint said:

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

Genuinely I missed those bits. Which posts specifically? I saw one moved from a different thread about ending up with an lgbtq manager which I thought was a bit of an odd comment. I expect it's because some of the people on the fan board appear to be lgbtq themselves or have stated that their priorities are that sort of thing. 

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SW11_Saint

SW11_Saint

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1 hour ago, tdmickey3 said:

Nothing against it at all but is this you “coming” out ?

Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so.

Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read. 

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Turkish

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2 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so.

Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read. 

So do I and I find nothing on it remotely troubling. 

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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2 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so.

Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read. 

I think you need to be more specific. "a lot of the content" makes it difficult to understand what you're saying.

Turkish

Turkish

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15 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I think you need to be more specific. "a lot of the content" makes it difficult to understand what you're saying.

I’d also like to know which specific posts. There have been some bold accusations with some content labelled as troubling and depressing so it would be interesting to see which posts these were as well as understanding why they’d cause such a strong reaction 

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skintsaint

skintsaint

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3 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

I have close family and friends who are gay though.

Not a surprise, 1 in 10 are apparently gay these days.........seems a bit high doesn't it?

 

Sir Ralph

Sir Ralph

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I think you’re being slightly sensitive. I’m being respectful when saying this but maybe you spend your time in an environment which is more sensitive in respect of these matters. 

People are frustrated with institutions such as SFC which over prioritise certain groups and ask them to represent the fans. It’s fine for certain groups to represent fans but it should be on a proportionate basis. Some of the comments may not be to your liking but to say that some of the reading is troubling is wide of the mark, in my opinion.

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Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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The point I took from some of the posts was how representative of the actual support is FAB? If there are people on the FAB representing some groups, and not others, why those groups, and not others? is there a disproportionate impact on decision making/ initiatives?

Now, for all I know FAB don't actually represent specific groups, despite what the bios for some suggest. It could be that FAB are pretty toothless and/or this is just a random selection of those who were interested. There's also no reason why Initiatives supporting some groups wouldn't benefit the wider fanbase.

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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55 minutes ago, SW11_Saint said:

Erm, no. The stuff moderators are supposed to moderate. 

I assume you're being intentionally vague because you don't want to specify any post in particular because people will likely disagree with you.

Turkish

Turkish

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15 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I assume you're being intentionally vague because you don't want to specify any post in particular because people will likely disagree with you.

Seems bizarre to band accusations like homophobic gammons and bemoan how depressing it all is yet not actually specify who or what you are referring too

badgerx16

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9 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Seems bizarre to band accusations like homophobic gammons and bemoan how depressing it all is yet not actually specify who or what you are referring too

I assume he hasn't used the messaging function to contact the admins if he has something he thinks needs to be acted on.

egg

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1 hour ago, SW11_Saint said:

Erm, no. The stuff moderators are supposed to moderate. 

I don't particularly like a lot of the content on this thread, but I wouldn't label it homophobic.

At the end of the day, it's a forum, and we all find some posts/ content/threads/posters/etc disagreeable, that's the nature of the beast. 

It's not difficult to avoid the thread if you want to. 

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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48 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Seems bizarre to band accusations like homophobic gammons and bemoan how depressing it all is yet not actually specify who or what you are referring too

Not only that. If there is an offensive and homophobic post that I've missed I want to join him in condemning it and asking it to be removed.

SW11_Saint

SW11_Saint

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On 17/11/2025 at 21:24, Turkish said:

I’d also like to know which specific posts. There have been some bold accusations with some content labelled as troubling and depressing so it would be interesting to see which posts these were as well as understanding why they’d cause such a strong reaction 

 

I wasn’t going to bother but since you (and others) have asked these are posts I felt overstepped. I haven’t bothered looking at earlier pages (other than the first page - referenced below), but I’d wager there’s similar stuff there. It’s as much - maybe more - about the ‘punching down’ tone as it is the words. Haven’t assigned quotes either as you’ll see who said what if you look back. No doubt I’ll be branded a snowflake for not appreciating the ‘bantz’. I’d imagine though, any LGBT fan reading through this thread wouldn’t find it particularly welcoming… but the mods clearly don’t see a problem with it, so hey ho…

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“We'll probably end up with a LGBTQ+ manager after they've given advice”

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“They were going to call it the fan advisory group but calling them the FAG might not go down so well these days. Especially looking at some of their pictures.”

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“safe spaces for the gay lot”

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“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again

success as a manager ✅

International experience ✅

black ✅

woman ✅

gay ✅

so much it right about this one”

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Oh, and you opened the thread with this one, which is I guess where the penny dropped that the whole thing was some big piss-take at the expense of gay people…

“Why have they chose the shortest and coldest month of the year to celebrate the bright, colourful, rainbow people that we as a society benefit from?”

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