The ghost of Jim Morton Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 That I can take, but what I've posted has been blown right out of proportion. Each week someone else in the public eye dies and we're made to feel like we should be a nation in mourning. It's rammed down our throats by the media and people feel the need to post or write some forcefed tribute to a man they have no affiliation with. I feel sad for his family, having lost a father, brother, uncle etc etc but that's as far as my sympathy spreads. You said what you felt and while most people were unhappy about it, you are fully entitled to your opinion and that opinion should not be censored just because you are in the minority.. We as a nation, do now seem to wallow in the deaths of public figures, which is a follow on from the death of the prince of Wales's adulterous wife. We have become in some way, proffesional mourners. Anyway, I disagree with your opening comments in this thread but that's just MY opinion and I think talk of a ban is just nonsense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint jason Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 That I can take, but what I've posted has been blown right out of proportion. Each week someone else in the public eye dies and we're made to feel like we should be a nation in mourning. It's rammed down our throats by the media and people feel the need to post or write some forcefed tribute to a man they have no affiliation with. I feel sad for his family, having lost a father, brother, uncle etc etc but that's as far as my sympathy spreads. I wholeheartedly concur. It is a very modern phenomana grieving for people we have no connection with. Having said that, not the classiest of posts was it? Maybe if you had posted something like the above you could have opened up an interesting debate. Instead, you chose to post something spiteful about "a man you (presumably) have no affiliation with". I could be wrong on this. It may well be the case that he and Trevor Whymark did something unspeakable to your granny in 1978. If so, I feel your pain. Of course perhaps you just wanted to cause offence in which case, congratulations, you've won a goldfish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noose76 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 I wasn't going out my way to cause offence, I simply wasn't going to write something in line with all the other monotonous predictable posts. I don't truly wish that Robson had died at Gretna, so if anyone believes that they're the fool and not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilgour Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Thanks for coming back on and explaining your thoughts. I am not getting carried along on public emotion and being predictable. My work took me to Ipswich quite a lot when he was there and his team were magic.When he was England boss I was not so keen but club appointments since were successful. My brother has lived in Newcastle for 25 years and we lost both parents to cancer. What Sir Bobby has done for the Oncology dept at the Freeman hospital has united the whole North East while suffering himself. I respect your right to your opinion but sometimes you can say more by saying nothing. I still maintain he was a gent. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mapleleaf Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 I hope that it is only here that a person can be pilloried for his opinion, because the reaction to Noose's post was more despicible than anything he said in that post. I had a great respect for Bobby simply because he was a great football man who was honest and straightforward. Indeed, may he rest in peace. The likes of the Great Jose could learn a bit about style from Robson. Let's, please, have a little more respect for opinions that might differ from our own. We are not arbiters of taste, we are fitba' fans. Smudge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indicator Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Possibly but wasn't this thread was started as a tribute thread. If you have no tribute why bother posting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mapleleaf Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I think if you read my post more carefuly you will find a tribute in there somewhere. Smudge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nips Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I think if you read my post more carefuly you will find a tribute in there somewhere. Smudge I think Indicator was more talking about Noose's original post than anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewhite4 Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 After all the reaction to Noose's comments: RIP sir Bobby, cancer takes the best of us. And jade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noose76 Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Don't forget Bob Monkhouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indicator Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I think if you read my post more carefuly you will find a tribute in there somewhere. Smudge Absolutely - and was noted in the first instance. Therefore my post should have read "If ONE doesn't want to add a tribute then..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_sjfc Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 R.I.P Sir Bobby Robson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJC Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Poor show by some people on this site once again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cagey Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Let me make myself perfectly clear, Adolf. I am entitled to my own opinion on the man, and that is that the only time I've ever come across him he showed a total lack of respect for my club by sitting on a deck chair as if it were a Sunday league match. He wouldn't do that at Old Trafford or the Bernabeu so why, if he's such a great football man, would he do it at Gretna? I don't base my posts on what everyone else is saying and if I have something more to say than the standard "Great Man RIP" then I'll say it. To say I should be banned is a ****ing pisstake. Because I don't feel the need to take part in this false widespread grief of a man who has provided absolutely nothing to anything in my life means that I should be banned? If an old guy dying of cancer sitting in a deck chair upsets you Noose ,you need therapy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noose76 Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 If an old guy dying of cancer sitting in a deck chair upsets you Noose ,you need therapy. Sit in the stand like any normal respectful character. It's not ****ing Butlins! We're as well drawing a line under this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUZZ Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 Idiots on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The ghost of Jim Morton Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 Idiots on here. Fuxake Muzz, Have you only just realised that:wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazymofo Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 RIP Bobby Robson Footnote: - FFS. It's not about "false widespread grief". It's about showing respect to a man who earned it. Whether or not you agree that's appropriate, surely its apparent why people may take offence at a comment like the one posted here? Perhaps an admission that the tone of the post might be a little on the harsh side rather than indignation at its responses would mend some bridges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUZZ Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 Fuxake Muzz, Have you only just realised that:wink: I'd not read this thread until folks were in about it today mate. But yes, i've known for a while this forum is riddled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noose76 Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Perhaps an admission that the tone of the post might be a little on the harsh side rather than indignation at its responses would mend some bridges? Who do I need to mend bridges with? Ghost of Jim Morton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintinReading Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Whilst the post was a bit harsh I dont think that people should take offense at something that was posted on a web forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The ghost of Jim Morton Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Who do I need to mend bridges with? Ghost of Jim Morton? What you mentioning my name for ya big jessie..Why would you need to mend bridges with me?? I like you, and you are forever giving me material to slag you off with ya lilac jacketed *** sympathiser:laugh::laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noose76 Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 What you mentioning my name for ya big jessie..Why would you need to mend bridges with me?? I like you, and you are forever giving me material to slag you off with ya lilac jacketed *** sympathiser:laugh::laugh: Exactly. I'm comfortable that our friendship has not been affected by this pathetic situation. SaintinReading, you've hit the nail on the head, mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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