Vuvuzela Poll

[NeilG]

I think the vuvuzela is best left where it is appreciated most, it's not part of our football culture and sounds like it never will be thankfully.

its early days, but it looks like 22 percent, ie 400 or so, fans, projected figure, like vuvuzelas, nobody can enforce a ban on them, lets bring em on

True nobody can enforce a ban on you outside the ground on Needham Avenue or anywhere else, but let's see how long you last before it get's shoved where the sun doesn't shine by a local resident shall we

[Ntini]

I personally don't see a need to ban them. Yes they are part of the South African football culture and, having had a world cup there, some people may want to replicate the atomosphere generated at those matches. But they won't! People have long brought little horns to football games and nobody has ever bothered. It will be a fad and let's face it, the noise (irritating to some) won't be the same in English grounds because there won't be enough of them...

...all in all, a big fuss about nothing if you ask me!

[Christies Child]

What next....??

Ban the drum???

They'll die a death all of their own eventually.

Leave well alone.

I would have thought our Board would have more serious issues to resolve rather than this.

[mrpotatohead]

A dont know option would have diluted the percentages in favour of the ayes, we would then have approached the dont knows with an offer to form a vuvulition, and told the club what was decided, anyway the yes vote is gaining more vuvumentom

[wijit]

The question must be, can you stand for 90 minutes while someone, no matter if he/she is 13 or 30, blows a horn over & over & over & over again. At some point you are going to have to say something & then it gets all confrontational. Drums are always at the back and if you want to stand next to them you can, if not you move away. If horns are all over the place, nowhere will be sactuary.

Do you really think the noise in SA was from just a few people blowing vuvuzela's? Have you tried to blow one? That's probably a 2xno! You can't continuously blow them, it took many thousands to make that much noise. An individual can blow one for a couple of seconds and then stop, and then try again. Individually, you blow them less than infrequently, but as usual every sod on here knows everything and now our club has decided to ban them.
Great.
Can we have a poll on drums, adults singing, adults swearing, kids singing, kids swearing, kids running along the bottom of stands, Christie being there, people wearing shirts which aren't Morecambe, eating pies, clapping, cheering, booing, watching the game, usuing mobiles during the game, using cameras with flashes, walking to the ground in groups of more than three and anything else some people might enjoy or take the slightest pleasure out of? I don't think we've done enough just yet to make people less welcome.
If you, seriously, would have your enjoyment of the game spoilt by a plastic bloody horn then you truly are pathetic. It's a 60cm piece of plastic which the owners would soon get bored of taking as they soon run out of desire and ability to use them and they are not exactly easy to just hold onto watching a match.
I despair, I really do.

[Splodge]

The poll is irrelevant; they've already been banned. Why bother getting worked up over it?

[mrpotatohead]

totally with you, censorship usually filters down to the jobsworths to enforce causing, civil disobedience, I persnally will aplaud the first VV blower at the globe

[marky No.1]

I would suggest a walk round the new stadium in the dark Wijit, does you the world of good

[durhamshrimp]

totally with you, censorship usually filters down to the jobsworths to enforce causing, civil disobedience, I persnally will aplaud the first VV blower at the globe

You've lost this one mate. Get over it.

[mrpotatohead]

I hope no one buys any, chucks em over the wall or down the sides, and rascal kids dont then defy our junta, that would be awful

I think the shop on westgate caravan park sell them very cheap

[outsider]

I might get some of these to hand out with some balloons for the kids at the Coventry game

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-PARTY-BLOWERS ... 439a62637c

[AJC]

I voted against the vuvuzela ban, partly because it's a fad that will lost no more than 5 games, and partly because I think that the club should be selling them at a huge markup and making a profit on them during their very limited duration of appeal. Can imagine selling 50 or so a game for a couple of weeks at £8 a piece, only for people to find the can't get any noise out of them, and can't be bothered blowing on it for more than 3 minutes anyway, as I'm sure they'll be distracted by the total football on show.

[shrimpnsave]

I voted against the vuvuzela ban, partly because it's a fad that will lost no more than 5 games, and partly because I think that the club should be selling them at a huge markup and making a profit on them during their very limited duration of appeal. Can imagine selling 50 or so a game for a couple of weeks at £8 a piece, only for people to find the can't get any noise out of them, and can't be bothered blowing on it for more than 3 minutes anyway, as I'm sure they'll be distracted by the total football on show.

ITS BANNED......................................

[mrpotatohead]

Settled then, buy em and blow em, the moaners lose, chuck it over the wall, give it to a mate when a steward spots you

[AJC]

In justifying why I'm against the ban (which has obviously already been enforced, as you say) I was writing a HYPOTHETICAL foresight into the situation that COULD occur IF they weren't banned. Keep up

[mrpotatohead]

1234 I JUST STARTED A FINGER WAR

[durianmuncher]

I'm delighted they have been banned. Well done to everyone who was involved in making the right decision.
Horrendous things.

[Plain Peter]

Horrendous things.

Bit like a smelly durian

[durianmuncher]

Horrendous things.

Bit like a smelly durian

So you have tried consuming plastic vuvuzelas?

[Plain Peter]

So you have tried consuming plastic vuvuzelas?

No, I even have to take my teeth out to pronounce the word

[SkinnyShrimp]

Durian muncher - how many games have you been too where people were blowing Vuvu's?
How many games on TV have you watched where people were blowing Vuvu's?

Are you justified in what you say?

This decision to ban them is at best misguided, naive and over the top - at worst its downright stupidity in jumping on the band wagon and patronising us the fans who are (in most cases) quite capable of making our own mind up and whether we want to blow them or not

As has been said they will most likely be a fad for a few games and then disappear but I can assure you they WOULD HAVE improved the atmosphere at Morecambe home games - any fan who goes to away games knows the home atmosphere needs all the help it can get.

[durianmuncher]

So you have tried consuming plastic vuvuzelas?

No, I even have to take my teeth out to pronounce the word

Next time you're in Borneo, try a fruit called tarap. Very special indeed, and you don't need teeth to savour it. Info here:
http://allthingsborneo.blogspot.com/200 ... fruit.html

[durianmuncher]

Durian muncher - how many games have you been too where people were blowing Vuvu's?
How many games on TV have you watched where people were blowing Vuvu's?

Are you justified in what you say?

This decision to ban them is at best misguided, naive and over the top - at worst its downright stupidity in jumping on the band wagon and patronising us the fans who are (in most cases) quite capable of making our own mind up and whether we want to blow them or not

As has been said they will most likely be a fad for a few games and then disappear but I can assure you they WOULD HAVE improved the atmosphere at Morecambe home games - any fan who goes to away games knows the home atmosphere needs all the help it can get.

This unofficial poll is a fair indicator of opinion, no?

[Mark S]

The question must be, can you stand for 90 minutes while someone, no matter if he/she is 13 or 30, blows a horn over & over & over & over again. At some point you are going to have to say something & then it gets all confrontational. Drums are always at the back and if you want to stand next to them you can, if not you move away. If horns are all over the place, nowhere will be sactuary.

Do you really think the noise in SA was from just a few people blowing vuvuzela's? Have you tried to blow one? That's probably a 2xno! You can't continuously blow them, it took many thousands to make that much noise. An individual can blow one for a couple of seconds and then stop, and then try again. Individually, you blow them less than infrequently, but as usual every sod on here knows everything and now our club has decided to ban them.
Great.
Can we have a poll on drums, adults singing, adults swearing, kids singing, kids swearing, kids running along the bottom of stands, Christie being there, people wearing shirts which aren't Morecambe, eating pies, clapping, cheering, booing, watching the game, usuing mobiles during the game, using cameras with flashes, walking to the ground in groups of more than three and anything else some people might enjoy or take the slightest pleasure out of? I don't think we've done enough just yet to make people less welcome.
If you, seriously, would have your enjoyment of the game spoilt by a plastic bloody horn then you truly are pathetic. It's a 60cm piece of plastic which the owners would soon get bored of taking as they soon run out of desire and ability to use them and they are not exactly easy to just hold onto watching a match.
I despair, I really do.

For goodness sake, get a grip before you have a heart attack.

A couple of points to consider.

The 'Vuvuzela' has already been banned by the club
True 'vuvuzelas' are unlikely to feature as they are as difficult as a trumpet to get any sound out of. A plastic horn with a ready made blower are the variety I have seen on sale.
I stated up front that this 'Poll' was unscientific and just for fun and promoting discussion.

It was never intended to get anyone so angry.

BTW I went to Crewe v Blackpool the other night and one lad on the home terrace had a 'vuvuzela'. Every time he blew it, it was like an air horn, and that was just one!

Arts send his regards and Crewe fans send their thanks after a flawless display by him. They cant believe their luck at bagging him.

[SkinnyShrimp]

It is a fair reflection of peoples opinion and I would never deny anyone thier opinions.

I would say don't knock anything until you have tried it and don't judge anything or anyone on anything but YOUR OWN experiences and if you don't have any then simply don't judge.

Two thirds don't want them but how many of those have actualy experienced a game with them? - why didn't we wait and give them a chance? - why does the club feel the need to ban them before even experiencing them?

We may all have ended up hating them but at least we would have got try it and weren't told our thoughts didn't count and we couldn't choose.