CA bans the Mexican wave

[NZTailender]

Is it?

I can't say waving my hands once makes any noticeable impact on my day, TBH!

It's alright if it's a good atmosphere.

Went to one match though where a group of drunken guys continually went around trying to get everyone to do it every 2 minutes. That was annoying. Even more so when they started abusing people in the crowd.

 

[C_C]

Yes but we're not talking about normal spillages that usually occur if you were to goto a sporting event. Thats the whole point of this.

Edit: Basically, if we could educate the crowds into doing the Mexican wave simply without having to throw anything, it'd be great. Because it's fun to do and fun to be apart of.

But once it happens with items being thrown, it isn't fun.

Well i don't know about your experiences but in the places i've experienced mexican waves ( Italy,India and Canada), its rarely people just deliberately throwing trash and rubbish at you.
Mostly its people jumping up or down with food in their hands and making a mess around them (hence beer down my back last week).
I think thats an instinct/heat-of-the-moment-when-sloshed thing.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Is it?

I can't say waving my hands once makes any noticeable impact on my day, TBH!

What do you think people do it for, if it's not fun?

I'm not into the wave myself and usually find it annoying, but obviously people do get something out of it.

 

[Richard]

It's alright if it's a good atmosphere.

A good atmosphere is good stuff, yes, but I honestly can't say a Mexican Wave adds anything whatsoever to said 'phere for me!

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Well i don't know about your experiences but in the places i've experienced mexican waves ( Italy,India and Canada), its rarely people just deliberately throwing trash and rubbish at you.
Mostly its people jumping up or down with food in their hands and making a mess around them (hence beer down my back last week).
I think thats an instinct/heat-of-the-moment-when-sloshed thing.

Nah, that's really not what we're talking about at all. The issue at hand isn't people spilling things, it's people throwing things into the air deliberately. Everything from big bottles of water to cups of beer or just empty bits of trash.

 

[Richard]

What do you think people do it for, if it's not fun?

I'm not into the wave myself and usually find it annoying, but obviously people do get something out of it.

Obviously some people enjoy it - as I say - it doesn't really make any impact on me at all.

Unless, of course, that is, idiots start throwing rubbish around.

 

[C_C]

Nah, that's really not what we're talking about at all. The issue at hand isn't people spilling things, it's people throwing things into the air deliberately. Everything from big bottles of water to cups of beer or just empty bits of trash.

Okay,nevermind then.
And thats crazy. I'd thump someone deliberately chucking bottles towards my head.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Okay,nevermind then.
And thats crazy. I'd thump someone deliberately chucking bottles towards my head.

Hard to thump someone when you don't know where they are. If you get hit in the head by something, it could easily have come from someone in the tier above you or whatever. That's why it's a safety issue too. I'm sure you can imagine how dangerous a full bottle of water chucked from the top tier of a stadium could be.

 

[vic_orthdox]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B3AMBNhP8k&mode=related&search=

Perfect example of what we're talking about here.

 

[Craig]

Hard to thump someone when you don't know where they are. If you get hit in the head by something, it could easily have come from someone in the tier above you or whatever. That's why it's a safety issue too. I'm sure you can imagine how dangerous a full bottle of water chucked from the top tier of a stadium could be.

Or if they throw coins down, like has happened in football matches.

 

[C_C]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B3AMBNhP8k&mode=related&search=

Perfect example of what we're talking about here.

Okay. Nevermind.
Thats just ********.
w-t-f!

 

[Stumped]

when i first heard this i thought wat kind of a fool would band the mexican wave but when i heard y i can understand

 

[Jono]

Okay. Nevermind.
Thats just ********.
w-t-f!

I figured you didn't know what we were on about, because its a much bigger issue than someone spilling beer on your clothes

I've had a mate hit in the head with one of those bottles, it hit him so hard it ricochet off him onto me. Sad stuff really.

 

[Josh]

Mexican wave just started at the SCG. Trouble here.

 

[James90]

It was enforced in Brisbane after the T20 where the action in the middle became meaningless as every man and his dog threw beer cans around. Some guy next to me threw a full cup into the lower tier. It was enforced during the Ashes and a few guys were ejected.

 

[GIMH]

I don't want to derail the thread too much, but Hillsborough was a result of a Tory government whose policy was to heard football fans into cages like cattle. Had the cages not been there the death toll (despite gross police negligence) would've been a tiny fraction of what it was in reality.

Incompetent policing played its part as well

Not true either. Only Prem games.

My point exactly...

And I'd be pretty surprised if there were more than a handful of non-all-seater Champ stadia left, either - haven't been taking any close watch for the last 8 or 9 seasons, tho...

And how many non-all-seater cricket stadia are there? Genuine question.

Championship clubs have to be all-seater as well. We had to become all-seater at the same time as the Prem clubs. Clubs going up from League One to the Championship have a bit of leeway, ie Colchester, but tbh most clubs in League One are all-seater anyway. Love it when we play at a ground with a terraced away end though

 

[Jono]

Are you guys referring to that Liverpool match whereby there was thousands of soccer fans squashed into a stadium with steel mesh/cages, and there were some of them stuck right up against the steel?

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, 96 Liverpool fans were killed that day. Still a sore point round here.

 

[Craig]

Yeah, 96 Liverpool fans were killed that day. Still a sore point round here.

Then there is Heysel, but that was Liverpool's fault. Although the five year ban on all British clubs proved UEFA had a grudge against England, as they do now, was a bit harsh.

 

[Slow Love™]

WRT the Mexican wave, I have some sympathy with the decision, people just use it as an excuse to pelt people with crap. Some may have touched on this, but while group activities and chants etc can be a lot of fun, the wave is pretty bloody boring when it's the seventh time that night and the booing when people fail to conform when they're sick and tired of jumping in the air like a dickhead gets old really fast too.

The authorities have been talking about the throwing things issue for a while, and if things weren't improving, I don't blame them for making the call. Plenty of people throwing stuff aren't drunk, so I don't really think clamping down further on alcohol consumption (whether that's a valid thing to do in of itself or not) is really gonna be a solution.