Brigada 1874

[We Love You]

Course Dante Lavelli mate will only be good for the team.

They went in 2009 i think it was itbrvilla, not sure on the exact reasons but know the club was on their back for a few years, one of the first and best in the UK, done some great things.

They did do something against Rangers other week though, hopefully they can come back bigger and better.

[Somniloquism]

Here's an idea for you:  Could you approach the club and ask whether they could sell you a bunch of season tickets in one section of the ground for next season.  Obviously a large number of you would buy the STs anyway so the important bit is that you need to buy more tickets than your core membership from avfc. 

You then set up a website where you sell the excess tickets at face value.  The profit (on the day cost minus ST cost) can fund the purchase of flags and other poles etc.

This would allow folk to join you on an ad hoc basis.  This would spread the love and hopefully mean you can buy more season tickets next year.  If Brigada 1874 was non-profit and transparent then I'd imagine that most folk would support it.

Maybe you could wangle it that the club would sell the season tickets in bulk and at a small discount on the basis/promise that you generally behave and build a dialogue with the club.

Dante, you do realise that ST's are swipe cards now and not books of tickets. Plus unless they were sold every match, it would only need three matches down or so for the ST to be costing more.

[Somniloquism]

Obviously everyone gets around to have the photo taken with Brigada flag or the protest about the youth player deportation. But why are the faces blurred afterwards if there is not going to be trouble and the club are aware of you.

[PeterWithe]

On Wednesday there was also a long overdue return of the Trinity Road slow handclap to tell those swarthy, cheating Johnny Foreigners exactly what we thought of them.

You could almost smell the fear. 

[MonsXI]

Obviously everyone gets around to have the photo taken with Brigada flag or the protest about the youth player deportation. But why are the faces blurred afterwards if there is not going to be trouble and the club are aware of you.

That's a good question which has been asked quite a few times, primarily it is because of the nature of some of the members professions plus there are few under u16's. You might say we'll your doing nothing wrong and there's nothing to hide which is correct but unfortunately the tabloid media in this country have built up  Ultras to be hooligan gangs which is quite clearly not the case in the majority.

Also and Percy can vouch for this there's quite a few in the group with faces only a mother could love!

[MonsXI]

Do you talk / share ideas with similar groups at other clubs? I vaguely remember reading about a similar group at Newcastle, for example, and saw the impressive Palace stuff in this thread.

Yeah it's vital really to talk to and read about how other groups produce displays and deal with clubs/police/stewards etc. We did have a member of HF05 Homlesdale Fanatics at a game and his insight was brilliant to be honest.

[Percy McCarthy]

You can show my face. No copper's taking me alive etc.

[MonsXI]

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[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

On Wednesday there was also a long overdue return of the Trinity Road slow handclap to tell those swarthy, cheating Johnny Foreigners exactly what we thought of them.

You could almost smell the fear. 

Wonderful.

[Legion]

On Wednesday there was also a long overdue return of the Trinity Road slow handclap to tell those swarthy, cheating Johnny Foreigners exactly what we thought of them.

You could almost smell the fear. 

Was he there?

[PeterWithe]

Huh? Who?

[Percy McCarthy]

The Fear (Jonothan).

[PeterWithe]

Right, dunno.

[We Love You]

Remember, any more about us/ultras in general. http://brigada1874ultras.proboards.com/index.cgi

Good way to get involved aswell.

[Dante Lavelli]

Here's an idea for you:  Could you approach the club and ask whether they could sell you a bunch of season tickets in one section of the ground for next season.  Obviously a large number of you would buy the STs anyway so the important bit is that you need to buy more tickets than your core membership from avfc. 

You then set up a website where you sell the excess tickets at face value.  The profit (on the day cost minus ST cost) can fund the purchase of flags and other poles etc.

This would allow folk to join you on an ad hoc basis.  This would spread the love and hopefully mean you can buy more season tickets next year.  If Brigada 1874 was non-profit and transparent then I'd imagine that most folk would support it.

Maybe you could wangle it that the club would sell the season tickets in bulk and at a small discount on the basis/promise that you generally behave and build a dialogue with the club.

Dante, you do realise that ST's are swipe cards now and not books of tickets. Plus unless they were sold every match, it would only need three matches down or so for the ST to be costing more.

I admit the last time I had a season ticket it was a little book.  Anyway my point was that they'd need the club's co-operation in all of these things.  Like you, I do not want a hooligan element to be associated with the club however seeing and hearing stuff like at the Palace match can only be a good thing.  That sort of thing will not happen spontaneously and therefore a group like Brigada would need support organising it.