Yeah bit of a shame but the young team were always going to do that and can see why the team never came back out with the Aberdeen player getting injured but once the pitch was cleared I would have liked them to come out.

SuperMario wrote:

Embarrassing from that tit on the tannoy, happens all over Britain. It’s all young laddies having a laugh, you get idiots in all supports canna help that.

Would have actually saved the police a job from segregating the fans at the back of the Eddie Thompson after the game

 
It was nothing to do with the tannoy announcer, they were just passing on police instructions.

There wouldn't have been a second invasion if the players had come back out though, that was obvious.

I'm buzzing for the result but personally think a pitch invasion for that is a bit cringe.....but no reason to throw things.

Whether the person meant to hit a united fan or a dons player is immaterial- its a hugely stupid thing to do and has caused a lot of damage to a young lad just trying to do his job.

With a history of these sort of incidents in this fixture, police Scotland will have to take steps to stop it happening. So goodbye and chance of getting a pint in the stadium, goodbye friday night games and hello extra police costs, hello stricter policing.

Rules are made for the worst 'fans' - no better than the old firm

Ps I know we've had fans throwing stuff too - so we've got that element too

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Morphman wrote:

Did anyone else catch Willie Miller after the game on SportSound?

Very clearly trying to pin the blame on United fans for the boy Mckenzie being injured until Michael Stewart pointed out the chair had been thrown from the Aberdeen end. Then STILL tried to blame United for goading Aberdeen fans into doing it.

Might have been a decent player but a slavering mess of a pundit. Kudos to Michael Stewart for sticking to his guns on it after even more excuses from Miller.

 
Agree. Stewart spoke well. His clear point - pitch invasions are about uncontrolled emotion which is natural. It should have been about celebrating and the United fans goading the Aberdeen fans are idiots, but it doesn’t even begin to condone what happened next.

2 points I have. The goading is not much different to what happened all match. Especially in the corner of shed and ET where the fans are separated by a few meters. The goading was constant all match from both sides. That is part of what I love about Scottish football. The rivalry.

Second - if this was a one off I would have much more sympathy for the goading excuse. But this is the 3rd time in a year the Aberdeen fans have done the same thing and they weren’t goaded previously. They obviously think it is acceptable behaviour. The Police have done nothing about it and for me a lot of blame should be on them as well. No doubt United will get a bit of punishment here as well because the SFA is weak. Based on the repeated nature and the seriousness of yesterday I would be for Aberdeen fans being banned from all away games for a round of fixtures next season. I know that will never happen. In fact probably very little will.

kdyteejay wrote:

Always_United wrote:

I don't know what the solution is, but guys like Gallagher, Manny, Walton and Dalby were denied the chance to say goodbye today by that pitch invasion.

I do understand the euphoria and I've no idea how you stop fans, but I think it's a real shame.

What do other folk think?

The club should have done what they did in the last game last season which was to repeatedly announce that there should be no pitch invasion after the final whistle. That worked.

 
I guess the difference last season was there had already been two pitch invasions in the week before (v Ayr and Airdrie) so to a certain degree people had got it out of their system. An announcement yesterday that fans should remain in the stand and if they don't the players will immediately leave and not come back out night have done the trick.

3 or 4 or things strike me:
1/ Was the seat bolted down properly ?
1/ How did the silly f___ get the seat off its mountings? My guess a bit gentle persuasion and a lot off shoogling about = malice aforethought.
2/ How do you have the heft to hurl a seat 5 metres in from touchline and scone a 6 foot guy on the nut. = malice aforethought
3/ => How was seat loose in the first place ?  My money's on loose hold down nuts () anyhow if so in the off season replace all nuts with nyloc ones = problem solved.

Only the other week Aberdeen were apologising to St Mirren over abusive chants so irrespective of "goading" there is a significant scumbag element amongst SSB followers.
Hope this doesnae dint the young laddies confidence too much.
Apologies due to young MacKenzie and United.

As far as the invasion goes for me youthful exuberance and lack of braincells is a problem resulting in more frequent invasions. I don't know the answer - more asssertive voice on tannoy, more stewards. All cost money.
Great shame for Gallacher (especially after that performance) and others departing.
Not to mention a detraction from a magnificent performance.

Pitch invasion was an odd one.  No resistance whatsoever from the stewards or cops and indeed the head steward seemed to be beckoning folk on to the pitch (although in hindsight I think he was maybe just directing his staff to step back).  I think that actually meant folk thinking that it was OK to do so.

I initially didn't go on but when I saw the rammy around McKenzie I thought I'd go for a closer look.  Totally out of order from the seat chucker.  Hope he gets the jail once caught.  It was in someways lucky that it hit an Aberdeen player.  Can you imagine what would have happened if it had hit a United fan (especially a kid).  It would have ended up in a battle.  

Aberdeen fans know who this is - they need to shop them.  I spoke to the Aberdeen lads in the disabled section (perfectly friendly by the way) and they thought it was a United fan walloping McKenzie.  It was a photographer that corrected them.

To be clear however, we've got the same issue with folk throwing stuff on the pitch and that really needs to stop.  The reality is there are too few coppers in the grounds these days and the nuggets are taking advantage.