We probably number 50-60 core and another 30-40 if we made the Trophy Final or get promoted on last day! We haven't been strict about paying up for membership. The club acknowledge our existence and are generally supportive, but we have had a few ''PR'' issues recently with some lads migrating over to a hooligan group. As Martin says we do generally sit together at away games, as most of us travel together. At home games we stand in the FAMOUS East Bank right behind the goal Don't worry GreenBrigade we wil do our best to keep it going Which club is yours? I am guessing Yeovil?
Official connection in that they allow you to do your displays without hassle and you have some sort of general cooperation with them? Something the the scene in the Scotland lacks, we're treated as common criminals by our own clubs. Aberdeen's Red Ultras recently walking out due to treatment by the club, jumped up wannabe policeman stewards and the piglets themselves.
I'm jealous of you guys in that your travel to better grounds (from a display/terrace sense). I'd love another pre-season down there, don't think we'll be allowed Peterborough though!
Do you lot intend on trying to sit together at home matches next season? Would the club allow this?
Cheers for the answers lads/lassies
p.s We're Celtic. www.celticultras.com (in the process of getting a new website)
EDIT: When you say moved over to Hooligan group, do you mean left you to go to them or drifted over for a particular match? Understand if you can't say
We have a connection with some of the stewards, because it may sound a bit weird to you lot, but the stewards let us do whatever displays we like, because they know the people they can trust. The club backs us aswell, because they know if the RBA element wasn't there, then there wouldn't be an atmosphere.
We don't do sitting GB. In all home matches, we stand together, besides the odd few who stand a bit further away in our terrace. But, since it is terrace, anyone can stand anywhere.
We didn't move with anyone or anything. But recently, a rival group known as the A Company Yoof have come to stand where we stand, and we're being mixed with them. And the club reently asked "The difference between the RBA and the A-Company". So the club thought we were hooligans.