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[DuncanShearer]

Aug 28, 2019 19:38:11 GMT 1 @jameshudd72 said:

Aug 28, 2019 19:35:10 GMT 1 DuncanShearer said:

Is there a thread on here that doesn't mention finances or financial mismanagement, including this one if you read through it?

Gets wearing when posters are practically bragging they don't attend.

As opposed to the “i’m a super fan and anyone who doesn’t do what I do should hang their heads / doesn’t deserve the club line? Both wearing depending on your viewpoint.

It’s a thread about the apathy that has crept in, and it has. Suggesting that those who chose to have a weekend off deserve the club to go to the wall is plain nonsense. For what it’s worth, I haven’t been down yet this season, the first two games I was in Lanzarote, again with my family and friends, who are mainly season ticket holders too.

I presume you’d rather we didn’t come back down? which we will be by the way.


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I'm not a super fan, a very ordinary fan that took a number of years off watching my own son play Saturday afternoons.


Got a ladder.


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Don’t need one, I coach my sons team, and take him to play Rugby week in week out......whilst also watching Town.

[ben1987]

I’ve stopped going to away games, last away game I did was Burnley. I’m sick of having my day ruined, hardly seeing a goal never mind a win. It’s got to the stage where I just expect us to lose, expect us to concede. Will I renew next season? If it carries on like this, no. It’s it the winning that’s the major issue, it’s the fact that I’m now embarrassed to be a town fan. The board have a lot to answer for, because they’ve fucked it up and they know it and most have hidden away and left others to take the flack. I’m looking at you Winter.

[terriers321]

Aug 28, 2019 19:58:08 GMT 1 ben1987 said:

I’ve stopped going to away games, last away game I did was Burnley. I’m sick of having my day ruined, hardly seeing a goal never mind a win. It’s got to the stage where I just expect us to lose, expect us to concede. Will I renew next season? If it carries on like this, no. It’s it the winning that’s the major issue, it’s the fact that I’m now embarrassed to be a town fan. The board have a lot to answer for, because they’ve fucked it up and they know it and most have hidden away and left others to take the flack. I’m looking at you Winter.

Few of us were talking about which aways to do before the Reading game, first time in Yonkers I'm genuinelly not arsed about going to any. Love making a weekend of it for a London away day but I'd honestly rather stay in the pub. Or for that matter, go when town arnt down there.

[DuncanShearer]

Aug 28, 2019 20:09:36 GMT 1 @jameshudd72 said:

Aug 28, 2019 19:55:35 GMT 1 DuncanShearer said:

As opposed to the “i’m a super fan and anyone who doesn’t do what I do should hang their heads / doesn’t deserve the club line? Both wearing depending on your viewpoint.

It’s a thread about the apathy that has crept in, and it has. Suggesting that those who chose to have a weekend off deserve the club to go to the wall is plain nonsense. For what it’s worth, I haven’t been down yet this season, the first two games I was in Lanzarote, again with my family and friends, who are mainly season ticket holders too.

I presume you’d rather we didn’t come back down? which we will be by the way.

I'm not a super fan, a very ordinary fan that took a number of years off watching my own son play Saturday afternoons.


Got a ladder.

Don’t need one, I coach my sons team, and take him to play Rugby week in week out......whilst also watching Town.
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The ladder was to enable me to get down!

Just to clarify, I never claimed to be a super fan. Growing up my son would play as many as three games in a weekend and coupled with running him here there and everywhere trainig etc severely limited my watching Town, which still leaves nearly 60 years of ups and downs. My son now like me now watches home and away as often as possible.[/quote]

Which is great and hats off for doing it. I suspect our outlook is different through circumstance. You and your lad spend quality time together watching town, both old enough to digest and dissect all that goes with it. For me, the quality of the time is dependent on my lad enjoying it too, he’s 10 tomorrow so has a fairly binary view of the game. At the moment it’s a chore for him, and therefore my experience is diminished too. Watching a Golcar on Saturday, in the red hot sun, beer in hand, with my mates and his ticked far more boxes I’m afraid. As he gets older, the result will hopefully take on reduced importance and we both get what you and yours to get from it. My daughter might even want to go then too!!
In the meantime, we’ll be there most weeks at home.
Incidentally, Safe standing would help keep the young ones engaged in my view, as I say charging round the terrace was no doubt a more wholesome memory for a young lad than sitting in a seat bored to death.

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Aug 28, 2019 21:22:02 GMT 1 DuncanShearer said:

Aug 28, 2019 20:09:36 GMT 1 @jameshudd72 said:

I'm not a super fan, a very ordinary fan that took a number of years off watching my own son play Saturday afternoons.


Got a ladder.

Don’t need one, I coach my sons team, and take him to play Rugby week in week out......whilst also watching Town.

The ladder was to enable me to get down!

Just to clarify, I never claimed to be a super fan. Growing up my son would play as many as three games in a weekend and coupled with running him here there and everywhere trainig etc severely limited my watching Town, which still leaves nearly 60 years of ups and downs. My son now like me now watches home and away as often as possible.[/quote]

Which is great and hats off for doing it. I suspect our outlook is different through circumstance. You and your lad spend quality time together watching town, both old enough to digest and dissect all that goes with it. For me, the quality of the time is dependent on my lad enjoying it too, he’s 10 tomorrow so has a fairly binary view of the game. At the moment it’s a chore for him, and therefore my experience is diminished too. Watching a Golcar on Saturday, in the red hot sun, beer in hand, with my mates and his ticked far more boxes I’m afraid. As he gets older, the result will hopefully take on reduced importance and we both get what you and yours to get from it. My daughter might even want to go then too!!
In the meantime, we’ll be there most weeks at home.
Incidentally, Safe standing would help keep the young ones engaged in my view, as I say charging round the terrace was no doubt a more wholesome memory for a young lad than sitting in a seat bored to death.
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Fair enough, must confess at the time of that post I had one eye on the tele with the Bury fans in distress and I was a tiny bit emotional myself. By the way my lad's 47 now and prefers the company of his mates in the South Stand, while I sit with the other old farts in the Kilner. Took him to his first match when he was 4 though.

Edit. Have tried deleting some posts in part as it's a total mess.