REAL fans
leicslad46
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Following leicesters promotion to the premier league so called fans are showing their loyalty to the badge by snapping up tickets to games and are going to buy season tickets for the forthcoming premier league season. Fans who have never been to a game. Where were the same fans when they went down to the third tier for the first time in their history and where will they will be if they get relegated. There are too many glory hunters. REAL FANS are those who stand by their team through good times and bad.
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Fans moaning when said people start actually buying tickets and going to games.
How do you know they've never been to a game? How do you know they aren't real fans? You've made a lot of sweeping generalisations.
Case in point this weekend. Gateshead - avg attendance below 800. They've sold 7,000 tickets for a play off semi final this Sunday
Good luck surviving in the PL with 3rd division gates and the income that would bring in. ;-)
Are we also applying this to potential 'glory hunter' new players for now being interested in playing for Leicester but not when you were in the 3rd tier.
Enjoy it while it lasts, my team Oldham were achieving gates of 16-19000 in the early 90's - we now barely scrape 3000 home fans - the atmosphere and the enjoyment of most games now stink - i'd quite happily take a few thousand glory hunters if it accompanied a promotion season.
As long as your club has some sort of loyalty system for the most attractive away days, the added crowd is a good thing.
Our gates at Pompey aren't much lower in League 2 than they were in the Premiership.
Give me strength!
We're Leicester City, trust me if you wanted to be a glory hunter and jump on a bandwagon you wouldn't tie yourself to this club.;-)
I was there in the 80's when there were less than 10000 regulars, going to away games when football supporters were treated like scum and not a 'Customer'. I don't go as much as I used to but I've proved my loyalty, forced off a coach two hours before kick off standing in the snow at an open end at Eastville only then to see a pathetic capitulation. Dragging myself out of bed with flu to watch an FA Cup tie with Burton Albion (spending half the match throwing up in the gents) which was eventually anulled. I could go on.
Happens. At every club an afraid, since Leeds were relegated from
Premier league we haven't had Japanese tourists at every home game or glory hunters with about 10 kids in tow
Is that chuffin' bell ringer still going ? My god, after 10 minutes of that, it sends me loopy even when watching on the t.v.
So you don't want bigger gates in the Premier League then?
Who genuinely gives a sh!t if a fan only wants to watch their team play against the top clubs. Not every fan can afford to go to a game or chooses to go to a game.
If them not going to a game is bad, shouldn't you welcome them buying tickets now rather than whinging that you were into the band before they went all mainstream?
I'm sure it'd be great if you didn't get any new fans as a result of success, you could pride yourself on how real and authentic you are as you enjoy all the free space in the stadium now reserved for the sanctimonious only as you slip down the divisions wondering why.
There are an awful lot of people who support their club passionately without feeling the need to keep on about being somehow being better than their other fellow supporters.
The season tickets themselves are hard to get, people get put on massive waiting lists. Are they lesser fans because they're not buying tickets, due to the waiting list? Am I a lesser fan because I mainly go to cup games? Do I gain any loyalty points back since I live quite close to Anfield stadium?
I wouldn't want Liverpool to just have 100% loyal fans, anyway. We wouldn't be where we are without our fanbase from all over the world, with people supporting us because of the 2005 CL victory. If we only had local fans going to games we'd be sliding down the divisions. And not just because there are more Everton fans from Liverpool than there are Liverpool fans.
It must be very easy to support a nearby "glamour" club in these circumstances.
A true supporter wouldn't care who their team were playing as its their team they're going to see not the opposition and it shouldn't matter if it were Man Utd or Mansfield, where as a glory hunter or fair weather supporter only wants to see the big matches which is what annoys those who go every week then find they can't get a ticket.