Sisu have nearly finished us off - would you support another team? (1 Viewer)
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Kneeza
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Youll be made to feel very welcome, and they won't even mind you drinking or talking to away supporters (of which there'll be very few, so be nice
). PLEASE don't call it 'rugger' though!I'm already a long-standing CRUFC supporter (almost as long-standing as i've been a CCFC supporter and that's since 1964...). I really can't see me going to another City game the way I feel now, and definitely not if they don't come home to Coventry.
I'll never support another footy club niver.
chiefdave
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I find I'm increasingly losing interest in football altogether. If the worst did happen and we no longer existed apart from a passing interest in watching England on the TV or MOTD if there's nothing else to do I'd be pretty much done as a football fan.
Not sure you can ever really support another team. I lived in Cambridge from 94 - 99 and when they were at home and I wasn't going to our game I'd go along. Thing was back then what is now L1 and L2 football was cheap, it definitely wasn't more than a tenner to get in, and I'd go along with my mates who were supporters. It was nice when they won but it doesn't compare to your own team winning. Those were the days when you had to wait for the other scores to come up on the scoreboard or ask the old chap with one ear to the radio and I'd get more excited when I'd find out we were winning than anything happening at the game I was at. A lot of their fans had an interest in how we were doing as that was the time we had Dion playing for us. Since I've moved away I couldn't tell you much about whats happened to Cambridge, you don't become a fan, it's more something to do.
These days the lower leagues are so expensive they've priced out the casual fan. Fratton Park is at the end of my road, apart from when we've been playing there I've only been once, to an England womens game. It's £20 to get in and that's way too much as a casual for the standard of football on offer. Considered going to see some Southampton matches but the prices are crazy, to see the bigger teams it's £42 - £52, the cheapest ticket for the lowest banding of games is £34.
Football is essentially a thing you go to for fun, especially if you're not going to watch your own team, and for the price of going to one match of a low standard I could find several things much more enjoyable to happen.
The house of cards will come tumbling down at some point if the authorities don't get a grip. How much will the TV rights be worth when people start drifting away from the game as their clubs are going out of business and / or it's too expensive to see a game?
Not sure you can ever really support another team. I lived in Cambridge from 94 - 99 and when they were at home and I wasn't going to our game I'd go along. Thing was back then what is now L1 and L2 football was cheap, it definitely wasn't more than a tenner to get in, and I'd go along with my mates who were supporters. It was nice when they won but it doesn't compare to your own team winning. Those were the days when you had to wait for the other scores to come up on the scoreboard or ask the old chap with one ear to the radio and I'd get more excited when I'd find out we were winning than anything happening at the game I was at. A lot of their fans had an interest in how we were doing as that was the time we had Dion playing for us. Since I've moved away I couldn't tell you much about whats happened to Cambridge, you don't become a fan, it's more something to do.
These days the lower leagues are so expensive they've priced out the casual fan. Fratton Park is at the end of my road, apart from when we've been playing there I've only been once, to an England womens game. It's £20 to get in and that's way too much as a casual for the standard of football on offer. Considered going to see some Southampton matches but the prices are crazy, to see the bigger teams it's £42 - £52, the cheapest ticket for the lowest banding of games is £34.
Football is essentially a thing you go to for fun, especially if you're not going to watch your own team, and for the price of going to one match of a low standard I could find several things much more enjoyable to happen.
The house of cards will come tumbling down at some point if the authorities don't get a grip. How much will the TV rights be worth when people start drifting away from the game as their clubs are going out of business and / or it's too expensive to see a game?
skybluebeduff
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Why do people ask if we'd support another team? No I don't think anyone will. But they'll watch other teams because everyone is a football fan.
chiefdave
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One of the saddest parts of this whole mess is how many supporters have been lost already to other teams? How many kids are now supporting Man U, Chelsea etc or even worse Villa or Leicester because they haven't got a local team.
How many of the old boys have given up and accepted they will never see their team play again. I know my Dad has, he's been going since the Jimmy Hill days and has zero interest now. It used to be that I'd drive up every few weeks and take him to the Ricoh for a game. Would spend an hour or more a couple of times a week talking about the club. Not know, he has already said he's had enough and won't be going back even if they do return. When I phone him he's almost apologetic saying he has no idea what's going on at the club. How many people have lost that sort of relationship. Or even worse how many of the old boys have passed away while we're in Northampton?
I dread something happening to someone like Jimmy Hill and us not being able to give him a proper send off.
How many of the old boys have given up and accepted they will never see their team play again. I know my Dad has, he's been going since the Jimmy Hill days and has zero interest now. It used to be that I'd drive up every few weeks and take him to the Ricoh for a game. Would spend an hour or more a couple of times a week talking about the club. Not know, he has already said he's had enough and won't be going back even if they do return. When I phone him he's almost apologetic saying he has no idea what's going on at the club. How many people have lost that sort of relationship. Or even worse how many of the old boys have passed away while we're in Northampton?
I dread something happening to someone like Jimmy Hill and us not being able to give him a proper send off.
aloisiwouldhavescored
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I have supported CCFC since 1964 and don't go to Sixfields and could never support another team, they are my one and only.
Really miss my Saturday afternoon "fix" though, but at my age am thinking I will never get to see them play at home again.
We have got Sky but we hardly ever watch any football on it now, it's all about the money these days instead of the football which has spoiled it.
Watch a lot of cricket and speedway though.
Really miss my Saturday afternoon "fix" though, but at my age am thinking I will never get to see them play at home again.
We have got Sky but we hardly ever watch any football on it now, it's all about the money these days instead of the football which has spoiled it.
Watch a lot of cricket and speedway though.