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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 17:30:22 GMT
Who is you Premiership club Bamber? Hull,West Brom, Stoke City or the like? If so fair enough no harm done but I suspect not. You don't realise what the root of the problem is Bamber because you don't think that your behaviour makes any difference same goes for everyone else who supports a club for reasons of glamour and glory. But multiply the individual effect by millions and there you have the global TV audience that Sky and the ilk will pay the massive money for that ends up in the hands of the few clubs supported by these millions of individuals who think their behaviour makes no difference. Every gloryhunter is a single cancer cell to clubs like ours. A single cancer cell doesn't kill anything but millions certainly do! This is getting worse what are you talking about? So now it's down to a few big clubs you don't like. Out of interest where were you born/live? And you don't need to be a Glory Hunter to follow another club, some have an affinity with them or family reasons etc. Who the hell are you to judge. No its not the big clubs I don't like its the people who make them big by jumping on the bandwagon because they want to associate themselves with the glamour and glory. I have no issue with people who support such clubs because they have some connection with the area where those clubs play but you know and I know that in Bristol for example that is a very small percentage of those clubs supporters. So my judgement that the vast majority are unashamed gloryhunters is correct and these parasites, unlike you, make no contribution to their local clubs and even worse sneer at those of us that do.
All I am saying is that if it is acceptable to be like them and everyone was like them there would only be 4 clubs left in England, and guess what I don't think we'd be one of them! Why then would any Rovers fan find such behaviour acceptable?
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 17:37:21 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription. It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground. Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem. It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not. Yes its TV and all the money ending up in the hands of the few clubs that the brain dead gloryhunters all want to watch, as I have already stated in my post likening every gloryhunter to a cancer cell earlier.
If people instead generally supported clubs from areas that they felt connected to instead of generally supported clubs because they won things then the TV money would be a lot more evenly spread and a lot more clubs could and would prosper.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 17:49:15 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription. It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground. Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem. It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not. Yes its TV and all the money ending up in the hands of the few clubs that the brain dead gloryhunters all want to watch, as I have already stated in my post likening every gloryhunter to a cancer cell earlier.
If people instead generally supported clubs from areas that they felt connected to instead of generally supported clubs because they won things then the TV money would be a lot more evenly spread and a lot more clubs could and would prosper.
I think we'll need to agree to disagree then. Can't condone calling the followers of football teams from outside their area as " Brain Dead Gloryhunters" i'm afraid. I think everyone has a right to watch whoever they want, if they have to be local fans then we will lose a fair few: How many Gasheads follow Rovers yet come from WSM, Mangotsfield, Gloucester, Bath etc, you can't have it both ways, to our smaller clubs locally WE are the ones who have had a share of the TV money etc for a long time now. Sorry, but imo your argument doesn't add up, but you're entitled to it. UTG
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 18:00:51 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription. It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground. Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem. It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not. Yes its TV and all the money ending up in the hands of the few clubs that the brain dead gloryhunters all want to watch, as I have already stated in my post likening every gloryhunter to a cancer cell earlier.
If people instead generally supported clubs from areas that they felt connected to instead of generally supported clubs because they won things then the TV money would be a lot more evenly spread and a lot more clubs could and would prosper.
You are right. I was brought up in Eastville, I'm going down the park tomorrow and will be handing every penny to any team who have Eastville as part of their name. I've been so blind, only wanting to be associated with the glory of Vanarama Conference football.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 18:12:04 GMT
Yes its TV and all the money ending up in the hands of the few clubs that the brain dead gloryhunters all want to watch, as I have already stated in my post likening every gloryhunter to a cancer cell earlier.
If people instead generally supported clubs from areas that they felt connected to instead of generally supported clubs because they won things then the TV money would be a lot more evenly spread and a lot more clubs could and would prosper.
You are right. I was brought up in Eastville, I'm going down the park tomorrow and will be handing every penny to any team who have Eastville as part of their name. I've been so blind, only wanting to be associated with the glory of Vanarama Conference football. Do you think I am having a go at you because you support Rovers? Jeez this is worse than an argument with my Mrs!
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Post by Gregory Stevens on Sept 19, 2014 18:50:56 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription. It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground. Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem. It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not. Won't have Sky, never have, never will. But I can't stop supporting my top flight team just because the market that they operate in has changed, and has gone a long way towards destroying all of the UK's national teams. But you wouldn't know if I were a Sky subscriber if you saw me walking down Fishponds Rd in my PL team's shirt. Judging by what you've written here you would turn your nose up and call me a glory hunter. Whoa thats ultra defensive, I'm supporting you here. Read it again before jumping in the bunker.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 18:59:40 GMT
You are right. I was brought up in Eastville, I'm going down the park tomorrow and will be handing every penny to any team who have Eastville as part of their name. I've been so blind, only wanting to be associated with the glory of Vanarama Conference football. Do you think I am having a go at you because you support Rovers? Jeez this is worse than an argument with my Mrs! That's the logical conclusion of what you are saying. Distribute money to the FC most in need. Or does your argument only apply as far down the pyramid as your own favourate club? Sadly the cat is out of the bag, British football is scuppered. It's hard to see the big PL clubs making a stand and telling Sky to go away, the likes of Stoke won't as the only way they can compete with the global profile of clubs like Man Utd and Arsenal is with TV money.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 20:05:08 GMT
Do you think I am having a go at you because you support Rovers? Jeez this is worse than an argument with my Mrs! That's the logical conclusion of what you are saying. Distribute money to the FC most in need. Or does your argument only apply as far down the pyramid as your own favourate club? Sadly the cat is out of the bag, British football is scuppered. It's hard to see the big PL clubs making a stand and telling Sky to go away, the likes of Stoke won't as the only way they can compete with the global profile of clubs like Man Utd and Arsenal is with TV money. It's not the logical conclusion of what I'm saying. The Bristol area has 2 professional football clubs why would anyone from the greater Bristol area not support one of those two clubs unless they have a connection with a different area. Sure you get one or two that might support other clubs for no great reason but is for the reason of glory hunting that is killing the smaller clubs. I am not having a go at people on here who support Rovers but the thousands of Bristolians who support the big four and ignore their local clubs. It's as despicable as great numbers of people in this country deciding to support Germany rather than England because they won the World Cup.
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Post by Northville Blue on Sept 19, 2014 22:29:16 GMT
Have to put myself in with your category there Bamber, i have no shame in saying i support Bristol Rovers, and follow another British club and go to watch their games when i can, plus i watch with interest a European Club. UTG Yep. I would laugh my cock off if Rovers ever beat my 'other' UK team. So just a little chuckle then.
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Post by Bridgeman on Sept 20, 2014 0:34:32 GMT
I've lived in Wales since 1967, moved here as a teenager. In all that time my loyalty to Bristol Rovers has remained constant (as well as to England football and rugby teams). Loads of my Welsh mates couldn't understand it as they were big Liverpool, Leeds Utd, Man Utd fans and few of them supported the Welsh League teams let alone the Wales national team, in fact the ones in Newport didn't even consider themselves Welsh and refused to sing the Welsh National Anthem ! I've considered myself a Spurs fan because in the early 1960's they were successful and I sort of adopted them so in no way influenced by the Premier League era and certainly no glory hunter.
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