| Our Fans 18:32 - Feb 22 with 2741 views | Southamptonfan |
Apart from the obvious well done to those who keep turning up every week to be embarrassed, what iswrong with the fans? We cheer Ketchup like he's a hero. Didn't he go on strike, refuse to play, caused all sorts of problems for RM last season and the rest of it? He came on today, and got absolutely torn apart. The first goal was his fault.
Last week, our fans booed Smallbone, the guy who scored in the playoffs last season, always gives his best, been through the youth team, loves the club and he gets stick. I seem to remember some idiot posting about him last year not having any hair. He's not a great player, but are any of them??? Yet, Mr. I'm on strike gets a heroes welcome.
And then after a game we could easily have lost 10 nil, not a single bit of discontent against the people who are literally destroying the club. Do our fans not care? Arn't they angry? Well, apart from being very angry at one of our own. They certainly are at Spurs and Leicester. What club's fans would just put up with this every week? Perhaps the fans like the owners (after 2 relegations, 6 failed managers, 45 terrible signings), perhaps they think it's the managers fault, perhaps our fans are very very shy, perhaps they don't care. What an absolute mess. These owners are taking the p!ss. Thousands sat in the fans zones singing along with the band and buying drinks. Many of our lot, just don't care do they. [Post edited 22 Feb 18:37]
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| Our Fans on 12:09 - Feb 23 with 298 views | 1teeminants |
| Our Fans on 10:29 - Feb 23 by dirk_doone |
"I think we’ve all been a bit spoilt having been in the top league for most of my life. I know we’ve won Fack all but who has apart from the usual six ?"
Just about everybody else. For a club of our size, we are, in terms of trophies won, the most underachieving team in the country. Most clubs with a fanbase of our size have won 4 or 5 major trophies at least. Forest, for example, have won 7, Leicester 5 and even Pompey have won 4. We haven't even won a 2nd tier title ever. Most other teams of our size have won that quite a few times. Leicester have won it 8 times, Norwich 5 and even Reading have won it twice.
As for "the usual six", they are constantly changing. Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal are the only 3 who are relatively constant, but as you can see from United this season, even they are not always up there. 5 different teams have won the FA Cup in the last 5 years and there is a very good chance this year that a 6th different team will win it. Bournemouth are one of the favourites.
About the only thing we have going for us is the unfailing loyalty of our fans, who turn up in spite of it all. You, me and everybody else on here are "our fans". There isn't some special elite group that is superior to everybody else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_clubs_in_England_by_competitive_h
https://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/stats/totalavegate.html [Post edited 23 Feb 11:41]
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We had this discussion the other day Dirk didnt we . Im not going over all this again its quite simple really.
I do not claim league 1 or 2 titles or even championship as major titles whereas you obviously do. for me its Fa cup ,Premier league which are the major trophies and as i correctly pointed out apart from the usual big clubs only Wigan, Leicester twice and skates have won a MAJOR trophy in the last 20 years. |  |
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| Our Fans on 12:15 - Feb 23 with 266 views | 1teeminants |
| Our Fans on 08:44 - Feb 23 by PatfromPoole |
Quite a few have already stopped.
But there seem to be people willing to take their place.
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i would say from 20 years ago out of our group of around 20 people theres only about 5 left who regularly go. | |
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| Our Fans on 12:22 - Feb 23 with 240 views | dirk_doone |
| Our Fans on 12:09 - Feb 23 by 1teeminants |
We had this discussion the other day Dirk didnt we . Im not going over all this again its quite simple really.
I do not claim league 1 or 2 titles or even championship as major titles whereas you obviously do. for me its Fa cup ,Premier league which are the major trophies and as i correctly pointed out apart from the usual big clubs only Wigan, Leicester twice and skates have won a MAJOR trophy in the last 20 years. |
I would be very happy if we won even 1 Championship title, like 48 other teams have done. It would be the highest league title we've ever won. I would be over the moon if we won the League Cup, like Swansea, Birmingham, Blackburn, Leicester and Middlesbrough have done in the last 25 years.
As far as I know, the League Cup is regarded as one of the 3 major domestic trophies, and so 13 teams have won major trophies in the last 25 years on top of the 16 different teams that have won the Championship in that period, while we've continued to underachieve, which makes the loyalty of our fans all the more remarkable. [Post edited 23 Feb 12:30]
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| Our Fans on 12:40 - Feb 23 with 205 views | WinchesterExile |
| Our Fans on 10:29 - Feb 23 by dirk_doone |
"I think we’ve all been a bit spoilt having been in the top league for most of my life. I know we’ve won Fack all but who has apart from the usual six ?"
Just about everybody else. For a club of our size, we are, in terms of trophies won, the most underachieving team in the country. Most clubs with a fanbase of our size have won 4 or 5 major trophies at least. Forest, for example, have won 7, Leicester 5 and even Pompey have won 4. We haven't even won a 2nd tier title ever. Most other teams of our size have won that quite a few times. Leicester have won it 8 times, Norwich 5 and even Reading have won it twice.
As for "the usual six", they are constantly changing. Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal are the only 3 who are relatively constant, but as you can see from United this season, even they are not always up there. 5 different teams have won the FA Cup in the last 5 years and there is a very good chance this year that a 6th different team will win it. Bournemouth are one of the favourites.
About the only thing we have going for us is the unfailing loyalty of our fans, who turn up in spite of it all. You, me and everybody else on here are "our fans". There isn't some special elite group that is superior to everybody else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_clubs_in_England_by_competitive_h
https://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/stats/totalavegate.html [Post edited 23 Feb 11:41]
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Going to have to disagree with you here. Fans that give there all over 90 minutes shouting and screaming the team on and trying to intimidate the opposing fans and teams are better supporters than premier league customers who sit in silence with their bobble hats and overly wide scarves.
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