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Post by trueblur4u on Aug 21, 2022 18:09:33 GMT
It has been reported a growing number of football fans are just not interested in their local teams. What the hell is going on? Depends what you call your local club? Where do you live out of interest? I live in Bristol.
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 21, 2022 18:41:06 GMT
I wouldn’t say this is news. This has been going on a long time. While the premiership has made it worse it was always the way. I grew up in Trowbridge and most of my friends were Liverpool/Man Utd/Spurs fans etc. in the late 70s/early 80s. Yes, it’s been happening for years. Growing up in Taunton in the late 60s and 70s they were all Man U / Liverpool/ Spurs etc. Nothing has changed except with the coverage we get now it may even be more understandable seeing as young people see these teams on TV ( if they have the channels). Nothing new. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 21, 2022 18:45:32 GMT
I live in Bournemouth You’d think what with their Prem flirtings all the lads in my boys U14 team would be in red and black stripes…. But no!! Last training session I counted 5 PSG tops, 3 Chelsea, 3 Liverpool and 2 Spurs. One lad had a cherries top on And there was this one lad with a glorious black and green BRFC away kit on running rings around them all. UTG But... Walk around Bournemouth town centre, Poole and other parts of Dorset you see a lot more AFCB tops than you did 10 years ago. It has had an effect. And of course with young people now the tops they wear don’t always link to the club they like. So into fashion that a lot go for the colours and the style and how they look. UTG!
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Post by kampucheagas on Aug 21, 2022 18:48:45 GMT
I live in Bournemouth You’d think what with their Prem flirtings all the lads in my boys U14 team would be in red and black stripes…. But no!! Last training session I counted 5 PSG tops, 3 Chelsea, 3 Liverpool and 2 Spurs. One lad had a cherries top on And there was this one lad with a glorious black and green BRFC away kit on running rings around them all. UTG But... Walk around Bournemouth town centre, Poole and other parts of Dorset you see a lot more AFCB tops than you did 10 years ago. It has had an effect. And of course with young people now the tops they wear don’t always link to the club they like. So into fashion that a lot go for the colours and the style and how they look. UTG! Maybe. As long as the colours they like happen to be PSG, Barcelona, Liverpool or Chelsea it seems!!
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Post by chilegas on Aug 21, 2022 19:04:26 GMT
It is down to parents as well - my lad plays in reception group at a football club - handful of kids in rovers and a handful in city shirts - loads of them wearing Man U kits (poor kids - parents must hate their children) and then odd real, barca, Chelsea and even a Newcastle kit on show. Quite a few england kits as well. So whilst it is down to the prem being advertised and also being a brilliant standard - it is down to what you are brought up with - my boy has had rovers stuffed down his next since he popped out of his mum 🤣 - always in the quarters 👍
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Post by pudseygas on Aug 21, 2022 19:28:57 GMT
I live in Leeds and all my 3 boys (11,9 & 6) support Rovers. One sort of, he's not that into sport in general but likes going to games. Middle is well into the Gas and actively looks for news and watches highlights etc. Youngster wears his rovers shirt most days and tells everyone he supports the gas even if he doesn't really get it yet.
Obviously this is all down to me supporting Rovers but they have all had the choice though. It's either support your local team (Leeds or Bradford I guess) or Rovers, no in-betweens or man u's/liverpools.
Most of the kids in boys junior team wear Leeds shirts, pretty loyal around here. He loves wearing his gas shirt to training though and enjoys being the 'odd' one out
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Post by Congas on Aug 21, 2022 19:46:02 GMT
Give him 20 lashes and send down the coal mine for a 14 hour shift , that should teach him right from wrong 😱 Oh while you’re at it send that fecking ref from yesterday with him! I’m at the point of disowning him, he actually asked me to take him to Ashton Gate last week, I’ve lied to him (bad Dad) he’s coming to The Mem Saturday thinking he’s going to see them 🤣 If that doesn’t work I’ve failed as a Dad…… There's a coal pit in Ashton Vale :-)
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Post by eric on Aug 21, 2022 19:47:33 GMT
You should always follow your local team. For example someone who lives in Chippenham should follow Chippenham Town and stay well away from Rovers.
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Post by clockendgas on Aug 21, 2022 19:49:26 GMT
You should always follow your local team. For example someone who lives in Chippenham should follow Chippenham Town and stay well away from Rovers. Come on Eric,attack the post,not the poster😄
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Post by clockendgas on Aug 21, 2022 19:51:59 GMT
It has been reported a growing number of football fans are just not interested in their local teams. What the hell is going on? The media forcing the Premiership down everyone’s throats, the BBC who have stopped reporting football scores on a Saturday after the games. It is like mid Championship and bellow doesn’t exist. Struggling to get my youngest into Rovers, he keeps telling me he supports City, much to his brothers and fathers disgust. I'd put him up for adoption mate,can't have that in the family
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Post by Sir Trevor B'Sol on Aug 21, 2022 19:55:16 GMT
It has been reported a growing number of football fans are just not interested in their local teams. What the hell is going on? I get this. My local team is Wuhan Three Towns FC. Most of you will know us as Wuhan Shangwen FC. When I wear my Gas shirt in town I get funny looks. Don't get that.
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Post by Somersetgas on Aug 21, 2022 22:00:37 GMT
The media forcing the Premiership down everyone’s throats, the BBC who have stopped reporting football scores on a Saturday after the games. It is like mid Championship and bellow doesn’t exist. Struggling to get my youngest into Rovers, he keeps telling me he supports City, much to his brothers and fathers disgust. I'd put him up for adoption mate,can't have that in the family He’s free to a bad home……….. I’m sure he is just doing it as he knows it winds me and his brother up, he’s only eight. If he’s serious I’m just not sure 🤣
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 21, 2022 23:11:30 GMT
You should always follow your local team. For example someone who lives in Chippenham should follow Chippenham Town and stay well away from Rovers. Agree completely eric. It’s why my youngest supports AFCB and always has done, even in the great escape years. I always encouraged him to support his local team. Over the past 6/7 years he has earnt his PL team!! (After the Rovers v Bournemouth rivalry all my footballing life I still can’t really support them. I have to be an ‘interested neutral’!! 😭😭) UTG!
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 22, 2022 3:17:39 GMT
Bristol as a City, and both Bristol clubs don't exactly do ourselves any favours.
Its not just Football either but sport in general in the City is very poor. Both in regards to facilities, infrastructure and success.
Bristol in relation to it's size must be the biggest underachieving City in Europe if not the World.
Other Cities of similar size like Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield the Football clubs are seen as institutions and are part of the culture of the City and maybe I'm generalising a little but imo the locals care about their Football teams a lot more as do the local councils.
Imo for some reason there is just a general apathy all round not only from the supporters of both Bristol Football clubs, but other sports as well, the Rugby club has hardly ever won anything apart from a John Player Cup in the 80's and a Challenge Cup a few years ago, while a tiny place in comparison like Bath have had a lot more sucesss. Gloucestershire CC apart from a bit of One Day success in the late 90's, early 2000's have never won anything, and the county ground is one of the smallest. While smaller Cities like Nottingham, Brighton and Cardiff have Test Match venues. It's like the City doesn't care. Even in the new Hundred tournament, our region, which would incorporate Gloucestershire and Somerset is the only area that hasn't got a franchise, again its like we don't care or cant be bothered.
So you can't really blame some Bristolians for not supporting their local teams when all the City's sports teams combined have never done anything and with sh*t facilities like The Mem and a tiny Cricket ground there's no wonder why we don't progress.
We need to look at ourselves and try a lot harder to entice people, with better facilities and a bit of success I am sure the Bristolians will support their local clubs. At the moment a lot look elsewhere.
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Post by fintanstack on Aug 22, 2022 5:18:11 GMT
Define local.
Why do you support Bristol Rovers and not Manor Farm or Yate for example?
Is it because Rovers are a league club? If so, are we really any better than someone who only supports a Premier league team?
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Post by rovers5charlton5 on Aug 22, 2022 6:35:39 GMT
I don't get it, at the World Cup, would they support Brazil or Spain for example just because they had a better record?
Maybe it's because you can wear a Man United or Liverpool shirt walking around Broadmead without some 6 fingered neanderthal giving you grief.
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Post by stuart1974 on Aug 22, 2022 7:16:22 GMT
You should always follow your local team. For example someone who lives in Chippenham should follow Chippenham Town and stay well away from Rovers. I'm only a Rovers fan because of my dad who happens to have grown up in Chippenham. 😇 Imo, there should be a genuine connection to a club, be that family, locality or whatever. Merely following a club because of TV coverage or marketing (shirts and other merchandise) is not sufficient really.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Aug 22, 2022 7:28:19 GMT
It looked like a shoe in but the first Bristol club to get to the prem will really take off.
City really should be banging on the door but they’re not taking their chances.
If we could do the impossible - with our history, underdog status, branding and identity as a club, and the way we’ll have to get there - we could have a massive impact making it there.
Then we’d get people supporting US because of our kit / nickname / colours.
Stranger things have happened, would anyone really have expected Bournemouth, Swansea or Brighton to have done what they have?
I think this is why Joey has committed to us. It’s always been mentioned as the Championship being the goal but I think they’re really taking it one step at a time and the real goal is to establish a proper Premier league football club in the Bristol area.
Don’t laugh!
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Post by gasheadpirate on Aug 22, 2022 7:41:18 GMT
I have never lived in or near Bristol. My nearest league team were Southampton.
As a kid I had teams in all major divisions in England and Scotland. My Div 1 team was Arsenal but decided to go with Rovers in the early 80s, so did see a number of games at Eastville.
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Post by TAGas on Aug 22, 2022 7:57:12 GMT
I was born in St Michael's hospital and my parents are from Lockleaze so there was only one team I was supporting. I've got and never will have no interest in a premier league team. Just Bristol Rovers UTG!
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