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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 2:37:31 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this?
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 4, 2016 3:35:29 GMT
I got that really bad in the season the fans got Trolls sacked. Boycotted home games even though I had a 10-year season ticket and only went to a couple of away games as I really didn't want the company of my fellow Gasheads at that time. I felt we got what we deserved when they left the club in the hands of the clueless Patterson and bewildered Penney and when the comparative stats showed that Trolls points per game ratio would have kept us up as opposed to the free fall we brought upon ourselves afterwards I felt curiously vindicated in my irrational behaviour! The summer clear out and the turnover of players and staff coupled with starting in a new (lower) division triggered a change in mood in me...so I wiped the slate clean and started again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 6:40:31 GMT
What is a modern football fan? Attitudes have slowly evolved and unless you have been in solitary confinement for 40 years, you will have flowed with the changes. Scrutiny of refs, managers, players and all things tactical, along with the internet gives everybody the ability to voice an opinion that wouldn't have been worth anything in the past.
Try not to get down about it, even when we are doing great people vwill still act irrationally at any sign of a wobble.
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Post by blackthorngas on Mar 4, 2016 6:51:30 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade!
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Post by kabatiti on Mar 4, 2016 7:18:00 GMT
I agree that loyalty is important. I think people can be too inpatient at times but this can be for a number of reasons. Some do expect too much. Others are very passionate and show that in ways not helpful to the team.
In terms of booing the only time I have done that was in a Penney match. We were playing Dagenham and it was a make or break game with them right next to us. I expected to see us try but what I witnessed was a load of over weight useless players degrading our club. A fat Rene Howe and clumsy useless Jerrell Ifill spring to mind. This wasn't our Rovers and I felt duty bound to boo.
In terms of leaving early I have only done this once in 25 years of supporting Rovers and I have watched some rubbish over the years. This was the home game against Newport this seson. I thought we were terrible that day. However I didn't think Clarke should have gone. It was more of an off day at the office which I wanted no further part in. I knew we would bounce back and have been back since.
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Post by Okebournegas on Mar 4, 2016 7:30:01 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade! I have to agree with the "we're richer than you" chant it's been done at the last two home games on a couple of occasions and it just sounds a bit daft! I'm not knocking the fans who chant it they are free to do what they like ( within reason obviously ) it's just not my cup of tea. Please don't take that as I'm part of any "I'm holier than you "brigade .
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Post by socrates on Mar 4, 2016 7:32:47 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? I take it you don't like goal music either then ? ? Joking aside I totally agree with you about the short memories and the booing at half time when the home teams losing is something you see at pretty much every ground these days it's pathetic but that's how football is its a shame but I still love football even though it's not as real as it used to be. UTG
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Post by paulpirate on Mar 4, 2016 8:55:38 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? i agree totally,no matter where I stand in the ground I always seem to have a bullshitter stood behind me
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Post by Topper Gas on Mar 4, 2016 8:59:59 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade! I agree with that view we should "ban" those chants, singing that to the poor Hartlepool fans who's travelled for hours on Tuesday for a night day was cringworthy.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Mar 4, 2016 9:00:36 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade! Great post.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Mar 4, 2016 9:06:48 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade! Almost as if I wrote that post myself! I was disgusted when we sang it to little Alfreton exactly a year afer we knew how similar pain felt. We're richer than you chant, I totally agree too. It is cringey, embarrassing and it reminds me of the sort of thing them lot would sing down Ashton.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Mar 4, 2016 9:08:18 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade! Almost as if I wrote that post myself! I was disgusted when we sang it to little Alfreton exactly a year afer we knew how similar pain felt. We're richer than you chant, I totally agree too. It is cringey, embarrassing and it reminds me of the sort of thing them lot would sing down Ashton. Little Alfreton. I lol'd.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Mar 4, 2016 9:10:32 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? watered me off at Wycombe. As soon as they scored there were a stream of people who go up and walked out in front of me. 1-0 down and still 5 minutes to go plus injury time yet people give up that easily.
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Post by althepirate on Mar 4, 2016 9:24:43 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? I think you are blessed with the ability to understand and sadly you will be in the minority and wont relate to many people. In monetary terms you are a billionaire surrounded by poverty, be aware of that quality and constantly feel gratitude. Good luck.
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 4, 2016 9:27:22 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? Good post. Yes agree. Hate the BS, certain attitudes from fans, who seem to see where I stand and come and stand next to me, nastiness towards certain players, the "everything is fantastic or everything is c*** attitude", esp those who turn on a manager after a bad game and want them out, the Premiership which is all about money, which we don't have! But it's all fluff and relatively unimportant in the big scheme and I just ignore it for the hypocritical nonsense that it is. But I still love the anticipation at the beginning of the season, the "this could be our year"feeling, the feeling when you know Rovers are going to win, the occasional diamond (Lockyer) who comes through the ranks, the rare player (Lambert) who becomes special, the moment, 2 weeks ago when you realise that this could be something special and those moments when something very special happens (Igoe's goal, Mansell penalty, Lamberts goal against the city). UTG!
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Post by Fat Albert on Mar 4, 2016 9:33:50 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? You are going to hate the future then. For the 30 years I have supported Rovers we have basically been crap. Therefore the majority of our fans have accepted the fact and support out of blind loyalty, the sort only really found in football supporters. IF the club goes the way it seemingly might and we start enjoying more success a new wave of 'fans' will appear all with the instant success mentality. If not they would already be here now supporting us through the mostly bad years we have endured! UTG
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Post by justin blue on Mar 4, 2016 15:56:44 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? You write as if this is the norm which is not my experience. True there are a few who behave as you say, but they are really a minority. if I am on my own at the ground such behaviour can be annoying and I'll find somewhere else to stand, if there are a few of us it doesn't bother me. As for the forum I don't agree with everyone's views on here and many will not agree with mine at times, but I am happy to be able to share them on here. I've lived in deepsest south Bristol all my life so most of my friends where I live are Teds otherwise I would have no friends here. I have to put up with their arrogance and water taking on a daily basis so just being among lots of gasheads is a buzz for me. Maybe I am biased, but I think gasheads are the best fans in the country and I'm proud to be one. So no I don't feel like that.
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Post by aztecatwerton on Mar 4, 2016 15:57:59 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? You are going to hate the future then. For the 30 years I have supported Rovers we have basically been crap. Therefore the majority of our fans have accepted the fact and support out of blind loyalty, the sort only really found in football supporters. IF the club goes the way it seemingly might and we start enjoying more success a new wave of 'fans' will appear all with the instant success mentality. If not they would already be here now supporting us through the mostly bad years we have endured! UTG We've got to make sure we retain our Rovers attitude of fighting against the odds. It got us through at Twerton and although we lost it for a while, I think we have that back. Look what happened to Cardiff's fanbase. I know they weren't the friendliest set of fans but they were passionate and loyal. Then they had success and loads of johnny come latelys appeared to dilute the passion of the fans who stuck by them during the old 4th division days and to rub salt in to the wound, happily waved their red scarves around. I think the new owners value Rovers history and traditions, so they won't do a Vincent Tan but we as supporters must ensure that money doesn't spoil us. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the new owners are on board and am excited about the future, but let's not lose what makes us Rovers fans.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 4, 2016 16:38:26 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? i think alot of football managers can be victims of there own success. at the begining of the season most fans would of been happy with a mid table finish but given our successful campaign this season many fans will see anything but finishing in a playoff posision at the end of the year as a disaster. football fans are fickle whatever team they support and you only have to read this forum on a regular basis to see that were constantly 2 games away from a crisis or winning the league.
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Post by BishopstonBRFC on Mar 4, 2016 18:20:54 GMT
Have to agree. Football fans are incredibly fickle. I don't like the "going down" chant either (with a couple of exceptions!) That experience is too raw to wish it on anyone else. The other one I won't join in with is "we're richer than you" - makes me cringe. Proud to be a fully paid up member of the faithful and true brigade! I agree with that view we should "ban" those chants, singing that to the poor Hartlepool fans who's travelled for hours on Tuesday for a night day was cringworthy. I would normally agree but I thought that was aimed at their keeper.
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