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Author Topic: Lets Form A New Club  (Read 9596 times)

Offline Dave Cooper please

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2011, 10:02:18 PM »
You'll be lucky to find any Birmingham City supporters that will be clever enough to understand any of your suggestions.

This would be the major stumbling block.
Not that Blues fans are all stupid, they aren't, they are pretty much like us but fewer in number, but that too many supporters on both sides could never put old hostilities aside for a common cause.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2011, 10:03:11 PM »
dickhead!!!!

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2011, 10:03:48 PM »
You'll be lucky to find any Birmingham City supporters that will be clever enough to understand any of your suggestions.

This would be the major stumbling block.
Not that Blues fans are all stupid, they aren't, they are pretty much like us but fewer in number, but that too many supporters on both sides could never put old hostilities aside for a common cause.


I don't think that would be a problem. The ones who would be interested wouldn't be the ones who think every other set of fans is the enemy.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2011, 10:04:03 PM »

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2011, 10:04:53 PM »
You'll be lucky to find any Birmingham City supporters that will be clever enough to understand any of your suggestions.

This would be the major stumbling block.
Not that Blues fans are all stupid, they aren't, they are pretty much like us but fewer in number, but that too many supporters on both sides could never put old hostilities aside for a common cause.


I don't think that would be a problem. The ones who would be interested wouldn't be the ones who think every other set of fans is the enemy.

True.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2011, 10:06:14 PM »
You'll be lucky to find any Birmingham City supporters that will be clever enough to understand any of your suggestions.

This would be the major stumbling block.
Not that Blues fans are all stupid, they aren't, they are pretty much like us but fewer in number, but that too many supporters on both sides could never put old hostilities aside for a common cause.


I don't think that would be a problem. The ones who would be interested wouldn't be the ones who think every other set of fans is the enemy.

What would you call the club? Even allowing for the fact that most of the ones involved won't be the SOTV/SOTC brigade, they still won't be too keen on Villa in the name and vice versa.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2011, 10:07:39 PM »
How about Real Football FC?

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2011, 10:09:51 PM »
FC Villa of Aston

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2011, 10:21:41 PM »
How about Real Football FC?

Now that name offers a broader reach, where common folk could get involved by way of protest regardless of their locale (though with obvious disadvantages in terms of getting to games if too far afield for you).

Maybe that project where people invested in a pot to buy a club went wrong because it was about taking an existing concern over.  Imagine a Wimbledon where everyone kept an eye out as a second club?  A manifesto for the common man's game.

Still, the irony is as soon as you galvanise the dissaffected across the board and move too far away from a club grounded in a specific place you start to 'do a [MK] Dons'

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #24 on: June 15, 2011, 10:26:58 PM »
How about this for an idea:

If you want to support non (or even lower) league football as it is a purer less sanitised, cash rich form of the game then go and watch one of the many non-league clubs that already exist near you. There are clubs going out of business left right and centre and if people go and support them it might reverse this trend.


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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2011, 10:28:03 PM »

Maybe that project where people invested in a pot to buy a club went wrong because it was about taking an existing concern over.  Imagine a Wimbledon where everyone kept an eye out as a second club?  A manifesto for the common man's game.


This is pretty much the scenario with AFC Liverpool, a group of Liverpool fans who had no real gripes with their club but wanted something cheaper, more like football used to be and a club they feel more attached to. I wouldn't say it's been a fantastic success, especially when compared with the non-league leviathan that is FC United, but they pull in crowds of 250ish in the North West Counties League, play in the FA Cup and Vase and have won a trophy or two.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2011, 10:32:38 PM »
Aston Brooke is available.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2011, 10:33:46 PM »
How about this for an idea:

If you want to support non (or even lower) league football as it is a purer less sanitised, cash rich form of the game then go and watch one of the many non-league clubs that already exist near you. There are clubs going out of business left right and centre and if people go and support them it might reverse this trend.



I used to be of this mind, but having thought about it, if you have no attachment to a club it's difficult to support it.
A new club formed by disgruntled Blues and Villa fans wouldn't be taking support away from existing clubs, and, with all the will in the world, they just aren't going to start supporting an existing club.
Local non-league clubs in the Manchester area have benefited from FC United because many fans who would never have thought of watching non-league football before are now enthusiasts and go to other games regularly.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2011, 10:37:30 PM »
It wouldn't just be Blues and Villa - it could be for all fans pissed off with the Premier League.

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Re: Lets Form A New Club
« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2011, 10:49:57 PM »
It wouldn't just be Blues and Villa - it could be for all fans pissed off with the Premier League.

It really is a load of bullshit when you think about it. Teams like us keep this show on the road and what do we have to look forward to every year? Oh ye, 6th downwards. Great.

The sooner the lottery winning tramps and the rest of the glory hunting brigade fuck off to their own european super league or whatever crap they think of next the better, and we can get back to competitive INTERESTING football because it's an absolute joke at the moment.

 


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