When a barb like this is posted by a freeloader in the corporate section, with no apparent sense of irony, it loses some of its stingThe perfect fumble said:I can't see this happening, I really don't, there's something in the fans DNA that won't let this happen.....
"In five or six years time, when City have won a load more trophies, many of their supporters will forget their club’s recent trials. Their fans will become as arrogant as United fans are now."
I really didn't think I was. I was just point out there's a difference between saying something's a possibility and saying something 'will' happen. Saying something 'will' happen, like that guy did, is patronising. He has no say over how we'll react. If the guy had said something like 'I hope success doesn't spoil a great set of fans', I wouldn't have raised an issue with that sort of statement. Saying we're doomed to arrogance though is a different thing.c-t-i-d-87 said:Was it necessary to be quite so patronising?
There's no 'misery bubble' here mate, the ingrained pessimism is still in my bones however.
The topic is a slight worry of mine, I won't pretend otherwise. But I like your attitude, are we of the same generation you say?
Room for one more? I can work on the pessimism..
But it will happen sorry to say. As we attract more people through success a decent amount of them will be arrogant bandwagon fans. You and I will know the majority aren't like that and that true fans will remember how it was just a few short years ago, but the idiots will be loud and obnoxious, especially on the internet where reputations seem to develop these days, and those are the ones people will notice precisely because they're loud and obnoxious. I have several friends who are fans of Liverpool and they loathe RAWK and the people that post there, and yet those RAWK posters are the ones that make many fans think almost all Liverpool fans are deluded nitwits.Skashion said:I really didn't think I was. I was just point out there's a difference between saying something's a possibility and saying something 'will' happen. Saying something 'will' happen, like that guy did, is patronising. He has no say over how we'll react. If the guy had said something like 'I hope success doesn't spoil a great set of fans', I wouldn't have raised an issue with that sort of statement. Saying we're doomed to arrogance though is a different thing.c-t-i-d-87 said:Was it necessary to be quite so patronising?
There's no 'misery bubble' here mate, the ingrained pessimism is still in my bones however.
The topic is a slight worry of mine, I won't pretend otherwise. But I like your attitude, are we of the same generation you say?
Room for one more? I can work on the pessimism..
Well, although prices are rising, I'm of the belief that our club does care about us. Kids prices especially are still cheap so hopefully our working class fanbase will be able to indoctrinate the younger generation, who we need to educate on remaining humble and never becoming that lot. We're still doing Value Gold as well which is extremely good value. Obviously, on the other end of the spectrum, and after going Platinum, I've took a £150 hit over two seasons now which is bad and I don't think that level is sustainable but I hope that I'll recover some of that money from selling a couple of matches I know I can't get to on Ticket Exchange. I've also stopped buying match programmes for most games now I can get them online which saves nearly a £100 a year too. I've stopped drinking at matches as well which is a big money saver - though that's more a crap beer issue.
I'm guessing from the 87, yes, same generation. The generation that will fight arrogance better than anyone else.
It will certainly happen though and, in small parts, already has happenedm with some.Skashion said:Didn't think much of this part:
In five or six years time, when City have won a load more trophies, many of their supporters will forget their club’s recent trials. Their fans will become as arrogant as United fans are now.
Otherwise it was alright.
Skashion said:I'm sorry to see our fans have lost the will to fight already. I don't really care about our reputation with other fans. That's their business, although I think we can see the myth that had disseminated that all clubs hate us now and are jealous is total bollocks. Most clubs will not give shit. Only the ones who our rise has affected will care i.e. Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa, Everton, Chelsea etc.
What I do care about is the soul of our club. I love being a City fan because I love what being a City fan represents, which is being humorous, daft and self-deprecating. As long as we've got our Poznans, our Alans, our let's all do the throw-in, taking and defending our roundabout, Joey doing the samba, we've kept our soul. So far I've seen no issue at all with us keeping our soul. In fact, the past two years have been the funniest in my time as a City fan. Our soul is very very healthy at the moment I'd say.