Liverpool thread

[Ancient Citizen]

'To being shit again,' finishes off the last line of that banner.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I think something inside me will die a little if/when we have a bunch of planks like that "supporting" us.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

I think something inside me will die a little if/when we have a bunch of planks like that "supporting" us.

Its getting closer by the day unfortunately

 

[FanchesterCity]

It's inevitable. If you're going to have world wide support, a lot of that is about grabbing market share of younger fans.
The fans that choose the easy option of the best teams are the same ones that will choose us.

It's like a great underground band suddenly becoming popular. Suddenly everybody's a fan, and it's a bit disheartening, but that's the price of success I guess.

 

[Loaded Man]

99,000 at the City game today.

After all their crowing about 95,000 at the MCG.

They also played the home town club.

Our fan base is growing and growing.

Don't get this on a number of levels.

Bragging rights over attendances of 99,000 or 95,000 at pre-season friendlies that are taking place on the other side of the world?

Be arsed with spending the summer looking that sort of stuff up in some petty tit for tat debate.

I am interested in the 'fan base' comment though - a vast global fan base is something that City fans aspire to, is it?

May be a case of being careful what you wish for, to be honest.

Other than the potential commercial benefits - something that I don't see why supporters concern themselves with anyway - then, even in the sometimes baffling world of modern day football, I really can't see why supporters of clubs who have traditionally pulled on a fairly local core set of support would be that keen on this? Borderline depressing actually.

'We've got more fans in Bangkok than Liverpool' - who seriously gives a fuck.

More fans mean higher prices and, when these fans start coming from far and wide, loss of identity between the club and the city / area it claims to represent.

Ticket prices continue to drive more of the traditional fan base away from grounds year on year - a bigger set of 'global' fans will do nothing to address this (as more tourists will be attracted to the 'show' / entertainment and prices will continue to rise).

Outside of 'big club' bragging rights on the internet then what are the main attractions with offering an appeal to a global market from your perspective (and that of your average 'Joe' on the street)?

Up the Reds!

 

[BrianW]

Apparently we will never be a 'big club' until we have a horde of plastic followers around the globe who couldn't find the Etihad if they were dropped off in Philips Park and would struggle to find Manchester on a map of England.

Ironically, the lack of plastic fans makes us a plastic club - according to RAWK anyway.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Apparently we will never be a 'big club' until we have a horde of plastic followers around the globe who couldn't find the Etihad if they were dropped off in Philips Park and would struggle to find Manchester on a map of England.

Ironically, the lack of plastic fans makes us a plastic club - according to RAWK anyway.

It's ironic that Liverpool fans now boast about how many plastic fans they have in Australia and Asia instead of their team's success. They have become a laughing stock.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

It's ironic that Liverpool fans now boast about how many plastic fans they have in Australia and Asia instead of their team's success. They have become a laughing stock.

They seem to have become much more bitter in the last 12 months.

 

[Rammyblues]

The real reason why there were empty seats is that they were all out buying candles in readiness for the season.

 

[Bluemoon115]

They seem to have become much more bitter in the last 12 months.

They always were.

We just noticed it more recently, because when they finished runners up to us they became relevant again for the first time in almost a decade.