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« Reply #75 on: 28 September 2010, 11:33 PM » |
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Wasn't having a go at you personally Sharps, apologies if it came out that way.
I was trying to say that people who have grown up with Bolton in the Premiership haven't really had their "faith" tested yet as they've never had to decide between staying in bed or going to watch Bolton v Shrewsbury on a cold Tuesday night.
I suppose time will tell as it has not happened yet but I was slightly looking forward to the season we almost went down as we would have more games to play and would be a chance to play some teams that we have not for a while, I know financially we would have been fucked but I meant in a football sense. |
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« Reply #76 on: 28 September 2010, 11:33 PM » |
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Nat you've gone all soft and girly like - can't believe you have made an apology.
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« Reply #77 on: 29 September 2010, 03:24 AM » |
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It's a circumstance thing for all really. All of us here love the Wanderers, if there's anyone that doesn't then coming onto a forum like this is quite frankly, a waste of your spare time. Sluffy's right in saying that how much you love the club shouldn't be related so closely to how many games you go to.
Natasha often says I go on about how many I have been to in the last year or so (she mentions it more than me actually) but I certainly do not go all them miles just so I can say the day after "I've been". If that was true I'd be at every friendly, every reserve game, every Lancashire Cup game (if it still goes). I go because I love my football club, and its one of the few passions in life that never, ever disintegrates.
It might for some if we went down, but I know in my heart for me it wouldn't. I could never prove that to anyone unitl (God forbid) it happens but I would be there. The exception being if I didn't live in Bolton, but that would also preclude me from a Premiership season just as much.
For as much as I've been in 09/10, for the years probably 2006-09 (May) I had probably been to about a dozen away games, all the local ones. I couldn't afford it, and that's just life. Last year I could, and decided to set my mind to doing the lot - while I could. The chance will probably never come in my adult life, in a 9-5 job I would never get so many midweek trips off at short notice without a P45 in my mail the next morning. And no, I wouldn't take that risk.
You do what you can as a fan. Whether it's an 8 year old lad sat on the Great Lever fences singing "come on you whiiiites!" thinking you're the big man, as I and quite a few others were back in October 1994 against Oldham - or you are like Sluffy, unable to get to a game for reasons beyond your control - you are either Bolton or you aren't.
The "Premiership lot" Natasha referred to haven't been "tested", she's right. And while some may jump ship when times get tough, so what? We are in the Premiership now, and we want as many fans as we can get. The fans we get now, a few might decide we aren't right in future years. But a lot more will be BWFC forever more like most of us here, and in the meantime they fill those horrific blue and red gaps we have in the ground - even for our supposed most hyped home game of the season.
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« Reply #78 on: 29 September 2010, 11:15 AM » |
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I'm getting worried about this to be honest.
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« Reply #79 on: 29 September 2010, 01:37 PM » |
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I'm getting worried about this to be honest.
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« Reply #80 on: 29 September 2010, 01:46 PM » |
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Worried about what?
Chris Rabz obsessively mentioning Natasha numerous times in every post. |
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« Reply #81 on: 29 September 2010, 02:12 PM » |
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Chris Rabz obsessively mentioning Natasha numerous times in every post.
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« Reply #82 on: 29 September 2010, 02:24 PM » |
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He might fancy her.
I did think that. There is definitely something going on. |
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« Reply #83 on: 29 September 2010, 02:35 PM » |
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If he fancies Nat, wouldn't that make him gay?
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« Reply #84 on: 29 September 2010, 03:31 PM » |
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If he fancies Nat, wouldn't that make him gay?
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« Reply #85 on: 29 September 2010, 03:50 PM » |
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What are you getting at Cartwright?
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« Reply #86 on: 29 September 2010, 03:51 PM » |
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The possibility of Natasha being a bloke is my bet.
If she isn't, she's still probably more of man than than Didles is. |
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« Reply #87 on: 29 September 2010, 03:52 PM » |
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If she isn't, she's still probably more of man than than Didles is.
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« Reply #88 on: 29 September 2010, 03:55 PM » |
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Those that know football forums know I'm not a man.
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« Reply #89 on: 29 September 2010, 04:12 PM » |
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The possibility of Natasha being a bloke is my bet.
Cheers I was totally in the dark until you piped up and very low DP haha. |
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« Reply #90 on: 29 September 2010, 07:26 PM » |
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Cheers I was totally in the dark until you piped up and very low DP haha.
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« Reply #91 on: 29 September 2010, 10:44 PM » |
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Those that know football forums know I'm not a man.
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« Reply #92 on: 05 October 2010, 07:05 PM » |
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« Reply #93 on: 07 October 2010, 05:25 PM » |
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Fans do go to football games for entertainment. Even long ball is a form of entertainment. Would you turn up to a stadium just to chant and sing if there was no football going on? If the pitch was empty? No you would not. You go to watch the entertainment, the football is the entertainment. Maybe it's not always good entertainment. Yes, of course I understand people have a tribal attitude toward football supporting and feel their club is important to them. But the reason you all come together as a group and support a team is because of the game of football, good or bad.
And re the Arsenal comment a few pages ago about them being a good team but not winning a trophy for years, do you think theor fans dont enjoy almost every single game where their team plays? Even without wining trophies? I think you will find that the entertainment they derive from watching Arsenal is preferable to playing horrible football week in week out and winning the odd jammy cup. Do you think they would rather have a shíte team and watch rubbish football every week if it meant they won the odd cup? I tend to think not.
Would you go to a stadium and support what was going on if it consisted of Kevin Davies a referee and an opposition captain standing in the centre circle tossing a coin to determine the out come of a game? I dont think you would bother turning up for that one. Why? Why not if it still meant three points to us? - because... you want to watch football.
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« Reply #94 on: 07 October 2010, 05:41 PM » |
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JJ, thanks for telling me why 'you' go to football.
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« Reply #95 on: 07 October 2010, 05:49 PM » |
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How about because a coin toss would last a second, as opposed to 90 minutes? It's the battle you have to get that three points that keeps people coming back. The brand of football is, not irrelevant, but certainly behind winning in terms of priority. Yes, I do think Arsenal fans would rather win cups than play champagne football. Do you think any of them fans who went under George Graham were arsed when they were winning the league by way of the 1-0 win?
Obviously football is the reason we all go to games, the phrase 'no shíte, Sherlock' comes to mind. But people care just as much about defending their patch and don't like anyone from a different town coming to theirs and celebrating winning, hence why passions run so high in derbies with the places being nearer.
It's funny how you don't see much of this "entertainment over results" in those sorts of games.
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« Reply #96 on: 07 October 2010, 05:56 PM » |
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I think JJ's idea of football is tippy tappy pretty pretty which let's be honest is a luxury not all clubs can afford. Personally I can get enjoyment in a hard fought battle between 2 players as well as the ball in the back of the net. Maybe JJ will when he's been watching the game a bit longer. I wish I'd had the pleasure to only know Bolton Wanderers playing in the Premier League.
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« Reply #97 on: 07 October 2010, 06:06 PM » |
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What the fcúk was all that crap about?
I cant read what that guy puts because it is utter shite, If you go to the Reebok wanting or expecting to be entertained then you are fcuking wasting your time and may aswell go to the cinema every Saturday instead.
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« Reply #98 on: 07 October 2010, 06:31 PM » |
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Fans do go to football games for entertainment. Even long ball is a form of entertainment. Would you turn up to a stadium just to chant and sing if there was no football going on? If the pitch was empty? No you would not. You go to watch the entertainment, the football is the entertainment. Maybe it's not always good entertainment. Yes, of course I understand people have a tribal attitude toward football supporting and feel their club is important to them. But the reason you all come together as a group and support a team is because of the game of football, good or bad.
And re the Arsenal comment a few pages ago about them being a good team but not winning a trophy for years, do you think theor fans dont enjoy almost every single game where their team plays? Even without wining trophies? I think you will find that the entertainment they derive from watching Arsenal is preferable to playing horrible football week in week out and winning the odd jammy cup. Do you think they would rather have a shíte team and watch rubbish football every week if it meant they won the odd cup? I tend to think not.
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« Reply #99 on: 07 October 2010, 09:05 PM » |
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