part time supporters

[Abs Zero]

im writing this cos im pissed of with part time supporters, if you dont know a pretty big games occuring for Crewe alexandra at gresty rd on tue 26th in the fa cupo replay against everton. whats pisses me off is that sales of tickets went in a day and many true supporters cant go as part timmers and glory hunters and upset foillowers have knabbed thier seats. luckily im a season ticket holder and have mine saved but non season regulars cant go!!!! it annoys me. do you lot have any views.

[barnsley-red]

Never really thought about it. I'm a season ticket holder so I get a ticket anyway.

[Abs Zero]

well its alright for the season ticket holders, but what gets me is where are these people on a normal match day, against the grimsbys and e ven the burnleys to that piont

[Boovy]

you think YOU got it bad??

I fvckin HATE glory seekers!!.......take up loads of seats and usually know fcuk all about footie

[Footy Fanatic]

i know i cant really talk, (i live miles away from Manchester, but have supported United since 1991).

Although i dont get many chances to go to games :cry

[Leeds Pioneer]

It's always the same when the big games come along, it realy is unfair.

As most tickets are now printed and sold using computers, wouldn't it be easy to take everyones name when they buy a ticket, then when the big games come round the club can sell them to fans who have been to most games.

[Abs Zero]

that would help to make sure the regulars get theres, but why arent these so called "fans" there week in week out!!!

[Boovy]

FF........I feel sorry for you to be associated with the glory seeking tw@s just because of ur location! Does my head in when REAL fans are crucified coz of their location


You are 13/14 yeah?? 1991 is the right time to start supporting a football team for a 13 year old........so you supported since a little boy.

[Crewie]

Man United are always going to have this problem. Man United 'fans' will never be able to turn up and pay at the turnstiles.
However, Crewe for many years have tried their hardest to fill the ground every game but no-one seems interested so we get used to seeing our ground half empty. Then all of a sudden you have a 3 hour que of supporters who last went in 1974 when they were 4 claiming to be a supporter queing for a ticket. Faithful fans who don't have a season ticket because they work nights so can only get to saturday games or whatever ending up missing out totally on a ticket.

It wouln't be so bad if these other 4,000 fans came back the next game but THEY DON'T.... nooooo, they couldn't give a toss about Crewe when it's Barnsley, or when we're plying badly, they only want to be there so they can say they were there and to pretend to be a supporter or just there because it's a premiership team. Just look at our Burnley game 4 days before the Everton game, 6,200 turned up!

God Abs Zero, You've got me really annoyed now! :)

[Leeds Pioneer]

FF........I feel sorry for you to be associated with the glory seeking tw@s just because of ur location! Does my head in when REAL fans are crucified coz of their location


You are 13/14 yeah?? 1991 is the right time to start supporting a football team for a 13 year old........so you supported since a little boy.


So why is FF not like the other glory seeking tw@s? It does your head in when REAL fans are crucified coz of their location, but why aren't the other glory seekers real fans?

I am not making a personal attack on FF, I do not know anything about him, his family may originate from Manchester or some other reason may make him support who he does, but I just don't understand why he is different from other glory seekers.

My definition of a real fan is someone who supports their team and watches them play, I appreciate financial circumstances mean most fans cannot watch every game, especially with the price of tickets and travel. That is why I don't understand people supporting a club 200 miles away, if you support your local team you can see them play, because you live close to the ground. How can anyone call themselves a REAL fan if they only watch their team on tv and have never seen their team live?

The only reason anyone would support a team which they have no genuine links which is so far away from where they live is because they are a glory hunter.

Just my opinion.

[jimlad1981]

Good point leeds pioneer. at liverpool know for the euopean games you need stubs from the previous games so it stops glory hunters coming from far away for one agme.

and as said before they know fuck all about football as well.

[barnsley-red]

I must admit it hardly ever happens at Barnsley for obvious reasons. But, when we went to Wembley, our side of the ground was suddenly filled with Barnsley supporters when less than 20,000 went to the matches before hand. But that was probably a good thing cos we wouldn't have filled Wembley anyway. It's still annoying though cos they're just paying to see the team once in their glory moment instead of sitting through all the boring matches in the season and all the down patches to keep supporting the club. And I'd better stop now before I get really worked up about it!

[Rob the Red]

Forest have quite a loyal fan base (22,000). But I see what you mean, I'd be pretty annoyed if I was a regular and someone else who hardly ever goes gets let in (luckily I'm a season ticket holder).

[Abs Zero]

Man United are always going to have this problem. Man United 'fans' will never be able to turn up and pay at the turnstiles.
However, Crewe for many years have tried their hardest to fill the ground every game but no-one seems interested so we get used to seeing our ground half empty. Then all of a sudden you have a 3 hour que of supporters who last went in 1974 when they were 4 claiming to be a supporter queing for a ticket. Faithful fans who don't have a season ticket because they work nights so can only get to saturday games or whatever ending up missing out totally on a ticket.

It wouln't be so bad if these other 4,000 fans came back the next game but THEY DON'T.... nooooo, they couldn't give a toss about Crewe when it's Barnsley, or when we're plying badly, they only want to be there so they can say they were there and to pretend to be a supporter or just there because it's a premiership team. Just look at our Burnley game 4 days before the Everton game, 6,200 turned up!

God Abs Zero, You've got me really annoyed now! :)



we just seem to have that same anger our crewie, sorry to release it but i think it needed to be said. i am fed up ewith it, its like the man city game, full house expected, why oh why arent these people coming tpo others. i remember being in a crowd of 1, 200 ish against barnsley in worthy6 cup last season, even tho we were 4-0 before the game it was worth seeing co i support crewe what ever our situation.

[Manic Loop]

im sure if we got to a final id end up ticketless, despite going for 15 years now, as well having a season ticket for quite a few years, but because i dont now. i woldnt be going, because some little cock would get daddy to buy him a ticket for the big game, yet loyal old me wouldnt

[Crewie]

i remember being in a crowd of 1, 200 ish against barnsley in worthy6 cup last season, even tho we were 4-0 before the game it was worth seeing co i support crewe what ever our situation.

I remember that!, That was a joke.

But i also remember we were 2-0 up against them the game before then tthey scored twice in two minutes at the end. :sad

But it's payback on Tuseday :)

[barnsley-red]

Probably!!!

[Rob the Red]

im sure if we got to a final id end up ticketless, despite going for 15 years now, as well having a season ticket for quite a few years, but because i dont now. i woldnt be going, because some little cock would get daddy to buy him a ticket for the big game, yet loyal old me wouldnt


And also the plan of seeing whose bought the most tickets wouldn't work for you as you can't really get to games much.

[Manic Loop]

aha. now you see next year i will get a bloody season ticket

[Boovy]

LP, how can you be a "glory fan" with no glory??

The people that annoy me are the "real" fans apparently that are 20/30 that have supported us for the best part of 6 years or people that change the teams they support, i really hate that, you are born supporting the team you will die supporting!

[Leeds Pioneer]

LP, how can you be a "glory fan" with no glory??

The people that annoy me are the "real" fans apparently that are 20/30 that have supported us for the best part of 6 years or people that change the teams they support, i really hate that, you are born supporting the team you will die supporting!


Don't understand the first line, do you mean me?

Second point, totally agree, you support a team and do not change. How anyone can change the club they support does not understand what a supporter is.
Many of these are not true supporters though, we have a Liverpool fan at work who came to me gloating that Liverpool had beaten us 4-0, it was Monday lunchtime and he had just read it in his paper. True fan!

[Abs Zero]

thats the kind of person who get me! but there will always be some its the way the big clubs make money

[lapsed_fan]

The local rag published a letter from a guy who complained that he couldn't get a Worthington Cup final ticket last season from Birmingham. He'd never been to a Blues game, but he always watched them on TV.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Manic Loop]

what a prick. you get so many of these fans who just presume hey can go. i bet he tried to get his ticket the day before the game

[Abs Zero]

it certainly annoys me. actually a funny thing happened last night. the railtrack stand at crewe is notoriously known in crewe as the quiet stand (mine the gresty road end the noisy one) it was 2/3rds full and the anouncer says "come on railtrack make some noise, you know you can do it from last tuesday (everton) or are they notr here."

well it was funny to me, he was just taking the piss out of the part timers who had gone in forvthe 1 game, making a racket.

[BirminghamBlues]

Oh yes part-time fans
oh how we know bout them
Birmingham get about 20,000 a week if we are playing decent.
But then you'll get the odd play-off game or cup game where we'll sell out the ground
so why cant we fill it normally
they even have kids for a quid for the 'less entertaining' games against Crewe and Gillingham etc (no offense)
AND THEN
the worthington cup final comes around and we sell 40,000 tickets and they still want more. We took 50,000 to wembley in 1995 i believe so where are these extra fans every week?