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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2014 9:28:08 GMT
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Post by vicar on Feb 26, 2014 9:43:44 GMT
No way on earth would I watch Stockport Town, we'd start our own County, even starting from scratch we'd have the majority of County fans on side.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2014 10:33:40 GMT
phoenix.
If that didn't succeed for any reason, I'd probably become one of those annoying 'fans of football' types and appear at Alty one week, Oldham the next and Stalybridge the week after.
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Post by canterbury on Feb 26, 2014 10:50:57 GMT
I'd probably do A and C. The phoenix club would get my backing but I'd struggle to make more than one game a season. It's hard enough that since relegation my nearest ground in County's division is 110 miles away.
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Post by suedehead on Feb 26, 2014 13:00:42 GMT
Probably sack having a team I support. I'd go to the odd game at grounds I haven't visited but I wouldn't really support anyone.
My divorce from County has already happened anyway, I've probably only been to 12 games in nearly four years, so it wouldn't be as big a loss for me as it would for those who still go.
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Post by Imposter on Feb 26, 2014 19:10:46 GMT
You say that Suedehead but you're still around on here and Marions. Still collecting County shirts.
You still get to the odd game a season.
You obviously still care about County so I'm not sure it'd that easy to just cut it out completely.
You'd know better clearly but I think you might be surprised.
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Post by suedehead on Feb 26, 2014 22:01:55 GMT
You say that Suedehead but you're still around on here and Marions. Still collecting County shirts. You still get to the odd game a season. You obviously still care about County so I'm not sure it'd that easy to just cut it out completely. You'd know better clearly but I think you might be surprised. Look at my last 500 posts on here/marions, I bet only a tiny fraction of them are related to current County. The vast majority are other subjects/County memories. I'm now living back in Manchester, and have been since November, and I haven't even considered going to a game. Not interested in the slightest. I care about what County was, massively, and could talk about the old days more than most, the memories of the 90s are some of the best memories of my life. But the current circus? Nah, I'm more interested in putting a bet on and watching Soccer Saturday at weekends. I never, ever thought I'd say that (and you know how many games I used to go to all over the country) but it's dead to me now.
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Post by furballxl5 on Feb 26, 2014 22:08:20 GMT
What would pull you back from the brink Suedehead?
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Post by suedehead on Feb 26, 2014 22:21:22 GMT
What would pull you back from the brink Suedehead? Difficult to say. Success is the obvious answer, but we've never really been successful in the past, bar the odd season, so that isn't why I support County. Just a return to something to believe in. Something to be proud of. A decent standard of football against proper teams, not glorified pub outfits like fxxxing Workington. Arsed if we win 100-0 on Saturday, no idea who we're even playing, it doesn't matter. It's worthless. Finishing 10th this year isn't success, it's nine places too low. A club our size, with our support and history should have pissed this made up division. I want us to return to what I grew up with, proper away days at proper clubs. Decent away followings who don't like us coming to Edgeley Park. Pubs on Castle Street having people drinking outside because they're full inside. A buzz about the place and a sense that anything could happen inside. None of that is there any more. It's just 2000 die hards turning up out of a sense of duty. Nobody who posts on here or marions seems to enjoy it, it's just loyalty. Sadly my loyalty has worn away. It's gone. I hope it comes back, the thought of never experiencing a Proper County Day TM ever again is sickening, but right now I can't see it so I'll just watch this video again for the 600th time and think about the good times.
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Post by vicar on Feb 27, 2014 11:23:33 GMT
Proper County days will be back but there's a long road ahead of us, there's a lot of people doing a lot of work to get us back there.
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Post by furballxl5 on Feb 27, 2014 11:36:06 GMT
You're post should be sent to Ryan, Suedehead. In a nutshell that's why about 4000 other paying customers are no longer turning up.
A big nutshell though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2014 12:10:24 GMT
What would pull you back from the brink Suedehead? Difficult to say. Success is the obvious answer, but we've never really been successful in the past, bar the odd season, so that isn't why I support County. Just a return to something to believe in. Something to be proud of. A decent standard of football against proper teams, not glorified pub outfits like fxxxing Workington. Arsed if we win 100-0 on Saturday, no idea who we're even playing, it doesn't matter. It's worthless. Finishing 10th this year isn't success, it's nine places too low. A club our size, with our support and history should have pissed this made up division. I want us to return to what I grew up with, proper away days at proper clubs. Decent away followings who don't like us coming to Edgeley Park. Pubs on Castle Street having people drinking outside because they're full inside. A buzz about the place and a sense that anything could happen inside. None of that is there any more. It's just 2000 die hards turning up out of a sense of duty. Nobody who posts on here or marions seems to enjoy it, it's just loyalty. Sadly my loyalty has worn away. It's gone. I hope it comes back, the thought of never experiencing a Proper County Day TM ever again is sickening, but right now I can't see it so I'll just watch this video again for the 600th time and think about the good times. Great post, and sums up what a lot of us probably think. I've been to a handful of games since JG was first made redundant, okay so I live away from Stockport now but the shite we've served up on and off the pitch means I hardly feel like I've missed it, I just get my sport and football fix elsewhere now. If I'm back in the UK anytime I check the fixtures, and might make a decision to go to a game but I also feel like there's so many other things I could spend my time/money on that County is no longer a priority. Would it change if we were more successful, maybe, knowing we had bigger and better opponents/games would definite increase my appetite for attending a game. If County went out of business, no way would I support Stockport Town, I'd support a co-op formed phoenix club out of loyalty to the fans of Stockport County who wanted to try and retain some of what we used to have.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2014 12:28:00 GMT
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Post by Imposter on Feb 27, 2014 19:14:35 GMT
Those are fair answers Suedehead, and probably sums up where I'm at in a way.
Sometimes I only turn up out of a sense of duty. And also a sense in a town of citeh, yoonited, fc yoonited, and sale fans, some of whom quite like our demise, of not wanting to give assorted b*stards the pleasure of me giving in and giving up.
I guess perhaps living in London for that time, and also never having actually lived in Stockport made it easier and more able for you to slip away from it. I live in Stockport, proper Stockport - not one of those places that can pretend it's a Cheshire town near Stockport (like Bramhall or Cheadle Hulme) and never moved away - if I did I would quite possibly be like you are.
But like Vicar says those days will be back.
Please just make it soon.
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Post by furballxl5 on Feb 27, 2014 20:18:29 GMT
Can it really be this truly hard to run a business? Sometimes I can't believe the chances of supporting what is probably* one of the most badly run clubs in the country, lurching from crisis to crisis.
Has any other club had a similar run does anyone know?
*fans of clubs that have genuinely folded and not come back, like Rushden and Diamonds are probably worse off
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