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The attendance will no doubt include all the ST holders who haven’t even attended. From my household, there were 3 ST holders who didn’t attend.
I bet there were loads who didn’t go and who haven’t bothered for a while. But they’ll still be included in the attendance. So there is likely no way there was even 7000 on.
My lad is 18, not far off 19. He’s saying he’s not renewing next season after having had one since he was about 3. I know of others the same age who have been diehards. They’ve jacked in and gone off travelling and things. My lads are getting the same. Good on them, don’t get bogged down with football loyalty. It’s cost me jobs and women over the years and frankly, there are more important things in life. Clubs don’t actually give two shits about supporters at the end of the day. What are we? Peasants at the jousting, or the modern equivalent. That’s all we are. Until we are actually a fans run, community club, like they have in Germany, we are milked for our stubborn blind loyalty. Well, I’m afraid Myself, and likely many others, have already dropped off.
I mean, shit, I don’t actually like my own club anymore. Or rather what we have become? Since Administration and all the Talal nonsense, it’s not been tbe same club…its not, has it? We were a very close nit club..we always were. I was proud of how we were. But all that’s gone. The club and support have never been as distant.
And they’ve milked having Maloney a man with link and history to the club. They’ve abused us with it in all honesty. Used it as a kind of bargaining tool, playing on it massively. But they’ve pushed it too far and the managers failings and ineptness has pushed people to pack in going. Where this will all end and to what depth we have to sink before something happens, I’ve no idea. I definitely don’t see any ambition in the club as it stands. I dint really think they are too bothered if we stay up, or go down. Just as long as we ‘tick along’ with as little fuss as possible.
We are becoming something of a non entity really.