Apparently they will change the edusport name to something different for next season with members votiing the new name. Might chuck in £25 just for that and go Crappy Mccrapclub.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2018 01:49 PM #31
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08-02-2018 01:56 PM #32This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Your post makes no sense.
You talk about tapping into a global community but then say it will fail because the people of Scotland won’t give it a chance. Which is it?
It will fail because it doesn’t meet any tangible need.
Or perhaps we should renounce our allegiance to Hibs and back this new entity instead, lest we be accused of being stuck in our ways?
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08-02-2018 02:15 PM #33This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It’s an interesting, exciting and innovative idea. Scotland is the wrong place for though
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08-02-2018 03:33 PM #34This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Gretna wasn't a fairy story, it was a ridiculous pipe dream backed by a very nice, but ultimately deluded, man. They had absolutely no chance of growing their fan base, with the only town of any size they might have drawn support from already having a far bigger club with ambitions of playing in the EPL. Gretna was doomed to fail from the word go because it was absolutely unsustainable ... it had nothing to do with a failure of fans to accept how they had come to the fore.
As for the on line 'die hards' they can GTF. Unless you get off yer arse and physically support your team from inside the stadium you are nothing of the sort ... the only on line folk who are entitled to make that claim are fans who have moved away and are forced to support their team from a distance through the telly or their computer. The only place folk from India or Thailand or Kenya or Scotland or anywhere else claiming to support Real Madrid or Man Utd are die hards is in their own minds.
Scottish football already has enough clubs playing in front of tiny crowds and bringing nothing to the match going experience for those of us who think football only reaches its full potential as a spectacle when played in front of a decent sized crowd .... the thought of a manufactured club making a virtue of doing without a physical support inside its ground, or not having that as an ambition, making itself a success and getting into the premier league is about as bad an outcome for the game in this country as I could possibly imagine.
That's not because I am backward thinking or not open to new ideas ... Its because I firmly believe in the saying ( cant remember who it was ) "Football without fans is nothing" and the guy who said that meant fans in the stadium creating an atmosphere .... not 'virtual' fans sitting hundreds or thousands of miles away calling themselves 'supporters' because they ante up £25 every year.
Please football gods .. do not let this succeed.Last edited by NAE NOOKIE; 08-02-2018 at 03:37 PM.
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08-02-2018 03:42 PM #35
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Colin Cameron can’t have much further down the coaching ladder to go.
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08-02-2018 03:45 PM #36
Only in Scotland could a team with no fans target the top league.
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.' - Paulo Freire
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08-02-2018 03:53 PM #37This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Fair enough, I still don’t see the point.
When thinking about how to improve Scottish football, ‘create a new football club’ is way down the list.
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08-02-2018 04:19 PM #38
I actually hope that they succeed. Look at the EPL when you can pay £70-80 for some seats at the very top flight games. The running of football in some ways has gotten away from the fans and it'd be great to see a club do well that is run by fans, for fans.
I don't see a massive difference between this and fan ownership systems that we've been implementing other than it's a totally new club.
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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08-02-2018 04:23 PM #39This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2018 05:02 PM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Im in pure agreement that people in India supporting Manchester United for example are just ‘plastics’ but as the internet grows and the role of online communities become more mainstream then physical barriers such as location won’t matter and people like you and me will soon be a minority.
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08-02-2018 05:21 PM #42This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I can see it now .... Did you go to the game last night mate? Aye, nearly missed the kick off though coz I lost ma password. See Bob ower there, he's a right uber fan .. hasn't failed to log on for years, even logs on to all the away games. Wow, did he take part in the cup final pitch invasion? Aye he pressed the 'invade pitch' option as soon as the final whistle emoji popped up.
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08-02-2018 05:36 PM #43This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2018 06:09 PM #44This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2018 06:48 PM #45This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Partick Thistle
Celtic .... lovers of all the republicanism / jumping on any cause that makes us look good fans ..... 30,000 stadium
Celtic .... Don't care about Irish politics or being a vehicle for stuff that has sod all to do with fitba fans .... 30,000 stadium
Rangers ... Billy Boys, wish we played in orange .. doon the lodge on Saturday night fans .... 40,000 stadium
Rangers ... Cant be arsed with all the sectarian ***** .. I just like the fitba fans ..... 10,000 stadium
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08-02-2018 06:56 PM #46This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-02-2018 07:16 PM #47
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It's made national radio. I heard the guy discussing it on the Simon Mayo show on Radio 2.
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09-02-2018 12:38 PM #48This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was at Stenhousemuir FC yesterday and heard one of the local club guys reel off a list of the towns around about who send buses to Ibrox and Parkhead to the detriment of them and Falkirk.
Both clubs were and are a million miles away from the concept of a club with no support and no real intention of trying to build one in the physical sense making it to the premier league ..... Its not something I want to see happen for that reason. Football is about togetherness and community and a gathering together in the pubs and supporters clubs around the ground before the game and inside the stadium during it .... a bunch of folk chatting on line and watching their club play on computers isn't a football community .... it can be part of and beneficial to a football community as places like Hibs.Net prove, but a football community in its own right ............ laughable !!! ..... You might as well give Joe Bloggs the Hibs managers job coz he's good at FIFA or Football manager.Last edited by NAE NOOKIE; 09-02-2018 at 12:41 PM.
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09-02-2018 12:43 PM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-02-2018 05:07 PM #51
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A club wae nae fans wanting fans of other clubs to put money in.
Never in a million years
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09-02-2018 05:37 PM #52This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Plenty people have second or even third teams, especially in different countries
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09-02-2018 05:56 PM #53This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Im in two minds about this, on one hand I don’t like the thought of a manufactured club with no history being successful, but on the other hand I think we could do with a shake up in the way we look at the game in Scotland. As I said earlier in the thread, I’d have preferred them to try this with an established league club.
United we stand here....
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09-02-2018 06:07 PM #54
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09-02-2018 06:16 PM #55
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Anyone who has followed the Edusport journey closely will know that they’ve achieved a lot already. They’ve went from a group of boys coming over for some glamour friendlies to a south of Scotland team and then into the Lowland league, holding their own. The business model of the Academy clearly works, so it’s not surprising that they’re looking to continue growing. And with no fan base, they don’t have much option but to think outside the box.
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09-02-2018 06:19 PM #56This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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09-02-2018 06:28 PM #57This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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