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Post by Waggy on Nov 23, 2016 18:29:39 GMT
Which team has the most
My top 3
1/ liverpool
2/ man utd
3/arsenal
I donr consider man city or chelsea as bad at moment
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Post by Scrotnig on Nov 23, 2016 18:35:41 GMT
I'm technically a glory hunter by being a Stoke fan! I grew up in Sandbach, so I should really have been a Crwho? fan, but my mates were Stoke fans (they were actually from Stoke originally!) and so I tagged along because in those days we were still in the top flight (though not for much longer as it turned out, reet jinx me!)
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Post by Waggy on Nov 23, 2016 18:42:13 GMT
I'm technically a glory hunter by being a Stoke fan! I grew up in Sandbach, so I should really have been a Crwho? fan, but my mates were Stoke fans (they were actually from Stoke originally!) and so I tagged along because in those days we were still in the top flight (though not for much longer as it turned out, reet jinx me!) I will let you off as you could have easily have gone to salford and im not sure what glory you have chased |
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Post by no1972 on Nov 23, 2016 18:49:08 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league.
Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated.
If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin.
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Post by adi on Nov 23, 2016 18:49:12 GMT
They're just a bit sad. It's when you get the bullshit stories of some relative or someone that got them into the team or a player that they liked...
Let's face facts. You only follow the team because of their success... end of story. And don't tell me youre as passionate as actual local supporters because you don't have the same affiliation or as much at stake should the team fold/relegated.
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Post by adi on Nov 23, 2016 18:50:47 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. Thin? Top 5/6 finishes isn't thin. Those fans that followed them through relegation are very few and far between. |
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Post by expatpotter on Nov 23, 2016 18:58:59 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. What a load of drivel - Man U fans are known as shit fans because hardly any of them come from Salford/Manchester- listen to Talksport or 5-live phone-ins, makes my blood boil as some twat from Dundee rings up moaning about Man U performance that's he's watched on some dodgy online-streaming channel; you can bet your bottom dollar that they have a Man U bedspread, a falsely-signed photo of George Best by their bed and a photo of the triple winning side of the late 90's - none of whom they have ever seen play - wankers !! |
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Post by no1972 on Nov 23, 2016 19:13:33 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. What a load of drivel - Man U fans are known as shit fans because hardly any of them come from Salford/Manchester- listen to Talksport or 5-live phone-ins, makes my blood boil as some twat from Dundee rings up moaning about Man U performance that's he's watched on some dodgy online-streaming channel; you can bet your bottom dollar that they have a Man U bedspread, a falsely-signed photo of George Best by their bed and a photo of the triple winning side of the late 90's - none of whom they have ever seen play - wankers !! I work in Manchester a lot,and a far more Pepole support Utd than city,you only have to look at all the empty seats at the Manchester community stadium.I don't like Manure because they are Manure,we have supporters all over world, there club is bigger end of so get over it. |
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Post by no1972 on Nov 23, 2016 19:15:57 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. What a load of drivel - Man U fans are known as shit fans because hardly any of them come from Salford/Manchester- listen to Talksport or 5-live phone-ins, makes my blood boil as some twat from Dundee rings up moaning about Man U performance that's he's watched on some dodgy online-streaming channel; you can bet your bottom dollar that they have a Man U bedspread, a falsely-signed photo of George Best by their bed and a photo of the triple winning side of the late 90's - none of whom they have ever seen play - wankers !! Forgot to add Salford is a city on its own,and read this forum on match days of Pepole watching games on dodgy streams. |
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Post by werrington on Nov 23, 2016 19:17:12 GMT
It's amazing how many grandads come from Manchester but not many ever seem to come from Scunthorpe or Chesterfield etc
Bizarre that
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Post by alster on Nov 23, 2016 19:19:54 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. I really don't get it either you pick your team for whatever reason initially, so long as you stick by that team come what may as far as I'm concerned you're a genuine supporter. I don't understand anyone who changes allegiance to another team because their team is not doing so well. |
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Post by no1972 on Nov 23, 2016 19:28:45 GMT
It's amazing how many grandads come from Manchester but not many ever seem to come from Scunthorpe or Chesterfield etc Bizarre that You are right but for people to call other fans glory hunters his a little large,all teams have them including ours,on a percentage we have more 100% increase on attendances from 2008,like a lot of promoted teams,so all of them are also glory hunters.The big teams target the Far East and States.If we are too expand to the next level then we need to do the same,increase our fan base,increase our commercial department.Do we call our foreign fans glory hunters,I hope not. |
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Post by no1972 on Nov 23, 2016 19:33:45 GMT
It's amazing how many grandads come from Manchester but not many ever seem to come from Scunthorpe or Chesterfield etc Bizarre that On a more important note have you heard how many going Sunday. |
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Post by werrington on Nov 23, 2016 19:37:21 GMT
It's amazing how many grandads come from Manchester but not many ever seem to come from Scunthorpe or Chesterfield etc Bizarre that On a more important note have you heard how many going Sunday. No nothing |
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Post by alster on Nov 23, 2016 19:37:40 GMT
It's amazing how many grandads come from Manchester but not many ever seem to come from Scunthorpe or Chesterfield etc Bizarre that You are right but for people to call other fans glory hunters his a little large,all teams have them including ours,on a percentage we have more 100% increase on attendances from 2008,like a lot of promoted teams,so all of them are also glory hunters.The big teams target the Far East and States.If we are too expand to the next level then we need to do the same,increase our fan base,increase our commercial department.Do we call our foreign fans glory hunters,I hope not. Same old I'm a better fan than anyone else that gets injected on numerous threads don't know why people can't just accept that one supporter is good but two is better and so on and so on. We're being joined by other fans not invaded, its like some fans don't want the club to progress, just want them and their mates singing their hearts out on the old Boothen end. |
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Post by chesterfieldstokie on Nov 23, 2016 19:44:15 GMT
It's amazing how many grandads come from Manchester but not many ever seem to come from Scunthorpe or Chesterfield etc Bizarre that Hey dont you start having a go at Grandads from Chesterfield!!!!  Best reason I ever heard for supporting the shit was from a middle aged guy in Norwich. He supported them because he saw George Best and he was driving a fantastic Car. Wanker. |
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Post by Scrotnig on Nov 23, 2016 19:50:46 GMT
I'm technically a glory hunter by being a Stoke fan! I grew up in Sandbach, so I should really have been a Crwho? fan, but my mates were Stoke fans (they were actually from Stoke originally!) and so I tagged along because in those days we were still in the top flight (though not for much longer as it turned out, reet jinx me!) I will let you off as you could have easily have gone to salford and im not sure what glory you have chased Compared to Crwho? at the time, an awful lot. Though my second season was the holocaust. It grounded me well for my future supporting of Stoke, insofar as nothing could ever be worse. Hopefully. |
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Post by Scrotnig on Nov 23, 2016 19:58:43 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. I really don't get it either you pick your team for whatever reason initially, so long as you stick by that team come what may as far as I'm concerned you're a genuine supporter. I don't understand anyone who changes allegiance to another team because their team is not doing so well. You should pick your team based on locality...where you live, where you were brought up, where you were born, any of those will do. My parents are ManUre supporters because that's where they were from, I wasn't however so despite protestations I made sure that idea got fucked right off straight away. My brother, however, is a ManUre supporter because he did as he was told. I just let them get on with it. I have a friend whose teenage son started off supporting Liverpool despite living in Peterborough! But then moved to Brighton so he changed allegiance to Manchester City! I mean, I just despair at times. I live in Leicester these days, I didn't change teams when I moved here. (Though I did attend the title winning celebrations in the park....ahem. That was for the historical nature of the whole thing though. cough.) Football isn't the game it was and I don't think many young people today actually understand it properly. I don't mean the rules. I mean 'the game'. |
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Post by alsagerstokie on Nov 23, 2016 20:01:33 GMT
I'm technically a glory hunter by being a Stoke fan! I grew up in Sandbach, so I should really have been a Crwho? fan, but my mates were Stoke fans (they were actually from Stoke originally!) and so I tagged along because in those days we were still in the top flight (though not for much longer as it turned out, reet jinx me!) Shouldn't you of really been a Sandbach Town fan. Like I probably should be an Alsager Town fan. Although I may take in Alsager's home game on Saturday. |
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Post by BristolMick on Nov 23, 2016 20:04:18 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. I really don't get it either you pick your team for whatever reason initially, so long as you stick by that team come what may as far as I'm concerned you're a genuine supporter. I don't understand anyone who changes allegiance to another team because their team is not doing so well. You can pick a team for whatever reason you like, of course you can, BUT if that reason is because of glamour and glory you are a feeble minded parasite. If everyone picked a team because of glamour and glory we would soon be left with about 4 clubs in this country because the rest would go bust. Glory hunters are a cancer of the game that cause massive damage to the clubs from the areas they are connected to and why most of the clubs struggle to exist because people who are so say football supporters with a connection to the place haven't got the fibre to support them and instead throw their money at clubs from somewhere else that they have no connection to making sure the gap ever widens. Worse still they think they are superior to and can take the piss out of people who support clubs for other reasons than glamour and glory! Gloryhunters the cancer of the game. Parasites to a man that if keep on multiplying will kill the game to nothing more than a closed circus for the elite. It is the duty of active fans up and down the land, even the genuine fans of the big clubs to mercilessly take the piss out of the parasites, to let them know that they are the lowest of the low in the football family. Perhaps then it won't be quite as fashionable to be a gloryhunting parasite and the health of the game as a whole will improve massively. BM |
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Post by Scrotnig on Nov 23, 2016 20:08:31 GMT
I'm technically a glory hunter by being a Stoke fan! I grew up in Sandbach, so I should really have been a Crwho? fan, but my mates were Stoke fans (they were actually from Stoke originally!) and so I tagged along because in those days we were still in the top flight (though not for much longer as it turned out, reet jinx me!) Shouldn't you of really been a Sandbach Town fan. Like I probably should be an Alsager Town fan. Although I may take in Alsager's home game on Saturday. In my day it would have been Sandbach Ramblers. They had a ground and everything, the floodlights were old concrete streetlamps with a floodlight bolted onto them. |
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Post by alster on Nov 23, 2016 20:12:48 GMT
I really don't get it either you pick your team for whatever reason initially, so long as you stick by that team come what may as far as I'm concerned you're a genuine supporter. I don't understand anyone who changes allegiance to another team because their team is not doing so well. You should pick your team based on locality...where you live, where you were brought up, where you were born, any of those will do. My parents are ManUre supporters because that's where they were from, I wasn't however so despite protestations I made sure that idea got fucked right off straight away. My brother, however, is a ManUre supporter because he did as he was told. I just let them get on with it. I have a friend whose teenage son started off supporting Liverpool despite living in Peterborough! But then moved to Brighton so he changed allegiance to Manchester City! I mean, I just despair at times. I live in Leicester these days, I didn't change teams when I moved here. (Though I did attend the title winning celebrations in the park....ahem. That was for the historical nature of the whole thing though. cough.) Football isn't the game it was and I don't think many young people today actually understand it properly. I don't mean the rules. I mean 'the game'. I don't even know how I became a Stoke fan, my Dad took me but don't suppose he told me to go otherwise I wouldn't be where I am now. Never did anything else he told me. Your mate's teenage Son's got me really baffled whats the connection between Brighton and Man City. I'll always be a Stoke fan, if I lived abroad or a really long way off I might attend the local team and even cheer them on but I'd never be a true fan my heart would always be with Stoke. Personally however I wouldn't travel big distances to watch us. So many hours on the road for 90 mins football not for me. I thought when I was walking up to the ground the other day and the Bournemouth fans were going past that I just couldn't do it. |
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Post by kustokie on Nov 23, 2016 20:14:25 GMT
I'm technically a glory hunter by being a Stoke fan! I grew up in Sandbach, so I should really have been a Crwho? fan, but my mates were Stoke fans (they were actually from Stoke originally!) and so I tagged along because in those days we were still in the top flight (though not for much longer as it turned out, reet jinx me!) That must make me one too because I was born in Burslem but escaped when I was 5! Close call. |
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Post by heworksardtho on Nov 23, 2016 20:15:10 GMT
They did a survey not long ago and man poo have the most ppl attending games who live outside Manchester and in sure we were top or close who have the most local fans , someone google it please on the internet as I'm crap on it
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Post by Waggy on Nov 23, 2016 20:23:35 GMT
They did a survey not long ago and man poo have the most ppl attending games who live outside Manchester and in sure we were top or close who have the most local fans , someone google it please on the internet as I'm crap on it Yes its a you gov one. Ive tried to upload or downstream or whatever the lingo of the IT world is but i had no joy |
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Post by Parkhall Wanderer on Nov 23, 2016 23:42:33 GMT
Stoke have 15000 for home games in the Prem,if football clubs can pull in fans from all over the world then so be it.How can you call Liverpool fans glory hunters when was the last time they won the league. Manure have always been well supported even when they got relagated. If anything Liverpool and Manure fans have stayed with them through thick and thin. What next loyal glory hunters? The Manc shite have the most closely followed by by the Scouse shite. Come on both have extended their grounds to cater for what I don't consider to be footie fans. Might be an old way of thinking but how can a cockney or southerner have any connection with either team and it's roots. Me I was Leek born and bred and from the late sixties onwards and when Stoke were away I watched Leek Town if my pocket money couldn't stretch to going the away games. During the Waddo era and the cup runs etc I went more away games but in the same token I was still there when we lost to Norwich in front of less than 5000 of us loyal and hardy types in the holocaust season. The so called 15000 glory hunters you say we have could be looked upon as fans who's fathers etc went during the good years who then stopped going but have returned now the good times are back. By your equation even the soap dodgers at Fail Park have glory hunters waiting patiently for the good times to return. On current showing they could have a very long wait  |
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Post by woodstein on Nov 24, 2016 0:00:05 GMT
Perhaps we shouldn't call them all glory hunters as, like mentioned, some have not had much glory of late. Folks that suddenly start going once a team have won a title such as Blackburn in the 90's and perhaps some did so with Leicester.
"Big name followers" is a better term as many of their fans look down at the smaller clubs, so we have them at Stoke too as I've seen lower division teams slatedon these forums, (exeptions are made for Port Vale!).
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Post by robinplumpton on Nov 24, 2016 0:43:47 GMT
Mmmm. Maybe I am a glory hunter. Being born and raised in my early years in East London, apparently I was desparate to go to the football. As West Ham were playing away, my uncle took me to Arsenal to see them beat a team called Stoke. Being 4 I had no concept were Arsenal was , let alone Stoke. Stoke lost, I felt sorry for them and nailed my colours. I am now 52. My glory hunting has taken me to Wembley and places like Lincoln, Southend, Gillingham. My pinnacle of glory hunting came when I got time off work to drive from my job on tha South Coast to drive to Grimsby, only to find that the ground is in Cleethorpes, thereby missing the first half and getting home at t 5am and going to work at 7. I still pinch myself that we are in the glory league, but having driven 235 miles up to Stoke from Sussex on Saturday with MY wife and kids aged 9 and 7........ whatever I have been hunting for the last 48 yrs, it has rarely resulted in glory. Stoke city, my. Team, neither " born" nor " bred" but my team... my kids team. Loyalty goes beyond the accident that is birth
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Post by BristolMick on Nov 24, 2016 1:02:48 GMT
Mmmm. Maybe I am a glory hunter. Being born and raised in my early years in East London, apparently I was desparate to go to the football. As West Ham were playing away, my uncle took me to Arsenal to see them beat a team called Stoke. Being 4 I had no concept were Arsenal was , let alone Stoke. Stoke lost, I felt sorry for them and nailed my colours. I am now 52. My glory hunting has taken me to Wembley and places like Lincoln, Southend, Gillingham. My pinnacle of glory hunting came when I got time off work to drive from my job on tha South Coast to drive to Grimsby, only to find that the ground is in Cleethorpes, thereby missing the first half and getting home at t 5am and going to work at 7. I still pinch myself that we are in the glory league, but having driven 235 miles up to Stoke from Sussex on Saturday with MY wife and kids aged 9 and 7........ whatever I have been hunting for the last 48 yrs, it has rarely resulted in glory. Stoke city, my. Team, neither " born" nor " bred" but my team... my kids team. Loyalty goes beyond the accident that is birth Absolute respect to you and you haven't described a football supporting life of glamour and glory have you! So why on this earth do you think anyone would label you a glory hunter? Stoke City have never been glamorous or won much and so anyone who decides to supports us is not doing so for reasons of glamour or glory no matter where they live no matter where they come from. As I said in my earlier post you can support a team for whatever reason you like BUT if it's for reasons of glamour or glory you are a parasite, that's not you though is it mate? Not by a long chalk! BM |
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Post by robinplumpton on Nov 24, 2016 1:12:06 GMT
Fanx mate, to be fair keeping my boys keeping the faith was difficult Saturday, but they have a choice, Stoke or Barnardos😀
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