Who are the real fans?

Waz afcb said:
Simple, the fans are the ones that go to the games and who travel around the country to support their team. Exceptions for people who have been in that category but can’t attend anymore due to health/geography etc. If you are a twenty something who claims to support Manchester United but only ever watches on TV, then you are a follower and not a supporter/fan.
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completely disagree you can be a fan but maybe can not afford to go to matches or can poor people not be fans? some people are lucky enough to get tickets some are not. there are plenty of fans who can't go in the same way there are people who have tickets every week and max points but don't support us
 
USCherry said:
What if they are supporting the team their dad did? I must say it should be a legacy of any Bournemouth fan to spawn more cherries no matter where you live
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Tbh I'm not particularly consistent in my views on it - if you support AFCB, or any other tinpot club for that matter, I think you're probably alright no matter what the reason. Obviously there are the arguments about 'proper' fans involved as highlighted in that article.

If you support one of the big clubs and don't have the accent I'm not likely to listen to what you've got to say even if you get a copy of your family tree out and prove lineage.

To add to my arbitrary rule I don't even see an issue if you move somewhere and start going to watch the local team. It probably won't be the same as your home town team to you but at least you have a connection to the place that will doubtless grow over time.
 
dragonm8 said:
I've been a fan since I first went to a game at 5 years old, used to get thrown over the turnstile of the 'new stand' by my Dad.

Was down the BH9 crew end of the pitch and just loved it.

Moved to the other side of the globe, but have watched or listened to every game from the lower levels of League 2 all the way to where we are now.

Appreciate that those who go have more of a say on things, but I've done all I can to support and follow my club.

If you live on the other side of the globe, you can't attend games.

AFC Bournemouth will forever be a passion for me, no matter what.
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Fair play. A good mate of mine moved to your neck of the woods about 15 years back, real old school AFCB...lives near Bethlehem ? but he doesn't walk on water .;)

He's been back a few times and that bloke knows more about the team, tactics etc than I'll ever know. It's as if he's never been away.
 
red_house said:
Fair play. A good mate of mine moved to your neck of the woods about 15 years back, real old school AFCB...lives near Bethlehem ? but he doesn't walk on water .;)

He's been back a few times and that bloke knows more about the team, tactics etc than I'll ever know. It's as if he's never been away.
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Never met the bloke but have heard of him.

He's got a couple of donkeys and had a baby through IVF?
 
I grew up in a house full of women who had zero interest in football and afterwards I didn't have any mates who were into it, especially not Bournemouth who always seemed to be hovering around the 3rd and 4th divisions. I got into watching football in the late 70s/80s on tv, the Big Match etc, roll a spliff and it was great tv; colourful, plenty of action and if you zoned out and missed something important there were endless replays and somebody to explain what had happened. I never actually supported anyone though because I didn't feel any connection to any team. I finally started to notice AFCB because of all the fuss when EH went to Burnley but by the n I had left the town. Their promotion to the PL happened to coincide with my retirement and the fact that my wife knew a players dad and got me tickets and the rest, as they say, is history. I would've loved to have come in the Championship but my bleed on the brain put a stop to that because I struggle with lots of noise and movement and stuff. So I am back to watching on tv etc. I still get a blinding headaches after every game but at least I haven't got a 30mile drive home and I can switch it off if it becomes too much. I love it now though and look forward to every game, even when GON was manager, and mostly enjoy reading this forum afterwards but I truly am a JCL.
 
I think if you went to the majority of our games home and away in L1/L2 in the 90s/2000s and beforehand you're a purer fan than other newer ones. for many various reasons alot of people who went back then don't go now.

But in defence of our newer fans and plastics since Eddie took us to the PL you do need them if you are to take the next stage up as a club. The big 6 clubs are riddled with plastic fans but unfortunately that is the why football has gone.
United are the biggest club in the world because they used to win everything and acquired billion armchair fans.
 
Bishop said:
The 90s and 2000s are possibly the most mundane period of our existence. About twelfth give or take in the third division every year
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They were special and nostalgic - the great escape 95/-17, Wembley, Cardiff all great memories which was worth all the bad times I saw us lose the likes of Rushden and Crawley away on a tuesday night and Barnet at home
 
Bishop said:
A great day, no doubt, but not a patch on Chester City, that was the day that everything turned
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I didn't go to Chester that year, I acknowledge it was a key win that helped keep us up but you could say the same when beat Grimsby the last home game, the grimsby game I was intoxicated and I ran on the pitch for Feeney and Fletch's goal without getting escorted out. Different times!

I think beating Bolton and winning promotion to PL for first time ever was a feeling you can't describe it was that special. When we beat Forest to go up 2nd time it didn't feel the same or as good as the first time.
 
Vlad_The_Impaler said:
I didn't go to Chester that year, I acknowledge it was a key win that helped keep us up but you could say the same when beat Grimsby the last home game, the grimsby game I was intoxicated and I ran on the pitch for Feeney and Fletch's goal without getting escorted out. Different times!

I think beating Bolton and winning promotion to PL for first time ever was a feeling you can't describe it was that special. When we beat Forest to go up 2nd time it didn't feel the same or as good as the first time.
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I agree with all of that but none of it would have been possible without the Chester game, a sense of desperation that day, a loss or a draw would have left us in a hopeless position
 
Bishop said:
I agree with all of that but none of it would have been possible without the Chester game, a sense of desperation that day, a loss or a draw would have left us in a hopeless position
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I understand what you mean it was a sliding doors game as it was close between us Chester, Grimsby, Barnet and Luton who had the -30 for relegation and when we lost at home to Barnet in one of Quinn's last games I thought we we were fooked until Eddie came.
I only invaded the pitch for both our goals because when I saw Grimsby scored first about 50 of them invaded the pitch giving the big one.
 
Bishop said:
I agree with all of that but none of it would have been possible without the Chester game, a sense of desperation that day, a loss or a draw would have left us in a hopeless position
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Technically we still would have stayed up with a draw or loss in that game. That said it felt like it was done after that. Grimsby was another massive game but personally I thought the pressure was off a bit by then. Same as the Bolton promotion game.
 
Vlad_The_Impaler said:
They were special and nostalgic - the great escape 95/-17, Wembley, Cardiff all great memories which was worth all the bad times I saw us lose the likes of Rushden and Crawley away on a tuesday night and Barnet at home
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Yes, you’re right with your memories, the great escape’s and Wembley. Cardiff another. Your memories are better than mine
 

If you go to 3.05 of that video of Grimsby game that's me on the pitch in white shirt after Fletch's goal swearing at Grimsby fans now you know what I look like in 2009 HD.
 
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