It really irks me to see local people who are obviously into football spending the whole of a Saturday in the pub spending shit loads on beer with their Man.u, Chelsea, arsenal shirts on watching sky score centre on tv, I just don't get it ! But when you suggest they come to a Town game they normally reply:" I ain't watching that shit " and "why do you go and watch that shit" suppose it's called being a supporter.
I agree totally but there is another point here which most lower league fans seem to miss totally.......
These Man Ure/Cheskli/Arse fans etc DO support thier team, many of them have grown up supporting these teams even if they don't live anywhere near the town/cities that they follow.
That doesnt mean that they dont actually support their own teams, because they obviously do, even if its from afar or in a pub etc, its still THEIR team.
If I lived in Manchester and one of my Man Ure supporting mates asked me if I wanted to go along and support my local team (lets say Man Ure) I would categorically say no I don't want to watch them because they are not my side, even if I lived there.
Why is it so different with the armchair fans supporting other clubs?
We need to get them supporting us from an early age, at school, give them incentives to follow us (as well as bigger sides which is inevitable) but a lot of these youngsters dont want to follow a team that arent doing well, this has always been the case........wel since the 70's anyway.
We as fans of Swindon need to spread the word and make sure that these fans of other clubs come along every now and again to games to see what its like at the CG/Away games, even if its just to put a few extra pennies in the coffers at home games.
We wont ever understand them supporting bigger clubs because this is OUR club, but we would all love our club to be successful and all they have done is tagged on in the past to a successful club and stayed with them, if we become good then maybe some of these fans will come our way? you never know!