Maybe its my youthful naivety kicking in but I always thought that was what supporting a team was about.. supporting it! Blind love for something you grew up with, you randomly fell in love with despite the fact it does nothing but ruin your weekend and increase your risk of heart disease. Same people who moan about how much of a business football is are the same people who label themselves as a customer. Im not a fucking customer of STFC and Ill never consider myself that.
and may the passion never die....however objectively stupid it is and regardless of my comments that is exactly how I still feel
Hats off to the positive ones who actually contribute to the STFC Trust. They are the true doers, even if some of us bemoan the lack of activism.
Occasionally a board behave as trustees or custodians rather than as shareholders and directors but it most cases that role is left to the fans. If the best some fans can do is roundly abuse and denigrate and keep a board on its toes then that can be valuable in appropriate cases in keeping questions alive.
It was instructive to read about Man City's new "fan relations" director slip the word "monetize" when talking about the fan base. City garners incredibly detailed information about the fanbase's spending habits to max out the financial return on each type of fan, ie getting a better return from each fan based on what you know they can afford and how they behave etc. If we don't want to be customers, we have to question.
Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that fans and the board share the same passion and the same values. Jed's and LP's problem is that they have yet to communicate why they're here at all. Is it because they don't have a plan or because we would not like it or because they are so called "poor communicators"?
The debate runs. We are
Tottenh Swindon.
