by BobBobBob » 19 Apr 2016, 13:30
Southampton Gull wrote:
No more silly than you thinking you have more rights because you supported them when you were a little boy, as if that makes any difference to anyone except you. The club is a business and in that sense the analogy is more appropriate than you thinking you have rights based on your length of time as a customer. You have no more rights than Auntie Gladys who has just moved to the Bay from London and wants to take in a game or two and maybe pull a bloke like Brucie. She is a customer just the same as you are.
Except I didn't say anything of the sort. I didn't say I had any rights. I do have opinions, though. The new people have the "right" to change our colours to red and white stripes if they so pleased. I would like to think that a great many of us would voice our opposition to such a thing. I'd also like to think that our new owners would listen to us. Your words imply that we shouldn't have any say in something like that because we're just customers and we can just find another club who play in yellow.
My primary objection to your analogy is that football is only a business in a very basic sense. Especially at our level. The majority of us on this forum aren't just customers. I certainly wasn't a Torquay United customer when I went to Bromley or to Gateshead. The hundreds of us who regularly go to away matches don't go to put money into Torquay United. With your analogy, we went to Sainsbury's car park with a giant Tesco banner celebrating a 20% off cat food promotion. Hence "silly". Plus, if the owners aren't up to scratch, Auntie Gladys might go to Bideford AFC to get her Brucie Bonus!
And to be very clear, I have no issues with the new owners. I look forward to hearing what they have to say.
[quote="Southampton Gull"]
No more silly than you thinking you have more rights because you supported them when you were a little boy, as if that makes any difference to anyone except you. The club is a business and in that sense the analogy is more appropriate than you thinking you have rights based on your length of time as a customer. You have no more rights than Auntie Gladys who has just moved to the Bay from London and wants to take in a game or two and maybe pull a bloke like Brucie. She is a customer just the same as you are. ;-)[/quote]
Except I didn't say anything of the sort. I didn't say I had any rights. I do have opinions, though. The new people have the "right" to change our colours to red and white stripes if they so pleased. I would like to think that a great many of us would voice our opposition to such a thing. I'd also like to think that our new owners would listen to us. Your words imply that we shouldn't have any say in something like that because we're just customers and we can just find another club who play in yellow.
My primary objection to your analogy is that football is only a business in a very basic sense. Especially at our level. The majority of us on this forum aren't just customers. I certainly wasn't a Torquay United customer when I went to Bromley or to Gateshead. The hundreds of us who regularly go to away matches don't go to put money into Torquay United. With your analogy, we went to Sainsbury's car park with a giant Tesco banner celebrating a 20% off cat food promotion. Hence "silly". Plus, if the owners aren't up to scratch, Auntie Gladys might go to Bideford AFC to get her Brucie Bonus!
And to be very clear, I have no issues with the new owners. I look forward to hearing what they have to say.
