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Is rugby going the way of football?
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<blockquote data-quote="RoyalBlueStuey" data-source="post: 161766"><p>Great post, I agree with you but it's only natural if the game is going to try and appeal to a wider audience....as new paying customers come in they aren't going to have the same loyalty and affinity to their club as the loyal hardcore fans have. I think we are in an era where you have your "big rugby" franchise type teams which would kill to have the sort of support the footy teams enjoy and the "little rugby" teams where people will always go along and loyally support their club.</p><p></p><p>I think the word Club is key to this...I've been following Everton FC since I was a nipper and I always will but I am the first to admit that it's not a 'club'. I am just a customer albeit a very long-standing very committed one. I 've only been going to to Waterloo for three years and yet I stroll round the clubhouse talking to the players and officials and am treated like one of the family. Ultimately it is a size thing, with the bigger organisation you are much further removed from the players & staff, the personal relationship is gone. I am an Everton fan first and a Waterloo fan second and whilst I'm not going to say I am mates with Chris O'Callaghan & Martin O'Keefe at Waterloo but they will be standing next to me in the bar about half an hour after the game's finished. The link is there....whereas it's not with David Moyes and Phil Neville. When you get to a certain level you lose the closeness, but you've lost it because of the gravity success brings. It's the same with bands too really, when a band start out there is just a dedicated gang of fans and the gigs are intimate, then they go platinum and all of a sudden there is 5,000 people watching them and the long-standing fans are just faces in the crowd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoyalBlueStuey, post: 161766"] Great post, I agree with you but it's only natural if the game is going to try and appeal to a wider audience....as new paying customers come in they aren't going to have the same loyalty and affinity to their club as the loyal hardcore fans have. I think we are in an era where you have your "big rugby" franchise type teams which would kill to have the sort of support the footy teams enjoy and the "little rugby" teams where people will always go along and loyally support their club. I think the word Club is key to this...I've been following Everton FC since I was a nipper and I always will but I am the first to admit that it's not a 'club'. I am just a customer albeit a very long-standing very committed one. I 've only been going to to Waterloo for three years and yet I stroll round the clubhouse talking to the players and officials and am treated like one of the family. Ultimately it is a size thing, with the bigger organisation you are much further removed from the players & staff, the personal relationship is gone. I am an Everton fan first and a Waterloo fan second and whilst I'm not going to say I am mates with Chris O'Callaghan & Martin O'Keefe at Waterloo but they will be standing next to me in the bar about half an hour after the game's finished. The link is there....whereas it's not with David Moyes and Phil Neville. When you get to a certain level you lose the closeness, but you've lost it because of the gravity success brings. It's the same with bands too really, when a band start out there is just a dedicated gang of fans and the gigs are intimate, then they go platinum and all of a sudden there is 5,000 people watching them and the long-standing fans are just faces in the crowd. [/QUOTE]
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